English Only Zone

Hello there! 

No jokes this week, i am as serious as this 'english muffin'. Why? We shall see.
                                                                                                 

Today we'll be checking out a language teaching app called Rosetta Stone. Tadah!

İf you're a language lover i assume that you're already familiar with it.

"Rosetta Stone Language Learning isproprietary computer-assisted language learning (CALL) software published by Rosetta Stone Inc. The software uses images, text, and sound to teach words and grammar by spaced repetition, without translation. Rosetta Stone calls its approach Dynamic Immersion" -Wikipedia 
Lets start now -> 

The app requires an account and you need to pay to keep using after 15 days of trial. When you first open the app you see something like this:

Opening an account is very easy and the process is pretty similar to any other app's/website's. When we create our account we are being headed to home page. 

There are lessons by categories such as; core lesson, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, reading. When you complete the lessons you can get to the next levels. 

These lessons basically involves matching practices. To be clearer, a word/sentence is written on the upper part of the screen, the narrator reads the word/sentence and you're supposed the match the word/sentence with the pictures below. 

İn some activities you are supposed to talk too. When you sound correct or near correct, you are considered successful.

The narrator tells you the words/sentences and makes you repeat it again and again thorough out the lessons. Since the narrators are native speakers, you get a chance to have a near-native pronunciation. Dont forget that this app is only english. You wont bee seeing your native language here.

What Can Children Do With This App?

Well this app does not really lets you add anything to it -i mean more like creating your own thing with it- but teachers still can use this app to enlarge their students' vocabulary or help them learn the correct pronunciations of words.

Children may prepare their own flashcards by drawing the pictures themselves, this would be a fun activity for children who love drawing and painting.

Bonus:

One thing i noticed about this app is that they did not only use people's pictures of one race. Look at this:

This may not seem like a big deal but i remember my german coursebooks in highchool, there were lots of blondes and gingers all over the place. İ never felt comfortable when i looked at them because i could not find a piece of me.

Also i want them to put pictures of disabled and ill people's too on coursebooks, so that either they wont feel like an outcast or our children wont grow up not knowing about different, meaning special, people.

Let me know your opinions about this matter in the comment section down below if you ever have any (: