Cross your fingers!!!

[TheKiltedWonder]

Thanks everyone! I'll definitly let everyone know how it goes.

Galician, the job is to write the lessons that are on their CDs. I believe we write in English and others translate, but I'm fluent in German, so I wouldn't mind translating a little either.

McMath, I was about to say yeah, of course. But I didn't see Scottish or Irish Gaelic on their website. They do have Welsh though, oddly enough.

And I used the libraries copy of Rosetta Stone before responding to their questions to get a clearer idea of what the actual job would entail and a better idea of what exactly they were looking for. Thank goodness for libraries!

[Ian.MacAllan]

. . . And I used the libraries copy of Rosetta Stone before responding to their questions to get a clearer idea of what the actual job would entail and a better idea of what exactly they were looking for. Thank goodness for libraries!

That willingness to do your homework and identify and attain the skills the job requires will be very helpful to you in any kind of work. Best wishes!

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[TheKiltedWonder]

That willingness to do your homework and identify and attain the skills the job requires will be very helpful to you in any kind of work. Best wishes!

Thanks, I hope it mainly helps me with this job at the moment

As for the link:
http://www.rosettastone.com/
Just as an FYI to anyone looking at their German lessons, here are my impressions I have from when I looked at the program:
I don't agree with everything they do. For example, many pictures seem to be taken in America. I'd prefer culturally authentic photos. That said, I do like their approach to foreign language learning. They use pictures and the target language to teach vocabulary and sentences. Most foreign language teachers will agree that this is a much better approach than teaching a language by giving lists of English equivalents. There's not always a 1-to-1 correlation between words and those words aren't being taught in a meaningful context. You want to be speaking German (Spanish, French, what have you) not speaking English with German words. So A+ for them on that.
The German course did fail my toilet test though. I always want the first words in a language course to be how to ask for a toilet. And a picture to help decipher men's and women's bathrooms. That's far more important to me than being able to say you're favorite hobby is collecting stamps. Seriously, it's utterly surprising how long it takes many language learning books, tapes and textbooks to broach the subject of the WC. Still, I think meaningful vocabulary was taught. Much better than some of the textbooks I've seen which give students the most useless vocabulary in the world.
Am I biased, because I'm hoping to work for them? Perhaps, but I stand by that review.

[Mael Coluim]

I rooting for you, TKW!
Would the job require relocation from wonderful Williamsburg?

[TheKiltedWonder]

I rooting for you, TKW!
Would the job require relocation from wonderful Williamsburg?

Yes it would. I'd be off to Harrisonburg, but I love mountains, so I don't mind.

I finally heard back from them today after a few emails, but I guess it was the holiday season. I've got an interview with two of their writers to see if I'll pass muster! AND I heard back from them the same day as an interview in Richmond to be a translator for insurance claims. The interview went well over all. I could have answered some questions better, but I can translate claims for them in two languages easily, and potentially a third, so I feel that I have earned the right to be a little confident. I'll post when I know more. Hopefully I'll start earning maybe 60 tanks a year (that's how I measure my salary).

[McMathTX]

Good luck with that! Does Rosetta Stone have a gaelic course?

McMath, I was about to say yeah, of course. But I didn't see Scottish or Irish Gaelic on their website. They do have Welsh though, oddly enough.

Well, I hope you get the RS job, and when you do, you develop a gaelic course.

Dean

[Arizona Scot]

The best of luck on this adventure, a man who truly enjoys his job never has to work.

[Galician]

Wo ist das Klo?

[Bugbear]

Good luck.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Loyalty is a two-way street. Don't feel that you are in any way obligated to the insurance company beyond doing yur best for them when on their clock. They would let you go in a heart beat if it was in their best interest to do so, and they've as much as said so in their terms of employemnt offer.

Besides, if you take the RS offer in H'burg you'll be that much closer for kilt nights here in the Shenandoah Valley.