Imagine learning Spanish at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT?
24/06/08 17:46
Well that's exactly what I'm doing since late last night.
After a long day and when trolling through the internet I came across a comment that it's possible to take a subject taught at MIT through a program they call MIT OpenCourseWare. It's a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT
Well did they have an online Spanish Course? Yes they do I discovered as I searched their site. Not only that, it's free or more accurately you can make a voluntary donation, and you don't even have to register to take the course!
This is one of those gems that abound on the internet if you can just find them. So I've started my new MIT Spanish Course 1, (and yes there's Spanish 2 as well), with written material and no less than 52 really well produced online Spanish streaming video lessons. Amazing!
Here's the link - and thank you MIT how incredibly generous of you. http://ocw.mit.edu
Getting my head around learning Spanish
23/06/08 11:54
When travelling in Peru learning Spanish was
naturally way easier now I'm back in Ireland, trying
to learn Spanish feels like trying to decipher the
Dead Sea Scrolls.
That's why last week I decided to take a one-on-one Spanish lesson with a woman from Cuba. For around one and a half hours I got to practice my sub nino attempt at Spanish. Thankfully it got better as the session progressed, enough to encourage me to repeat the process later this week. This time however I'm going to attempt un houra per day.
So blew the dust off my Collins/Tony Buzan learn Spanish package and will get going esta noches. I know a lot more Spanish than my brain will let on. It's something about learning a language at school, marks out of ten and all of that learning brutality that passed for schooling when I was a child. To get from under that and have fun learning a language, now wouldn't that be something! I'll let you know what works, and what doesn't as I aim for 'flowing conversations in Spanish' level.
B.
That's why last week I decided to take a one-on-one Spanish lesson with a woman from Cuba. For around one and a half hours I got to practice my sub nino attempt at Spanish. Thankfully it got better as the session progressed, enough to encourage me to repeat the process later this week. This time however I'm going to attempt un houra per day.
So blew the dust off my Collins/Tony Buzan learn Spanish package and will get going esta noches. I know a lot more Spanish than my brain will let on. It's something about learning a language at school, marks out of ten and all of that learning brutality that passed for schooling when I was a child. To get from under that and have fun learning a language, now wouldn't that be something! I'll let you know what works, and what doesn't as I aim for 'flowing conversations in Spanish' level.
B.