La atakallam al-arabi jayyidan.

[sarahldy]

So, lately I've been working on learning Arabic. I've given it a few shots over the past few years, but Hebrew has always called me back to it. But now I'm really giving it a serious effort. I've been combining several different ways of learning--listening to tapes (particularly a tape that goes over the sounds), doing the Rosetta Stone program

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[sarahldy]

Well, yeah, it is one of those "state" cards. But you know they aren't really state cards, right? A library worker in each county still has to put the information into the system. So if you had a state card you got in Montgomery County, you would still have to fill out a library card application for Prince George's County and show ID, and then your card would be entered into the Prince George's County system, but your two county accounts would actually be different.

They're *marketing* it as a state card, but it's really nothing different than what they've been doing all along: allowing customers to have their card from one county entered into the system of another county so that the customer can use their one card for each county. Eventually there *will* be a system so that when you take your card to Queen Anne's County, a librarian there will be able to just click a button and the information will be downloaded from a central server--but "that day is not this day!" *grin*

Also, somebody who had gotten a state card in a different county and then had their card entered into Montgomery County's system would be screwed when it came to this Rosetta Stone website. The login to make a Rosetta Stone account requires that your library card number start with 26098, like Montgomery County cards. A state card gotten in another state will start with their numbers, and so it won't work for Rosetta Stone. A pain, isn't it?

[stellar_dust]

Really! Oh, that's annoying! I wouldn't have bothered to change if I'd known that! The only thing the librarian who signed me up mentioned was PG, which I already had a card for, and I guess that wouldn't be nearly as difficutl. Oh well .. like I said, I probably won't have too much use for it once I move, though I probably *will* be coming home relatively often.