18 August 04

Back To Class

My second semester of Spanish started yesterday. Again, this is through the local city college. Thankfully we’re using the same exact text so I don’t have to spend lots of money on new books. It’s a long class period—I think fifteen weeks, running the middle of August through the middle of December. We meet twice a week, in a slightly more inconvenient location (south Davis rather than on the UC Davis campus) than last time. I didn’t make good on my intention to study lots of Spanish over the summer, but at least we’re starting out with a review of last semester’s work.

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  1. At least you can practise spanish conversation with Pica. I’m sure you’ve become more eloquent in spanish than me. They stopped running my course so now I will have to rely on one from the internet and self discipline in practising on my own.

    — Jenny    18. August 2004, 22:52    Link
  2. I kinda learned Spanish on my own with tapes then I took a couple of courses. I keep up by watching a telenovela every night – the stories are usually pretty lame, but it’s great practice for training your ear for conversational Spanish and picking up vocabulary. I also made the aquaintance of some immigrants from Argentina and a friend and I pay one of them to basically converse with us and correct our grammar and answer questions – that’s really the best practice. It’s hard because I have to overcome my shyness at sounding stupid in front of a native speaker. Then again, her English isn’t so good either! You can often do an exchange – speak in Spanish for an hour and in English for an hour and help each other out.

    Buena suerte!

    — leslee    22. August 2004, 03:07    Link

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