Rosetta Stone

[tinhuviel]

If I ever get rich enough, I'm buying the Rosetta Stone courses for Russian, Czech, Polish, Scots-Gaelic, Cymru, Cantonese, Japanese, Spanish, and Swahili. Or, as Barry would put it, I'd want to learn "Hindi and Sinhalese, Spanish and Japanese, Afrikaans, Nepali, Faroese, Romany, Yiddish and English, Kurdish and Thai," plus the aforementioned and maybe even a few more. I want to learn them all. I want to be the "I" to all the Reptiles, at least in terms of language.

I used to know a good bit of German and French. And I taught myself a hell of a lot of Russian. Now, I can't even read the Cyrillic alphabet, which shames me deeply. I'm a prime example of the adage "if you don't use it, you lose it." But I can still sing "Give My Regards to Broadway" in Polish, although I doubt that'll ever come in handy, and I can even sing a few choice Mouth Music tunes in Scots-Gaelic. I have no interest in Spanish, but knowing at least a modicum of it in America has fast become a requirement in this day in age.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm far from Reptile status. Woe is I.

Comments

[wikkidpixie.livejournal.com]

J. got a copy of Rosetta Stone, and I've been doing the Italian lessons on it for a week or so. I took 2 semesters in college, but forgot most everything. Same with the 4 years of French I took and 1 year of Spanish. I'd love to learn Japanese, Lithuanian and Russian, and Gaelic too, as well as brushing up on the French and maybe doing German too. It has always bugged me that I cannot speak/understand every language. I would love to know them all.

[lindsaybits]

I've got the Russian one. I forget if it came with anything else or not.

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously thinking of getting the French one and the Japanese one.

[booraven22.livejournal.com]

Bri was all over the fact that they finally got Irish in their collection.

We've done the trials on them and they're fantastic. I wanna get the Latin, Gaelic and Russian ones as well. (Course I'm living with the walking translation computer, so I can have two ways to check my pronunciation.)

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

You icon slays me.

[anomali.livejournal.com]

That is a very clever icon indeed. So true...