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Everyone says the best way to learn a language is by immersion. I agree, but realistically, at a beginning level, all I hear is a bunch of words. You could probably never even hear English if you didn’t have to in America there’s so much Spanish radio, TV, books, newspapers, movies and everything else. Maybe after I understand a little more, things will start making sense.
Right now, if I listen to too much, I get a little burned out, I hear it, but I’m not listening and that probably doesn’t do much good either. Maybe after a few more lessons, translations and studying, I’ll do more “immersion” and be able to pick up at least a little bit of what’s going on on the radio or TV.
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Scott Thomas
December 5th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
1I agree with your comments on immersion–at the beginning level a phrase sounds like a an endless stream of unintelligible syllables like this line from The Absent-Minded Professor: estoyintentandoresolverlosmisteriosdeluniversoseñorachatsworthy fallé.
But if you know ahead of time:
estoy: I am
intentando: trying :: intentar: to try
resolve: to solve
los: the (pl)
misterios: mysteries :: misterio: mystery
del: of the
universo: universe
señora: Mrs.
y: and
fallé: I failed.
…it will sound like:
Estoy intentando resolver los misterios del universo, Señora Chatsworth, y fallé.
And you will understand this:
I’m trying to solve the mysteries of the universe, Mrs. Chatsworth, and I failed.
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I hope this helps.
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