Recording summary · October 2020
How to learn Japanese using Rosetta Stone
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Overview
Daniel uses Rosetta Stone to practice Japanese basics, vocabulary, pronunciation prompts, and image-matching exercises with the goal of testing fluency within two hours.
Rosetta Stone reuses an image of an Asian woman from its Dutch course, and Daniel critiques its immersion teaching method before failing to pass the core lesson.
Daniel recalls picking up basic Japanese across two years of watching anime prior to formal study and finds language learning exhausting and uninteresting.
Daniel awaits maintenance repairs for a broken, leaking boiler that prevents showering, while experiencing frustration over loud, stomping upstairs neighbors shaking the apartment and people walking outside.
Themes
Rosetta Stone Japanese study and immersion methodology
Apartment maintenance issues and noisy neighbors
Developments
Daniel attempts to learn Japanese basics using Rosetta Stone in an effort to test fluency within two hours.
Daniel fails to pass the core lesson in the Rosetta Stone program.
Uncertainties & gaps
Whether aggressive stomping and loud walking by upstairs neighbors are loosening pipes and wires connected to the boiler.