Pimsleur v Rosetta stone

i am trying to learn polish and have decided to invest in a good quality course, can anyone tell me which is better? pimsleur or rosetta, or neither?

I have rosetta stone its a good program but has its limitations,
you will need a Pol/Eng dictionary to help because it doesnt tell you what the
words mean in English.

I like this program better, and its cheaper:)
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there is another thread about this somewhere...worth a look.

I have had a sample of both, and prefer Rosetta. Pimsleur is good for mp3 player, but the lack of a written dialogue makes it hard to look up words. Rosetta as you know is visual too and there is written material with it...I have heard it said that both can be downloaded from the web, but I would not encourage you to do that:)

I got Pimsleur from the Library about a year ago and wasn't thrilled with it. It teaches sentences, which is good, but lacked the spelling/reading side. I quickly lost motivation with it.

About a month ago I invested in Rosetta Stone and it is so much better. The other poster is right that it doesn't tell you the English translation, but it allows you to assume it through process of elimination. Since it uses pictures and words, I can learn to read/pronounce as well. I think I am committing much more to memory on this program. It does, however, start very basic with single words, so it takes several lessons to get any kind of sentences or phrases.

If money isn't such a concern, I'd recommend Rosetta Stone.

I started with the Pimsleur course and found it good for helping me pronounce words but I wanted to learn to read and write too. Any way I found a good course called Colloquial Polish which does the written and spoken language so I'm trying that now. Pimsleur was a good to start with.

pimseurs is a good aid but useless if your using it as a primary method.
rosetta stone, again, can help but it's essentially deductive logic, not language theory or anything that leads to a person being able to compose their own dialogues.

both are available as free downloads.

thank you all for your advice. hmmm.... i still don't know which to try.

I am using Pimsleur right now because it helps me to get a better pronunciation, but it does not teach you how to write the words or sentences. But in the other hand you can learn the intonation and stress on the words and on a question sentence. I am going to polish classes too, so Pimsleur it is a good help.

I have the Rosetta Stone program instaled and the BYKI program too (Before You Know It) and you can download all this three programs for free on the internet, you have to know how to search.

If you need help send me a PM.
Marcin.