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| SaffronCicely Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4501 days ago 14 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 9 of 12 08 July 2012 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Serpent - thank you very much!! I've never heard of the lyricstraining website. I came
acros GLOSS a while ago but couldn't remember it's name - these are really helpful! GaryB - have you seen that Le Cafe Gourmand on Nicolson/Clerk St (not sure where one starts and the other ends) has a french language meetup a few time a week? You're probably too advanced for it though, and it costs £6 a session. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SaffronCicely Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4501 days ago 14 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 10 of 12 08 July 2012 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've now finished Michel Thomas Complete + Advanced Spanish CDs. Not sure how I feel. On
one hand, I don't really feel like I know THAT much more. I wouldn't really call the Advanced 'Advanced'. Advanced, slightly, from the first set maybe. What I do like is all the little devices he uses to help you remember things! I'm working through 'Practice Makes Perfect' Spanish Grammar now. I want to try a new course, but since I'm probably at an early intermediate level, it's a bit boring to start a new course from scratch - even though there are probably quite a few things in such courses that I've missed out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5149 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 12 09 July 2012 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks; funnily enough I just noticed that a couple of days ago, I was walking past there and the sign caught my eye. I used to go to something similar (called Yakety Yak; they do several languages including Spanish) and it was useful as long as the other people in the group were at a similar level, but I just didn't feel that it was worth the time and money - each person doesn't get to talk very much because of the size of the group, and while the tutors generally did a good job of coming up with interesting topics, asking challenging questions, and ensuring that everyone gets a chance to speak, they rarely corrected mistakes, of which there were many, including mine no doubt. I think that for people at a lower level it's probably an easier and less intimidating way to get used to conversing than a one-to-one exchange or an informal meetup group, but at my level I get much more "bang for my buck" from the latter things as I get to speak more and with more native or expert speakers. Anyway this one might be worth a look especially since it's two minutes walk from my flat, but I suspect it would just be more of the same. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5333 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 12 of 12 10 July 2012 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I did Michel Thomas as well and now I'm doing Assimil. Don't worry about another course
being too easy. Maybe the first couple courses of Assimil are very simple stuff but it goes on to be quite dense. After MT you know very little vocabulary (but you have covered a bunch of the essential verbs that will show up all the time) and Assimil or other courses will help fill that gap. And for MT in written form which goes into more detail and "finishes" the work on the verbs try Madrigal's Magical Key to Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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