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| JIK Diglot Groupie Bahrain Joined 4103 days ago 58 posts - 58 votes  Speaks: Estonian, English* Studies: Spanish, German | Message 9 of 33 07 September 2013 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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[QUOTE=montmorency] You seem to have no shortage of material, but if you are interested in another
approach to the spoken language, you might look at "Say Something in Spanish". I am doing the 1st Welsh course by the same people, and am very impressed, and have signed up for access to courses 2 and 3 (course 1 is free). I think the pricing policy on the Spanish may be different, but you do get some lessons free, and if you do decide to sign up for more, I don't think the payment is a great deal, if the one I'm doing is anything to go by. You mentioned repetition, and there is a fair amount of repetition in SSiW, but I've found it really does seem to work. I have no connection with them except as a happy user of their Welsh course. I listened to some of the lessons that I could access without extra payment (I'm not sure if I get a few as a bonus for having signed up for the Welsh!), and the approach seems very much like what they use for Welsh. If you try it, just go with the flow, and follow their instructions exactly. It may seem very different to what you've done before, but it really does seem to work (at least for Welsh, and I don't see why it wouldn't for any other language). Anyway, whatever you do, have lots of fun with your Spanish, and try to get as much speaking practice as you can. Thanks for the tip, montmorency! I'll have a look when I get a chance. Any tips/ideas are always welcome :) Edited by JIK on 07 September 2013 at 9:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 10 of 33 07 September 2013 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
I found all of my Skype partners through italki.com and conversationexchange.com I wrote a long post about language exchanges here, if you're interested: how to have a successful language exchange I love Skype sessions! The time goes really fast when you find someone that you can click with. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JIK Diglot Groupie Bahrain Joined 4103 days ago 58 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Estonian, English* Studies: Spanish, German | Message 11 of 33 07 September 2013 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks, Stelle. I've looked at italki a bit but never at conversationexchange. I'll have a look a bit later today when I have time. Looking forward to it! Edited by JIK on 07 September 2013 at 9:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JIK Diglot Groupie Bahrain Joined 4103 days ago 58 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Estonian, English* Studies: Spanish, German | Message 12 of 33 08 September 2013 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just finished unit 14 of Platiquemos. Also relatively easy, but it did introduce a few words and structures I
wasn't familiar with, not to mention helping me feel more comfortable about shortening and combining vowels in phrases like "va a comer" into something that sounds much closer to"...va comer" (only in spoken Spanish, mind you...) I'm hoping Platiquemos starts to pick up a bit soon and get harder. The introduction says the language tends to start to 'click' somewhere around level 3, so I'm looking forward to that, but right now I feel like there is a loooong way until that happens. I finally signed up on italki and conversationexchange, so hopefully I'll find some language partners asap. That should help quite a bit as well. (A big thank you to Stelle for suggesting those websites and Notes in Spanish podcast, which I'm enjoying a lot!) I've also been adding all the new vocab from Platiquemos into Anki and reviewing it daily. It's really encouraging to realize you know all the words in the deck and then realize that you didn't know any of them a few short days ago. Starting unit 15 of Platiquemos later today! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JIK Diglot Groupie Bahrain Joined 4103 days ago 58 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Estonian, English* Studies: Spanish, German | Message 13 of 33 12 September 2013 at 3:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Platiquemos unit 15 is finally a bit of a challenge. It's not even that anything specific is that difficult, but
it's just a lot of material. I'm still getting used to some of the more odd elements of Spanish syntax, but it's enjoyable. Anki is saving my life here. I've also been able to find a few people to talk to on skype, but haven't yet had my first conversations.. Hopefully tomorrow! (if any of you are interested in speaking Spanish with me on skype, let me know :) ) Also, Notes in Spanish really is an enjoyable podcast. Very "listenable," if we can invent a word haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4472 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 14 of 33 12 September 2013 at 5:08am | IP Logged | ||
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I think pretty much all of us have studied on and off and rebooted our studies multiple times. At least, I have. I wish you luck in your new attempt. I am sure 3rd is the charm.
Thanks Montmorency for the link. That seems to be exactly the kind of content I am looking for. I am already doing Pimsleur and have a few other courses waiting but I will try it. It seems they have only one course for Spanish so far and all of them seem accessible for free (but you have to register to access lessons past lesson 5 and you have to tweet about them to get access to the 3 last lessons). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JIK Diglot Groupie Bahrain Joined 4103 days ago 58 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Estonian, English* Studies: Spanish, German | Message 15 of 33 12 September 2013 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the encouragement, Tsopivo. It's going a bit better this time than the previous attempts, though I still run into the constant issue of struggling to make it a daily routine. Every time I've been consistent with it, I've loved the results, but something always seems to get in the way. Hopefully not this time though! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JIK Diglot Groupie Bahrain Joined 4103 days ago 58 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Estonian, English* Studies: Spanish, German | Message 16 of 33 25 September 2013 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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So, i've been absent for almost 2 weeks (some personal things, plus I had family visiting me, but that's no
excuse haha). I'm back at it and Platiquemos unit 15 is really kicking my butt. The only real encouragement I'm finding is that Irrationale's Platiquemos log also mentioned 15 taking forever (and that the following one was a walk in the park.. that'll be a nice change). Hoping to finish 15 today. The sentence construction seems to have gone from manageable to absurdly difficult overnight... I'm having a really hard time keeping up with the prompts in this unit. Anyone else have issues with unit 15? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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