Rosetta Stone.....who uses it??

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Automatik

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Mar 11, 2010 12:07 AM
I just started a few days ago and I have a few questions.

How did you go about the lessons. Each skill, then each exercise in order? Even the writing part.

I'm in the first 2 lessons of Danish and I'm screwing up the writing sections. I'm thinking I should skip those and go further and come back to the writing. For me understand/speaking right now is more important than writing/spelling at this point.
Mar 11, 2010 12:07am
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FairwoodKing

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Mar 11, 2010 12:19 AM
Good luck on spelling Danish. It has some of the longest words in the world.

Too bad you don't live in Miami. I have a dear friend who lives there who is from Denmark.

Getting back to Rosetta Stone, I have also used it (Portuguese). I think you should go straight through the first DVD without doing the writing. Then go over it again with the writing. You should find this to be a bit easier.
Mar 11, 2010 12:19am
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Automatik

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Mar 11, 2010 12:33 AM
I'm on the 5th lesson of Unit 1 and starting to struggle. Danish has very strange rules, or no rules really....no set structure like I'm familiar with.

For example. If I'm saying "en bil".....thats "a car"

"et hus"...."a house"

There is no explained reasoning for the et and en. I asked a Danish friend and she says its just something you have to remember when saying nouns.
Mar 11, 2010 12:33am
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FairwoodKing

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Mar 11, 2010 12:48 AM
Automatik wrote: I'm on the 5th lesson of Unit 1 and starting to struggle. Danish has very strange rules, or no rules really....no set structure like I'm familiar with.

For example. If I'm saying "en bil".....thats "a car"

"et hus"...."a house"

There is no explained reasoning for the et and en. I asked a Danish friend and she says its just something you have to remember when saying nouns.
They are different because the nouns have different genders. In some cases, there is no logical reason why a word is feminine, masculine, or neuter. We don't use genders for nouns in English. In English, the word "the" is the same whether you are talking about the man, the woman, or the chair.

Unfortunately, your Danish friend is right. It's just something you will have to remember.
Mar 11, 2010 12:48am
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DenisonBigRedLax

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Mar 11, 2010 12:56 AM
auf deutsch

der=the (masculine)
die=the (feminine)
das=the (neuter)

Danke schoen AP Deutsch
Mar 11, 2010 12:56am
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thavoice

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Mar 11, 2010 9:43 AM
I looked into them...theyre pretty pricey arent they?

but if theyre good..prolly worth it.
Mar 11, 2010 9:43am
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FatHobbit

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Mar 11, 2010 9:52 AM
They are pricey, but I think you can get a pirated copy pretty easy. I've never used them, but I thought about it.
Mar 11, 2010 9:52am
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j_crazy

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Mar 11, 2010 9:55 AM
I'm going to do it for spanish when the lessons free up at work (1 copy and 20 people signed up to use it). sounds like a challenge.
Mar 11, 2010 9:55am
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NNN

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Mar 11, 2010 11:15 AM
DenisonBigRedLax wrote: auf deutsch

der=the (masculine)
die=the (feminine)
das=the (neuter)

Danke schoen AP Deutsch
I never understood the idea of having masculine and feminine nouns. If I follow correctly, if the word for "chair" is masculine and the word for "potato" is feminine, it would suggest that a chair can have sex with a potato.
Mar 11, 2010 11:15am