I´ve been using the purchased Spanish (I also purchased a reduced rate Portuguese course as I aim to learn Portuguese from scratch soon) course for 2 weeks now and have already has some breakthroughs - such as realising that with certain words I was pronouncing the Spanish ´i´ similar to the English ´i´or pronouching the spanish ´r´ like the English ´r´... These points may sound fairly obvious but I´ve just not really noticed them before as Spanish people had told me that my acent was fine (perhaps not realising that with my obsessive personality
fine doesn´t mean good) . I´ve also had times where my mis-pronounciation just meant that I was plain not understood no matter how often I repeated. Noticing these mistakes has made me re-learn the pronounciation for many words - so maybe the course isn´t correcting anything but just good at pointing it out. It´ll probably take another 6 weeks to finish the course and it´s hard work - but not boring which is what usually makes me quit.
I´m curious as to other people´s experience with this method.
