Spanish class or Rosetta?

[OBplease]

I have the following reqs. left...Pharm. for Health Pro. (3), English (3), Arts (3), and Micro. (4). Pharm. will count toward my app., the rest will not, so can be taken Fall or Spring. I cannot make the Micro. schedule at my school work for Fall, so I plan to take it in Spring.

I'm signed up for Pharm, English, and Arts for Fall. I figured I could add Spanish, since it will help in my career and we (my whole family) have personal reasons for wanting to learn it (I have children adopted from Latin America and want to communicate with family members there). I figure I would take one Spanish in Fall and one in Spring. I am now wondering if I should continue with that idea or get Rosetta. I don't need Spanish for my degree plan and my whole family is very interested in learning.

Is it likely for us to gain a good understanding through this type of program? Also, what do you think about my schedule? I should be starting n/s in the summer. Thanks for any help.

[karamarie91]

Perhaps you could get both. I've taken numerous spanish classes, but the language always slips out my head because I'm not using it on a regular basis. However, perhaps, your whole family can use Rosetta at home while your taking the spanish classes at school.But I have heard that Rosetta isn't the best program out there for learning another language. I suggest you look at Amazon.com for reviews. They have some really good reveiws out there on this product and other language products.

Good luck!

[Justanotherday]

I just wanted to recommend Visual Link Spanish. It is a computer program, and they offer three levels. The first one really gets you speaking in simple, everyday sentences, which is helpful to practice on each other around the house. If you go to learnspanishtoday.com you can do some free trial lessons to try it out. Levels II and III really step it up, teaching a lot of verbs and tenses. I am only up to Level II. Also, my library has a small children's Spanish section. Some books have both languages printed on the pages, and some are only in Spanish, but they are good practice. They also have videos in Spanish. Playing a DVD with the Spanish track on can be good exposure, too. If I play a movie in Spanish, I need the Spanish subtitles on to read what they are saying as I can never catch it all.

[yisy4u]

Hi!

I agree with Karamarie91, you could get both. :)

I would hate to learn Spanish. I think that it is very hard if you learn it as a second or 3rd language. It has too many conjugations. :)

Luckily 4 me, it is my 1st language

Good luck!!!!!!!!!

[OBplease]

Thank you for the suggestions. I think I will go ahead and stick with the class and get a program for the family too. It is very important to me that our children learn the language and it would be good for my husband business wise. I have always wanted to learn, so I'm interested in anything that will help.

Thank you for the program suggestion. I will check it out.