Hugo Sanchez inspires Hugo SpanishIn another thread, we were talking about
how an Assimil course can come up short getting you fully prepared for an exotic language, such as Greek. That got me re-watching a couple Professor Alexander Arguelles videos and making some notes.
Spanish isn't an exotic language for a native English speaker, but the Professor's notion of course typologies and suggestions for their use for various learning styles got me incentivized to look into
Hugo Spanish in 3 Months. Hugo 3 Month courses are classified as "Birds-eye overview grammar" methods.
The "learn by doing" type, which I consider myself to be, has an "overview grammar", like Hugo, come after the FSI course. The thing is, the FSI courses I'm familiar with are enormous (Spanish and French). That implies they'll take a lot more time than, say, "being able to understand, shadow, and write" 2 hours of audio in an Assimil course, for example. Or, to complete a Hugo in 3 Months course (which also has about 2 hours of audio). FSI is like 5-10x the time commitment as an Assimil or Hugo.
But it seems I might can go through Hugo fairly quickly, pick up a few things in new ways, and thereby support my FSI journey and overall learning.
Oh, by the way, Hugo Sanchez is a character in
Club de cuevos, the NetFlix drama series I've been watching for a couple weeks. That's the tie-in in the title. It's really really the Arguelles, @AllSubsNoDubs, and nerdy Hugo Sanchez that came together on this one. By the way, @Speakeasy did a
fantastic thread on Hugo courses, so he/she deserves credit too.
I like to experiment and have a bit stoicism. Definitely fit in
the American part of the standard distribution that @einzelne brought to our attention.
Capturing several progress bars for posterity. I've changed my signature to reflect more closely what I want to focus on in the near future, but not giving up on these other things. They're just on the back burner or deemphasized and will be circled back to at some point:
: Cien años de soledad (6x)
: el_quijote tarjetas no nuevas
: FSI Basic Spanish
: Hugo Spanish in 3 Months
: 3500 pages - started counting June 14, 2021
: Club de Cuervos
: Anki el_quijote - mature cards - from the Anaya books
: Anki 5000 - mature cards
: Anki FSI mature cards
: Todos los cuentos
: Vivir para contarla (2x)
: FSI Dialogs (2x)
: FSI PoP (Illustrations)
: FSI Replacements
: FSI Variations
: Quijote del siglo XXI (4x)