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[soc_puppet]

So, um. Does anyone know of a Spanish-language equivalent of Slime Forest Adventure? Or just any (hopefully free) game-type-thing that would help me learn the language? Because this stuff just isn't sticking, and I don't know enough yet to read my Spanish versions of Paulo Coelho's novels D: (If someone could just tell me the words for 'shepherd,' 'sheep' and 'king,' that would be a good start?) Vocab building in general is a very good thing, and verbs in particular are helpful and not just because I have a test on them tomorrow, really. Really, there's only so much I can pick out of Dance of the Cucumber. Please?

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[nekokenchan.livejournal.com]

In cases like this, dictionarys are the best thing in the world. Having learned one foreign language and learning another, I think I can say this with pretty good authority.

Also, when writing papers for class (I don't know if you're that far yet. We've had to write a few for Japanese already), use vocabulary you don't know and try to use new grammer patterns. It really helps and, if you get it wrong, your teacher probably won't take off as many points because at least you tried.

Also, when just sitting in class, listening to a talking head yak yak yak, in the margins of your notebooks or in your Spanish notebook start writing down the vocab words of the current chapter. Eventually you'll do it so much that you can't help but remember. Trying to think in the language you're trying to learn helps a great deal, too. Because, once again, you use the grammar patterns and vocab you learn. It takes some getting used to, and can be quite annoying at times, because if you get good enough at it, you'll have to translate it to English before you speak or else it'll come out as, in your case, Spanish. I've actually started talking in a mixture of German, Japanese, and English, and didn't even realize it and no one but myself could understand what I was saying becasue I'm the only one who knows those three languages.

I'm afraid I can't help you with the vocab words, as all I know in Spanish is yes, 1-10, and I can't speak Spanish, and I don't know of any games or anything, but, as I have about 9 years of language taking expierence, I hope I helped with some of the advice I gave. If all else fails, there is just the sitting down and making flash cards and going through the straight memorization. (which sucks, I know, but sometimes it's the only thing that works)

The last strategy I'm going to recommend is: find a friend in Spanish (higher level, at your level, in your class, not in your class, native speaker, it matters not) and have one or two sessions a week where you speak nothing but Spanish for an hour or so.

Oh god! Did I really just write 5 paragraphs about how to learn languages? I have been taking languages for far too long. I am such a language nerd!

If you have any questions, or just want a language study buddy (even though I'm not in Spanish), drop me a line and I'll see if I can arrange something.

[soc_puppet]

Ooo, helpful. Thank you ^_^

Think I'm going to try and make a card matching game, too. You know, the kind where all the cards are upside-down and you turn them over two at a time and try to find pairs? Only I'm going to have the matches as one word and one picture, so (hopefully) it'll help me associate them better.