This week for my learning project, I decided to try out Rosetta Stone. Everyone is always raving about this website and the ads make it look amazing, so I thought why not? They offered a three day free trial, which was great since I just wanted to try out the website. It was easy to get set up and within minutes I was in my first lesson. There were between 35 and 40 tabs to completed before fully completing the lesson. The first few tabs consisted of photos along with a narrator saying the words, it would then get me to repeat the words and rate me as to how well I pronounced the word. I am very much a visual person so I was really enjoying this aspect of the app because I was able to visualize what I was saying. It seemed I was doing pretty well on the repeating, getting close to a full green circle every time I said the words into the computer. Everything was going great ... until a matching question came up and it totally threw me off course. Not only did this matching question throw me off because I wasn't repeating anything, it was asking me to match words that were not taught previously in the lesson to photos I hasn't seen before. I felt like the app was setting me up for failure and I really questioned why they would throw new words in there without any lessons on what the words meant. I guessed my way out of the section, but unfortunately got an 'x' on that one. I was then met with a section that was asking me to pick the proper pronoun to use at the beginning of each statement. I did find this step helpful because I know the distinction between pronouns at the beginning of a statement is important to how the word itself is pronounced. The few things I did learn from this Italian lesson on Rosetta Stone are the different words for men and women along with groups of men and women. Degli Uomini - Group of Men Delle Donne - Group of Women When beginning a sentence when referring to a man/men it is.. Un - singular Dei - plural When beginning a sentence when referring to a woman/women.. Una - singular Delle - plural When referring to a boy/group of boys.. Un bambino - singular Dei bambini - plural When referring to a girl/group of girls.. Una bambina - singular Delle bambine - plural This was the majority of the knowledge I obtained from the Rosetta Stone lesson #1 on Italian. I honestly didn't really like the app that much. I felt like I didn't talk as much as I should have when learning a new language and 3/4 of the lesson was matching phrases to the photo. After looking at prices for Rosetta Stone, it is a fairly cheap app to have, especially since a lifetime subscription is only $179 and you get access to as many languages as you want. It may be worth the buy, but I am not completely sold on the app since my first experience wasn't as great as they made it out to be. Next week I am going to be trying out a website called Pimsleur , they claim that you will be able to speak the language within 30 days of starting the program... that seems a little too good to be true. But, come back next week and I will let you know my thoughts on it!
Ciao!!!
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