Probably the most important one to know.
Apple eating and milk drinking must be very popular south of the border.
After getting started with it for a few days, I came back to it yesterday (I was bored sitting in a hospital waiting room for several hours and downloaded the app). One of the complaints I had about the website edition was (not seeing) a way to go back and review earlier topics as I was forgetting some of the translation. I played with it a good bit yesterday and again today when the power went out for five hours and I have started to notice a pattern.
So far I haven't really noticed it, but I haven't gotten all that far in the stories. What I liked about the stories is that you can see how much understanding and context you can pick up even without a full comprehension of the language or knowledge of the translation. For example, the story about the tired woman who couldn't find her car keys, when they were on the table. It had a lot of new words in it, but you could still understand what was being discussed. I imagine this is much like children would experience when they are learning to speak as their grasp of the language is complete and they have a small vocabulary but they learn to understand new things in context.
I am still using the website every day. It's great. I am up to 32 days straight.
I tuned in the station 101.1, which I think is called le ley (the law). Most of it was unintelligible to me, which makes sense as my Spanish vocabulary is extremely small still and I haven't encountered a lot of the verb tenses, etc., but every once in a while some words do jump out at me. For example, this morning in a commercial I recognized "mi familia" and during a discussion I recognized "caro" (expensive) and in the next sentence "barato" (cheap). It is almost weird in a way when you recognize words and instantly understand their meaning in a sea of nonsense. I imagine that this is what it is like as children are first learning to speak and they may know some words, but much of it is meaningless.
I keep a small pad open to jot down words that I can make out but don't understand to look up later.
Southern redneck with a twist of hick, perhaps?
Oh, I kept hearing "perro" (dog) when listening to the radio. Perro this and perro that. Dang, what is with all the talking about dogs I wondered.
To the untrained ear they probably sound similar but the double r has a rolling sound that is not part of the English language and neither is my tongue used to making it or my ear hearing it. My wife says to put your tongue just above your teeth and blow air through your mouth to get the feel for it. I'm like
You have nailed it. To the untrained it sounded the same.To the untrained ear they probably sound similar but the double r has a rolling sound that is not part of the English language and neither is my tongue used to making it or my ear hearing it. My wife says to put your tongue just above your teeth and blow air through your mouth to get the feel for it. I'm like
So far, about the only "woke" stuff I found was the story where the woman was in the taxi talking about going on her honeymoon. I actually thought the end punch line where she says "I don't have a husband, I have a wife" was more comical than "woke" as the story was clearly setting up to have a surprised taxi driver. Other stories have been normal boyfriend / girlfriend stuff. Also, the one about the kid asking his dad for money because he wants to go to the store and buy a new videogame while the dad is getting excited about a ball game and yelling "yes" to which the kid says, "that was easy" was pretty funny.
I am about 20-25% through module two, which is much bigger than module one. I have graduated from Juan eats apples to something more like
That's great!
Trying it right now. It certainly helps with the vocabulary. I am surprised at how much I have learned so far.
There are some subtleties I have bumped up against as well. When I do I hit the -discuss- button (I´m on PC) and through other user submitted info I can see where I have been mistaken.
Tell everyone you are Canadian. No one gives a rats butt about Canadians.
Interesting. I also wonder if maybe we’re running up against regional dialect versus formal / text book Spanish?
I had a coworker who was Canadian and immigrated to the US. He went to Germany and they would get mad at him and say “you damned Americans”. He respond by saying, “I’m not American, I’m Canadian” and they were fine with him then.
👍 very fun!
So I am assuming you’ve stayed with it? I’m at day 53 and counting. The sentences are getting more complex, having gone from “Juan eats apples” to something like “we sometimes eat chicken and rice together on the beach“.
How far along in the modules are you? I’ve been taking it fairly slow and doing about one lesson a day on weekends or vacation. It takes a while to remember the vocabulary well enough for easy recall, but it comes with time snd repetition. I’m noticing patterns to how they are introducing material. For example, they’ll interject a few new verb conjugations (still present tense) for a while before explaining the regular verb conjugation, unlike traditional school where they start out with this. The problem with starting out that way is that you try to put sentences together analytically instead of natural recall and familiarity with the lexicon. A coworker, who would be classified as fluent, says reading it comes first, followed by hearing it, followed by speaking it.
Download that one today. For less an $4 a month, I will give it a try for a while. Some of its comical like the video of two guys dressed up in quasi drag saying, “te quiero“ to each other and then the one asking, “tiene condones?”, to which the reply was “maybe (I forget the translation)” followed by the other guy rolling over and saying good night. It wasn’t woke, it reminded me more of the League of Gentlemen.
Are you doing Spanish (Spain) or Spanish (Mexico) on Memrise? I'm doing the Mexico offering.
I decided to do Spain. Probably should have chosen Mexico given obvious reasons, but I thought it might be a bit more traditional. That’s what I started with on Duolingo. I understand some words are different, like broccoli has a Latin word in Spain Spanish and is brocoli in Mexican Spanish. It was described as being like British versus American English.
