Sunday, December 4, 2011

Evaluations Started

I began doing my evaluations on the first piece of software. I am reviewing Rosetta Stone's language learning software (www.rosettastone.com). I am learning the Portuguese language as I am currently living in Brazil to work on some writing projects. I have to say the software has a really good method of teaching. It tries to teach you similar to when you are a child, when you have no knowledge of anything and just identify words and actions with what you see. For example, you will see a picture of a boy and a picture of a girl, and it will say "menino". You have to click on which is the menino. If you click on the little girl, it lets you know you are not correct. If you click on the little boy, it then lets you know you are correct. 

There is absolutely no English in the actual courses which I was weary of at first, but I really think it helps. When I started learning the language it was mostly through books which were boring and I could just skip to the next page to see the answer when I was stumped. This software doesn't allow me to do that. I hope to have this evaluation done tomorrow and the busuu evaluation started or possibly finished. I have to say this has been one of the more enjoyable final projects I've done as I can directly apply this to my life right this moment!

Tim

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