Rosetta Stone Reflection

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On October 13th, this writer partook in Live Tutoring with Rosetta Stone. The tutor took us through exercises on names for objects, as well as how to ask questions. We started with gender (boy/girl and man/woman), then moved to hello and goodbye then pronouncing different objects. We also learned how to open a conversation and introduce ourselves to others. Most of the practice went over the information learned in Level 3, unit 2.
In reviewing my performance, this writer was more comfortable with the experience. My strength was the enunciation of words. The weakness still remained in my confidence and nervousness when speaking to one who’s fluent, but this time there was improvement. I still seek opportunities to speak Spanish to anyone who

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