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| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5344 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 8 13 June 2011 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had recently bought the Teach Yourself Complete Latin American Spanish book. But I am
confused on how I should use it. Do I use Chapter 1 one day, then Chapter 2 the next, etc. or do I just simply do one page per a day? Btw a little off topic. Has anyone noticed how the binding for the book isn't so great. I tend to put my thumb at the bottom and noticed that the pages at the bottom come out a little. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 8 13 June 2011 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Can't speak for the Spanish TY series, but a chapter a day seems excessive.
When I went through the TY Turkish book it took me about 8-9 weeks to get through 16 lessons comfortably. The chapters had loads of grammar and exercises in addition to the dialogs and I made sure to go through them all. Granted, it's a different language, but still. I'd say if you're getting through two complete chapters a week, you're making good progress. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 13 June 2011 at 2:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 8 13 June 2011 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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One chapter a day may be too much, but a page a day is going to take you forever.
The book is made into chapters so it's easier to manage, but you can certainly start and stop anywhere you want. The goal is to acquire the material presented; how you do it is up to you, and it doesn't really have a big effect on the end result. Eventually, you'll know all the structures and all the vocab and you won't remember how you learned them or where. If something is unclear, there is no need to dwell on it; move on, then come back. It's probably better to read the same chapter more than once, than to just stall on something you're not quite getting. I'd also strongly recommend you pay a lot of attention to all the structures and grammar being introduced. Vocabulary is easier to look up than grammar if you don't remember it later. Edited by Arekkusu on 13 June 2011 at 4:20pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5231 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 4 of 8 13 June 2011 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree with the above posts. I've been doing about 2 chapters a week. Its taking longer than I thought, but it turns out to be a lot of material. Go at your own pace, but don't get hung up on something if you don't fully get it. I've been using TY as my first exposure to Italian and its been really great for working on my pronunciation and learning some initial vocab.
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| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5271 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 5 of 8 14 June 2011 at 1:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I use Teach Yourself for languages that are considered very hard to learn - Finnish and Arabic, so it sometimes takes a long time to get through a chapter and at the same time remembering at least 80-90 % of the material. Sometimes I would even spend more time on the chapter on purpose, for safety.
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| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5875 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 6 of 8 18 June 2011 at 7:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Actually, I don't follow the "chapter" system as many do. (i.e. I'll work with these few chapters this day and work my
way through) I go for and look for the content that will be most useful to me right at the start. One thing I do along side this is listen and read to the dialogues as I'm doing this to build up my overall vocabulary and listening comprehension. I guess i just use it differently in my opinion. I have found that if i start at the first chapter and work through all of the chapters one after the other I loose motivation and I don't get through the book. If I jump around and learn things that come to mind as I need them I actually finish the book quicker. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pon00050 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4933 days ago 17 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English Studies: Spanish, Korean* | Message 7 of 8 19 June 2011 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | ||
I am considering buying either Colloquial or Teach Yourself to learn Latin American Spanish. Since you have purchased the exact book, could you please tell me the total length of aduio, DIALOGUES only? The TY Complete Japanese only gave me 30 minutes of dialogue, half of the length I needed, 1 hour. Thanks in advance 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 8 of 8 19 June 2011 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm curious, why an hour's length of time? Is it just to fill in an hour's worth of time, or is there some other reason? I would think that the content would be more important than audio running time. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful |
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