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.
Posted by Numenius at August 18, 2004 11:42 PM | TrackBackAt 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.
Posted by: Jenny at August 19, 2004 12:52 AMI 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!
Posted by: leslee at August 22, 2004 05:07 AM