These instructions are for the installed version of Rosetta Stone only.  There is also a web-based version that contains more languages and can be done from anywhere.  Please contact Cynthia Shearer, Director of the Language Center, at cshearer@carleton.edu or x5432 for more information.

Languages: Arabic, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish,Swahili

Location: LDC 241, 242 & 243 (Mac & PC) (checkout headsets for the Macs at the Language Center)

Who can use it: any member of the Carleton community

Rosetta Stone is a program designed to help people learn Arabic, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish and Swahili. It is only available on the computers in the Language and Dining Center in rooms 241, 242, and 243.

While Rosetta Stone allows users to create their own accounts, the settings on the computers prevent the computer from saving these accounts after the user logs out of the computer. There is no point in creating your own account.

Rosetta Stone will open to the main menu automatically.

To select the language, level, unit, and lesson you wish to use, select them from the menus in that order. Language and level appear on the left, and unit and lesson in the middle.

[The main menu in Rosetta Stone]

For help using the various tools in Rosetta Stone, either click the help button or open the User Guide, which can be found under Rosetta Stone in the program menu on Windows and in the Applications folder on a Mac.

To quit, hit the exit button from the main menu.