García Márquez trackIn an effort to continue growing my Spanish around
Cien años de soledad, I went through
La casa grande by Álvaro Cepeda Samudio. Cepeda was a friend of Gabriel García Márquez. The book is about the
masacre de las bananeras (banana plantation masacre), which is also part of
Cien años de soledad. It's written from the perspective of several of the
personajes of the book, similar to
La hojarasca.
I listened to Mario Vargas Llosa - García Márquez: Historia de un deicidio again. It's a really great book that analyzes pretty much everything Gabo wrote up through 1971. Over 600 pages.
I also listened to various short stories and novels by Gabo since the last post and have been reading some of them too.
: La casa grande - Álvaro Cepeda
: Mario Vargas Llosa - García Márquez: Historia de un deicidio 2x
FSI winding downI just finished up a dual review of FSI Basic Spanish volume 4. I plan to down-regulate FSI for some time to focus on other things:
: FSI Vol4 review 5x
: FSI Anki
ReadingContinuing to keep track of reading as I find piling up pages read is helpful:
: 7000 pages - Reading
iTalki conversationsITalki conversations have been nice for bringing Spanish alive in my life and are getting me to focus on a new phase of my language development. I've done 8 of them so far.
: iTalki convos
New Phase - talking to myself and shadowing booksTalking to myself was my university trick for becoming fluent in French. I had a traumatic experience with a French prof and abandoned this method, but think it's a good thing to return to now. E.G., describing the environment and saying things either out loud or to myself that I might say to another person.
Shadowing audiobooks will replace FSI time while driving.