{"id":224,"date":"2010-12-07T22:25:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T05:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2010-12-30T22:35:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T05:35:42","slug":"rosetta-stone-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/rosetta-stone-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta Stone Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wish I would have started this earlier, but better late than never!!<\/p>\n

Mikey & I ordered Rosetta Stone Spanish levels 1-5 last month. We have a PO Box. I \u00a0went EVERY day until it came — it didn’t take long at all! But any time was too long for me! I\u2019d longed for this program for years! It was so expensive I didn\u2019t think I could justify it… but now I wish I would have done it back when my dad first mentioned it. I think he told me about it 10 years ago or so… surely that\u2019s wrong! Man, have I really put myself off that long?! For those wondering, I bought level 1-5 for $600. I got it on sale with free shipping. Then I paid $150 for the 2nd online id, so ~$750 total. Yeah, makes you gasp. Hope it’s worth it!!<\/div>\n

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\nWe’ve studied Spanish before — I’ve taken 1-3 in college courses & Mikey took Span 2 with me a couple of years ago (he studied French in high school). We\u2019ve been frustrated with how little Spanish we actually KNOW — knowing a list of vocabulary words doesn\u2019t really help you speak to your Spanish-speaking friends!<\/p>\n

Oh, I guess I should really give you my language background. Languages have always fascinated me. I wanted to be an interpreter… and here I am forever later still trying to learn my 2nd language — assuming you count me fluent in English. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I took Italian in high school. Then Spanish 1 when I was 19. I took French 1 with Spanish 2… and totally got confused. \ud83d\ude42 Then I took a LONG break and tried to learn on my own with books & tapes. (Including Spanish & French.) Then back to Spanish 1 & 2 and ESL. Then 6 months in Guatemala as an English teacher. (NOT the way to learn Spanish — everyone wanted to practice English with me!) Then Spanish 3… and another break with language tapes. Then Spanish 2 with Mikey. Then more tapes….<\/p>\n

And now, Rosetta Stone!!!<\/p>\n

With great excitement, Mikey & I installed the language disks on our PC and off we went! We bought online service for both myself & Mikey — it’s worth it! They have games & stories & of course studio sessions with native speakers — awesome!! And for only $10 per person per month! (I bought 15 months, so there was a discount. Mikey\u2019s time came with the language purchase.)<\/p>\n

We zoomed through Level 1, Unit 1, Lesson 1. It was exciting to see the progress map that we would take: I could see the 5 language levels with 4 units each… and each unit with 4 lessons. Having been something of a gamer, I can\u2019t wait to ding!!!<\/p>\n

There was a button over on the side for \u201cStudio\u201d. I knew what this was — the online classes with native speakers!! I wanted to experience one!! I had no idea how it worked… and the only class open was a lesson 2 class. There was only 1 slot open, so I sent Mikey! I snuggled up next to him & listened in.<\/p>\n

It was awesome!!! Of course it was too advanced for us — we didn\u2019t know what concepts they were trying to explain or what all the vocabulary was, but I was hooked!! I couldn\u2019t wait to get in there!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wish I would have started this earlier, but better late than never!! Mikey & I ordered Rosetta Stone Spanish levels 1-5 last month. We have a PO Box. I \u00a0went EVERY day until it came — it didn’t take<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[160,165,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-janet","category-janet-rosetta","category-janet-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}