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| AlexKastani Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 3692 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Estonian* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 12 12 May 2014 at 2:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi everybody!
I'm getting back to studying the beautiful language (Spanish, of course!) after a bit of a hiatus. I'm not 100% positive, but I think I'm somewhere just past A2. I'd like to take that to B2 by the end of this calendar year. My goals at this point are to: 1) complete at least 45 minutes of platiquemos per day 2) get extra input in Spanish to help my listening comprehension (at the moment, through notes in Spanish) I do this mostly at work, since I currently have a job where I can listen to music and podcasts while I work. 3) add all the new words I'm learning into my Anki deck and consistently go through those 4) find a Skype language partner and have at least one 30 minute conversations per week (starting in a month, perhaps?). I'm currently at unit 20 in platiquemos. I generally understand everything in the units up to that point, though I am still a bit slow in responding to the prompts at times. I'm also listening to Notes in Spanish. I finished the intermediate ones and feel like it has helped my listening comprehension a lot. Admittedly, they're a lot easier to follow than most other material I've listened to. Now I've started NiS advanced, but it seems like quite a jump from intermediate.. I'm following about 75-80% of it. (Fortunately, Ben doesn't talk particularly fast, so it's quite easy to keep up with his part.) I'm looking forward to getting to know some of my fellow Spanish learners here! :) (I'll be doing this at the same time as studying German...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Komma Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 3899 days ago 107 posts - 134 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish | Message 2 of 12 12 May 2014 at 10:44am | IP Logged | ||
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And again, hello Alex,
it's nice to see that you're studying Spanish as well.. I do this too at the moment ;) And I like to read a log from the beginning. Most of the other logs already have many pages to go through until one can give a helpful comment. At this moment I just want to wish you good luck on you Spanish journey and welcome to the forums :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AlexKastani Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 3692 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Estonian* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 3 of 12 12 May 2014 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | ||
Hello again, Komma! How long have you been studying Spanish? Thanks again! I'll keep an eye on your Spanish log as well! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AlexKastani Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 3692 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Estonian* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 4 of 12 13 May 2014 at 4:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, today I spent about 45 minutes on Platiquemos, units 19 (for review) and 20. I'm pretty sure I'm now
ready to move past unit 20. For any of you who have used or are using Platiquemos, when do you decide you're ready to move on to the next unit? I generally move on when I understand everything that is said in the unit, and when I know how and why to conjugate most everything. At the same time, I usually can't do it quite fast enough for the prompts. Should I slow down and wait 'till I can answer correctly very quickly, or do you all think it's ok to move on once I know the material well enough to answer correctly, even if it takes me a couple seconds? Moving on to unit 21 tomorrow :) looking forward to it! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3984 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 5 of 12 13 May 2014 at 11:08am | IP Logged | ||
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I think that you have to strike a balance between automaticity and interest! Personally, I wasn't able to repeat the
same unit more than a few times without getting bored. For me, boredom is the evil nemesis of language learning. I would say that it's ok to move on…but it really depends on you! I really liked the Notes in Spanish podcasts. Now that I've finished them, I really miss them! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AlexKastani Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 3692 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Estonian* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 6 of 12 13 May 2014 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the feedback, Stelle! I think you're right. As I mentioned in my previous post, I am indeed moving on haha :) I think that my less than ideal speed of response has less to do with understanding the content than it does with still just being somewhat hesitant to speak. So, I think hesitating is what I'll need to work on, not the unit itself :) I agree! Notes in Spanish is great! I really like listening to Marina speak. She has an extremely pleasant accent. I'm going to be sad when I'm done listening to them haha :) Fortunately the advanced NiS has almost 100 episodes! When you went through them, did you get the actual notes/pdfs too? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AlexKastani Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 3692 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Estonian* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 7 of 12 14 May 2014 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Got home a bit too late to update my log last night, but I did about an hour of work on
unit 21 of Platiquemos and didn't find it all too difficult. There is the occasional new word, but mostly it's pretty straightforward. The only exception was the section about extended stems in certain words (like est-UV-e for "estar" and tra-J-e in "traer"). For those of you that are further along or have done this section, are those the only two words I have to worry about extending like this?? I've listened to unit 21 again today for about 45 minutes and will probably move on to unit 22 tomorrow. Also, I listened to a couple Notes in Spanish advanced podcasts yesterday and 3 (so far) today. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3984 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 8 of 12 14 May 2014 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | ||
No. I was committed to learning Spanish without spending any money (well, aside from novels, that is). I think that the PFDs could have been really useful, though. But it would have changed the way that I listened, since I listened to NIS in the car. Having the PDFs would have turned it into yet more desk work. Edited by Stelle on 14 May 2014 at 11:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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