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| PanaMary Newbie United States panamary.com Joined 6157 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Spanish | Message 1 of 4 10 August 2007 at 5:03pm | IP Logged |
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I have been intending, for weeks now, to start my Spanish-learning journal.
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7216 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes  12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 4 11 August 2007 at 1:11am | IP Logged |
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Good luck PanaMary, write down where you are, your goal and next steps, and then report back every step of the way!
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| PanaMary Newbie United States panamary.com Joined 6157 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Spanish | Message 3 of 4 11 August 2007 at 12:39pm | IP Logged |
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I have just finished my first year of extremely fevered independent study.
I´m probably at a mid-to-high intermediate level -- I can read "real" literature now, but I comprehend (hearing, reading) better than I "generate" (writing, speaking). I continue to be very highly motivated and I study from one to four hours a day, every day. I´m using several different methods: audio (Learning Spanish Like Crazy Nivel Dos), grammar books (notably Dorothy Richmond and "Breaking out of Beginner Spanish"), index cards for vocabulary, MSN chat and Skype with native speakers in South America, reading literature (currently García Márquez... funny story: one of my chat friends, when I told him I was reading "Cien Años de Soledad," told me, "Well, you won´t learn anything reading THAT brick." Jajajaja!)....I read an article or two from the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo every day...I try to learn the lyrics to a couple Spanish-language songs ever week... wow, that´s really only a sample of what I´m doing. I´ve also spent about three months in South and Central America during this time -- not all of it as "immersive" as I would have liked, but definitely a help in becoming more comfortable with the language. Yes, I am a little obsessed. As I tell new chat friends, when they ask why I am learning Spanish: It is as if I got hit on the head really HARD about a year ago (that´s the "cocotazo" I refer to in the name of this journal) and when I woke up from the blow, all I could think about was learning Spanish. I have never been gripped by anything like this for so long. Edited by PanaMary on 11 August 2007 at 1:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| PanaMary Newbie United States panamary.com Joined 6157 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Spanish | Message 4 of 4 13 August 2007 at 12:30pm | IP Logged |
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OK, the past two days I have been studying Rosetta Stone 2 again -- just
using the audio without the written text. I plan to go through all the units this way one more time, and then I will do them using the tiles, and then finally just using the keyboard to write the answers. After that, I think I will have pretty much sucked the life out of this software. Rosetta Stone goal: all the lessons in audio format My songs this week: "Volverte a Ver" by Juanes, and Juan Luis Guerra´s "Ojalá Que Llueva Café." Tense of the week: future perfect (yo habré hablado, tú habrás comido, nosotros habremos partido...) I plan to continue reading "Cien Años" and writing down the words I do not know. Edited by PanaMary on 13 August 2007 at 12:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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