I started back up with Rosetta Stone yesterday after a 7 month hiatus. There was no one reason for my retreat- I got a job that required more mental energy, started having company for dinner more often, and suddenly had TV with cable. But I do want to learn Spanish and so I returned to Rosetta Stone. It's fun. You wear a headset with a little microphone and when you say something right you are rewarded with a "Ba-Ba-Baba-Ba." When you get it wrong you get a "Buh-buh" (similar to the sound of the Blue Line). So you can now imagine me in my empty apartment mid-day talking to my computer in painfully accented Spanish. "La nina lee."
The judge who determines whether my pronunciation passes muster seems a bit unreliable. He/She or the Panel allows me to get away with saying "periodico" and then "buh-buhs" me over and over when I try to say "hola." In response, I try different voices and paces to try to win the judges over so that I can move onto the grammar exercise.
I hope to stick with Rosetta Stone and keep getting slowly better at Spanish. I'll keep you posted. Adios!
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