All my life I’ve wanted to become conversant in another language. Finally, at the age of 58, I’m about to jump in headfirst and see what happens. This is…
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Category Archives: Language Journeys
Rosetta Stone: Good for Young and Old
I bought Rosetta Stone before I moved to the Netherlands to help with my Dutch. I worked as a nanny and it made my job alot easier. The children…
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Using Rosetta Stone Chinese to Go beyond Coffee
The first complete series of Mandarin phrases that I mastered after I moved to Taiwan went like this: “Wo yao yi bei kafei natie . . . da bei…
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Experiments with Motivation
In general, I struggle a fair bit with motivation. Add that to the fact that I speak English during my work as a teacher, and it’s no surprise that…
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I have something impressive to put on my resume!
I made up for 44 years in one month with Rosetta Stone
I left Brazil 45 years ago, and had not spoken Portuguese for over 44 years. My daughter moved to Salvador Brazil about five years ago with my two grandchildren….
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A Spanish Prayer
While visiting a quiet Catholic church in California with my girlfriend, I was turning to leave…
A New Experience in France with Rosetta Stone French
My history of studying French is long. In first grade, I attended a school that offered a specialized program for intensive French. I transferred schools in second grade, and…
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Counting in Mandarin
Cooking with Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone Version 4 TOTALe is really improving my communication skills here in Switzerland. I wish my PhD studies weren’t so demanding. Last week I gave a…
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