Your plan features short, 'bite-sized' lessons to help ensure that you stay on track and can complete your learning little by little, every day. After choosing from differently themed plans and starting at your ability level, depending on your current proficiency and lifestyle.
In Rosetta Stone, Your Plan is a new update to the software’s mobile and desktop apps that creates a much more personalized plan for you and your specific needs, to help you stick to your goals and keep learning. Which is why I am so excited to be now using Rosetta Stone's new Your Plan feature! I have learned and improved quite a bit, but I have a long way to go to reach my goals.
However, with our crazy travel schedule, and the constantly-working nature of what I do, it can be really hard to stick to a regular study regiment. We have recently traveled to a lot of Spanish speaking countries, I tested out using my skills in Buenos Aires and in Mexico over the last couple of months. We travel to Mexico frequently, and I have always wanted to communicate better with the locals. This was a huge accomplishment for me and something that gives me so much more confidence to go forward and deepen my language speaking skills and fluency. However after a lot of practicing and tutorials, I finally learned how, and can roll my R's and trill in a variety of ways, however I am still working on putting it seamlessly into words. My whole life, I had never been able to, and I mostly thought that it was something that was physically impossible to learn. You may have seen that I started using Rosetta Stone last year, and my Spanish skills have definitely improved! A HUGE hurdle for me was that I was completely unable to roll my R's, or trill my tongue at all. Deepening my Spanish understanding and becoming truly conversational is one of my biggest goals for 2020 - and the too I am using to learn is Rosetta Stone. From the time I learned to speak, I have always been able to pronounce tortilla and jalapeño - but I have never really been able to speak the language. Growing up in Southern California, the Spanish language is deeply woven into life here - our cities all start with San or Santa, and our streets are named in Spanish words. Especially in America, only a tiny fraction of us fluently speak a second language learned outside the home (I remember reading that the number was less than 1%, but I can't find the exact statistic to quote.) Isn't it time that we change that?
I have always admired with awe people that can flip back and forth between two (or more) languages with ease and grace, and am a bit jealous that I didn't grow up in a multi-language home. One of my big life goals for a long time has been to become bilingual. Catching up on my lessons anywhere, any time.