So I have been noticing that in the medical biz one needs to speak different languages. Mainly, well, Spanish. Because, well, when people come here from other countries nowadays the US makes it nice and easy to not assimilate, as it were.
Anyway, this blog is not for soap boxing. So. Where was I? Ah yes. My new friend. I have a new friend and its name is (I say "it" because it really doesn't have a gender)...Drum roll please...ROSETTA STONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My mom bought the first two levels of Rosetta Stone for Spanish for my nephew last year to help him in his Spanish class, but since it is really hard to do well in a class without going and he wasn't really interested in doing well anyway it didn't get used.
I mentioned to my mom that I wanted to learn Spanish so that I could communicate with my patients and I wanted to try Rosetta Stone and she said she had the first 2 levels. Anyway, to make a long story short (too late) she lent it to me. And I love it.
It doesn't teach by conjugating verbs and memorizing vocabulary, but teaches by showing a picture and saying a phrase. Like how we learn to speak a language when we are babies. It goes so fast and by using the words and phrases in different ways it makes so much more sense. When I finish I plan to take the professional Spanish class for nurses at the community college down the road, but I would also like to get the 3rd level. I think that's the last one. And then I want to get French and Italian and German. Unfortunately its like 500$ per language so I don't know how practical that is. Maybe after nursing school and after we pay off all our debts. That's kind of my montra right now - "After nursing school...."
TTFN
