As I’ve said, I’m now doing only the minimum on Duolingo to keep my streak going.
But I’ve been having a great time playing with some of my other language apps, focusing a lot on listening and speaking. That’s the big difference between now and when I was in high school. Then it was mostly memorizing and writing, now with modern technology we can practice listening and speaking.
I have a lot more to learn, but I was amazed when I went back to that TV series that motivated me to start learning Spanish. With patience I can understand what they are saying. I had assumed that would never happen because they spoke so fast.
I don’t know if this will work, but it’s a clip I took a video of with my iPhone. Click on the picture, fingers crossed!
Needless to say, I’ll try to stick with it for a while. Again, fingers crossed!
July 16, 2023
the video works but cant even begin to match waht they are saying to the words. I can see how if you knew some spanish like you do you could follow it.
I have to read the words and think about it before I can understand him.
Unbelievable you can now follow T.V.!! Yes, the talking is so fast! You are amazing!
I have to pause the frame and read the words, then play it again before I can understand it. But I know with a lot of practice I should be able to understand it the first time.
I can’t wait to hear what you discover next!
I’ll let you know!
As fast as they speak, I don’t know that I would ever be able to keep up to catch what they are saying.
It takes a lot of practice and only worth it if one really wants to do it.
I could watch and listen
about fast speakers, apparently we here in NZ, speak fast – to a point where most foreigners, even those from other English speaking countries, miss 3/4 of what we say! And we tend to have a lot of local slang/sayings that meant something to us but not necessarily to you.
I of course, didn’t know that – nor do I think we speak fast…
I know, it’s normal if you’re used to it. As for slang, part of learning a new language is to understand slang and figures of speech that can’t be translated.