Rosetta Stone – Reference at Newman Library

Getting Started with the Rosetta Stone Database

Rosetta Stone is one of two databases we subscribe to that offers foreign language instruction. Getting started in it requires a few more steps than the usual database:

Step 1: After clicking the link for “Rosetta Stone” from our database pages, you’ll see this page with an icon you have to click to proceed.

Step 2: First-time users will have create an account on Rosetta Stone. They can use any email address and password they want. Then they select what language they want to use. Returning users can use the Rosetta Stone credentials they created previously.

Step 3: On the next page, users should click “Launch Rosetta Stone Foundations” to (finally) get to the language lessons.

New Subscription: Rosetta Stone

We now have two services that offer online language instruction: Mango Languages and Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone offers 30 different languages. Getting started in Rosetta Stone requires a few steps which are a bit out of the ordinary:

Go to the link to it on our A-Z list of databases or on the languages databases page
If you’re off campus, you’ll get our usual EZproxy login page requiring a Baruch username and password.
Once you pass through authentication, you’ll see a Rosetta Stone login page that also has an EBSCO logo (EBSCO helps provide access to Rosetta Stone even though the two are separate companies)
On the Rosetta Stone login page, first-time users will have to pick a user name and password and also choose which language they’ll study
After you sign in on the Rosetta Stone page, you get a landing page titled “Rosetta Stone Language Learning Suite” on which you can do a couple of different things:
1. check your browser’s compatibility with the service using the “First Time Users” link
2. go straight to the language lessons using the “Launch Rosetta Stone Language Lessons Version 3” link

Our subscription to Rosetta Stone is limited to “Level 1” only, although that does seem like it is pretty substantial once you get into it.

Trial: Rosetta Stone

Through October 26, we have access to a trial for Rosetta Stone. Offered via the EBSCOhost platform, Rosetta Stone offers online instruction in 30 different languages. Access should work off campus as well. Here’s how get started:

Go to the Trials tab on the main databases page and select “Rosetta Stone”
If you are off campus, you’ll see our usual Baruch login; if you’re on campus, you’ll go straight to a Rosetta Stone/EBSCO login page.
On the Rosetta Stone/EBSCO page, you’ll want to register as a first-time user. Enter your Baruch email address and select a password that has at least 6 letters and 1 number. Then select the language you want to try out.

Rosetta Stone works with your mic on your laptop, headset, etc. so you can learn to speak as well as read. You can do lessons without the mic, though, if you’re only interested in learning to read a language. One important thing to be aware of: once you’ve logged into Rosetta Stone, you can switch from one language to another. Instead, you have to log out entirely and when you’re back at the login screen, select a different language at that point.

Please share this trial with any faculty who might be interested and encourage them to provide feedback via the form on the Trials tab of our database page.

Trial to Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone offers language instruction. Trial details:

Trial is via EBSCO
Each user will need to create their own personal account; they must enter their email and create a password (no other information is required).
Each user will be able to access their personal trial account for the length of the trial, beginning on the day they create their personal account.
CUNY-wide trial
Ends June 18
Link can be found on the “Trials” tab of the main databases page
Instructions for installing the Rosetta Stone app
Send any comments on the feedback form on the “Trials” tab of the main databases page