Talk:Spanish/The Wrong Way To Learn Spanish

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Lost text?
Is the "We seem to have lost some text" message referring to the text from this revision? --haginძaz 00:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned module
Do you need Part 2 - WWTS? Link to it from this book, or mark it for deletion by typing on that page if you don't need it. --haginძaz 00:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

The answers are next to the excercises ( on same line! )
Hola,

Just a quick comment.

Throughout this page there are excercises.

At the bottom of the page are the answers. BUT also on the same line as each question is the answer.

If we are truley trying to teach, and are asking questions, should we not remove the answers that live on the line as the question? Afterall, the user can check at the bottom of the page their answer anyway.. So having it next to the question, means they cannot answer it, as they've already read the answer!

Just a thought..

Chanti

Hooked on Mnemonics
I'm taking first-year Spanish, I've made up mnemonics for the chapter we're now learning. You can download it from http://www.casafuturatech.com/Personal/MnemonicsCh6.doc, feel free to add them to this Wikibook. I'll try to make up these sheets for the other chapters we've learned (those mnemonics are now scribbled in the margins of my textbook).--Thomas David Kehoe 02:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion of merging in Spanish
Both books have the same topic and the same purpose. I do not find any incompatibility between them. Akhram (talk) 11:27, 25 April 2008 (UTC). === We should not merge these two books as both have some different style of approach to their purpose. This book has a more indivualistic and a Maverick style so it should not be merged with the other book on learning Spanish. Because it has its own charm and the other one has its own charm

Guinea pigs/commenters
If you offer your opinion or make yourself a guinea pig for the method, credit yourself here.

?: �Hola! �Consider me a guinea pig! -KKS

?: Orale mi raza, I am a student as well as a teacher! Hope this page will continue to grow. Viva espana!

?: I want this page to grow. Somebody teach me spanish!!! Come on...  - Peter Pawan, Noob.

?: ¡El español es fresco! Great page! I now have an weird image of Zorro the fox taking of with some chicas stuck in my head. Good work!

?: Keep working on this, please. Thx for doing it. - trent, guinea pig

?: I think that the best way to learn Spanish is to first read the Spansh alphabet and their pronunciation. But there is no need to learn too much about how the vowels sound and what are the exceptions to the rules etc. The next step is to download a nice interesting book in english that you have already read. Copy one sentence at a time from the english book and put it in google's language translator .(Google language translator page as retrieved on September 30, 2009) Now you can easily analyse each and every word and each and every phrase since you already know the words of that English book. This will seem to take time but it will give you solid foundation in Spanish. Because i am from India and have just started to learn Spanish a few days ago. This method seems to work for me. Earlier i tried reading the Spanish grammar books and reading elementary Spanish reading books which have stories for children or tried to copy the sentences from blogs of common Spanish people and tried to translate those sentences through google's language translator but the problem with this was that i couldnt find any blogs which were either too plain and boring or if they were interesting then they were too short and didn't form any coherent story. The elementary Spanish stories also proved to be too uninetersting. The problem with grammar books was that till the time i would learn the 11th rule i would forget the 1st rule in Spanish grammar. So i feel translating ineteresting English stories or blogs or news reports in google's language translator is the best method for Español newbies like me. after i have analysed one or two books i will download a grammar book from gutenberg website (Project Gutenberg page as retrieved on September 30, 2009) and learn the Spanish grammar so as to make my foundation even stronger.

?: One method I found effective was buying the same book in English and Spanish. Compare the two version and have a translator handy for word translations. One reason I wouldn't suggest getting an e-book and translating it all to Spanish is that Google Translate tends to have too many errors with full sentences/paragraphs. If you do need to translate full sentences I'd suggest the paralink translator which I've noticed to be more accurate than Google at times.

?: Thanks to the contributers for a great reference. Just a note on lesson 5. It is suggested that: "The dress for girl words is "la." (Yes, very feminine sounding.)" 'Dress' is a masculine word in Spanish (vestido) so could be slightly confusing!

Moved to talk as possible POV/OR. Kayau (talk &#124; email &#124; contribs) 11:20, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

This is terrible
As little reference should be made to the learner's language unless there is some cause to call attention to something in the learner's native language. If anything I would start with Spanish nouns under pictures -- el perro a la playa under a picture of a dog at the beach explains far more than does someone trying to find a few English words to suggest ways in which to remember that "el perro" is a dog.