Almost done CD 1!

This week I have continued with Rosetta Stone. I am almost done the 1st CD, however, due to the lost time of the CD being in the mail, I don't think that I will be able to finish the CD by the next block day. I have changed my goal to finishing the 1st CD by Thursday. I have been spending a little over an hour everyday working on Rosetta Stone, but I think that if I spend more than an hour on the language I will have a hard time processing all of the information, and the time wouldn't have been as productive as it would have if I had just spent an hour working with Rosetta Stone.

The application has been very helpful with me learning vocabulary. My goal even beyond this project is to be able to use Latin as a basis for learning other languages. With the vocabulary I learn, it will help with figuring out English words. I am now even able to understand sentences in Latin because of the vocabulary and grammar that I am learning.

Including all of the vocabulary that I have learned would take way too much time to write, so here are just some examples of what I learned. I have learned other topics, but again it would take too much time to write it all out.

Greetings and Introductions

Medica sum - I'm a doctor
Magistra sum - I'm a teacher
Toni McFarland vocor - My name is Toni McFarland


Countries

Ruthenia - Russia
Aegyptus - Egypt
Lutetia - France

Different places

Horti publici - Park
Via - Street
Pons - Bridge

Describing clothing

Tunicula eius flammea est - Her shirt is orange
Thorax laneus eius caeruleus est - His sweater is blue
Bracae eius caeruleae sunt - Her pants are blue



Different parts of a house

Fenestra - Window
Labellum - Sink
Sella pertusa - Toilet

Rooms in a house

Cubiculo - Bedroom
Triclinio - Dining room
Balneo - Bathroom




Technology

Radiophonia - Radio
Telehorasis - Television
Computatorium - Computer


Basic actions/sentences

Eae equum habent - They (group of females) have a horse
Ii edit - They (group of males) eat
Mater nostra est - Our mother




To show my progress, here is a link to a video of me learning Latin

http://youtu.be/Y1rFC2yn3ug

In the video, I am learning what languages people write, read, and speak in. Some of the vocabulary used is:

Loquitur - To speak
Scribit - To write
Legit - To read
Sinice - Chinese
Arabice - Arabic
Anglice - English
Latine - Latin

The way that the program helps me the most is by having new vocabulary mixed with old vocabulary. They give me a picture and a list of choices of sentences that match the picture. By using old vocabulary (for example there may be a man in the picture and I know that "vir" means man, if there is one choice that has "vir" in it, I would choose that sentence) I can figure out the new words. The man in the picture might be eating, so if I didn't know the word "edit" means eating, but I do know that "vir" means man (granted that this is the only sentence choice with "vir" in it), I would then guess that "edit" has to do with eating. This is a confusing idea, but essentially I am building my new vocabulary off of what I already know, as a way to test and expand my knowledge. I learned a lot because of the constant reinforcement of old vocabulary. I think that this is my favorite method of learning, because I can learn new and reinforce old ideas at the same time. The problem with this method is the assumptions I may make could be incorrect. However, the new vocabulary is introduced through different styles (pictures, sentence examples, listening) and if I do make a wrong assumption, the other methods of learning the vocabulary will help me to make sure I know the right word.

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