Well, I hit a milestone this week; I completed Unit 1 of Level 1! It’s about time, now only a thousand more lessons to go and I will have reached automaticity. This milestone lesson actually goes along pretty well with this week’s readings on transfer. So here goes. This lesson was different from the others because it tried to mimic a real life context where I would have a conversation with people, asking and responding to questions that we each posed. It pretended that I was out for a hike with my dog and I ran into a couple people and we started to chat. Rosetta had certain questions and responses it wanted me to ask, but all of these were based on things that I had already learned, even though I couldn’t recall them that quickly. "Do you have a dog?" "Да. У меня есть собака." (Yes, I have a dog.) (You might think that the guy should be saying, "Is that your dog?", but he's not. "Do you have a dog?" is sort of a bad phrase to put
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