I Gotta' Really Big Headache

So, I'm trying to be good, and study my Mandarin. But in common terms, I'm getting my butt kicked. Big time. I just spent about an hour going over the same small part of what they call a "core lesson" on Rosetta Stone, the computer program for learning new languages. A core lesson is about a half hour of new material (Mandarin I haven't learned, yet). This particular lesson is about the names for house, window, living room, kitchen, bathroom, sink, toilet, as well as little words, like in and on. Of course, they don't just simply give you the words. They use them as you would in conversation, so you get them in sentences. No English, thank you. You have to figure it all out yourself.
Another problem for me, is word order. A sentence in Chinese is not structured the way it is in English. This sometimes makes the problem of understanding the meaning of a sentence into a puzzle. The end result is, I begin to feel mentally inferior. Or, to put it simply, I feel like a complete moron.
The other complication for me is this: There are many sections where you listen to the sentence (sometimes very long sentences), and then speak them yourself. The difficulty for me is I can't concentrate on both the pronunciation AND the meaning. So I have to keep going back and re-doing these lovely speaking sections until I can get a grasp of both.
The end result? I got a headache.
But, I most definitely must take my hat off (give credit and respect) to all those who have come to a new country, and devoted themselves to learning that most difficult of languages to learn. English. I imagine my headache is very minor (small) in comparison.