![]() I’ve seen that question come up 3-4 times in one round at times. “How do you say ‘the baby’” is a good example. The questions are very repetitive and sometimes even directly duplicated within the same lesson. But it *does* get me to actually speak the words out loud, which is good, and I do, so that’s good. The number of times I have felt like I spoke the words perfectly and it rejected it to the point of saying “let’s move on”, as well as the times that I’ve messed up half way through and gone so far as to spew gibberish for a couple of seconds to hopefully force it to fail so I can try again, or the times I’ve literally said nothing and it’s been accepted, leads me to believe it’s not the greatest thing. It has a speaking component, but I find it to be fairly buggy in its actual functionality. I also like that it has some components of listening practice and has “what’s this is Spanish” as well as “what’s this in English”. It gets me thinking less about individual words and more about sentences and phrases. It is a great source of new content for my Anki cards. I think they literally just within the past week or so changed that, however, as each lesson subject seems to have a little description box next to it you can click on and it’ll talk about the things the lesson will teach you. It didn’t really go into any detail as to why things were the way they were, I guess hoping you’d either look it up once you noticed the pattern or something? Like it will show “we eat” on “nosotros comemos”, but doesn’t show you the list of conjugations of comer or anything. I tried using this several years ago as my primary (only?) tool to learn Spanish and it just didn’t stick. I’m on chapter 4 I think? I’ve been trying to avoid pushing forward on it until I’ve caught up with all of my Anki cards! Duolingo It introduces ser vs estar in the second chapter, which also introduces verb conjugations as a concept, all of which are *incredibly* important parts of Spanish, at least as I’ve gathered so far. I’m walking through chapter by chapter, using it as a source of new Anki cards and explanations of concepts and knowledge. ![]() There actually might be a good reason to do a first pass, cover to cover, before trying to actually retain any of it, but that’s not how I’m using it. You’d probably be completely lost by the end. If you tried to read it cover to cover in one shot you wouldn’t retain anything. There are points where it just lists off huge lists of vocabulary. This book is much more about what to learn in what order than how to actually go about learning it, but once I stopped searching for an Anki deck that covered the stuff covered in this book and just started making my own cards, it became a lot more useful to me. Reference books are amazing, but tutorials are better. ![]() Better if said reading walks me through the learning process. However, it came well recommended, and it has been a great resource for me so far.įor me, reading is the gateway to learning just about anything. It feels very “Learn in 24 Hours” based on the title alone. ![]() I gotta admit, I was skeptical of this book. These are things I’m currently using actively. Also I want to talk a bit about my process, my “daily routine” so to speak, and what I’m hoping to find in the future to help me learn. I’ll start by simply listing them, then going into a bit of what they do, why I’m using them, etc. I just hit my 30 day streak in Duolingo, so I thought I’d go over the tools and resources I’m currently using in my Spanish learning journey. ![]()
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