Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Rosetta Stone Mandarin Study Aid
Rosetta Stone Mandarin is wonderful in many ways BUT they provide no hardcopy translantions, phonetic pinyin or pictograms. There is only a 115 page PDF which does not allow copy and paste (or one could paste pictograms into translate.google.com ) Yesterday, I wrote to Rosetta Stone requesting what I need. Who knows if I will hear back or what they will say. I spent many hours today trying to access the protected PDF. Finally I tried something very obscure with a little known free utility which is not meant to "unlock" protected PDFs and low-and-behold, I had a PDF from which I could copy and paste pictograms and pinyin. I don't really want to say publicly what I did and I doubt anyone could guess in a million years. Anyway I found a way to scour the Internet for the PDF copies for all five levels of Mandarin. I pasted those 500 pages into Google Documents which allow me to export to Rich Text Forman (RTF.) I suppose I will start a Wordpress blog for Rosetta Stone Mandarin for the benefit of others. I was feeling rather glum and frustrated until I stumbled across the secret.
