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| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 16 23 February 2010 at 3:35am | IP Logged |
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After getting lazy with my Spanish last year, I am at the point where it is not that I just want to learn it. Rather, I need to. My wife is a native Spanish speaker (also fluent in German and English) who only speaks to our daughter in Spanish, and I only speak to our daughter in English. Yet if I ever want to know what those two are saying about me, I better get serious with studying again.
Today I went through Michel Thomas Foundation cd#2, and Learning Spanish like Crazy (LSLC) lesson 2. I am going to stick with those two for a while, and mix in some other stuff I'm sure. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 16 24 February 2010 at 10:24pm | IP Logged |
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I went through both MT CD#2 and LSLC lesson 2 again today. I also started LSLC lesson 3 which seems pretty easy so far. I may finish it up tonight if I have the time.
I love cooking, so I ordered the two books below. They are actually the same cookbook, with one translated into English and the other in Spanish. Puerto Rican Cookery Cocina Criolla Edited by BobMc on 24 February 2010 at 10:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 16 26 February 2010 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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Finished up LSLC lesson 3 with no problems. I also had a 5 hour train ride from Philly to Boston today, and I spent a little time flipping through "Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish" and "Spanish For Reading". My impression on Madrigal's is that it may be the best value out there for people who can't afford MT, Pimsleur, or LSLC. It starts you off with a bunch of cognates in a way similar to MT. But I am convinced that one could never attain a great accent without the benefit of audio or a native speaker. Spanish for Reading looks interesting. The intro indicates that if one invests the 80 to 120 hours required to complete the book, then one could expect to understand 2000 words, read a Spanish newspaper, and begin the serious study of Spanish literary texts.
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| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 16 01 March 2010 at 10:30pm | IP Logged |
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I am still plugging away at lesson 4 of lslc. I am getting at least 80% of the questions correct, but I am trying to get a little quicker before I move on to leccion cinco. In particular, I would really like to get 80% correct without needing to hit the pause button. Surprising to me, I am reaching for lslc a little quicker than Michel Thomas at this point. Unlike Pimsleur that I thought moved a little too slow, both of these are consistently challenging yet feasible. And I am finding them both of them to be kind of fun. I did throw on MT today without listening in a couple of days, and I seemed to get right into the flow of things without any retention problems.
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| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 16 06 March 2010 at 2:48am | IP Logged |
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I had a busy week at work, so most of my Spanish time with MT and LSLC was limited to driving time. I am on LSLC lesson 5 and MT CD #4. I also started with Fluenz, which I now think will be a very nice complement to MT and LSLC. When I started up Fluenz, the initial lessons were very easy because I already learned a lot of the content with the other courses. When I took a look at the content in Fluenz level 4, I almost didn't even do the exercises because it looked pretty straight forward with some simple -AR conjugations in the present tense. But I started with the exercises anyway and very quickly discovered how bad my spelling is when I had to type in a translation in Spanish. There were some other things I liked with the exercises and I think I am going to continue using it along with MT and LSLC.
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| hypersport Senior Member United States Joined 5884 days ago 216 posts - 307 votes  Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 16 06 March 2010 at 10:32pm | IP Logged |
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LSLC is gold. You don't need to be doing the other courses at the same time.
If you already have a little background (Spanish classes in high-school) LSLC is perfect. The lessons are very easy up to about number 12, and then it takes off. When you get to 12 or 13 and you recognize the immediate change in speed, etc, you should get a big smile across your face as you know now you're about to get serious. You might need to do a lesson 5 times straight before moving on to the next one, but it will be worth it. I did LSLC vol 1 more than 30 times through and vol 2 with bonus lessons more than 20. All the while speaking with natives, I advanced very quickly. You too have this opportunity right there at home. Good luck. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5706 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 16 07 March 2010 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
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Go Bob, Go!!!
Best of luck in your studies man. I hope you and your wife have lots of success in raising your beautiful daughter bilingual! I've heard a lot of good things about both LSLC and Fluenz, so far I'm only taking classes at Jr. College, and supplementing with almost anything the library has to offer. Pimsleur and MT basically. I'd like to pick up the pace at which I'm learning Spanish though. You seem to be off to a great start. I also am a terrible speller in Spanish! I just write each word 5 times and hope for the best come quiz time :). Whats your history with the language? Edited by global_gizzy on 07 March 2010 at 12:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 16 09 March 2010 at 4:40pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the feedback hypersport. I have heard about how the course revs up at lesson 12 or 13, and I should be there pretty soon. I think I will like the challenge.
global gizzy - thanks for the well wishes. My background with Spanish was a night course at a community college, and I also went through Michel Thomas Foundation at some point last year. That said, I consistently hear Spanish when my wife is talking to her family, when she is talking to our daughter, when she is watching Spanish tv, etc... I finished up LSLC lesson 6 today. I also used a program called WavePad to make individual sound clips of most of the questions and answers in LSLC levels 4 - 6. I then put those entries into Anki so I can review the material using spaced repetition. Anki doesn't require you to enter any text on the flash cards, and I just inserted the audio and ended up with 105 Anki entries. Creating all of the individual audio clips was tedious at first, but with a little practice I was moving pretty quickly using WavePad. I have heard that there is also an open source program called Audacity that can do the same thing. Edited by BobMc on 09 March 2010 at 4:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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