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I’m currently residing in Mexico after years of HS and Rosetta refresher, my main critique: Rosetta didn’t teach big numbers well enough. At 20 pesos to the dol
by jakear 4y ago
I’m currently residing in Mexico after years of HS and Rosetta refresher, my main critique: Rosetta didn’t teach big numbers well enough. At 20 pesos to the dollar, learning 100-1000+ is pretty much mandatory but I didn’t see it, especially not in the form of the rapid fire audio you’ll encounter in the wild (with a line of annoyed people behind you perhaps…).
Don’t try to get natives to tell you the english either - it’s much more confusing than you probably realize!^ Instead, if you aren’t sure you can repeat back the number you think you heard digit by digit and people will generally get what you’re going for (or “lo siento no entiendo, puedes decir cada digito por favor?”). Writing it out is a decent last resort, helps that there’s dirt everywhere.
^ “three fifty” is 2 numbers, 2 orders of magnitude apart. “thirty five” is one number, in between them. “three hundred fifty” is the same as the second “three fifty”. “thirty five hundred” is a totally different number entirely, but the same as “three thousand five hundred”. etc.
- jakear 4y agoOh, and the tenses. When the Military stops you to ask what you did in the past and what you’re going to do in the future, Rosetta’s passion por present tense won’t help. That said, having shit tier spanish at the checkpoints can “naïveté” you out of some sticky situations. A cute dog helps too (when they ask, and they will, “ella no muerde”).