bringin' Spanish back

[ltgmars]

I'm taking steps to bring my Spanish back. Tools include Will's old Spanish textbook from baby Spanish class as well as a learn-Spanish Podcast (spanishpod101.com).

I'm listening to the first Newbie lesson of the latter right now, and I feel kind of like a dweeb listening to their conversation, once at a normal tempo and once in painfully slow Spanish:

BEATRIZ: ¡Hola!
JOSÉ: ¡Hola! Buenos días.
BEATRIZ: ¿Cómo estás?
JOSÉ: Yo estoy bien. ¿Y tú?
BEATRIZ: Yo estoy muy bien. Gracias.

But I figure if I zip through the stupid basics, I'll slowly get more and more comfortable using my Spanish again, and then I can build up my rougher Spanish from there. And since my weakness is production (as it is in just about any language I know, including English), it'll give me a chance to listen and practice along with the recording.


Meanwhile, I have to "keep my characters warm" (a beloved phrase of my Chinese lecture professor) in a couple of different languages, though thankfully many characters in Japanese and Chinese are similar or the same. Trying hard, trying hard.

Comments

[ellipsesbandit.livejournal.com]

Ganbatte! I miss Spanish... my brain can't hold on to both Spanish and Japanese, and the Spanish is flying out of my brain faster than you can say "amigo."

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

At the rate the Podcast "does it one more time, slowly", though, "amigo" might actually be a longer interval of time than you realize. D:

We could practice together! We can do that thing where we badmouth people in a language they don't understand -- around Japanese people, in Spanish, and around Spanish-speaking people, in Japanese. It's a win-win situation.