Last week was Thai week. It was great. I listened to Thai TV, especially a very interesting hour all about Taxi driver’s not legally being able to reject passengers without a valid reason, and I read and practice speaking in Thai. It’s great to have this monthly vacation from Spanish. Eventually you work yourself so hard you get frustrated and you wonder if you are making any progress. Today, I felt my Spanish is the best it has ever been, and I did not actively learn Spanish for over a week!
Despite last week being about Thai, I still found a fantastic tool that I want to share with you to help you learn Spanish. What is this tool you may ask? It’s a website called Duolingo.
What is Duolingo?
The best way to answer that is to watch this video:
It’s a win/win situation. They get more people to translate, which the more people who translate, the better their translation is, and you get to learn Spanish. Functionally it is a great program. If this was your only method of learning Spanish, you would be lacking a lot. As a complement to your other programs out there, it is great. You can test out of subjects and levels you already know, which lets you move on quicker to the subjects you don’t know as well.
The vocabulary builds on itself, so you need to learn basic animals and clothing before you learn colors. Why? Because you will be taught using sentences such as gray elephants drank water or I have a red hat. So you are constantly reviewing old vocab as you study new ones. Don’t worry if you learned plumo instead of bolígrafo. It will accept any answer for “Pen” that exists.
Four more months!
As of this month, I only have 4 more months of Active Spanish left. I really need to get down and push myself hard. I have turned my Google Chrome immersion tool to “fluent” so that it translates whole paragraphs now. I sometimes feel like I am way off, but I know that If I push myself hard enough I will make my goal to be basically fluent in speaking by the end of the year.
So four more months and you will hear me Speaking a new language. What is that language going to be? It’s one of those 4 on the right. Which one would like to learn? Vote now and share which one you would like to learn.
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