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Dec 22, 2013 - 11:23 AM
If you do a little research online, you'll find tons of ideas like word search puzzles, flash cards, learning card games, books for all ages that are available in Spanish. Using customer reviews online helps me pick out books to work on verbs and such. Also, finding a Spanish singer that you enjoy and getting a CD that comes with the words is a fun way to learn. I have added the Latino TV Package to my satellite service so I have lots of show choices. I love Spanish films which you can find used in lots if you look around. You can put Spanish subtitles on most DVDs of movies and TV shows. Labeling items around the house can help build vocabulary. It is all about finding what you like and what works for you so that you stick with it.
Dec 22, 2013 - 01:01 PM
I recommend going to a bookstore that carries used college text books. You could purchase a recently outdated Spanish textbook and quickly go through each chapter. As you go through you'll discover new vocabulary and grammar. I am using my daughter's college text that she purchased at a reasonable price on line. I mark the pages and highlight portions for easy reference as questions come up. Also, I have a small pocket notebook that I carry to enter words or phrases that I stumble through in Spanish so I can go back later in the day to review. Without fail these come up frequently so I am ready next time I have to use them.
Dec 22, 2013 - 08:44 PM
If you have iTunes on your computer, iPad or iPhone, you can go to iTunes University and take college-level classes in Spanish.
Mar 29, 2014 - 10:02 PM
I am probably at the advanced-beginner or early intermediate level of learning Spanish. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the spanish translation of Exuperey's french classic story The Little Prince... El Principito. Next, with the help of a very good online dictionary (Wordreference.com), and an old paperback English translation, I have taken on the task of reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" - considered by many to be one of the best works of fiction ever written (in any language). I've got the original spanish version on my Kindle, which allows me to highlight and annotate as I go, using the note feature to add definitions of unknown words as I look them up. It is a little slow going at times, but I am finding that the grammar is fairly understandable, and the English translation can easily carry you through the rough spots. It might take me six months or more to finish the book, but I feel the effort will have been more than worth it.
I have also used LINGQ.com quite a bit. This is a great language learning site which takes the simple approach of Reading and Listening to the target language... building vocabulary as you go. Like Fluenz, it is a very "adult" approach to language. It is content-based, graded according to your level of learning, presenting no rules of grammar!!! Lingq assumes that you are getting that knowledge elsewhere..... like at Fluenz perhaps. So maybe check out Lingq.com..... and it can be used for free with certain restrictions which do not limit your access to the Content Library, the audio files, or many other useful features.
Buena suerte!
I have also used LINGQ.com quite a bit. This is a great language learning site which takes the simple approach of Reading and Listening to the target language... building vocabulary as you go. Like Fluenz, it is a very "adult" approach to language. It is content-based, graded according to your level of learning, presenting no rules of grammar!!! Lingq assumes that you are getting that knowledge elsewhere..... like at Fluenz perhaps. So maybe check out Lingq.com..... and it can be used for free with certain restrictions which do not limit your access to the Content Library, the audio files, or many other useful features.
Buena suerte!
Apr 07, 2014 - 04:59 PM
If you're actually done with everything with Fluenz and you still want to study Spanish I would recommend Pimsleur. That's what I'm doing now. I using Pimsleur and Fluenz to actually be fluent in Spanish L.A.