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Finally got my Rosetta Stone software to work! Now for the scary part, actually trying to learn another language! I tried to learn Latin in high school, and had a working knowledge of Spanish when I lived in California and managed a restaurant, but now I want to actually learn a language from the ground up.

I am starting with Spanish. That definitely seems the most reasonable and practical. This software is pretty cool. In just a few minutes I've got a grasp of a few nouns and verbs. It uses a group of pictures, says a phrase, and you have to choose the correct picture for the phrase. Better than the rote memorization that I recall from my earlier forays into languages...

This software has Arabic, Welsh, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish. And that is just on one DVD. I haven't loaded the other DVD yet but it is packed with more languages.

Maybe I will actually break that English-only stereotype that most of us Americans have. Worth a shot!

Wish me luck!!