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| erinserb Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7199 days ago 135 posts - 144 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 4 24 September 2011 at 4:36am | IP Logged |
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I would be interested for comments of having both of these materials to start learning Spanish. I have access to the Destinos videos, and have purchased the textbook and CD's quite some time ago.
I also have Platiquemos on a CD I have had for quite some time - I didn't realize that it was on there because I put it away for quite some time. I am learning French now with FIA and Assimil - a powerful combination also. When getting to Spanish in a few months, does the Destinos/Platiquemos work well? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tibbles Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5194 days ago 245 posts - 422 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean | Message 2 of 4 24 September 2011 at 6:15am | IP Logged |
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Destinos is fine, but very basic. I suggest that it be one of your earliest sources of learning Spanish. The 52 episodes go by pretty quickly, and quite a few of the episodes are reviews with nothing new. Platiquemos will take you further in the long run.
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| napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5019 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 4 24 September 2011 at 9:30am | IP Logged |
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I would recommend that you supplement the courses that you have chosen with a few others like: 'Hugo Spanish In Three Months,' 'Assimil,' and 'Learning Spanish Like Crazy.'
The added variety should be interesting enough to make the Platiquemos drills more managable IMHO. Best of luck in all your language learning endeavours. Napoleon EDIT: At present I'm learning French too. And among the courses I'm using, two are 'FIA' and 'Assimil'. What a remarkable coincidence, isn't it? Edited by napoleon on 24 September 2011 at 9:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5868 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 4 of 4 25 September 2011 at 1:51pm | IP Logged |
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My main source was Platiquemos and online chats. If you want, do a couple introductory courses (like Michel Thomas), but I think with the Destinos course that you won't really need any other introduction to the language. Platiquemos is a very complete course, anything you study with those other courses will be covered in much more detail in Platiquemos. For me, Platiquemos became more interesting when all the material was new and more challenging.
UPDATE: I think a lot of people place too much emphasis on using a lot of different courses. My advice: find one or two good ones and stick to them til the end. Pretty much all the basic Spanish courses will teach you the same grammar and vocabulary over and over again and you'll find you don't really advance. You'll maybe know the present tense fairly well and a few common irregular verbs, and you'll be able to recognize imperfect, preterite, and future tenses, maybe even the conditional and subjunctive, but you'll be far from being able to produce them. I think your idea of Destinos and Platiquemos is a good combination, (as well as the Assimil/FIA combo). If you can, try entering some language-learning chatrooms or connect to people on Skype or just find some way to practice what you learn, and you'll be amazed by how quickly the language opens itself up to you :) Edited by Crush on 25 September 2011 at 2:03pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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