1. I am very busy getting certain members on this site angry because I am not in their political fold
2. Then getting is cheaply with my three dogs from Vienna, Austria to Volcan
3. Then to learn spanish
Reality-wise I am tired and burned out, when I completed 2 and a bit of 1 and intellectually there are only a few brain-cells left to take the challenge #3.
In other words, I am by far not where I wanted to be in my spanish skills
I use Duolingo for my vocabulary and edx.org with more emphasis on grammar.
Anki helps me keep my vocabulary stuck.
Both are at 3AM (my) local time painful, while they are fine if I work on them during the first 6 hours after getting up.. But that's for several reason not possible most of the time.
What bother's ma a bit is, that duolingo HAS to e general., but I don't rhink that I will be left to die in the desert in Panama because I don't know the spanish equivalence to belt, dress, purse etc. but I have to pass (and memorize) them to step up to the next subject oriented topic. Living on Volcan will require no deeper knowledge about the ins and outs on the aeroporte.
I need a third leg to stand on.
When I arrived in the US I learned REAL english by religiously watching 'Married with children' and 'MASH'. I was confronted with real-world interactions of normal people. Now my vocabulary was back then way higher than it is with spanish now and listening radio and tv novellas is miles above.my head yet.
That gave me the idea to look for children's books. Fables, fairy tales, picture books, etc. They have generally a restricted vocabulary, repeat those during the stories and if they have pictures, those pics give the context to understand a word that;s new to the reader.
I looked around, but did not find a lot. the 'slow spanish' is still too sophisticated for my vocabulary, and if you speak a word slow that I don't know, it does not become clearer. Not even if I hear it louder repeated.
Does anyone know where I can find picture books, for young kids (kindergarten, even pre-kindergarten) etc. online so that I can add those to my spanish tool-set?
2. Then getting is cheaply with my three dogs from Vienna, Austria to Volcan
3. Then to learn spanish
Reality-wise I am tired and burned out, when I completed 2 and a bit of 1 and intellectually there are only a few brain-cells left to take the challenge #3.
In other words, I am by far not where I wanted to be in my spanish skills
I use Duolingo for my vocabulary and edx.org with more emphasis on grammar.
Anki helps me keep my vocabulary stuck.
Both are at 3AM (my) local time painful, while they are fine if I work on them during the first 6 hours after getting up.. But that's for several reason not possible most of the time.
What bother's ma a bit is, that duolingo HAS to e general., but I don't rhink that I will be left to die in the desert in Panama because I don't know the spanish equivalence to belt, dress, purse etc. but I have to pass (and memorize) them to step up to the next subject oriented topic. Living on Volcan will require no deeper knowledge about the ins and outs on the aeroporte.
I need a third leg to stand on.
When I arrived in the US I learned REAL english by religiously watching 'Married with children' and 'MASH'. I was confronted with real-world interactions of normal people. Now my vocabulary was back then way higher than it is with spanish now and listening radio and tv novellas is miles above.my head yet.
That gave me the idea to look for children's books. Fables, fairy tales, picture books, etc. They have generally a restricted vocabulary, repeat those during the stories and if they have pictures, those pics give the context to understand a word that;s new to the reader.
I looked around, but did not find a lot. the 'slow spanish' is still too sophisticated for my vocabulary, and if you speak a word slow that I don't know, it does not become clearer. Not even if I hear it louder repeated.
Does anyone know where I can find picture books, for young kids (kindergarten, even pre-kindergarten) etc. online so that I can add those to my spanish tool-set?
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