A little help with my German please?

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Isa

Your first question depends on the gender of the "it".
If the question is: What color is that house? Welche Farbe hat das Haus? (note that it is das Haus, so it's neuter), your answer would be: Es (neuter) ist rot.
On the other, if you are saying: What color is your table? Welche Farbe hat dein Tisch?, the answer would be "Er ist Gelb", because it's Der Tisch, so it's masculine.
Find out the gender of the verb and you know whether to use Er, Sie, or Es.

Secondly, "Sie" has many translations, yes. Here the personals:
Ich - I
Du - You
Er - He
Sie - SHE, first person singular
Es - It

Sie - You, the formal form. This is second person for people whom you speak to in a formal setting.

Wir - We
Ihr - You
Sie - They, the third person plural.

Lastly, the occupation rule - it is true that you should leave out the article, because it sounds a lot better in German.
So you would say: "Ich bin Doktor."
"Ich bin ein Doktor" isn't incorrect or anything, but with most occupations it just sounds odd to add the article, because it's unnecessary.

Good luck, I hoped I helped!
Bitte :)

Alwin E

I'm a native German and I really think that Rosetta Stone is only useful for a starter, but after that, you might want to delve deeper in the grammar of languages. -- The German genders (der, die, das - male, female, neuter) are not easy to understand for beginners, but be assured that every German will understand what you mean if you mix them up. To be really fluent in German, I suppose it needs a year of rosetta and then three or four years of thourough learning. Our language is not easy.

Let me give you a simple example:
The man's wife's daughter has gone swimming.
In German:
Die Tochter der Ehefrau des Mannes ist zum Schwimmen gegangen.
(Of course nobody in both our countries would say something like that; we'd rather say "Sandy's out swimming with her boyfriend", but you get what I mean?)+

And, btw:

If you're a girl:
a man is man - male - der Mann
a woman is a woman - female - die Frau
a girl is a girl - neuter - das MÃ¤dchen
But if someone calls you a "sÃ¼ÃŸes MÃ¤del" or "schÃ¶nes MÃ¤del", even when you're 40 years of age or older, take that as a compliment. At least from a Southerner like me. -- Whereas "junge Frau" can often be meant insulting.

Anja H

Isa said it all and very well.
I found the below website, which I find correct and helpful in learning German, so this might be a good addition to Rosetta Stone.

http://german.about.com/

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