Thank you, I am currently taking an Arabic Course and after you've helped me so much with Spanish your teaching will live on here. I'm going to apply these principles to my Arabic studying.
Learning Spanish is different for people! I thrive on repetition. One it helps so I get used to the sounds. Two I learn to hear all the words separately so it doesn’t sound run in together. I listen to a guy who breaks up a word. Now that helps me in particular because I have a form of deafness where I can’t distinguish some letters. If someone repeated in a lesson buenas tardes for instance, and clearly, and sometimes each syllable I can distinguish the n and not mistake it for an m. They can then say it regular speed and I understand. I like learning vocabulary words. Any words. Then gradually those words are put in a sentence. Then I can say it, understand it and remember it. I’m just starting out. I can’t have a full conversation. I then learn when to say buenas tardes or buenas noches. Not exactly a conversation. I’m not focused on giving a speech. I repeat those over and over. Since I’m hearing impaired repetition helps me keep my speech clear. Repeating random words, understanding them, then I put them in a sentence to myself. I learned the words gato and gatito. I need to see it, and have it repeated so I can tell the difference. My point is, long windedly, is that everyone learns differently. Repetition helps me. To others it may not. I’m not them. Comprehension helps me. THEN making sentences. I watched a Colombian. I already knew buenas tardes. Then he added three extra because that’s what Columbians say. I don’t need those other two. I don’t want to think how many people am I talking to. Do I know them or not. Buenas tardes for instance is enough. It’s confusing to add those others. It’s like when I hear a new English word. The first pronunciation is what I use. It sound strange when that word is said differently. If I want to learn, nothing is a waste of time to me. Pictures, games, repetition, easy questions, learning the words of that easy sentence. For me I don’t need to write it. Seeing it is enough. One way of learning isn’t better than another way. As long as you learn. I had a lot of trouble in school because everyone was supposed to learn the same. I’m more visual then hearing it. Teaching me a math problem doesn’t help if I don’t know the why. For instance my teachers hated it when I counted math on my fingers. That was my way of doing it. Couldn’t understand the teacher’s problem. As long as I got it right what difference did make doing it in my head or using my fingers. With Spanish it’s the same thing. If repetition helps I do it and I learn it and then remember it. Years ago I helped a girl with directions. She knew no English my Spanish was crap. But I tried the best I could. She didn’t care about my fluency. She still understood. And I felt great that I could give simple directions and no one taught me how. Just remembered random words. Well that’s my dos pesos on things.
Thank you, I am currently taking an Arabic Course and after you've helped me so much with Spanish your teaching will live on here. I'm going to apply these principles to my Arabic studying.
Keep it up dude! I plan on moving to south america in a few months and will want to sign up for your coaching lessons
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Learning Spanish is different for people! I thrive on repetition. One it helps so I get used to the sounds. Two I learn to hear all the words separately so it doesn’t sound run in together. I listen to a guy who breaks up a word. Now that helps me in particular because I have a form of deafness where I can’t distinguish some letters. If someone repeated in a lesson buenas tardes for instance, and clearly, and sometimes each syllable I can distinguish the n and not mistake it for an m. They can then say it regular speed and I understand. I like learning vocabulary words. Any words. Then gradually those words are put in a sentence. Then I can say it, understand it and remember it. I’m just starting out. I can’t have a full conversation. I then learn when to say buenas tardes or buenas noches. Not exactly a conversation. I’m not focused on giving a speech. I repeat those over and over. Since I’m hearing impaired repetition helps me keep my speech clear. Repeating random words, understanding them, then I put them in a sentence to myself. I learned the words gato and gatito. I need to see it, and have it repeated so I can tell the difference. My point is, long windedly, is that everyone learns differently. Repetition helps me. To others it may not. I’m not them. Comprehension helps me. THEN making sentences. I watched a Colombian. I already knew buenas tardes. Then he added three extra because that’s what Columbians say. I don’t need those other two. I don’t want to think how many people am I talking to. Do I know them or not. Buenas tardes for instance is enough. It’s confusing to add those others. It’s like when I hear a new English word. The first pronunciation is what I use. It sound strange when that word is said differently. If I want to learn, nothing is a waste of time to me. Pictures, games, repetition, easy questions, learning the words of that easy sentence. For me I don’t need to write it. Seeing it is enough. One way of learning isn’t better than another way. As long as you learn. I had a lot of trouble in school because everyone was supposed to learn the same. I’m more visual then hearing it. Teaching me a math problem doesn’t help if I don’t know the why. For instance my teachers hated it when I counted math on my fingers. That was my way of doing it. Couldn’t understand the teacher’s problem. As long as I got it right what difference did make doing it in my head or using my fingers. With Spanish it’s the same thing. If repetition helps I do it and I learn it and then remember it. Years ago I helped a girl with directions. She knew no English my Spanish was crap. But I tried the best I could. She didn’t care about my fluency. She still understood. And I felt great that I could give simple directions and no one taught me how. Just remembered random words. Well that’s my dos pesos on things.
Wow. This is just like music. If you learn one song to mastery it's harder to learn other songs because of the muscle memory you developed.
That's a great way of seeing it!
I got so bored with this video after 30 seconds. That's 30 seconds I'll not get back 😢