Outside reading

The majority of my reading this weekend was focused toward the Rosetta Stone language program to learn Italian. This program has an image appear on the screen and a sentence with a voice that reads it in Italian. This program is a unique way to learn a language because they do not tell you what the foreign vocabulary means, you have to figure it out with the pictures and patterns that would make sense for the word. I found that my background of french was very helpful for learning Italian because several words are very similar and many grammatical sentence formations work similarly as in the french language. I went to a french immersion elementary school as a child and I learned the language very quickly, as in I could speak it very well. Although, I had trouble writing sentences when I learned that way. On the other hand, with the Rosetta Stone way of learning a foreign language I found that sentences are quite painless to form but when thinking of sentences to say, it is difficult to remember all of the vocabulary and how to pronounce it. I highly recommend trying out a new language. Rosetta Stone is fairly expensive so I recommend borrowing one from a friend, that is what I did. I know English, French, Sign Language, and working on Italian and I can't wait to find out what life will swing at me next!