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2015 Spanish Learning Log

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JW3
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United States
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish, Esperanto

 
 Message 1 of 2
09 February 2015 at 11:54pm | IP Logged 
Background: Starting with some rudimentary knowledge of Spanish. I took it in high
school and college. I have a few hundred words of vocabulary, and understand the
basic verb tenses (present tense only) and sentence structure.

Current plan: Complete FSI Basic and Pimsleur courses simultaneously.

Timeframe: 6 months to complete simultaneous courses. Rest of year devoted to other
resources and additional study.

WEEK ONE UPDATE:

Below is a listing of my activities for the week. I average about 2 hours a day on
language learning.

    FSI Basic Spanish: Lessons 1-3 (three times each)
    Pimsleur Spanish 1: Lessons 1-11 (with some repeats)
    Watched 6 episodes of Destinos
    Made Anki decks for FSI lessons and did these daily
    Spent a couple of hours on Duolingo

Notes/Thoughts:

    1. Started strong, but felt like I was slacking a bit over the weekend.
    2. Vocabulary is coming pretty easily.
    3. I backed off on the Rosetta Stone and Duolingo I was previously doing. Rosetta
    Stone moves way too slowly. Duolingo is better, but it is too random. I would much
    prefer some usable sentences as examples, and not about turtles drinking milk. I am
    not completely writing these resources off, but I will only be using them
    supplementally.
    4. FSI Basic seems to be a really good course.

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JW3
Newbie
United States
Joined 3378 days ago

4 posts - 5 votes
Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish, Esperanto

 
 Message 2 of 2
18 February 2015 at 11:51am | IP Logged 
Week two update:

Below is a listing of my activities for the week. I averaged about 1 hour a day
on language learning.

    FSI Basic Spanish: Lesson 4 (three times)
    Pimsleur Spanish 1: Lessons 12-15 (with some repeats)
    Watched 2 episodes of Destinos
    Did Anki decks for FSI lessons daily


Notes:

    Took a two day wilderness kayak trip and wasn't able to study those days
    Hope to average two lessons of FSI a week until it gets too hard



Edited by JW3 on 18 February 2015 at 6:09pm

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