Re: Hundetier está estudiando español...
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 8:36 am
Thank you very much for your explanations. Now I see and understand your point and will consider it. My only fear is that I'll get bored after a short while with doing Memrise or something like that; I experienced that before (and want to avoid further negative experiences, because I don't want to risk losing my motivation). With my vocabulary book it doesn't feel like studying, I read and listen to texts and do some exercises. And the vocabulary is tailored for the CEFR Levels A1+A2 (one book) and B1 (the second book I am working with now); the B2-level is still here waiting for me to progress. So my method is surely not the most effective one, but I hope it is a good one for me.
I know the "fighting your way through a book" with looking up every third to fifth word in order to understand the meaning of the text. This was how I learnt reading english. There were some books I wanted to read and which hadn't been translated. I was really no fun, and I gave up several times (and restarted later). I was short of losing interest in the books material. This was an experience I don't want to encounter again. So I decided to start slow and easy with spanish and do only intensive reading (with much looking up things and working out the sentence structures) on short texts. I prefer to read books extensively, by which I mean, I can understand the meaning without using the dictionary too much.
I started to read "No pasó nada" by Antonio Skármeta some days ago. I got an edition with vocabulary help, the "harder" words are translated at the foot of the side. So I can look them up without losing too much time. My progress is really slow (two or three of the small sites per session), but it looks like a beginning ...
I know the "fighting your way through a book" with looking up every third to fifth word in order to understand the meaning of the text. This was how I learnt reading english. There were some books I wanted to read and which hadn't been translated. I was really no fun, and I gave up several times (and restarted later). I was short of losing interest in the books material. This was an experience I don't want to encounter again. So I decided to start slow and easy with spanish and do only intensive reading (with much looking up things and working out the sentence structures) on short texts. I prefer to read books extensively, by which I mean, I can understand the meaning without using the dictionary too much.
I started to read "No pasó nada" by Antonio Skármeta some days ago. I got an edition with vocabulary help, the "harder" words are translated at the foot of the side. So I can look them up without losing too much time. My progress is really slow (two or three of the small sites per session), but it looks like a beginning ...