Hundetier está estudiando español...
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 9:39 am
¡Hola!, me llamo Susan y estoy estudiando español desde hace dos terceros del año. Me gustaría viajar a España en un año y entonces saber comunicar con la gente suficientemente.
What I've done so far:
- Duolingo for Vocabulary: Level 16, still not finished, but every day I do two refresher and sometimes a new topic
- Babbel: completed beginner and intermediate; no me gustaba mucho
- Self-study "complete spanish" course: up to intermediate as they said
- Grammar learning with "Practise makes perfect: Spanish Complete Grammar" and ""Practise makes perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses" (both not completed yet, some weird tenses still missing)
- free courses / exercises on the internet
- switched my laptop and smartphone to español (it is weird to write with this keyboard-layout, I still confuse letters and symbols)
Now I can read simple to intermediate texts and listen to simple to intermediate podcasts. But I miss a lot of words and I cannot speak spanish so far. My pronunciation is bad and I still have to think a lot before composing a sentence. I need to get "fluent" - my new favourite word
At the moment - still doing:
- Listening to podcasts and spanish learning videos (youtube butterfly, sol, etc)
- Reading articles (Veintemundos)
- Grammar revision with school repetition books
- Practising to speak with audio courses
To the last point: I caught the last offer ten days ago and treated myself with the Rocket Spanish language course. I hope to develop a better pronunciation and a faster way of producing correct sentences with that training. Also I gave LSLC a try and purchased level one. Every day so far I heard the mp3 files while commuting or walking the dog.
With Rocket I started Lección 3 and heard the 12th lesson of LSLC (old version).
What I am thinking about:
- another pronunciation training, but which? The automatic correction of rocket isn't so good as I hoped
- Platequemos? is it worth it? I looked into FSI - at the moment I'm not interested - to dull
- continue LSLC? it's fun, but is it really efficient?
- Pimsleur: I really want to give it a try, but it is far to expensive (library is not an option)
- Glossika: interesting concept, I'm really tempted, but I also read many negative comments (faulty, no good pronunciation)
Some weeks ago I began to read Harry Potter in spanish - I thought an easy book I already know would be fine, but at the moment it is a bit boring and so I prefer to spend my learning time with other things like the audio files. I need some structure in my learning and so I'm looking for courses. With all the good things found on the internet I'll only get lost. These things are good to supplement.
The differences between Castellano and Latino Spanish don't concern me - I hope to get to know all important accents and words. Or should I better try to stay in one direction? Feel free to comment...
¡Hasta pronto!
What I've done so far:
- Duolingo for Vocabulary: Level 16, still not finished, but every day I do two refresher and sometimes a new topic
- Babbel: completed beginner and intermediate; no me gustaba mucho
- Self-study "complete spanish" course: up to intermediate as they said
- Grammar learning with "Practise makes perfect: Spanish Complete Grammar" and ""Practise makes perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses" (both not completed yet, some weird tenses still missing)
- free courses / exercises on the internet
- switched my laptop and smartphone to español (it is weird to write with this keyboard-layout, I still confuse letters and symbols)
Now I can read simple to intermediate texts and listen to simple to intermediate podcasts. But I miss a lot of words and I cannot speak spanish so far. My pronunciation is bad and I still have to think a lot before composing a sentence. I need to get "fluent" - my new favourite word
At the moment - still doing:
- Listening to podcasts and spanish learning videos (youtube butterfly, sol, etc)
- Reading articles (Veintemundos)
- Grammar revision with school repetition books
- Practising to speak with audio courses
To the last point: I caught the last offer ten days ago and treated myself with the Rocket Spanish language course. I hope to develop a better pronunciation and a faster way of producing correct sentences with that training. Also I gave LSLC a try and purchased level one. Every day so far I heard the mp3 files while commuting or walking the dog.
With Rocket I started Lección 3 and heard the 12th lesson of LSLC (old version).
What I am thinking about:
- another pronunciation training, but which? The automatic correction of rocket isn't so good as I hoped
- Platequemos? is it worth it? I looked into FSI - at the moment I'm not interested - to dull
- continue LSLC? it's fun, but is it really efficient?
- Pimsleur: I really want to give it a try, but it is far to expensive (library is not an option)
- Glossika: interesting concept, I'm really tempted, but I also read many negative comments (faulty, no good pronunciation)
Some weeks ago I began to read Harry Potter in spanish - I thought an easy book I already know would be fine, but at the moment it is a bit boring and so I prefer to spend my learning time with other things like the audio files. I need some structure in my learning and so I'm looking for courses. With all the good things found on the internet I'll only get lost. These things are good to supplement.
The differences between Castellano and Latino Spanish don't concern me - I hope to get to know all important accents and words. Or should I better try to stay in one direction? Feel free to comment...
¡Hasta pronto!