Language Learning
Apr. 18th, 2020 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitriUsing Rosetta Stone is an acceptable thing to do at work for self-education, so I've started learning Mandarin.
Learning Mandarin with this program really means "matching pictures with words."
Sometimes they throw in new bits and I....guess what they do? Vocabulary and verbs are obvious, particles, adverbs, and interrogatives less so. (I mean, you'd think they'd start with "yes/no" but as near as I can tell they didn't? I think they started with another affirmative that's more like I am/he-she is." Anyway, it's a thing, and it fills time pleasingly...
Learning Mandarin with this program really means "matching pictures with words."
Sometimes they throw in new bits and I....guess what they do? Vocabulary and verbs are obvious, particles, adverbs, and interrogatives less so. (I mean, you'd think they'd start with "yes/no" but as near as I can tell they didn't? I think they started with another affirmative that's more like I am/he-she is." Anyway, it's a thing, and it fills time pleasingly...
