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| Principiante Senior Member United States lucasgentry.com Joined 6201 days ago 130 posts - 138 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 18 17 October 2007 at 7:29am | IP Logged |
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Día Ocho de Veintiséis (Diecisiete de Octubre, Dos Mil Siete)
Quick before work note: About 15 minutes flashcards. Alright, so in total, I´ve spent about an hour on flashcards today. I figured out which ones were giving me trouble and took those cards to church. I went early, so I could just sit by myself going over those fifteen or so that were giving me the most trouble. After the whole service was over (I only reviewed before church), I went home and back to my flashcard program and got them all right !!! *beams* Also, I accidentally did like 30 or 40 minutes of the Rosetta Stone Latin American Demo (accidentally, as in I was just going to see how far I could go, and I went through all of the level 1 Lessons that were available without much difficulty) Edited by Principiante on 17 October 2007 at 10:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Principiante Senior Member United States lucasgentry.com Joined 6201 days ago 130 posts - 138 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 18 19 October 2007 at 12:19am | IP Logged |
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Día Nueve de Veintiséis (Dieciocho de Octubre, Dos Mil Siete)
Well, I started out before work with twenty minutes of so of flashcards on the computer, but after work, I frittered away a pretty significant portion of my time, because I discovered a really fun web comic, and read it for like two hours. Anyway, I finished up with about a half hour worth of lessons from ¨Before You Know It¨ Spanish. Even though it´s learning different words than my flashcards, I still don´t mind, because it´s Spanish, and learning Spanish is good, no matter if it´s the flashcard words or not :-) Now, it´s time for bed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| AlexL Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7027 days ago 197 posts - 277 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 11 of 18 20 October 2007 at 6:32am | IP Logged |
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Just a note: months and weekday names are not capitalized in Spanish:
el once de octubre (October 11th) el lunes (monday) The Spanish don't capitalize language names either (el ingles). Good luck with the flashcards, Alex 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Principiante Senior Member United States lucasgentry.com Joined 6201 days ago 130 posts - 138 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 18 20 October 2007 at 10:01pm | IP Logged |
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Día once de veintiséis (sábado, veinte de octubre, dos mil siete)
I´ve been slacking off on my box of 500 flashcards over the last couple days, but I´ve been keeping up with my Spanish. I just got Spanish Before you Know It, and I´ve been having fun with that. For anyone who may be considering using it, I only have one complaint -- I have my computer set up to use the Spanish keyboard layout, with the Ñ and the á,é,í,ó,ú, etc. typable with one or two keystrokes, but it doesn´t work on the program. Instead, after typing the letter n, you press up to turn it into an ñ, and after typing a vowel, you press up to make it an á, é, í, ó, or ú (continue pressing up to make different kinds of marks above the letters). But the simple fact that I have to write the words, I think, is making me learn the things better. I could say them before, but having to write out the answers is seeming to make it stick better. Anyhow, I got about a half hour this evening, and another half hour that I didn´t report last night with BYKI Spanish, and when I glance over my flashcards, they seem to be staying with me, even though I´ve been doing BYKI instead of the flashcards. Tomorrow, I´ll re-test myself both directions on the flashcards and see how I´m doing, but for now, it´s about bed time, and I´m not quite ready for bed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Principiante Senior Member United States lucasgentry.com Joined 6201 days ago 130 posts - 138 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 18 21 October 2007 at 3:46pm | IP Logged |
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Día doce de veintiséis (domingo, veintiuno de octubre, dos mil siete)
So, today, I took a half hour and tested myself on my flashcard knowledge (after having hardly glanced at them for about three days -- doing other Spanish, only) and I did surprizingly well. I started with English-to-Spanish, and then Spanish-to-English, and in total, I missed a hundred, so that´s like 90% right, with two weeks to go! Though, I forgot that I wasn´t supposed to count them right if I missed the gender, so I probably have another thirty or fourty that I should have gotten wrong because I forgot to say ¨el¨ or ¨la¨. Even with adding those ¨should have been wrong¨ ones, I´m still about a week ahead, so I´ll have some extra time to really get them down before the due date. I might do more later, but I´ve got some things that I need to do for work, so I might do that or I might do the cards, depending on how I feel after church. --------------- Edit: So, I have this pile of Spanish children´s books that I have stacked in what-I-think-is approximately ascending order of difficulty, and I just picked up the top one (the easiest one that I hadn´t read yet) and I knew about 80% of the words, so tonight or tomorrow, I´ll put every sentence from that book into Mnemosyne (computer flash-card program), like I did with ¨La Gallinita Roja¨ (the Little Red Hen) about a month ago. *cheers* Edited by Principiante on 28 October 2007 at 4:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Principiante Senior Member United States lucasgentry.com Joined 6201 days ago 130 posts - 138 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 18 28 October 2007 at 4:31pm | IP Logged |
