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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5588 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 9 of 16 09 March 2010 at 5:16pm | IP Logged |
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You are currently living my dream :P (I hope my wife is multilingual)
You have a great opportunity ahead of you, your Spanish skill will progress rapidly. Good luck Bob! I can recommend a couple sources. "Spanish Made Simple" (DO NOT BUY THE NEW EDITION, get an older one from the 1980s or 70s) "online-spanish-course.com" - Great for flashcards :D Have no doubt about teaching your daughter another language, it's a GREAT thing. :) Best of luck! Jordan Edited by datsunking1 on 09 March 2010 at 5:16pm 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 10 of 16 12 March 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged |
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Audacity is awesome. I can attest to that fact. I plan on using it to help me with language but I've used it before when I was learning other verbal stuff and I used it to break it down into Spaced repetition. It was really easy to use.
I'm taking my 2nd semester of Spanish at Jr. College. I plan on taking Intermediate Spanish before I leave also, because when I go to university, I will be minoring in Spanish. If I'm lucky, I'll get into the school I want and might even be able double minor in Spanish and Arabic. But, one day at a time and all that other stuff. :) 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 11 of 16 14 March 2010 at 4:20am | IP Logged |
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Thanks Jordan - I think she is a catch. And thanks for the suggestions.
global_gizzy - actually I was playing around with Audacity today because I read it has a cool utility to remove all silent sounds. It seems like a great program. I run Linux very often at home, so it is great for me from that standpoint too. I finished up lesson 7 of LSLC and will start lesson 8 tomorrow. I continued with making individual sound clips of most of the questions in LSLC and put them into Anki. Obviously it takes more time to do that, but I am studying the material at the same time I am cutting up the audio, so I am also reviewing the material more as well. I do know there is a way to reverse the audio cards in Anki so that I can listen to the native Spanish speakers first to improve my listening skills which I think will be very valuable for me. 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 12 of 16 16 March 2010 at 1:24am | IP Logged |
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I am heading into 3 very busy days where I know I won't get to study at all, so I doubled down and knocked out lesson 8 and lesson 9 of LSLC today. Lesson 8 seemed very basic, but I eventually figured out why. Every LSLC lesson so far starts off with 2 native speakers talking incredibly fast for my ears, yet in lesson 8 it seemed ridiculously slow where I understood every single word. And then the rest of lesson 8 started and I was scratching my head wondering why this wasn't lesson 1. I think I slowly plugged through lesson 4 at least 4 times before moving on, yet this lesson seemed laughably easy. But then it struck me. Most of the new material in this lesson was content that was covered in a lesson in Pimsleur that I did in the past. That is probably a great testimonial for Pimsleur with regards to how it makes material stick. I hope I'm not getting lesson 8 and lesson 9 mixed up here, but the one I am referring to is the lesson where they introduce "perdon" and "discuple". Anyway, I am quickly approaching lessons 12 and 13, which I have heard from several places, including the amazon reviews, that this is where the course gets cranked up quite a bit. Bring it on :-)
Also, I am going to start with Assimil soon to complement LSLC. 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 13 of 16 17 March 2010 at 5:57pm | IP Logged |
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Oh!!! I've been VERY curious about Assimil. I cant wait to hear how that works out for you.
I'm thinking of getting Assimil for my Japanese studies. I'm trying to get back into the swing of using Pimsleur. It was very helpful, I still remember the first few lessons of Japanese that I did with it! 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 14 of 16 26 March 2010 at 2:11am | IP Logged |
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I finished up LSLC lesson 11. There was a fair amount of new vocabulary in lesson 11, and I had to run through it several times. I have continued to edit out audio clips from the lesson and put them into Anki for further review. I may spend the next couple of days reviewing all of the previous material in Anki before moving onto lesson 12.
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| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 16 01 April 2010 at 3:06am | IP Logged |
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I did finish up lesson 12 of LSLC, but I am going to continue working with Anki to get better recall on all of the material I have covered so far before beginning with reflexive verbs in lesson 13. I have 213 audio entries in Anki from lessons 4 up until lesson 12. I do still plan on starting Assimil pretty soon, but probably not until I get past lesson 15 or so with LSLC.
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| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 16 04 April 2010 at 5:13pm | IP Logged |
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After spending a fair amount of time reviewing all of my LSLC entries in Anki, I have already learned 2 important lessons.
First, while LSLC has some very positive feedback from some members on here, there are 2 criticisms of the program that seem to come up regularly. One is that the course does not repeat previously learned material enough like Pimsleur, and the second one is that the course moves too quickly starting in lesson 13. I have to now concur with the first criticism, because I have been a little disappointed with my recall on lessons 4 - 12. That criticism is the reason I have been putting most of the material into Anki to get the benefit of spaced repetition, but I now realize that I need to review my Anki deck more frequently. Secondly, when I was cutting up all of the audio clips and putting them into Anki, I wasn't taking the time to paste in the Spanish text to match the audio. That was a mistake. The visual text in addition to the corresponding audio reinforces the content very nicely for me. It took me a couple of hours to update all of my cards, but I think it will be time well spent. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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