30 days of Spanish...

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30 days of Spanish...

Postby EnglishEagle » Sun Sep 06, 2015 8:15 pm

Quite a while ago I stumbled across a thread on HTLAL where several polyglots succeeded in going from 0 --> A2 in Finnish (from scratch) in 30 days with 45 hours work. Those who participated in this challenge were polyglots and had many years of language learning experience which is why they were able to achieve fantastic results in a short period of time. I am going to try a similar experiment! Why? My friends and I are going to Spain for the week... and I don't want to be the odd one out who doesn't know any Spanish (they are able to communicate quite well in Spanish). I also believe it will be quite a fun challenge and I would like to see how far I am able to progress in 30 days.

It's going to be 30 days. No more and no less. Today is day one.
http://learnlangs.com/personal/finnish_challenge

Resources:
Assimil, LingQ, Anki and iTalki.

My current level:
I know how to say hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening and goodbye but that's it.
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Re: 30 days of Spanish...

Postby pir » Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:09 pm

Sounds like a fun project! ¡Buena suerte!
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Re: 30 days of Spanish...

Postby EnglishEagle » Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:14 pm

pir wrote:Sounds like a fun project! ¡Buena suerte!


Gracias :-) I've now done the first 2 lessons of Assimil. I listened quite a few times to the audio and I copied the text out by hand. I then completed the exercises and then inputted the sentences into Anki.

Day 1: 51 minutes.
Total: 51 minutes.
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Re: 30 days of Spanish...

Postby getreallanguage » Mon Sep 07, 2015 1:42 am

La mejor de las suertes y que te diviertas! Para eso aprendemos, no? :)
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Re: 30 days of Spanish...

Postby aokoye » Mon Sep 07, 2015 3:33 am

Good luck - I think I might do similar things with Dutch and will look forward to reading about your progress. Actually I'm waffling between French and Dutch but really I should just choose Dutch for now.
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Re: 30 days of Spanish...

Postby EnglishEagle » Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:45 pm

Thank-you for the comments :D
Day 1: 51 minutes
Day 2: 40 minutes (I did have 45 minutes on my stopwatch, but 5 of those minutes were me checking Facebook and I forgot to pause the it).
Total: 91 minutes

I'm up to lesson 4 in Assimil, just need to complete the exercises and listen to it a few more times. I am hoping to finish lesson 5 tomorrow as well, but I am not too worried if I don't. The first few lessons have not been too challenging. I can imagine in a few lessons time when the dialogues get longer and more complex I will go down to recommended 1 lesson a day.
Today, I just completed lesson 3 and 4 and put the sentences into Anki. At about lesson 10-15 I might start using LingQ, we shall see. I don't want to get too ahead of myself.
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Re: 30 days of Spanish...

Postby chove » Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:48 am

Good luck!
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Re: 30 days of Spanish...

Postby EnglishEagle » Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:43 pm

Gracias chove :-)
Today is day 3
Day 1: 51 minutes
Day 2: 40 minutes
Day 3: 50 minutes (started my stopwatch a bit late, so added a few minutes on to the original time).
15 minutes of Anki and 35 minutes of Assimil and lesson 4 and 5 are complete. I will put the vocabulary in Anki tomorrow when I wake up. I will then complete lesson 6 and look at the review lesson hopefully. Will hopefully be able to start using LingQ soon!

Total: 141 minutes // 2 hours 21 minutes. I am averaging 47 minutes a day.
27 days remaining
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Re: 30 days of Spanish...

Postby LFD1988 » Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:32 am

Best of luck to you! ;D I too am studying Spanish and I have found that it is not nearly as difficult as I though it would be. English and Spanish shares quite a lot of vocabulary with minor changes in form, but it's not hard to recognize how the words change. Sometimes I try to guess new vocabulary based on these similarities in vocabulary, which doesn't always work, but it's a fun way to try to expand what you want to be able to say.

Keep up the good work. With diligence, I think you will do great! Buena suerte!
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Re: 30 days of Spanish...

Postby EnglishEagle » Sun Oct 25, 2015 1:26 pm

Will give an update shortly...
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