Hola

So on the weekend I got the Spanish Course loaded on computer (learning Spanish is one of my goals for the year). I got the Rosetta Stone course which is so far awesome!   Monday & Wednesday nights I got lessons 1 & 2 done and the way it is taught is awesome.  No English is spoken or written the only indicators are sets of pictures and you have to figure it out, which really makes it stick in your mind.    I can read and figure out stuff pretty good its the pronunciation that I have to go over many times.   There are sounds in Spanish that I have never made before so when you are reading the words a person sounds it out based on English pronunciation which causes problems between the brain and the mouth.  I think the toughest word so far is newspaper periodico (this has funny symbols over the vowels which my keyboard does not have and I struggle to say).  I have tried some of the small phrases out on the Spanish speaking workers at the office .... being very polite they don't laugh at me but I talk very sloooowly in comparison to the way they speak.   I recognized one word when they were talking this morning agua water which although pretty minor made me feel pretty good about my whopping two lessons.  So I am done writing escribe for today and will say Goodbye    Adios!