Does Rosetta Stone Work? It worked for me, but the answer to this question really depends on your expectations. I expected to be more fluent then I was when I finished, but regardless, it was a useful program. I am not affiliated with Rosetta Stone, and I have given an honest review of my experience. After completing the program, I took a French test and scored an A1 (Basic User) level under the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. I was hoping to be at a higher level, and it possible that a person could test at an A2 or possible B1 (Independent Level), but it is unlikely any higher. I completed the entire course in French, and am a native English speaker with no other language background. It took me roughly a year to complete but my consistency varied. It could be possible to complete it in as few as 3 to 6 months if a person was very dedicated, or had more of a background in language. My recommendations to users would be to watch a lot of movies and listen to a lot of music in order to improve your listening comprehension which seemed to be my weakness upon finishing, and possibly the reason I did not score higher on the follow up exam. As far as cost goes, I do not believe it is expensive, but there are other free options such as Duolingo to be considered. I cannot say if Duolingo would have produced a better result, but I will say, if I had to do it over, I would be happy to use Rosetta Stone again. This video was recorded in Saint-Ursanne, Switzerland, and the thumbnail is of the Matterhorn. Here are a few sites I used extensively: 1 – Rosetta Stone https://www.rosettastone.com/ 2 – Google Translate https://translate.google.com/ 3 – Common European Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages 4 – Verb Conjugation http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-french.html OnoVita - https://www.onovita.com/ #rosettastone #learnfrench #foreignlanguage MUSIC: William Rosati - "Lake George" - https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/... “Body Punch Series" - https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/...

There are so many fun things to do in Barcelona. After so many people recommended it, we visited. They were right, it really is one of the best cities in Europe. From the Mediterranean climate, to the relaxed and vibrant Catalonian culture, Barcelona is world class! It is a liberal city situated in one of the best places in Europe, full of wonderful foods, markets, beaches, nightlife, parks, you name it…. THINGS TO DO IN BARCELONA: Market Boqueria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Boqueria Park Güell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_G%C3%BCell Sagrada Familia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia La Rambla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rambla,_Barcelona Barceloneta Beach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Barceloneta,_Barcelona Port Vell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Vell Engage with us, we would love to hear for you! OnoVita (Dylan & Tiziana) https://www.onovita.com/ MUSIC: R.LUM.R – Sundays https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music #Barcelona #Best #Spain

Located on the Adriatic Sea in northern Italy, Venice is one of the most popular Italian tourist destinations. Fly, take a train, drive, or even take a boat to get to Venice, but once you arrive you will be either walking or taking water taxis. We recommend staying in the region on San Polo or San Marco but San Marco is the most popular tourist area within Venice, and all the surrounding communities are ideal. There are plenty of things to do within Venice. Check out all the religious sites, museums, beautiful streets and canals, take a boat to the nearby island of Murano to watch them blow glass. Don't forget to get some Italian food, and pick up a souvenir like a carnival mask. MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/... Doug Maxwell, Jimmy Fontanez - "On The Run" The Brothers Records – “Palmtrees” Geographer – “Slip” SOUND EFFECTS: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/... Cartoon – “Symbol Kick” Weapons – “Magnum Shot” Transportation – “Driving a car through a tunnel” Transportation – “Ship Bell” Foley – “Pen Clicking” Want to see more travel content or know more about OnoVita check out www.onovita.com

In this video we share clips from our visit to New York City (NYC) and Jersey Shore during Summer 2018. We visited Central Park, Time Square, Little Italy, the Brooklyn Bridge, the 911 Memorial, Washington Square Park, Cape May, Seaside, and more. See the raw street music talent of NYC at the end of the video as we mix it with some 911 Memorial footage. Our next stop is Switzerland! www.onovita.com #newyorkcity #jerseyshore #nyc MUSIC: FortyThr33 X Epshteyn Delusion- Feat. Gina Livia by FortyThr33 https://soundcloud.com/fortythr33-43 Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Q2jPvDiUI8E If anyone knows the guy playing the violin at the end of the video, please leave a comment or contact us, we would love to credit him. Thanks for watching, please give a thumbs up and subscribe if you enjoyed the video. Ono Vita

