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Spanish is Going Well

Chelle — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:15:01 +0000

I am doing Living Language Ultimate Spanish and writing my own phrases and dialogs with Google Translate. I’m on Lesson 30 (Lección Trienta) and it’s going well. I’d say at this point I know between 800 to 1000+ words. I forget them and remember them randomly. I need to learn much more about grammar and such, but hopefully I will get better at that. I’m more into vocabulary anyway. Espero ser buena en español en cuatro meses, más o menos — which means I hope to be good in Spanish in four months, more or less. (I wrote the Spanish phrase with a tiny bit of help from Google Translate, but I got it 97% correct the first time, on my own! LOL! Hey, it’s a start!)

I’m also going to start French and will be using either Assimil French with Ease or Living Language Ultimate French for my first course (and using Google Translate). I haven’t decided between Assimil or Living Language for my first course yet. I’ll only do about a chapter per week, because I focus mainly on Spanish. Also, about twice a week, I will be going over the little bit of Hebrew I already know. I don’t want to forget the Hebrew I’ve already learned.

Pues, Asta luego! :

Estoy Aprendiendo Español

Chelle — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:02:18 +0000

I think I wrote the Spanish title correctly! LOL. I have been studying Spanish a lot this month. Maybe 50 hours or so for the month of July 2010. I’ve learned a lot, but I have a ways to go.

I also study a little bit of Hebrew. I plan to start studying Hebrew a couple of hours a day or more (like I currently do with Spanish) when I am done learning Spanish and French to an intermediate or advanced level. So maybe within 12 months to 18 months hopefully.

I also want to learn Portuguese. Since Portuguese is so similar to Spanish, it should be fairly easy to learn once I can distinguish between “false friends” and the like – and get the rhythm, etc of Portuguese. I will also most likely study Italian to as it is a romance language and might be fairly easy to learn after learning the other romance languages.

I’d like to be at an intermediate to advanced level in Spanish, French, Hebrew, Portuguese and Italian within 18 months to 24 months. Of course, I would still love to be fluent in English! (My native language)

After learning Spanish, French, Hebrew, Portuguese and Italian, I’d like to maybe start with German or Chinese (Mandarin). Maybe I’ll do both at the same time, but focus on Mandarin.

There are other languages I’d love to learn too, like Japanese, Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic/Fusha, Levantine and Egyptian), Hindi/Urdu,Swahili,Swedish, etc. Many more. So, we’ll see if I can get around to all of them!

Well, bye for now!

Hola, Hello!

Chelle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:25:48 +0000

Well, I’m still busy with everything, but I am studying Spanish a bit now. I don’t study Hebrew much anymore, but I plan to pick it back up. I’d like to be fluent in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Hebrew. And of course continue to be fluent in English. LOL! Plus, if I can master other languages, that would be great too. I’m pretty good in the ‘Internet/Web Design/Web Developer’ language like HTML and can make decent websites. That’s something I’m also studying. I’d like to master HTML, CSS, Paint Shop, Photo Shop and things like that. And become a great web designer/developer.

Well, that is all for now. Will post more soon, hopefully. Bye4Now.

My Hebrew Lessons Continue

Chelle — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:25:53 +0000

Wow, I haven’t written in a while! Well, I’m still studying Hebrew. I learned the Aleph-Bet and I can now read Hebrew fairly well. But I still don’t know what most of the words mean. LOL! However, I do know several Hebrew words now; I guess about a few hundred. So that’s good.

I still plan to start back up with French and Spanish. I’m not sure when though. Well, that is all for now. I plan to write more soon!

Now I’m Learning Hebrew

Chelle — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:02:27 +0000

Ok, I’ve put Spanish and French on hold to learn Hebrew. I’ve been at it for about two weeks or so now. I can remember some words and phrases. It’s fun. I watch Big Brother Israel to help me with Hebrew. It has a 24 hour Live Feed of the Big Brother Housemates and they all speak Hebrew, so that helps.

I mostly study with the Learn Now! 101 Languages of the World from Transparent Language. And I also have a Hebrew / English phrasebook by Lonely Planet. Plus other resources. I’m going to get the Learn Hebrew Now! 10 from Transparent Language as soon as I can.

I might start up with Spanish while still doing Hebrew, but I’m not sure. I’m also tempted to learn Finnish, because I got the Big Brother Finland Live Feeds on a whim and it would be nice to know what they are saying. LOL! I study it a tiny bit, but ultimately I don’t think I’m going to go for Finnish right now. Maybe someday.

I’ve Started Learning Spanish Again

Chelle — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:08:05 +0000

There are so many ways to learn different languages. One good way is watching DVDs of my favorite movies and choosing Spanish or French as the audio and/or subtitles.

Yesterday I watched part of Transformers and set the subtitles to Spanish and just read from there as I listened to the movie. And I learned a few words just from that. So, I’m going to keep that up and also learn from language software like Transparent Language: Learn NOW!

I’ve started Spanish already, but I’ll be starting French soon as well.

Learning French and Spanish

Chelle — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:33:10 +0000

I really need to start studying French and Spanish again. Last year I started studying both languages about 30 minutes each per day and I was really learning a lot. I can still remember a lot of the words and phrases I learned from last year.

I love culture and languages, and want to learn about many of them. So I really need to stop being so darn lazy and get with it.

Since I seem to have an easy time retaining some languages, once I’ve learned them – especially French - I should take that advantage and put it to good use.