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| sherry_d Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4711 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes | Message 9 of 14 20 January 2012 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thank you Jeffers, I will get the audible subscription. Its not too big any investment in
something she might not get on with. Do you know how can I get the transcript for Plimseur Spanish? I read some reviews here that it doesn't come with a transcript and wonder how I can get hold on one. You can send me a private message with details. Would also appreciate any recommendations for a good book to learn Spanish vocabulary from. Edited by sherry_d on 20 January 2012 at 6:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 10 of 14 20 January 2012 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Pimsleur is pretty repetitive, so I couldn't see any use to using a transcript. You might want to check the spelling of some words, but that shouldn't actually be an issue with Spanish since spelling is so regular. With French Pimsleur, I haven't felt the need to check spelling on anything, and I often check spelling with other audio courses, because I like to be sure of what I'm hearing.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 11 of 14 20 January 2012 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was wondering, what is Spanish for Dummies like? Dummies language books never get a mention here. Is it any good in your opinion?
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 12 of 14 21 January 2012 at 8:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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Once past the beginner level, the best way to acquire the vocabulary is to read and watch movies, and optionally use some techniques to retain it better - SRS, word lists, shadowing, scriptorium... (see the wikia)
The books that teach you vocabulary just have texts and/or example sentences, but if the material itself interests you, that's 93579345x better. There's nothing special about those books and for many languages there are none - yet people acquire the vocabulary somehow:) If there's a list of 2000 or something words she gotta know, I recommend using it only as she starts preparing specifically for the exam - probably a few months before it. Chances are by then very few words from the list will be unknown to her. As someone put it, learning to use the language and learning to pass exams is not the same - but if you've learned the language, it'll be easy to prepare for a specific exam, much easier than learning to use it if you can only do what is required at the exam. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sherry_d Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4711 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes | Message 13 of 14 22 January 2012 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
Excellent advice and 100% agree, she did Latin and French when she was still in school and has vowed she never ever wants to do them. It was just the way it was taught that put her off, the exams that they take are vocab based and it just cramming a list of words. That is soooo boring and they never get to learn the language properly and like it. This is why I am making it a bit more exciting and relevant as I think languages are so important as English is my second language.
Well its difficult for me to give a balanced review of the Spanish for Dummies as we haven't really used anything else but the few sentences that we can string together were from the book and CD. My library had it online so we just downloaded it for free and used it for three weeks we had borrowed it for. It covers basic holiday Spanish and the CD was about an hour. One good thing about it was we would listen to the audio sometimes and look at how the words are spelt and we quickly sussed it out how certain letters are pronounced. The book would on it's own have been useless in my opinion. We will try and grab a few books and movies while we are out there. Edited by sherry_d on 22 January 2012 at 11:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6553 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 14 of 14 22 January 2012 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Have a look at busuu.com - nice interface for a teen and lots of free lessons. My daughters use it (14 and 17).
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