![]() ![]() Then another new thing got thrown at me: “inside” and “outside”. Oooooh…complex sentences! I can do these! Roughly translated from top to bottom: “He has an egg but is not eating.” “He has an egg and is eating.” “The girl has a book and is reading.” “The girl has a book but is not reading.” Yeah baby! “Mediodía” is “mid day” or “noon”, “tarde” is “afternoon”, and “noche” is “night”. I also learned that mañana does not mean “tomorrow” like I always thought it did it means “morning”. So in the pictures below, we have a boy basically saying “I am playing in the park,” a girl saying “I am playing in the school,” a man saying “I work in the hospital,” and a man saying “I work in a school.” But the girl doesn’t say “juganda”, it is still “jugando”, even though she is doing it in the feminine (notice the a?) school. Of course, like other Spanish words I have encountered so far, there is a definite correlation between male and female words, but sometimes the words you think would be masculine don’t work out that way. I might not be certain about the words for working or playing, but I do know that the only picture that would fit with “Los niños” is the one of the two boys, therefore “Los niõs estan jugando must mean “the boys are playing.” When you approach it like that, it’s easy to tell that “Las Mujeres están trabajando” must mean ” the women are working,” and so forth. So in the pictures we have a man working, two boys playing, three women working, and a little girl playing. Why would it be any different in another language? Evidently it is not. I mean think about it: you can say play, playing, were playing, will play, have played, and you can even use play as a noun or a verb in English. I’m shown pictures of people that are obviously either working or playing, but I don’t yet know the word for work, and I certainly didn’t know all the ways and tenses to say and describe the word “play”, or “juego”. But this time was armed with something I hadn’t had before - an ever expanding vocabulary.īy paying attention to what was being written or said, even when I couldn’t understand much of it, I was able to pick out words I knew that helped put the unknown words into context, even when their meanings weren’t immediately clear. That definitely makes me feel good.This week I began Unit 3, Lesson 1, and as had happened when I began the previous other two, I was immediately immersed into a new world where unknown words were being thrown at me as if I should understand their meaning and context. ![]() And they almost always comment on how good my accent is. When I converse with a Spanish-speaker they are always very surprised that I start speaking Spanish to them (I guess I look pretty Gringo). meaning it will only accept what I say if it really sounds like the native-speaker in the course. I turned the "accept" level when I say something to the highest level. Price some local classes and then figure in the gas and calculate out what it would cost for a few courses. if you keep your eyes open, you can find it right from Rosetta Stone's website for around $450 for all 5 levels. but it's amazing how you pick stuff up without knowing what you are learning! By this, I mean that they don't explain grammar or structure. Rosetta Stone (admittedly) doesn't teach you anything. You can go back and do the Sessions over and over and over again as many times as you wish. 50 minutes of 100% Spanish (or whatever language you are learning). In these sessions you talk to a Coach and up to 3 other learners and discuss the Unit that you just learned. There are typing games, and speaking games available for both listed above.Īlso, after every Unit, you sign up for Sessions. and that are learning your native-language. You can also play games with people that are fluent in the language you are learning. You can play games with people that are fluent in your native-language that are learning the same language that you are learning. The course is the same, but with TOTALe, you can now go online and play games with other learners at the same level as you. I had Version 3 and was able to upgrade to Version 4 (TOTALe). ![]()
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