Wanting to learn Spanish

[wetwillie]

mrs gooch, when you give up on duolingo you should try my approach of learning the 1000 most frequently used Spanish words. 

[Tobias]

watch a sport or movie you know in spanish

[Mrs. Gooch]

mrs gooch, when you give up on duolingo you should try my approach of learning the 1000 most frequently used Spanish words.

What good is knowing 1000 words if I don't know how to put together a sentence?

[Mrs. Gooch]

Spanish is generally spoken pretty fast with a lot of rounded off words and contractions, like english. Unless of course you're talking to someone from the pure Ecuadorian andes

So I need to find someone from the Ecuadorian Andes to practice with.....or maybe that's where I should do my immersion.

[mocat]

Spanish is generally spoken pretty fast with a lot of rounded off words and contractions, like english. Unless of course you're talking to someone from the pure Ecuadorian andes

So I need to find someone from the Ecuadorian Andes to practice with.....or maybe that's where I should do my immersion.

Yes. You could call it "in vitro en quito"

[sys]

Spanish is generally spoken pretty fast with a lot of rounded off words and contractions, like english. Unless of course you're talking to someone from the pure Ecuadorian andes

So I need to find someone from the Ecuadorian Andes to practice with.....or maybe that's where I should do my immersion.

central (highland) mexicans pronounce just about every syllable.

[sys]

I tried to eavesdrop on a Spanish conversation today but the only word I caught was casa.

20% of the conversation, i'm assuming.

[wetwillie]

mrs gooch, when you give up on duolingo you should try my approach of learning the 1000 most frequently used Spanish words.

What good is knowing 1000 words if I don't know how to put together a sentence?

Let's practice ITT with the following:

The Apple is red
It is johns Apple
I give John the apple
We give him the apple
He gives it to John
She gives it to him
I must give it to him
I want to give it to her

[Mrs. Gooch]

mrs gooch, when you give up on duolingo you should try my approach of learning the 1000 most frequently used Spanish words.

What good is knowing 1000 words if I don't know how to put together a sentence?

Let's practice ITT with the following:

The Apple is red
It is johns Apple
I give John the apple
We give him the apple
He gives it to John
She gives it to him
I must give it to him
I want to give it to her

La manzana es rojo.
Es manzana de Juan.
Nosotros ???? lo la manzana. or this... Lo nosotros ??? la manzana.
El ???? lo a el. (I don't know how to say him instead of he????)
Ella ???? lo a el.
Quiero ????? lo a ella. or maybe this is better...... Lo quiero a ella.

OK, I typed all that without using Google or anything to remind me of words. I have learned to say him/her, but I don't remember. I don't think I have learned to say give.

[Emo EMAW]

The Mexicans I come into contact here are very hard for me to understand.  And there could be Guatemalans and Hondurans and others sprinkled in and I'd have no idea.  The Chileans are easier, IMO. 

[Mrs. Gooch]

Oh, I just realized I used him (or he) instead of John for these two sentences...

I give John the apple
He gives it to John

Yo ???? la manzana a Juan.
El lo ???? a Juan.

[mocat]

yep, 25% there mrs gooch

[Dub]

I've never used a sentence like "he gives (object) to (name)" in my life.  That's what I hate about learning languages, I wish they'd teach you true conversational language.

I have a French friend who learned this way and spoke extremely proper english for about 2 years until people corrected little parts of it to make it current.

[sys]

that was good, wetwillie.  good job.

[sys]

The Mexicans I come into contact here are very hard for me to understand.  And there could be Guatemalans and Hondurans and others sprinkled in and I'd have no idea.  The Chileans are easier, IMO.

a lot of mexicans that make their way into the us aren't from the central highlands.  but mostly it's probably just what you got used to.

[Mrs. Gooch]

that was good, wetwillie.  good job.

It just proves that I can't speak (or type) properly because I don't understand the rules about direct/indirect objects.

[Emo EMAW]

The Mexicans I come into contact here are very hard for me to understand.  And there could be Guatemalans and Hondurans and others sprinkled in and I'd have no idea.  The Chileans are easier, IMO.

a lot of mexicans that make their way into the us aren't from the central highlands.  but mostly it's probably just what you got used to.

The folks on Univision enunciate such that I can understand better.  Like the telenovela folks.

[sys]

It just proves that I can't speak (or type) properly because I don't understand the rules about direct/indirect objects.

you should probably learn wetwillie's 1000 words first.

[The Big Train]

They invented google translate for a reason, so you don't have to learn the intricacies of other languages

[chum1]

Enunciation doesn't matter because no one pauses in between words and you don't know when one word ends and the next begins.

Also, I can hear the word "casa" in 100 percent of Spanish converstaions that do not include the word "casa".

[Mrs. Gooch]

They invented google translate for a reason, so you don't have to learn the intricacies of other languages

So I'm going to use Google translate in the middle of a conversation? 

[The Big Train]

They invented google translate for a reason, so you don't have to learn the intricacies of other languages

So I'm going to use Google translate in the middle of a conversation? 

No, you should be using it for the whole conversation

[sys]

Enunciation doesn't matter because no one pauses in between words and you don't know when one word ends and the next begins.

Also, I can hear the word "casa" in 100 percent of Spanish converstaions that do not include the word "casa".

you just have to listen to enough that you can start hearing what they are actually saying and not just your brain throwing everything it can think of at a wall and seeing if anything sticks.  our brains are made to do this, don't try to reinvent the wheel.

[wetwillie]

I'm rooting for you Mrs. Gooch.  Memorize 30 words a day for 30 days and you will be set.

[Mrs. Gooch]

I'm rooting for you Mrs. Gooch.  Memorize 30 words a day for 30 days and you will be set.

Nouns? Verbs? Adjectives? Adverbs? Do multiple versions of the same word count (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd person versions, masculine & feminine versions)?