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Where's my Rosetta Stone diploma?
6.20.2008 7:48 AM \| Link	The only good thing about waking up on the couch at 5:00 AM is that I have an extra long morning to get lots of stuff done! Today I realized I only had two lessons left to complete Rosetta Stone Japanese Level 2, so I decided to do them both in a row, and now I'm totally finished! This is a pretty big deal for me, since Level 2 encompassed over 200 individual lessons! I completed Level 1 way back in 2004, and then started Level 2 sometime after that, but I only worked on it sporadically because of my JLPT studies. But for the past few months I have been working on it daily (as a way of focusing on specific goals), and it finally paid off. For me, Rosetta Stone has been a great way to get a broad exposure to tons of Japanese vocabulary, and a nice overview (and sometimes review) of grammar concepts. I don't claim to have very much retention of the words that I've studied, but I know that when I encounter them again in other studies that a lightbulb will go on and I'll remember seeing them before! Sometimes the lessons were too wordy, but other times just right - I really enjoyed the series of comic strip lessons (guessing the cartoon panel that goes with the spoken sentence), and the several thematic vocabulary lessons were pretty interesting. I also love having a prepared lesson given to me - I would rather have a computer program tell me "you will learn this today" rather than deciding what to study on my own. Back when I started Level 2, Rosetta Stone didn't make a Japanese Level 3 product, but now they do (and it uses a new improved software engine), so I'm sure I'll dig into it sometime, possibly later this year. For now I have some other study materials that I bought a long time ago to check out! Labels: japanese


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