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Día diecinueve de veintiséis (domingo, veintiocho de octubre, dos mil siete)
So I haven´t posted to this thing in a week, mainly because I´ve been logged down with work stuff for many of those days. During that time, I have been fairly lax about my studies -- listening to some Spanish music and watching a couple movies in Spanish -- and only doing flashcards maybe 15 minutes or less each day. Mea Culpa. Anyway, last night, I started going through, testing myself to see if I had lost much during those missed days, and I´m happy to say that I haven´t lost much at all. I just tested myself on my 1000 (500 cards, both directions) and I knew all but about 70. My original schedule put me at being down to 90 by this coming Wednesday, so I´m still on track to get them all right on my birthday, November 5th. (completing this thread victoriously, and setting me up for my next challenge -- I´m pondering trying for having the next 500 cards done by New Years Eve... does that sound like a feasable challenge?) So, yeah... Happy Me! I think I´ll probably order the next 500 vocab cards tomorrow-ish. Oh, and speaking of tomorrow, I´m heading out on a trip to visit some people and take care of some business that needs to be done for me to go back and finish my last few classes at school, so I´m going to try to see what I can do in terms of studying during that. It´ll probably just be along the lines of bringing my flashcards and studying throughout the day when I´m stopped. I wish I had some audio... HEY! I just realized that the library across town has some Spanish audio books. I´m going to listen to one of them and see how much I can pick up. *gets excited* Alright, I´m off to church! -Lucas EDIT: I just bought the flashcards, so they should be at my house within a few days *cheers* Edited by Principiante on 28 October 2007 at 7:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Principiante Senior Member United States lucasgentry.com Joined 6201 days ago 130 posts - 138 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 18 03 November 2007 at 3:24pm | IP Logged |
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Día veinticuatro de veintiséis (sábado, tres de noviembre de dos mil siete)
Woah, it´s been a while since I´ve posted on here, but I have been doing a bunch of Spanish work, even though I´ve been neglecting writing about it. However, my progress isn´t as good as I was hoping it would be. Somewhere along the line, I missed like three days in a row, and from there, all my learning seems to have slowed down, though I haven´t stopped at all. I just tested myself with my stack of flashcards, and I missed like 40 of them, and the due date is two days from now, so we´ll see what I can do. I´ve got the new flashcards, but they are to be a prize for getting all of them right the first time through, so if I miss even one, I´ll have to wait another day to open the cards, until I get them all right the first time through, and then I´ll finally be able to open my second box. I have today off (at least for the next six hours or so), so I´m planning on using that time focusing on my forty words. Also, just as a side note, to the people who say to study using sentences instead of individual words -- it might be harder, especially at first, but I´ve got a number of my flashcards that I only know the words because I remember sentences with them in it (this is mainly the ´question´ words, like who what when where why and how). EDIT: Two and a half or three hours of flashcard work (oh wait, I had dinner somewhere in there, so about two to two and a quarter hours of studying later), I tested myself again and only missed eighteen (!!!), so it might still happen :-) Edited by Principiante on 03 November 2007 at 6:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Principiante Senior Member United States lucasgentry.com Joined 6201 days ago 130 posts - 138 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 18 04 November 2007 at 9:42pm | IP Logged |
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Día veinticinco de veintiséis (cuatro de noviembre de dos mil siete)
Well, one day left on my goal and I´m not quite there. I just went through my flashcards a couple more times (it takes quite a while to go through 500 cards!), and I still missed ten as my best score so far. I already bought the next set of flashcards, and I can´t wait to open them, but alas, I might not get the whole box correct in one time through by tomorrow. I´m super tired right now as it is, so I´ll be hitting the sack soon. Probably won´t go through the cards again, because I´ll pass out in the middle of them. Alright... let´s see what the morrow holds. P.S. One a positive note, I spelled the numbers at the top of this post correctly the first time through, whereas I generally transpose an i and an e somewhere along the line, or put the accent on the wrong place somewhere. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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