AllSubNoDub wrote:greatSchism wrote:I finished unit 24 and started unit 25. Unit 25 is not very difficult, and I feel relatively comfortable with the material. But I am going to spend the next two days drilling the material. I also decided to drop two of the books that I had started because I was spending more time looking up words than I was reading. When I try to understand the gist sentences that are not straightforward, sometimes I create my own story and miss the meaning entirely. I like to look up words that I don't know and add them to my vocabulary list. I started adding Spanish Idioms to my vocab list. I am adding 10 new ones a day to my vocab list from:Guide to Spanish Idioms
a practical guide to 2500 Spanish idioms
FSI Spanish Basic:
[progress= Spanishdict Advanced words and select Anki top 5000] 1041/4209[/progress]
Duolingo:
Anki Spanish FSI:
*** I have the audiobook and Kindle book.
La cárcel by Alicia G. García:
I haven't seen that one. I have the Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms and the Spanish Phrase Finder. The Spanish Phrase Finder is indispensable, especially when writing; it doesn't contain just full fledged phrases, but little idiomatic expressions which can be hard to search for in spanishdict. Only bad part is not enough example sentences (quite a few though).
Those are references really though, too big to SRS through. I really like the idea of SRSing through a book of idioms. I worked through this book a couple of years back, but that was before I knew the power of SRS.
The Spanish Phrase Finder, from what I have been able to see, seems like it would be very useful. I have not been having a ton of success adding them to spanishdict, but I have been able to add some. On Memrise, there is a premade list that I started but never finished because they force typing tests. I am copying and pasting them into the Spanishdict using "Import Words". After I paste them I go through them one by one. https://app.memrise.com/course/1292/int ... e-venta-2/