Rosetta Stone - Manual language file update?

Question

I am currently trying to install Rosetta Stone on a laptop that does NOT have internet connectivity. I have Rosetta Stone v3 (3.4.7) and Spanish (Latin America) levels 1-5. Normally, when you install a new language level, the program immediately checks for updates and downloads them. I can't do this on the laptop in question.

Is there a way, to manually download an update for the language levels (on a different computer obviously), put them on a thumb drive, and then install on new computer?

OR

Can I install RS on a computer with internet connectivity, install language level, install updates and then somehow transfer that data to the new computer?

Any help is appreciated, thank!

P.S. Please don't suggest "temporarily" connecting new computer to the internet to download updates. If I could do that, I obviously would.

Answer 1

I would contact Rosetta Stone technical support with this question. I didn't see anything in the online help regarding a manual update that answered your question. Their support numbers are 800-280-8172 and 540-432-6166.

Answer 2

Rosetta Stone Update

Answer 3

Unfortunately, language updates cannot be downloaded as a separate item. The updates do not alter all of the language data, just some that need it. Therefore, they need to be installed into the existing program.



The one option you do have is to install the updates on a computer with internet connectivity. Then move the Rosetta Stone Version 3 folder with all of the language data from one computer to the other. To do this properly though, it would be best to have no progress on the first computer as it will remove the progress.



The location of the folder is:

Mac: Mac HD>Library>Application Support



Windows XP: C:>Documents and Settings>All Users>Application Data



Windows Vista/7/8: C:ProgramData

Answer 4

Italina- Easiest after learning Spanish, no doubt about it. Most Spanish speakers can learn Italian quite well. The structures are quite similar, and their are PLENTY of cognates (just spellt and pronounced differently at times, but still recognisable). Italian is also, in my opinion, a MUCH prettier language than Spanish. You hear some Italian sentences just dripping with slickness. It's a very... cool (if that's the wrord) language to learn. German-Your Spanish isn't going to help you much here, you'll have to go backwards, from Romantic-style linguistics back to some Germanic-style, like English. Learning this will make you feel much more familiar than learning Spanish. It'll be a harder transition though from Spanish to Italian, from Spanish to German. But then again it shares so many basic words with English, that I can recommend learning some German to almost any English speaker. Kommen-to Come, Haus-House, Trinken-to Drink, it's just so many similar words, much more so than ANY Romantic language like Italian or Spanish (save maybe French, we actually share quite a bit of words). In fact, one of the biggest lies told to kids who want to take language courses is that Spanish is one of the easiest languages tor and English speaker to learn. HA HA HA! Russian- Don't know much about it as I've never studied it, but I know it's difficult (not so much as Japanese though). You'll have to teach yourself a new alphabet, and from what I know the language can be very hard to pronounce, and has some tough grammar. Go for it if you want something different though! Knowing Russian will make you slick throughout Europe. Japanese- Oh boy, I've been taking this one, and it's definitely quite overwhelming to say the least, but the good side is that it start off really hard, and then keeps getting easier. It's EXTREMELY difficult to learn to write and read, and learning to write Kanji fluently would be extremely impressive for a Westerner to get a grasp of. But spoken you'll learn quicker, and you'll start being able to pick up lines you'll hear in video games or whatmot after just a couple of lessons.