Discover 3 places to see in Singapore, including the Boat Quay, Clarke Quay, Garden's By the Bay Supertree Lightshow. Ono Vita. www.onovita.com @ono_vita #singapore #supertree #asia MUSIC: We Are One by Vexento https://www.youtube.com/user/Vexento https://soundcloud.com/vexento Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Ssvu2yncgWU

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Scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Port Douglas. The reef in the video is the Agincourt Reef, and the footage was taken in February 2018. Ono Vita www.onovita.com #agincourt #scubadive #greatbarrierreef Music: Eveningland - "Lost Time" https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

There are three main points. First, make travel an investment. Second, vacation and travel are different. Third, set yourself up for the next journey. I wish someone had shared this advice with me when I was a bit younger, and capable of taking full advantage of it. #1 - Make travel an investment There are many ways to invest in travel and doing so will not only help you travel more but will improve your career and interests as well. Take for example the working holiday visa program. You can use it as a tool to get yourself into countries with the opportunity to work. If you work within a field you are knowledgeable in, you can get meaningful foreign experience very easy. Now take one working holiday visa experience and link it to another, and you have found a way to grow your career experience and pay for world travel at the same time. You can also get a traditional work visa, but this is time consuming, cost a lot, and pins you down in one location for many years. None the less, traditional work visa is still an option. Student visas are a straight forward way to make travel an investment. You are traveling and getting educated at the same time, not to mention that student visas can be followed by a work visa or working-holiday visas to extend the journey. There are also some more simple ways to invest, such as learning a foreign language while traveling. I did this with Rosetta Stone (French) while I was in Australia. Now I’m living in Switzerland completing that investment and putting the work to good use. If you like martial arts or dance, take courses in the country you are visiting, and get a diverse way of looking at things. Here is more information about the working holiday visa: https://www.onovita.com/working-holiday-visa #2 – Vacation and travel are different. I love vacations, but travel has made a truly meaningful impact on my life. When you are on vacation, you tend to hang out with your friends at the hotel and spend way beyond your normal spending habits for a week or two. Although this can be a fun time, it doesn’t force you to meet locals, live like a normal citizen of that country, and figure out the corks that make the society tick. Here are a few ways to travel and not vacation: join the Peace Corps, get a work visa, hike the Appalachian Trail or Pacific Crest Trail, backpack Europe or Asia, study abroad, get a working-holiday visa, or teach English abroad. #3 – Set yourself up for the next journey. It is so important to not be traveling blindly into the future. Although nothing in travel is certain, and you need to be able to go with the flow, change when needed, planning the next step is critical to maintaining your finances, growing yourself, and continuing the journey without big costly gaps. I once hiked the Appalachian Trail (the whole thing, 5-6 months), and when I was done, I had no plan, had over spend, and ended up back in my home town working to get ahead again. Applications for things like the Peace Corps, study abroad, work visa, and more, can take a long time (sometimes more than a year). So, it is critical to have these applications submitted ahead of time. For example, lets say you are going to go work in hospitality on a working-holiday visa in Australia, when you completed your journey, instead of flying all the way home, take a short trip to Asia for a month break, then head to New Zealand for a working-holiday visa there. Perhaps after that, you want to get a degree in hospitality, and while you’re in New Zealand for a year, that application can get approved, so you are ready for the next step. I hope you see how these trips are all linked and using them can allow you to pay for a journey around the world while at the same time growing yourself and your career. If you have any more trips or questions about anything specific, please leave a comment. As always, please give us a like and subscribe if you haven’t already. OnoVita https://www.onovita.com/ #howtotraveltheworld #travelinvestment #worldtravel MUSIC : William Rosati - "Lake George" - https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music Quincas Moreira - "Mantis" - https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music "Body Punch Series" - https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/soundeffects "Door Slams Fast Four Times" - https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/soundeffects

