No excuse???? They haven't been going very long! And they're completely free to use! What's your excuse for not getting off your backside and creating a language learning website yourself?

Rosetta Stone is one of the WORST language learning tools out there, and its ridiculously huge price tag is just a result of marketing and clever product placement. People think "Oh, well they use this at universities and in the military, so it must be good, right? Here, take my money please!" I don't think I've…

Rosetta Stone is actually pretty well built (for that price it should be!), with a decent speech recognition system, custom images to all the sentences, and human recorded audio for all the sentences (which is something Duolingo lacks). I've tried the demo and it's pretty good, but there's something about their method…

I recommend LingQ and the Michel Thomas Language Method - the latter is an audio method that is extremely helpful and available in 12 languages, including Dutch and Japanese! Rosetta Stone is only good as a secondary resource imo; the lessons are basically copy-pasted from one another without regard to the differing…