San Jose es muy bueno. No es mucho calor o mucho frio. Hoy Ohio tiene temperatura de bajo cero en Farenheit, mucho frio.
Yo tengo no clases en español. Leo anuncios para mucho de mi vocabulario. Mi vocabulario es muy extraño. Hablo a personas en taxis y tiendas y restaurantes. Yo aprendido izquierda/derecha/directo y "para llevar" antes de "Me llamo Adina." Puedo decir "Hay es una rata muerta en la cocina," pero me no gusto. *g*
This was interesting and educational. *g* While I could never have written it, I think I understood everything except the part about cuidades. It's lovely to read about a tropical place -- have fun and keep the reports coming
That could be because I misspelled ciudades and got the gender wrong. *sigh* San Jose y las ciudades cerca (or las ciudades cercanas?) is apparently the correct wording of that. San Jose and the nearby cities.
My Spanish is crappy enough these days that I'm not going to even try responding in that language, but I did want to say that I'm totally impressed! Yes, there are grammar weirdnesses, but I understood everything you wanted to say. You have come a long way!
I think I'm doing pretty well for no formal classes, though I'm thinking it's probably time to start some. There's only so far I can go with learning from taxi drivers, especially since I don't take that many taxis! I've started playing with DuoLingo.com yesterday. Are you familiar with it? I haven't played with it enough to know whether it works--I'm assuming it will be a supplement to immersion and formal instruction, not a replacement for either.
One of the things that I've found interesting about learning on my own and using a Spanish-for-reading book is that I learned/am learning past tense and gerunds at the same time that I learn present tense (and sometimes before). Also imperative to a very limited extent, mostly from road signs and for making requests. I'm finding this much more useful and easier than learning only the present tense. In reading, very little is in present tense, barring fiction that's too advanced for me. And honestly I've never had cause to use most of the present tense conjugations--I'm
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I've heard of DuoLingo and know what it is, but have never used it myself. I know people who love it, and think it's probably worth checking out and investing some time in.
Don't worry about the "order" that you're "supposed" to learn things in, though! Language textbooks have to present things in a particular order because otherwise it would be chaos (and the order that they choose is in fact based on research), but adults learning languages in the country itself will often take a different route and that's okay.
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Yo tengo no clases en español. Leo anuncios para mucho de mi vocabulario. Mi vocabulario es muy extraño. Hablo a personas en taxis y tiendas y restaurantes. Yo aprendido izquierda/derecha/directo y "para llevar" antes de "Me llamo Adina." Puedo decir "Hay es una rata muerta en la cocina," pero me no gusto. *g*
ETA: Leo mas que escribo o hablo.
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I think I'm doing pretty well for no formal classes, though I'm thinking it's probably time to start some. There's only so far I can go with learning from taxi drivers, especially since I don't take that many taxis! I've started playing with DuoLingo.com yesterday. Are you familiar with it? I haven't played with it enough to know whether it works--I'm assuming it will be a supplement to immersion and formal instruction, not a replacement for either.
One of the things that I've found interesting about learning on my own and using a Spanish-for-reading book is that I learned/am learning past tense and gerunds at the same time that I learn present tense (and sometimes before). Also imperative to a very limited extent, mostly from road signs and for making requests. I'm finding this much more useful and easier than learning only the present tense. In reading, very little is in present tense, barring fiction that's too advanced for me. And honestly I've never had cause to use most of the present tense conjugations--I'm ( ... )
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Don't worry about the "order" that you're "supposed" to learn things in, though! Language textbooks have to present things in a particular order because otherwise it would be chaos (and the order that they choose is in fact based on research), but adults learning languages in the country itself will often take a different route and that's okay.
Keep it up!
-J
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