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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7094 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 25 of 62 13 May 2010 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have the one on Pronouns and Prepositions - that's worth having. I can't comment on the Grammar book, I 'm afraid. Andy. Edit: There appears to be a 2nd edition of it out in August on Amazon UK. Edited by Andy E on 13 May 2010 at 2:39pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6236 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 26 of 62 13 May 2010 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks Andy. I will add that to my wish-list and get the new one in August. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6236 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 27 of 62 15 May 2010 at 12:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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ANKI
Finally managed to download it today, and I have already created about 200 flashcards. I am adding new ones as I go through my usual material. I love those flashcards and I am sure they are going to speed up vocabulary learning considerably. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6236 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 28 of 62 15 May 2010 at 2:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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Deleted the whole ANKI list by mistake. That's 234 flashcards gone. Damn!! I was trying
to copy the list to create a second one in reverse order. Obviously things went wrong somewhere. Oh well, I suppose retyping the whole thing will be more vocab practice. Or so I am telling myself. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6236 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 29 of 62 18 May 2010 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This week has been good so far:
Pimsleur 1 - Unit 19, 20 Harry Potter - L&R Spanish - Chapter 14, 15 Linguaphone Disc 3 Tracks 9 - 16 I am also doing scriptorium exercise with Michel Thomas Foundation course. That's helping me get the hang of spelling, and it's a good review of the course before I do the advance course. ANKI flashcards are fabulous. Everyday I add few more cards to my vocabulary list. I have set them up to review in both Forward and Reverse order, and ANKI is now a daily part of my Spanish studies. Other parts of my studies focus on context, but spending a little time every day just to review vocabulary is certainly useful. I have also worked through Unit 1 of Practice Makes Perfect, but that needs to be redone. I should have been more patient at the first attempt, so this time I am going o do it properly.Take my time, look up words I don't know. The unit exercises themselves - for the verb side of it - were fine. But I didn't know some vocabulary, and some grammar rules (which are not part of this book, but one is expected to know), so that needs more attention. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6236 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 30 of 62 19 May 2010 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have fallen in love with Spanish poetry. I have very limited experience of course. I only printed off some bilingual poems from albalearning.com - but even the poems that were actually written in English sound much better in Spanish.
I think the melody of the sounds fits the poetry perfectly. I only printed them off as an additional study method, but I have enjoyed them so much now, I will be actively seeking some Spanish poetry. Does anyone know where I can downlaod some free Spanish e-books that were translated from English? I was hoping to download some classics i.e. Jane Austen, Jules Vern (ok, not English), etc. But haven't found it on any of the usual sites like Project Gutenberg. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6236 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 31 of 62 19 May 2010 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Neary done with L&R of Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal. I did this L&R without using a
dictionary, but with the next book I read, I will start using a dictionary. This was good to get into, especially to see how much I understood over time due to other courses. Michel Thomas Scriptorium is definitely helping. I am enjoying review of the course, and it is also more satisfying to know that more things have stuck into my mind than I had believed. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6236 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 32 of 62 20 May 2010 at 12:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Pronunciation Question:
I have found that some words are pronounced with "J" sound by one speaker but with "Y" sound by another speaker. Yo = I for example...sometimes it is spoken like JO but also like YO Is this based on location? What about llamar - It is YAMAR or JAMAR? ** When there is a J in the world, is it ALWAYS pronounced like H, or sometimes like J too? Julio is HULIO What about CAJE = BOX? Is that CAJE or CAHE? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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