A bit bogged down on learning Spanish
I was going to dig right into our Platiquemos Espanol CDs while getting the house ready to sell, but it isn't happening... yet. Too much of that house-project work requires my full attention.
I found the old college textbook I had for learning Spanish and I am reading its lessons as a review. That's easier. But I don't think I'm learning much... the text will go in our garage sale pile when I'm done skimming through it.
Oh well. One of these days I'll get back to the process of really learning Spanish. Kelly's at least as busy as I am and I don't think he's been practicing Spanish either.
I'm still greatly enjoying the ease of speaking English. It sure shows me how important it is to me to be able to speak freely with people. I suspect that whether Mexico or another Spanish-speaking country would work out for me as a long-term home is directly tied to how well I do in the language. This isn't necessarily true for everyone, but as a writer and a conversation-lover, it is for me.
Now that's motivation.
I found the old college textbook I had for learning Spanish and I am reading its lessons as a review. That's easier. But I don't think I'm learning much... the text will go in our garage sale pile when I'm done skimming through it.
Oh well. One of these days I'll get back to the process of really learning Spanish. Kelly's at least as busy as I am and I don't think he's been practicing Spanish either.
I'm still greatly enjoying the ease of speaking English. It sure shows me how important it is to me to be able to speak freely with people. I suspect that whether Mexico or another Spanish-speaking country would work out for me as a long-term home is directly tied to how well I do in the language. This isn't necessarily true for everyone, but as a writer and a conversation-lover, it is for me.
Now that's motivation.
posted by Rosana Hart @ Wednesday, July 06, 2005
2 Comments:
At July 11, 2005 6:45 AM,
Dickbidstrup said…
I too am having problems with Platiquemos. It is so different from the way language was taught in ancient times, and although I have lost my earliest textbook, I have others acquired since, and find them more useful.
At July 11, 2005 10:27 AM,
Rosana Hart said…
Dick, have you gotten past those first none-too-exciting lessons on pronunciation? I liked it a lot better once I got past them.
Also, being a print-oriented person myself more than a sound-oriented one, I do like the pdf files that come as part of Platiquemos.
To me, listening to the words in my headphones is enough like "real life" that I didn't much do it while we were there. And now my problem is mainly being crazy-busy getting ready to go back!
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