First of all, in general, I am super awesome at Rosetta Stone. Then again, I think they set it up that way, so you feel like you're figuring stuff out though you retain very little.
Anyway.
Just wanted to complain about the speech recognition for the Pronunciation bits, where they go much harder on you, plus they break it down syllable by syllable. I had to pronounce "zü," which is pronounced /zy/ for you fellow phoneticians out there. I know how to pronounce /y/. It's the French 'u,' the German 'ü.' I kept saying /zy/, /zy/, ü ü ü, and it kept scoring me wrong.
Wait a tick. I had an idea.
I tried /zu/, with the flattest American /u/ I could muster.
It passed. WTF. Rosetta Stone, you fail at teaching people to pronounce Turkish. Now hire me to make you better-- I'm available for cheap.
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