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[GuyBeardmane]

[1pooh4u]

Thank you. I am a Duolingo user learning Spanish. I’m into the voice lessons now with Carlos and Alejandra. 

[GuyBeardmane]

2 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

Thank you. I am a Duolingo user learning Spanish. I’m into the voice lessons now with Carlos and Alejandra. 

I should probably do the voice lessons.  I just do the regular translation exercises that involve some speaking and listening, but I tend to skip the listening and transcribing ones because I can't understand shit unless I read it.

[scoobdog]

¡Haces el trabajo de Padre Nuestro!

[1pooh4u]

1 hour ago, GuyBeardmane said:

I should probably do the voice lessons.  I just do the regular translation exercises that involve some speaking and listening, but I tend to skip the listening and transcribing ones because I can't understand shit unless I read it.

I was having the same issues as well but ya gotta do them. Eventually you can hear the separate words. I watch Spanish language tv too. I’m still better at reading than hearing and speaking. I lack confidence 

[discolé monade]

i'm doing dualingo for spanish. i took 2 years in high school, but the most i can do now is order a beer and two tacos, and ask where the bathroom is. 

[Real_AirCooledGirl]

Spanisch isch eine schöne Sprache.

[tsar4]

1 hour ago, discolé monade said:

i'm doing dualingo for spanish. i took 2 years in high school, but the most i can do now is order a beer and two tacos, and ask where the bathroom is. 

You mean you don't know -

"Adonde vas contanta prisa, al partido de futbol?"  (bing)

"Si, juega El Santos, campeons del mundo!" (bing)

"Cuanto cuestan los boletos?" (bing)...

"(bing)" was where the record informed you to "repetir, por favor".

Of course, it was fun learning HS Spanish from a Belgian Foreign Exchange Student and picking up her accent while speaking Spanish.

[discolé monade]

 

16 minutes ago, tsar4 said:

You mean you don't know -

"Adonde vas contanta prisa, al partido de futbol?"  (bing)

"Si, juega El Santos, campeons del mundo!" (bing)

"Cuanto cuestan los boletos?" (bing)...

"(bing)" was where the record informed you to "repetir, por favor".

Of course, it was fun learning HS Spanish from a Belgian Foreign Exchange Student and picking up her accent while speaking Spanish.

in jr high, i took 2 years of french. my teacher was from france...and being in vermont, 

she would get highly irritated if there was any HINT of quebec french. 

she would absolutely look her nose down on the quebec french. 

and...i'm LOL becasue i remember those records from way back when, not for me, 

i think it was my grandad trying to take italian?

[tsar4]

1 minute ago, discolé monade said:

 

in jr high, i took 2 years of french. my teacher was from france...and being in vermont, 

she would get highly irritated if there was any HINT of quebec french. 

she would absolutely look her nose down on the quebec french. 

and...i'm LOL becasue i remember those records from way back when, not for me, 

i think it was my grandad trying to take italian?

We were supposed to check the records out in HS and learn the script so we could repeat it in class.  I found that if I set the words to a rhythm I could remember it better.

Unfortunately, Russian doesn't quite lend itself to the same.

[Seight]