Hi there.
I'm starting japanese with Tell me More from Auralog.

I have to say that their speech analysis seems great, that helps you having a nice pronounciation. Maybe not top notch, but at least clean engouh for being understood.

What is a let down to me is that too few kanjis are available in the method:1000
and there's nothing that helps you knowing the stroker order. It also seems they don't show you the basic "kanji keys" or whatever.
For that kanji problem, I'm currently trying KingKanji for 30 days. it has 2100 kanjis, but at least you have stroke order and you can write them and the soft tells you your wrongs with simple hints. It works on palm and other things of the sort, on windows too, but then you need an appropriate input device (pen+tablet around 50$) because the mouse isn't your best friend in that case.

The image+text methog is called "Global method" in France.
I escaped it by a little when I entered school. And all the friends that learned with it
are just so bad at writing French Eventhough some became engineers, their writing
is so crippled.
Anyways, this method isn't for me. At least I can't have bare kanjis and pictures+audio.
I need more than that.
There's still a kind of dictionary with pronounciations and so on, but it's a bit too long to start this way. And no stroke order again.

So Rosetta is the same...
At least I know I made no mistake in my choice.