Denise, Teach Me Spanish

For those who do not know, I live in a predominantly Hispanic city.  The Spanish language is something that I hear all the time despite not knowing how to speak it.  People even assume that I know it and often begin talking to me in Spanish, only to later explain that I have no idea what they are talking about.

I was thinking about new and unusual ways to integrate with Denise and I thought, why couldn’t I get Denise to integrate with the Rosetta Stone program?  She already has a translator built-in however it doesn’t teach me anything, it only translates the text I want translated.  

So I looked into exactly how the program worked and I admit that it was a little different than I expected.  It consist of quizzes without translation and the user must choose what something means by selecting one of four different answers.  The quizzes eventually change and the user has to correctly completely quizzes as they get more difficult.

 

I thought, I could easily get Denise to interact with the quizzes.  Then if I get one wrong, I can get her to tell me something specific like “I’m sorry, that is incorrect.  Please try again.”  I was also thinking of different things I could do to integrate her with the program when I had a realization, why?

Why was I doing this?  What would be the point to do all these extra steps just so I can get Denise to work with a program that already works fine without her?  The idea of Denise is to make things more simple, not complicate them.  I realized that this was one situation where having Denise to work alongside a program did not help on any level.  I never took into consideration of a scenario like this however, here it was staring me right in the face.

I decided to abandon the idea and move onto something else.  While this could have been a cool idea, it just did not make any sense on doing a lot of extra work when learning the new language was going to be hard enough as it is.