6/19/2007

¡Rosetta Stone está aquí también!

I finally made it back to my Spanish Rosetta Stone long enough to finish Unit 2 or Level 1. It took me a week and a half to get around to completing all 8 lessons. So I'm already behind the schedule I'd hoped, but fortunately for me it was not a binding agreement.

In fact to finish up tonight I had to push the pace so I took the instructions to heart that every exercise was not for everybody. I worked on the listening, reading and the speaking parts. Partly to finish up and partly because I didn't think I was getting much out of typing in Spanish when I knew most of the vocabulary already.

As the material gets harder I will mostly likely work on all of the sections to reinforce the new vocabulary.

I was happy to see two more verb forms in the second half of Unit 2. We had “El niño está sentado encima de la cerca.” (New word for me!! - Cerca, not meaning close but LA cerca for fence)

...and then “El caballo va a saltar”. I think I remember first learning this form in my first Spanish I class way back in the mid 1980's. Back when I thought “Yo voy a aprender Español” .

Anyway, it's good to see some exciting new tenses and new vocabulary.

Really it is.


Free Rosetta Stone At the Library


Thanks to a tip I now find out that a local library has Rosetta Stone available on-line! I didn't check it out to compare, since my software is past returning. I suspect there would be some inconveniences using an only online version, but I would have tried it before I bought if I know before hand.

I wonder if there are any restrictions or differences?

In any case, I'm committed to this chosen path and paying a few hundred dollars is a real gesture that indicates and reinforces my sincerity.

I hope.

3 comments:

Bob said...

The online version of Rosetta Stone requires that you have your Flash application updated, and in my experience it is a little sketchy. It is nice because it is free, but within my own organization (and I work IN a public library system)I have found that the system doesn't work that great. It sometimes hangs up upon logging in, etc. It may be that my computer here at work isn't the greatest. On the other hand, the online version has lots of different languages, which is cool. The online version is also cool since you can work on it from any 'net connected computer.

Will said...

Helloooo! Last time I commented I forgot to mention How to Learn Any Language Easily. I haven't finished reading it (eye strain and such), but the guy's ideas sound pretty good.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4368/How-to-Learn-Any-Language

ZeppoManx said...

Helloooo! Last time I commented I forgot to mention How to Learn Any Language Easily. I haven't finished reading it (eye strain and such), but the guy's ideas sound pretty good.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4368/How-to-Learn-Any-Language

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Will,

Isn't "learning a language easily" something like doing hard work with no effort?

Does it really make it easy?