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| glidefloss Senior Member United States Joined 5973 days ago 138 posts - 154 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 1 of 4 24 February 2013 at 2:00am | IP Logged |
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Hi I'm looking for suggestions, tips, comments, and especially criticism of my plan.
A few years ago, thanks to this site, I was able to learn about LR, and AJATT. It helped me learn enough French so that I could talk casually to people in French, although I'm sure I made a lot of mistakes, and didn't come across like a very interesting person. Unfortunately I wasn't able to pursue the language as much as I'd liked, and my reading admittedly wasn't very strong, because eventually I focused mostly on watching dubbed Seinfeld, and some French sitcoms (Jamais 2 sans toit). I want to move to South American/Mexico. I'm hoping it will be just more interesting and exciting that what I'm doing now. Because of how much I watched them in French, I have most Seinfeld episodes practically memorized. I'm going to extract the Spanish audio and listen to them at work in my car, where I spend about six hours a day by myself on average. Do you think I'll be able to talk to people? I want to be able to fluently converse with people once I get down there. I'm not that concerned with reading and writing. Unfortunately I think the Seinfeld Spanish is from Spain, not South America. For some reason, maybe because of French, the a lot of the words are already 'separated out' for me when I listen, and I can usually follow along the plot just listening to it in the background. One of my reasons for choosing TV shows it that I'll get immensely bored if I just listen to starter lessons or something like that. I guess audiobooks would make sense too, but I doubt I'd be able to follow along with them in the car, even if I've read them before, at least at the level I'm at now. Thanks for reading and your criticisms, no matter how severe. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| PeteP Newbie United States Joined 5042 days ago 27 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Romanian | Message 2 of 4 24 February 2013 at 9:11pm | IP Logged |
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I know what you mean about starter lessons! For me, game shows in the target language
work great for listening in the car. I love Moldovan Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Lots of chatty conversation with contestants (repetitious but good), presenter speaks with a very standard accent but contestants have regional accents, each episodes have different trivia questions, and the material is real, native material at real speed. Listening so much to a tv show will get you off to a good start, but it will mainly work your listening skills. After some time in country I think your speaking will catch up quickly. You should also read, even though that isn't your main area. Reading is a great vocabulary builder and teaches you a lot of grammar painlessly. A simple grammar might be helpful too. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5964 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 4 24 February 2013 at 10:41pm | IP Logged |
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Consider also shadowing or chorusing the audio.... I think you'll find that the benefits go beyond that of listening comprehension.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6602 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 4 of 4 25 February 2013 at 1:05am | IP Logged |
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I think it will be easier to use materials that are *designed* to be audio-only. Like music, radio, podcasts etc. Alternate between music and the more difficult kinds of audio.
btw here are my favourite Spanish resources: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/# http://www.learner.org/resources/series75.html a tv series for learners http://albalearning.com/ http://lyricstraining.com/ - great site for discovering new music and getting comfortable with your TL's writing system/spelling/later vocabulary http://gloss.dliflc.edu/Default.aspx - free lessons with interesting content, with my Portuguese knowledge I used these without almost any prior study of Spanish 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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