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Learn Spanish Vocabulary Parrot Fashion

Learn groups of vocabulary in Spanish by repeating them parrot fashion

DK Hugo - Spanish in three months
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 @ 4:20 PM

Having had a couple of busy weeks, I am back to learning some more Spanish - This week, I have tried the DK Hugo - spanish in three months course.

This is set up over 13 weeks - but I only have it from the library for 3 in the first instance so wanted to work through it quickly first to see if I liked it.

Well - no, I didn't.  Don't know about you guys, but one of the key things for me is being able to learn on the move - generally in the car.  I put the first CD into the stereo on the way home from the library - that didn't work at all - you definitely need the book in front of you - and a pause button. 

There is no English on the CDs - so unless you already know what the words are, you have no idea what they are saying - and if you do already know the words - why would you be listening!

I have the next course ready to try - will let you know how that goes.  And I haven't redone the Michel Thomas second course yet, so more on that later too.

I am thinking of adding some new pages to www.learnparrotfashion.com - some quick wins - (words that always translate in the same format such as ...ible) - and some grammar for regular verbs - any thoughts - would this be of use?

Look forward to feedback

 



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lifeline said:
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 @ 2:37 PM

haven't seen your website until now but an error came when I tried to get sound. We use Coffeebreak Spanish but try anything!


Callula said:
Thursday, April 9, 2009 @ 11:42 AM

Hi
Do you have windows media player or itunes set up to open sound files automatically?
I know that quicktime can cause problems and freeze the screen because it happened to a friend of mine.
If you still can't open them, PM me and I can email you some to try.
Thanks


Callula said:
Thursday, April 9, 2009 @ 11:42 AM

Hi
Do you have windows media player or itunes set up to open sound files automatically?
I know that quicktime can cause problems and freeze the screen because it happened to a friend of mine.
If you still can't open them, PM me and I can email you some to try.
Thanks


Callula said:
Thursday, April 9, 2009 @ 11:43 AM

Hi
Do you have windows media player or itunes set up to open sound files automatically?
I know that quicktime can cause problems and freeze the screen because it happened to a friend of mine.
If you still can't open them, PM me and I can email you some to try.
Thanks


Callula said:
Thursday, April 9, 2009 @ 11:43 AM

Hi
Do you have windows media player or itunes set up to open sound files automatically?
I know that quicktime can cause problems and freeze the screen because it happened to a friend of mine.
If you still can't open them, PM me and I can email you some to try.
Thanks


Sue Baldwin said:
Friday, June 5, 2009 @ 12:12 AM

Heck, I love the book! I'm learning more from this book than 3yrs of Spanish language in school! Only trouble is, I have the cassettes and NOT the CDs. Someone gave me this and it's pretty old. Where can I get the CDs?

Thanks!!

Susan


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