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| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4206 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes  Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 9 of 13 03 September 2013 at 10:51pm | IP Logged |
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So now that I've had more time to think about it, I'm somewhat decided on a plan of a
attack. I decided that since my work schedule can be so up in the air, I probably won't be able to schedule a set amount of things to do everyday. I'll just come up with a list of things I want to finish in week and go from there. Some days I probably won't be able to study for more than an hour and some days I'll probably end up being able to study all day. GRAMMAR So I finally got my grammar book at the library. It's short and sweet, which is what I wanted. There are around 27 chapters. My goal for grammar is to finish the book in a month from day. I definitely want to do more with grammar outside of this book, but I'm gonna just focus on what I have for right now. VOCABULARY I'm currently working on a beginner's Spanish vocab course on Memrise. At first I was doing around 50 new words on that a day, but that might change. For right now, I'll just keep doing the amount I'm doing. Eventually having to go through all those reviews will be annoying. I'm thinking about using Anki a bit, but I'm just gonna finish this course first. My goal is to finish the course before this month is over. Hopefully before then. READING I've been doing lessons on Lingq.com, and I think I'm going to keep doing that. The only things is I can't bare beginner's lessons anymore. They're really slow and are never on topics of interest to me. So I've been doing intermediate level lessons. Which isn't really all that hard. My parent's made me study English roots as a kid and being that Spanish and English are so closely related, I can guess at the meaning of most everything. I also bought Treasure Island (an audio and text) in Spanish. I have never read this book before, but I'm LOVE Robert Lewis Stevenson and have wanted to read this book for years. I was going to read something I had already read in English, but I can't bare going through material more than once. I have far too much of a short attention span~I think I'm going to finish the course in Memrise and the grammar book before I attempt reading Treasure Island so that way I can follow the plot better. SPEAKING/WRITING I'm going to start using Spanish with my manager at work and I already message native Spanish speakers, so I'm getting a bit of practice that way. I don't feel like I'm really ready to start speaking a whole lot, so I'm gonna worry about that in a few weeks. Also, I want to listen to around 15ish podcasts a week to start out with. I'm trying the beginner series of Notes in Spanish. I'm not sure yet if I like it, but I like it better than Coffee Break Spanish. I still can't get into that one. I'm also gonna try to do five episodes of Destinos a week. So yeah. That's where I'm at right now~ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4206 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 10 of 13 04 September 2013 at 2:13am | IP Logged |
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So today was pretty productive. I managed to keep up with homework and study some
Spanish. I watched the second episode of Destinos, reviewed vocabulary, read a chapter in my grammar book, and read some articles (Spanish language) on the Spanish Civil War and Gisaengs. I didn't really listen to any podcasts though. I'm aiming to do that tomorrow in between my classes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4146 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 11 of 13 04 September 2013 at 12:46pm | IP Logged |
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I only listened to the first 15 episodes of Coffee Break Spanish, and then I "outgrew" it. I think it's very useful for
someone who wants to learn limited travel Spanish, but it moves very slowly for people who want to become fluent in the language. I just listened to one of the beginner podcasts from Notes in Spanish, and I see what you mean...I think their intermediate and advanced podcasts are much more engaging. I think that you'll find that Destinos really helps with your listening comprehension! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4206 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 12 of 13 05 September 2013 at 4:49am | IP Logged |
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Definitely. While my main goal is tourist Spanish, I still feel like they move slow for
me. I really want to just skip to everything intermediate. Haha. My attention span is really short. And I feel like a lot of beginner oriented things use super slow Spanish. I mean, I understand why, but I'd rather just jump into native sounding speed. I'd rather learn to cope right away than think I'm doing okay only to be blindsided by real Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4206 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 13 of 13 05 September 2013 at 5:29am | IP Logged |
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For grammar I started working on getting a grasp of the use of "para." I've already
been using it, but I was never sure what the exact rules of it's usage are. I was never sure when to say "por" and when to say "para." I've also started to attempt conjugating verbs in the present tense for the first time since high school. The concept is sort of fuzzy in my mind still. I'm going to review the chapter again tomorrow. I also read three articles on Wikipedia in Spanish on leverate, sororate, and the earliest complex societies. Don't ask. Anthropology major. I reviewed vocabulary today and didn't really learn a whole lot. I was sort of too busy with classes to do a whole lot there. I watched the third episode of Destinos and listened to two podcast episodes. I also spent about a half hour listening to Spanish language songs. I don't know why I love Shakira so much. Not a whole lot today, but since I don't have class tomorrow, I expect I should do a lot more. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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