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| samfrances Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4053 days ago 81 posts - 110 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 43 27 October 2013 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
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Out of curiosity, James29, do you recommend FSI Programmatic or Basic?
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| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5376 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 10 of 43 27 October 2013 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
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Definitely FSI Basic. I have not done programmatic so I cannot really comment on it, but Basic is more comprehensive and is preferred by people on this forum.
I personally like doing one course at a time and then moving on so I like your plan to consolidate. Although, I only study for about an hour a day so you have more time to fill. I'd recommend doing assimil before FSI. I think FSI is much more enjoyable and effective if you already know the vast majority of the vocabulary and grammar. If you do assimil thoroughly you will be able to get through FSI only spending 3-4 hours per lesson instead of 6-7. FSI is great, but it does get a bit tedious at times and I cannot imagine doing it without any Spanish background. One other comment... I prefer FSI to platiquemos. I think it is just better. Platiquemos edits out material and makes the lessons shorter. FSI also has better quality audio. You will see comments on the forum talking about low quality audio on FSI, but that was before they remastered the audio. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| samfrances Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4053 days ago 81 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 43 27 October 2013 at 11:14am | IP Logged |
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Ah, that's good. I was originally planning on doing Assimil first, so I'll stick to that. Thanks James29.
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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 12 of 43 27 October 2013 at 11:49am | IP Logged |
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I'm doing the FSI basic lessons, but I already had a base in Spanish. I think they would be very difficult if I were
starting from scratch. As it is, the audio provides excellent practice, and I only rarely find myself reading the text. I don't think that they're boring at all, but I always do them while walking, so that may help. Edited by Stelle on 27 October 2013 at 11:50am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| samfrances Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4053 days ago 81 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 43 27 October 2013 at 11:46pm | IP Logged |
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Here's my log for the week. I've tried to add some more native content and more speaking this time. I watched another Spanish film without subtitles, El espíritu de la colmena - an interesting film, although not much dialogue. I also had a conversation session with a Spanish teacher over skype. As far as reading is concerned, I read a number of chapters of the Easy Spanish Reader by William T. Tardy. I've also been trying to work through the Spanish translation of the first Harry Potter book using the Learning with Texts app.
00:26:15 Destinos (video course) 01:44:08 Duolingo lessons 01:39:14 Flash cards 01:50:10 Free reading 01:30:00 Evening class 03:34:36 Evening class homework and follow-up 01:16:20 Learning Spanish Like Crazy 01:31:40 Learning with Texts 01:54:31 Michel Thomas 00:20:17 Notes in Spanish 01:14:00 Pimsleur 00:04:10 Schaum's grammar 00:35:00 Skype conversation / lesson 01:37:03 Spanish TV or film without subtitles 00:10:12 Verbarrator 00:41:17 Writing flash cards 20:08:53 TOTAL Edited by samfrances on 27 October 2013 at 11:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| slikew Groupie United States Joined 4074 days ago 79 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 43 29 October 2013 at 2:34pm | IP Logged |
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How do you have so much time to study each week? That's a very intense schedule.
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| samfrances Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4053 days ago 81 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 43 29 October 2013 at 7:16pm | IP Logged |
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Well, I don't practise in one block. I do between 10 and 30 minutes here and there, and use a time management app called toggl (see toggl.com) to keep track of how much time I have spent practising. This makes it seem more manageable, and you clock up a surprising number of minutes before you realise it.
Also, I have an hour commute each way on public transport, so that's 2 hours per day I would otherwise be spending snoozing :) Edited by samfrances on 29 October 2013 at 7:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| samfrances Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4053 days ago 81 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 43 03 November 2013 at 10:36pm | IP Logged |
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Here's my time data for the week beginning 28th October.
This has been a difficult week in terms of language study. I fell behind during the week and had to catch up at the weekend, which was a little bit exhausting. On the bright side, I had some good conversation time over skype, and I think this is going to be an increasingly important part of my learning. I've also been participating in the November 6 Week Language-Learning Challenge as @sam6wc. 02:42:16 Assimil 00:16:44 Duolingo lessons 01:16:44 Flash cards 01:17:27 Free reading 01:25:00 Evening class 01:04:39 Evening class homework and follow-up 01:49:33 Learning with Texts 01:26:42 Michel Thomas 01:03:43 Misc. grammar study 03:11:35 Notes in Spanish 02:29:01 Pimsleur 00:22:30 Schaum's grammar 01:00:00 Skype conversation / lesson 00:36:49 Writing flash cards 20:02:43 TOTAL 1 person has voted this message useful |
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