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| karashi Tetraglot Groupie Japan Joined 6569 days ago 81 posts - 81 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Japanese, German Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 10 01 July 2008 at 10:57pm | IP Logged |
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I have studied Spanish for one year when I was in high school, for about two hours a week, and that's it. It was about 10 years ago, and now I would like to start again.
I discovered SpanishPod and so I started with this last week. I started with the Newbie lessons, listening one or two in the morning while I prepare breakfast and all that. I also shadow the dialogs when I can while walking outside, maybe around 15 minutes a day. Now I've listened to about Newbie 15 lessons of SpanishPod, and I started also to listen to a few Elementary lessons. What's fun with Spanish is that it is so close to French that I can understand most of the dialogs without translation. So I think that after one month or two I'll just buy the Spanish version of The Little Prince (El Principito) and shadow the corresponding audiobook that's available for free here. There are also a few easy readers available on amazon that I'll look into buying in a few months. I hope that it will get me started :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| karashi Tetraglot Groupie Japan Joined 6569 days ago 81 posts - 81 votes Speaks: French*, English, Japanese, German Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 10 01 July 2008 at 10:58pm | IP Logged |
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Oh, and I am also trying out LingQ, it has some audio recordings of an easy story in 26 parts. So I downloaded the first two parts and listened to them this morning. Surprising how I can already sort of understand ^^.
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| karashi Tetraglot Groupie Japan Joined 6569 days ago 81 posts - 81 votes Speaks: French*, English, Japanese, German Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 10 14 July 2008 at 4:59pm | IP Logged |
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I continued to listen to podcasts from Spanishpod.com, but as my one week free trial expired, I did not subscribe to a paid offer since I think that it does not offer enough value for the monthly subscription price.
I continued to use LingQ a little, but after a few days it becomes a little painful to use since you basically have to sit at your computer. So I used the audio recordings of El Principito that I mentioned above, and since I have a French version of the book Le Petit Prince, I began to do some listening-reading with it. Well, I am surprised that I can already understand a lot of it. In about one week I fully listened to the Spanish audio one time while reading the French, and more and more words creep into my memory. When I have time and I am outside I also just listen to the Spanish audio, essentially the first 10 chapters or so, so now I understand most of them, except some passages that are a little more complicated. So I'll continue to do this, and buy the Spanish book El Principito so that I can later continue listening while simultaneously reading the Spanish version, and I'll also do some scriptorium as recommended by professor Arguelles in order to pay more attention to the grammar which I don't know at all. Any recommendations for the next book to listen-read? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| karashi Tetraglot Groupie Japan Joined 6569 days ago 81 posts - 81 votes Speaks: French*, English, Japanese, German Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 10 14 July 2008 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
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For the Spanishpod.com dialogs, actually for the first week you have a trial period where you have access to mp3 files for the dialogs. After that period you only get the "show" which has both English and Spanish in it and I wouldn't want to listen to that more than one time. As you I thought that I could edit out everything but the dialogs, but that would be too much work for so short dialogues. So I prefer to go for full length well recorded audiobooks of literature !
Thanks for the suggestion of novels by Dan Brown. Actually I was hoping for novels that were originally written in Spanish. I'd go for Don Quixote but that's probably way too much for a beginner like me ;). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| karashi Tetraglot Groupie Japan Joined 6569 days ago 81 posts - 81 votes Speaks: French*, English, Japanese, German Studies: Russian | Message 7 of 10 19 July 2008 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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I think I'll go for "Alicia en el País de las Maravillas". There's the audio and the spanish text, as well as English/French/Italian text at wikisource.
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