I bet my dad doing this in Italian is comedy gold

[mousapelli]

I've been sitting in bed for like an hour and a half, threatening to go to the gym, but instead I just keep sitting here and letting Rosetta Stone yell at me. Aside from the fact that a) it'll be a million years before it gets to vocab I don't know, and b) it really hates the way I say Konnichi wa or anything else with a K in it, it is actually kind of fun. And it does make good use of spaced repetition. Anyway I told it I wanted to focus on listening and speaking, so I figure it can't hurt.

also nice, you can switch it to all kanji right away, so there are a few like kyoushi or keisatsukan that I learned early enough to not know the kanji for really. Since it's image-intensive, I totally want the JE version of this. 山Pは走っています~ and then there'd be a dramatic image of Yamapi fleeing fangirls or something.

also my impetus to go exercise was lowered sharply because I'm down two pounds this morning despite the fact that all week I was too busy with Latin Fest to go to the gym and on Wednesday I ate myself silly. if i could get some predictable cause and effect going on here, things would work a lot better. It would be like if every morning when you got in the shower, some days you came out clean and other days you came out dirtier than you went in. post hoc ergo propter hoc fail.

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[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Weight can fluctuate by like three pounds a day, IIRC. Depends on water intake and bloating and how much you ate for lunch etc etc.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

yes, i understand that, i'm saying that's what makes it difficult to maintain doing the gym, which I hate, since it seems to have no direct correlation at all to whether I am fat or not.

[mbdancer8o8.livejournal.com]

A JE Version of Rosetta Stone sounds like fun! I bet they'd make a lot of money. All the videos that they show in my Japanese class should be JE. Everything they show us is from the 80's or 70's or something so the audio is muffled and their clothes are not of this generation. XD

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

at least every other screen i find myself thinking how it would be more hilarious if JE guys were involved.

何人がキスマイメンバーですか？　七人がです。 also then they started in on counters for small animals and all i could think about was the Kitayama voice thing where he was like "senga-ippiki, senga-nihiki, senga-sanbikki..."

[mbdancer8o8.livejournal.com]

*nods*
Sounds like a good motivator too~

XD
Well it'd make it easier to remember things~ :P

[winters-queen.livejournal.com]

I looked at Rosetta stone to try to learn maybe Italian or something but they're so expensive.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

yeahhhhh you could always be a jerk and go to piratebay, like me.

[longleggedgit.livejournal.com]

MAN I need to cave and buy Rosetta Stone so I don't lose everything D: but fuck if I have the money right now, what with being unemployed and all. Still it is SO FUN isn't it? :D

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

piratebay, yo. lord knows I am not paying it to teach me words I already know and then yell at me about it.

It is fun, though, and the pictures are amusing.

[longleggedgit.livejournal.com]

Did you find one that worked well on a Mac? Because hell if I could! You should hook me up . . . did you find beyond level one?