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| Silvance5 Groupie United States Joined 5494 days ago 86 posts - 118 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 9 of 15 24 April 2010 at 6:12am | IP Logged | ||
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What do you mean by "native materials?"
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| Americano Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6846 days ago 101 posts - 120 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean | Message 10 of 15 24 April 2010 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I take "native materials" to mean watching tv, listening to radio, reading, etc like a native speaker would . So not material particulary meant for learning the language, but which can be used as such once you have the adequate level.
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| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5923 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 11 of 15 25 April 2010 at 12:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Exactly.
I know it seems like the more grammar you know, the more you'll understand but it doesn't really work like that. Once you start using the above mentioned resources you'll realise how much/how little you know - in a good way. It'll help measure your progress. I'm not a big fan of endless grammar study. I see it day in day out at two unis where I teach and most students seem to get stuck at pre-intermediate level forever. They rarely expose themselves to native materials. When you do start to expose yourself to native materials it can feel like starting again but stick with it, the pay-off is more than worth it. For that reason I believe in sooner rather than later. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| original501 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5639 days ago 23 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Portuguese Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 12 of 15 29 April 2010 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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If I were you,I would try to use the internet in Spanish, also, watch telenovelas with the captions in Spanish.
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| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6245 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 15 30 April 2010 at 12:19am | IP Logged | ||
I usually watch the DVDs I already own in my target language with the subtitles in the same language so I can see the spelling too. I find knowing the story gets rid of the boredom factor, as I might not understand anything if I was watching something completely new. Though at your level, that probably won't happen. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 14 of 15 30 April 2010 at 4:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Have you considered popular magazines in Spanish? If you like People magazine(which I do not like),they do have a Spanish edition of People (which I do like). I also subscribe to "TV Y Novelas" because I enjoy the telenovelas.As an additional "bonus", I am now on a mailing list and get all types of catalogs, for all types of products, in Spanish. I now have plenty of native reading materials.
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 15 of 15 01 May 2010 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||
That's interesting. I'm finding skimming through the vocabulary book has been very helpful in boosting my more advanced vocabulary. I never used any of the other books, though, because my learned Spanish grammar through immersion. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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