Rosetta Stone Sapphire: 1-Year Subscription

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TL;DR: A 1-year Rosetta Stone subscription is $127.20 (reg. $159) through June 28 as part of Deal Days — new users only.

Google Translate will get you through a crisis. Rosetta Stone will get you through a dinner party, a day trip, and the kind of off-menu conversation that actually makes a trip memorable.

Built around the Dynamic Immersion method, Rosetta Stone teaches through context and real conversation rather than flashcard drills and grammar tables. You pick up a language the way you learned your first one — by doing, not memorizing. It's been the approach for over 30 years, and it still works. Here's what a year gets you:

TruAccent speech recognition that corrects your pronunciation in real time — so you sound like you know what you're doing, not like you learned from a phrasebook
25 languages including Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Mandarin, and German
Chat Missions that drop you into realistic scenarios — ordering food, hailing a cab, making small talk with someone's grandmother
500+ flashcard sets covering travel, dining, culture, and business vocabulary
Personalized learning paths so you study what actually matters to you
Bite-sized lessons that sync across desktop, mobile, and tablet

Practice on the commute, on the couch, or in the queue at the airport when you realize you probably should have started sooner. Either way, a year is plenty of runway to get conversational before your next trip, and to stop being the person at the table who just points and smiles.

Get a year of Rosetta Stone for $127.20 through June 28 as part of Deal Days — new users only.

This deal is part of Boing Boing's Deal Days sale — our answer to Prime Day — running through June 28. Browse all Deal Days deals here.