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Posted: March 21 2012 at 3:01pm \| IP Logged

Is there anyone using Rosetta Stone for high school langauage credit that could PM me with some help? I have the version 4 homeschool version and it is set up to be the one year program--but is taking my 7th and 10th graders nearly 2 years to complete each level. They are progressing okay and with an okay grade but my high schooler will not have 4 levels done by college. He has taken 2 mission trips to Mexico though which I will partly include in credit. But, I understand you can't count Latin toward foreign language credit so is 2 years enough? Thoughts?

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Posted: March 21 2012 at 3:57pm \| IP Logged

cheesehead mom wrote:

I can tell you that the end of level 2 is more German than I knew coming out of 4 years of high school German. If they are doing a good amount of work every year, I would count it as a year of Spanish, especially if they are doing a grammar workbook like Schaum's along with it.

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Posted: March 21 2012 at 7:38pm \| IP Logged

cheesehead mom wrote:

But, I understand you can't count Latin toward foreign language credit so is 2 years enough? Thoughts?

Laura

You can't count Latin as a foreign language credit? What kind of credit is it then?

I've told the kids that 2 years will do as long as they're doing at least 3 years of another language. But I think they'll probably continue with Latin.

We have Rosetta Stone version 3, Japanese and French, and I was just going to count Level 1 as Japanese 1, French 1. My kids are going to take more than a year to do one level, but then again, they're working somewhat spottily on it. My 15 yo is trying to do 3 languages this year, so I'm not worried about it; he's doing Greek with a tutor, Latin, and then the Rosetta Stone Japanese. (He likes languages.) I may not be very helpful to you.

I think, if your son is making mission trips to Mexico, that I would count that above Rosetta Stone -- seeing as he'll have to speak the language in a *real* setting, not just back to a computer. He'll probably have quite a few hours in Mexico in addition to the Rosetta Stone, so if it were me... I would count his chronological year of Spanish as an academic credit.

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Posted: March 22 2012 at 8:39am \| IP Logged

Thanks Ladies. I am just having that 'yikes I cannot homeschool high school' and my oldest is a 'big guinea pig' kind of Spring! Angela--I have heard conflicting reports about Latin since it is not modern. Apparently many homeschoolers say it has in fact counted as foreign langauge credit. SO between missions trips, Latin and Rosetta I think we will be good! Thank goodness for the 4real boards and all the wonderful ladies who help us through these crazy times.

Laura

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Posted: March 22 2012 at 10:07am \| IP Logged

I had always heard, as mentioned already, that Rosetta's "year" does teach more than a traditional year.

You most certainly can count Latin as a foreign language credit (for college admission). The issue with languages is that they usually are requiring (or recommending) consecutive years of same language, so they would not count 2 years of Spanish and 2 years of Latin as 4 consecutive years of a language. And just so you know the majority of colleges only have 2 years of language listed as a requirement for admission - some recommend more but recommendations are different than actually requiring it. If enrollement is pretty comeptitive then the extra courses can help. And if you have the 2 years required of a single language, then those other years of a different language not required are going to look good. More selective schools (Ivy League, Stanford, etc) do require more so if a school like that is an aim, yes, 3 or 4 years of consecutive language are what they are looking for. Both my boys had no problem with just 2 years of language on their transcript and that is what we are aiming for with my daughter as well, but we weren't looking at those highly selective schools.

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Posted: March 22 2012 at 4:09pm \| IP Logged

My parish priest offered to let me have his Rosetta Stone Latin to prepare my son for the seminary! So if it's good enough for Father V...

Just have your oldest get as much as he can while he can - bribe him if you have to!

but I would guess that he'll probably be just fine.

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