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| vanillabean Groupie Canada Joined 5008 days ago 53 posts - 63 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 25 of 49 17 March 2011 at 10:07pm | IP Logged |
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Sounds like you've made excellent progress. Congrats on getting through "Teach Yourself - Complete Spanish" - it's nice to finish something off! The drills book sounds great. You'll have to let us know how it works for you. Good luck with your prep for the B2 level certification!
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| Fabrizio Pentaglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 103 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French, SpanishB2, Portuguese | Message 26 of 49 18 March 2011 at 8:14am | IP Logged |
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Thank you very much for your comment vanillabean! I can't actually wait to start with the
new book, it looks great! What I'm going to do during the next 30 days is trying to solidify - and possibly slightly increase - my present knowledge of the language. I don't want to move on to an advanced level without having a perfect command of the basic and intermediate structures and vocabulary first. Anyway, I'll soon show you all the results of these three months of study in a video - that's going to be really embarrassing cause I still suck though. Edited by Fabrizio on 18 March 2011 at 8:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Fabrizio Pentaglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 103 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French, SpanishB2, Portuguese | Message 27 of 49 20 March 2011 at 10:12am | IP Logged |
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Hi there,
I eventually made a video of me speaking Spanish - click on the link below to watch it: Fabrizio speaks Spanish I'd really appreciate if you could let me know your opinions about the video. Sorry for its low quality... Gracias y hasta pronto :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Fabrizio Pentaglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 103 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French, SpanishB2, Portuguese | Message 28 of 49 23 March 2011 at 8:10am | IP Logged |
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Hi there,
There must be something wrong with my study plan, I need to change it a little. I think I'll start straight with the DELE B2 preparation course instead of spending one month on that grammar book I've already told you about. In fact, it seems not to be working for me, and I maybe prefer keeping this grammar just as a reference book while I go through the other course. Let's see if it works this way... eheheh By the way, I think I'll fail my personal goal of 100hrs/month of study. With the finals approaching time seems never enough... Hopefully I'll reach that amount of time next month when everything will be done at university. Edited by Fabrizio on 23 March 2011 at 8:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vanillabean Groupie Canada Joined 5008 days ago 53 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 29 of 49 26 March 2011 at 3:28am | IP Logged |
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Well, my opinion doesn't really count for much since I am not fluent enough to pick up any mistakes. It sounds
great to me - haha. But really, it is inspiring to see how much progress you have made in such a short amount of time! Your hard work has really paid off. I can't wait until I can speak that well someday! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Fabrizio Pentaglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 103 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French, SpanishB2, Portuguese | Message 30 of 49 27 March 2011 at 4:41pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you very much for your encouragements :)
I'll soon post another video, stay tuned :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vanillabean Groupie Canada Joined 5008 days ago 53 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 31 of 49 14 April 2011 at 4:31pm | IP Logged |
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Fabrizio, where did you go? :) How is the DELE B2 prep coming along?
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| Fabrizio Pentaglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 103 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French, SpanishB2, Portuguese | Message 32 of 49 15 April 2011 at 1:00pm | IP Logged |
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Hi Vanillabean, hello everyone :D
Sorry if I disappeared, but over the past week I got my degree at university and I couldn’t make it to post here on the forum! I didn’t give up studying Spanish (hell no!), but, unfortunately, I had to slow down a bit :P Anyway, here I am! I’ve got a few news, most of them pretty discouraging actually: - Yesterday I sat an interview in Spanish because of a (free) language course of 100 hours I’d like to go through this summer, but even though I’ve scored pretty high on the written exam, my spoken abilities came out to be way lower than the intermediate level. For this reason, I think I’ll eventually be assigned to the high-beginner or low-intermediate class… damn; - All the material I’ve been using so far isn’t working. Well, the material itself seems me pretty good actually, but I honestly believe I cannot make the best out of it. I don’t know why, but I fall asleep everytime I open those dam books. I need to change strategy I guess; - I think I’ve realized what’s the biggest problem of my Spanish: I rely too much on my – actually pretty extensive – passive vocabulary and I don’t work enough on the active one. I think I’ve a fairly decent pronunciation and grammar too isn’t so bad, but truth is that I’m a bit lazy when it comes to learn new words. So, what am I going to do in order to fix this situation? - I’m going to post something in Spanish everyday on Lang-8 (I’ll put a direct link to my page here on the forum); - I’m going to speak as much as I can with native speakers in order to gain a decent fluency and to convert into active my passive vocabulary; - I’m going to read and listen to my HP book – which I left incomplete 2 months ago – every dam day; - I’ll keep listening and watching tons of Spanish movies and read articles from the net; - Even though I’m a bit skeptical, I’m going to try work on the speaking and writing sections of the DELE B2 preparation course I’ve got. The countdown starts tomorrow: 34 days to the go (19th April – Oral exam). I’m determined to get this certification, no matter what. And you know what? If I stick to this plan and I pass the exam I'm going to reward myself with a trip to Spain. Otherwise... :P Edited by Fabrizio on 15 April 2011 at 1:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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