Mr. Bitter's Business

That’s pronounced something like “zdravstuychte.” This week’s Russian lesson consisted of some basic greetings and some other vocabulary words. But for this first blog post it will probably be helpful if I explain how Rosetta Stone’s language lessons work. It’s set up, as you might expect, with five different levels and various units and lessons within each level. I’m on level one and have worked through the first couple units. The various lessons within each unit will help you with the following: vocabulary, grammar, writing, pronunciation, and reading. But regardless of which lesson you are on, in the end you’re always learning vocabulary, which is nice. A big part of the RS method is to provide you with pictures for every word or sentence, so that you can have some kind of visual to connect the word or phrase with. It will typically show you a set of pictures and have a word or phrase at the top that you match it up with. There is also always a voice that pronounces it fo...