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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5992 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 17 of 73 29 August 2008 at 6:03am | IP Logged |
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Thx ExtraLean :)
Been a busy couple of days, but I managed to finish units 21 and 22. I would say each unit took around 3 hours to complete. Unit 21 was huge, but actually quite easy because most of it (irregular PAST 1 verbs) I have experienced with Pimsleur. FSI finally covers them, in overdue time. The rest was variations on a theme. Unit 22, stem changing verbs was more variations and simple memorization. Speaking of Unit 22, this unit had, by far, the worst audio quality I've heard. I'm not sure why it was so bad, but it was almost unusable. I had to constantly refer to the text. There was no sibilance, so I couldn't understand any "s" "t", etc. This really pissed me off because of the word "vuelve" which is quite hard to pronounce for English speakers; I am fortunate enough to be around native speakers! Starting unit 23. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5992 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 18 of 73 02 September 2008 at 12:04am | IP Logged |
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Starting Unit 24
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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5992 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 19 of 73 06 September 2008 at 12:13am | IP Logged |
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Starting 25, and Level 4. Unit 24 took longer because it is about clitics, as with this one. Clitics continue to give me the most trouble...
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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5992 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 20 of 73 09 September 2008 at 12:23am | IP Logged |
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Starting Unit 26.
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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5992 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 21 of 73 12 September 2008 at 3:00am | IP Logged |
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Unit 26 was quite confusing, I must admit. The difference between comer and comerse, etc, still irks me. I think I am catching on, but I really want to intuitively feel it, and not have to remember every time I use it. I suppose that will come with time.
Starting Unit 27. Finally I get to learn commands, so I can stop sounding like an idiot at work, and start commanding people! (Joking). Seriously though, I have been waiting for this for a while and I am going to devour this unit whole. I just love it when you learn some simple rules that open your vocab and expressive ability so much. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5992 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 22 of 73 14 September 2008 at 2:16am | IP Logged |
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Starting Unit 28.
Commands have improved my fluency GREATLY, since they are used so often in my work setting. I'm sure that my Spanish sounds much better to the ears than before, and I can thank FSI for this. This program is getting better and better in my eyes and its hard for me to slow down! I had my first semi-philosophical political complex conversation today so that was some sort of milestone. It was frustrating though because I had to ask to repeat several times (he has a Argentine accent and was speaking very fast!), and I lacked all the words to express my thoughts adequately. I think maybe I need to start learning more vocab than what FSI is giving me, so I will ponder this... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5992 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 23 of 73 18 September 2008 at 2:02am | IP Logged |
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Starting Unit 29.
The informal command business is annoying, and is not coming to me automatically yet because the rules seem quite random. Everything else is easy right now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| NYC_Trini_Span Diglot Groupie United States Joined 7165 days ago 60 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 24 of 73 19 September 2008 at 1:03pm | IP Logged |
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I want to begin my FSI programmatic 1&2, but i have done Pimsleur 1, LSLC 1 & 2, and finished the Verb and also Pronoun/Preposition "Practice Makes Perfect Books". I also was able to live in Dominican Republic for 22 collective months since late 2005. I just moved back to NY again May 2008.
I now teach basic Spanish and want to improve to a high advanced. I'm high intermediate to low advanced now. I think the Tú commands can be tricky for irregular ones at first. But always remember that saying "Don't" means using the SAME word as usted, but with an "S" slapped on the end of it. Ten, no tengas Di, no digas ........... diME, no ME digas ..........dimelo, no me lo digas Sal, no salgas ecetera Edited by NYC_Trini_Span on 19 September 2008 at 1:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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