Manly, Australia - an international couple from America & Europe need to find a way to stay together with looming visa issues. Ono Vita www.onovita.com #manlytospitbridge #internationalrelationships #visaissues Music: New Land - ALBIS Eveningland - Nimbuswww.yo Hi Q - Diamond Ortiz https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

Located near the Swiss town of Neuchâtel, “The Creux du Van is a natural rocky amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion” (Wikipedia). The easiest way to get there is by heading to the Restaurant du Soliat located just five minutes from the rocky cliffs. Here is a link to the restaurant: https://www.lesoliat.ch/ In this video we first tried to take an alternate trail to get to the top, but as a result of the snow conditions on the trail, we altered our course and headed straight to the Restaurant du Soliat. Still, there was to much snow for the cars to make it all the way, which is more a result of there being no snow plows then too much snow. None the less, the early spring walk was very enjoyable, with birds chirping and the sun shining. In the video we have taken footage from three separate visits. Once when we visited in late summer, one from a fall sunrise, and the bulk of the footage is from our early spring hike that we depict in the video. I certainly recommend a visit for anyone in or around Neuchâtel. You should bring special gear to make it through the snow if you come in winter, and it may be advisable to wear hiking boots and to bring hiking poles regardless of the season. You don’t have to eat at the Restaurant (check the dates and hours before you plan too, or even make a reservation), we enjoy packing a lunch or making a larger hike out of the trip. Even if you go directly to the top with a car, you can still make a nice hike by following the rim around to the far other side. As is shown in the video, the edge can be dangerous, so please be mindful. Creux du Van is part of the Grand Tour of Switzerland. If you are searching for places to see and things to do in Switzerland, check out the following website: https://grandtour.myswitzerland.com/en/ Special thanks to Lucas and Yolonda from @almitas_travels (Instagram). We hoped you enjoyed the video and hopefully had a laugh. We would love to hear from you if you have any comments. Please consider Subscribing, many more swiss adventures stories to come! #Hiking #CreuxDuVan #Switzerland REFERENCES: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Creux du Van. April 7, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creux_du_Van Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Cirque. April 7, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque MUSIC: Happy Life by FREDJI https://soundcloud.com/fredjimusic https://www.facebook.com/fredjimusic/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/u4PI5p5bI9k Moon by LEMMiNO https://soundcloud.com/lemmino Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/8nCLVPe3brU Buddha by Kontekst https://soundcloud.com/kontekstmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/b6jK2t3lcRs

Blausee, Switzerland is a crystal-clear mountain lake located in the Alps of Bern. A perfect place for a picnic with friends and family. Take a walk around the lake or get paddled around in a row boat. Blausee has a hotel and restaurant serving food indoors and outdoors with views of the lake. They are known for trout (fish) and they are easily seen in the lake. There is a souvenir shop located at the entrance, which is also where you purchase an admission ticket. Check out the official website here: https://www.blausee.ch/en/naturpark/eintrittspreise/ Blausee can become very busy as it is very beautiful and easy to photograph. We recommend visiting early if you want to avoid the crowds but staying until lunch to see the clear waters in the midday sun. Another option is to stay in the hotel, so you are inside for sunrise and sunset. It could make for a very romantic evening getaway or be a longer trip with a stay right up the mountain in the town of Kandersteg. Kandersteg has jaw dropping views and world class mountain experiences. From Blausee you can look up into the mountains above the town and see snow in the high peaks. If your interest in more vlogs and blogs on Switzerland, Europe, or around the world, visit our website here: https://www.onovita.com/ #blausee #switzerland #schweiz MUSIC: Up Above by Pyrosion https://soundcloud.com/pyrosion Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/mikXltmStnc Thanks for watching, please subscribe if you enjoyed it and want more. OnoVita