James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5319 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 9 of 19 15 March 2015 at 12:41am | IP Logged |
You must be doing Platiquemos because I don't recall any American voices on FSI. I personally preferred FSI. Platiquemos is fine, but it edits out a lot of the drills. There are some drills in Unit III of FSI that are screwed up, but other than that, I think FSI is a superior course. Platiquemos certainly has better text.
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joshka Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3491 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 10 of 19 15 March 2015 at 7:13pm | IP Logged |
James29 wrote:
You must be doing Platiquemos because I don't recall any American voices on
FSI. I personally preferred FSI. Platiquemos is fine, but it edits out a lot of the drills. There are some
drills in Unit III of FSI that are screwed up, but other than that, I think FSI is a superior course.
Platiquemos certainly has better text. |
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Hmm, interesting. I had previously always been pointed in the direction of Platiquemos over FSI, but
maybe I should go give FSI another look.
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joshka Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3491 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 11 of 19 17 March 2015 at 1:53pm | IP Logged |
Finished unit 30 today. Nothing particularly difficult about it, but it definitely took some time. It was
mostly repetition from things I had learned before, but some words still give me quite a bit of trouble
(more so than they should), such as pertener. I keep wanting to think of the English "to pertain"
instead of "to belong to." Oh well, looks like a job for Anki haha.
Also, the stories at the end of the unit seem to be getting longer, which is enjoyable. It's nice to be
able to read multiple paragraphs of text and understand most all of it.
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4953 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 12 of 19 18 March 2015 at 10:39am | IP Logged |
About your Anki question: There are various styles and it is mostly matter of taste.
While I had success using the classical one word per card format, others have found it
much more efficient to memorise sentences or to create close deletion cards. So, a bit of
experimentation is likely to give you the best answer on what exactly does your brain
need :-)
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joshka Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3491 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 13 of 19 18 March 2015 at 2:41pm | IP Logged |
Cavesa wrote:
About your Anki question: There are various styles and it is mostly matter of taste.
While I had success using the classical one word per card format, others have found it
much more efficient to memorise sentences or to create close deletion cards. So, a bit of
experimentation is likely to give you the best answer on what exactly does your brain
need :-) |
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Thanks for the response! Yeah, I assumed as much. I've just been a bit torn between the two. On the
one hand, I know learning words in context and overall practicing sentences seems to lead to better
results. On the other hand, it's pretty cumbersome to enter and practice some long FSI style
sentences. Guess I'll probably end up doing a combination of both though :)
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joshka Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3491 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 14 of 19 24 March 2015 at 3:30am | IP Logged |
Just finished unit 31. That took a bit longer than expected (again..) Mostly straightforward, but I'm
still not able to quickly include both preterite and imperfect past in the same sentence. I think it's that
the preterite action is embedded in the imperfect? (as in, the specific (preterite) action takes place
during a broader occurrence of the (imperfect) action...)
Anyway, other than that, it was a pretty straightforward unit. Got a few interesting phrase
constructions out of it, though :) On to unit 32!
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basica Senior Member Australia Joined 3480 days ago 157 posts - 269 votes Studies: Serbian
| Message 15 of 19 24 March 2015 at 4:18am | IP Logged |
joshka wrote:
A question for all you Anki users: When you create cards in Anki, do you
typically put individual
words/vocabulary or do you tend to insert entire sentences? |
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I typically put just a word and I might put its conjugation if it isn't regular and I'm
not already familiar with it. Occasionally I put sentences in when I would be tempted to
say things one way and I often make that mistake. Other than that, I generally find that
I don't do well with memorizing sentences. Each to their own though, we all have
different learning styles - good luck with your Spanish!
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joshka Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3491 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 16 of 19 24 March 2015 at 3:13pm | IP Logged |
basica wrote:
joshka wrote:
A question for all you Anki users: When you create cards in Anki,
do you
typically put individual
words/vocabulary or do you tend to insert entire sentences? |
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I typically put just a word and I might put its conjugation if it isn't regular and I'm
not already familiar with it. Occasionally I put sentences in when I would be tempted to
say things one way and I often make that mistake. Other than that, I generally find that
I don't do well with memorizing sentences. Each to their own though, we all have
different learning styles - good luck with your Spanish! |
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Thanks for the feedback, basica :)
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