I have been trying to learn Spanish for a number of years. Problem is I am not accountable to anyone. Nobody checks up on me and I really have no way to measure my progress. I am hoping that I can keep track of my progress on this blog.

I will also be able to keep track of resources I find and document if they were helpful or not, or possibly note that I will want to come back later and use the material after I progress more in my understanding.

I am sure this will grow along with me and hopefully become a resource for others who are learning Spanish.

Any post dated before this one was moved from somewhere else to this blog to bring together, in one place, what I am doing to learn Spanish.

Well, I have once again been lax in my learning, but, as stated earlier, I am hoping that this blog will help motivate me to work on my Spanish.

SuperMemo:

• Cards: 4930
• Nouns: 975
• Verbs: 214
• Progress: I let this slack, so when I started up again last week there were 2400 cards waiting for review! I have worked that down to 1100 over the last couple days, but I need to start adding some new words from my ‘texts’ below.

Practical Grammar:

• Done: Chapter 9, Vocabulary to SuperMemo
• ToDo: Remainer of Chapter 9 entered into SuperMemo

Platiquemos:

Audio Work

• Level 1: Unit 6: 11 lessons
• Level 2: Empty
• Level 3: Unit 3: 3 lessons, Unit 5: 6 lessons
• Level 4: Unit 3: 1 lesson, Unit 4: 4 lessons, Unit 5: 4 lessons

Text Work

• Progress: Unit 5 exercises are in SuperMemo
• ToDo: Unit 6 exercises need to be put into SuperMemo.

LIYC Spanish:

Audio work

• Progress: Listening to Level 2 Disk 1 this week in the car

Text work

• Progress: Lesson 18, Shops, entered into SuperMemo
• ToDo: Enter 2 more lessons into SuperMemo

Madrigal Magic Key:

• Progress: Lesson 6 entered into SuperMemo
• ToDo: Enter 2 more lessons into SuperMemo

My evaluation:

• Must not get distracted.
• Picking this up again after being idle for over 2 months has really hurt.

I have installed the .mp3 files or Platiquemos Unit 6 on my Palm and have added 330 new ‘cards’ into Supermemo from the lesson. Luckily there was little typing since Platiquemos includes a .pdf of the lesson which allows me to transfer the text to an editor where I format the prompts and responses for Supermemo.

Supermemo will spread these cards out over the next couple days for review but still it means I am further behind, although I have managed to get the number of cards needing to be reviewed to under 1000. Hopefully I will be able to bring that down to 0 by the end of the week.