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Learning Challenge

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-20 7:15

Okay, so on July 26th I'm going to Spain. I stopped learning Spanish in year 8 (when I was about 14) so to say my Spanish is rusty would be a bit of an understatement.

Either way, I want to try to learn as much Spanish as possible until then. I am a pretty fast learner (for example I can memorise about 500 kanji a week, and have started learning useful bits of Spanish vocab such as food, objects, places, etc) and not one to take shortcuts usually, but I have plenty free time until then anyway, so I don't mind about learning declensions etc. properly.

So, can anyone reccomend a plan or .. a breakneck 5 week learnfest that I can take? Any resources or paricular textbooks that I can steam through too? The vocab shouldn't be too much of a problem, I just want to make sure I have the grammar under by belt, with all verb forms.

Oh and I'd rather not buy any textbooks, just online resources/pdfs/rapishits if you may. I got a Spanish dictionary and that's all I plan to buy.

GO!

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-05 11:34

Okay, REAL original OP here...shit, I can't believe the bitching that's come out of this thread. Okay, let  me clear up my (admittedly) ridiculous claim that I can learn 500 kanji in a week, and maybe someone could help me out with my Spanish, which has been coming steadily along.

At the time of writing the original post I just wanted somehow to gauge my memory/learning ability. I couldn't think of anything at the time other than learning kanji (as I had been that day), and on the board there seems not to be a comparison that many people use OTHER than that. I learned (only one reading, admittedly) 100 kanji that day. They weren't very hard ones, but I was able to recognise and write them all. The method, if you could even call it that, was simply rote.

Therefore, I suppose you could just say I was attributing it to 'memory' and not 'learning' as such, as learning kanji can just be learning symbols with no other context or use. However, I did plan to just cram Spanish, on top of my biscuit base understanding of the grammar, I figured it'd be easy to make a decent enough trifle on top.

At the moment I have alot of free time (in b4 unemployed etc. -- I'm home from college for the summer), and I thought it would sound odd to say '100 kanji a day'...and now in retrospect I feel like a dick for thinking I'd be able to carry on the impressive learning streak for another 4 days, not taking in to consideration that I had only learnt one reading and the kanji after that got progressively more complicated (not to mention THEIR multiple readings).

So THERE, after all your pointless circular petty bitchy arguments, I was wrong all along, more or less.

Anyway, now I've not got much more time left till I go to Spain, but can ANYONE reccomend any decent lower intermediate resources that they found useful?

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