Originally Posted by
chionos
I have the Russian Rosetta Stone. It really works but you have to stick with it. A good microphone helps, btw, as some of the articulations are very precise and very difficult. For instance, I had to get a new microphone for the software to accept my version of Здравствуйте. Zdravstvooytye. The software is very picky about some of the sound combinations, especially those pesky consonant mashups.
It's worth the money, but it's not a miracle; there's nothing automatic about it. The structure must be adhered to and meticulously followed to actually make progress.