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

• Automatik

  

  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.
• FairwoodKing

  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.
• Automatik

  

  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.
• FairwoodKing

  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.
• DenisonBigRedLax

  auf deutsch
  
  der=the (masculine)
  die=the (feminine)
  das=the (neuter)
  
  Danke schoen AP Deutsch
• thavoice

  I looked into them...theyre pretty pricey arent they?
  
  but if theyre good..prolly worth it.
• FatHobbit

  

  They are pricey, but I think you can get a pirated copy pretty easy. I've never used them, but I thought about it.
• j_crazy

  

  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.
• NNN

  

  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.