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| CellarDoor Groupie United States Joined 5959 days ago 46 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 1 of 5 06 February 2015 at 2:53am | IP Logged |
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Starting a journal to catalog by 6 month journey to rediscovering Spanish. About 8
years ago, I did a year long study aboard in Cadiz and was probably at B2-C1 level Spanish. I got really focused on Russian, then ended up taking a long break from language learning while I was deployed. I have a new sense of focus and I am ready to learn. My goal is 30min-1hour per day for 6 months. Things I remember/current skills: 1. Pronunciation and flow is still easy. I can read a book aloud and if someone is speaking at a moderate pace I can keep up no problem. 2. I remember about 85% of grammar. I need to retouch on some of the more advanced parts of speech. 3. Vocabulary - down the drain. This is where I need to improve most. I have a mountain of books and language resources. I am going to go through them and pick out a few I want to work through. I am also going to focus on watching several telenovelas; I had a lot of success learning Spanish that way. I am starting off with watching some of Destinos to get up to speed. I am picking it back up really fast. I may have to skip ahead. Next post: goals. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| CellarDoor Groupie United States Joined 5959 days ago 46 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 2 of 5 06 February 2015 at 3:01am | IP Logged |
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Some of the materials I am going to be using:
Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish - Joseph Keenan Assimil - Spanish with Ease Easy Spanish Step-By-Step - Barbara Bregstein FSI Spanish Programmatic - Volume II Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Spanish Advanced Spanish Grammar Complete Spanish Grammar Spanish Sentence Builder Spanish Verb Tenses Spanish Irregular Verbs Spanish Vocabulary I am also going to start looking for some new telenovelas. I tried watching "Isabella" but it was too fast for me to keep up. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| epictetus Groupie Canada Joined 3672 days ago 54 posts - 87 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 5 06 February 2015 at 4:01am | IP Logged |
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I'm looking forward to hearing about your progress! I've got the Practice Makes Perfect:
Irregular Verbs and I find the approach really interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| CellarDoor Groupie United States Joined 5959 days ago 46 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 4 of 5 14 February 2015 at 6:01am | IP Logged |
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This past week I have started going over the Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish
Grammar. I won't have access to a printer until next week but I have just been doing some of the exercises by hand. I downloaded memrise for my android, which is really helping with my vocabulary. I picked up a copy of the first Harry Potter book. Unfortunately, I can't read it. I am having trouble with some of the grammar and I am seriously lacking in vocabulary. I decided that a good goal for me is to be able to read the Harry Potter series over the next 6 months. Should I keep powering through the books and looking up all the words I don't know? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| liam.pike1 Groupie Australia Joined 3544 days ago 84 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto, French | Message 5 of 5 14 February 2015 at 7:37am | IP Logged |
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Good luck man! I'll be following your log, as I too am about to start Spanish after having done a few months of it a
little while back. Have you considered joining the Spanish TAC team (if you haven't done so already)? Also, consider the FSI Spanish Basic course; it's widely regarded on the forum as being one of the greatest, if not the greatest, FSI course ever made, or perhaps even the greatest course ever made full stop. Hasta luego :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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