Update: Project 1A

Hola. Yo soy apreindo espanol y yo -- Okay that's enough of hat. I couldn't write a whole post in Spanish if I tried. But when I can there is apparently a website I can go to called Lang-8.

I'm up to my eyeballs in online resources, actually, which is pretty nice. I haven't been able to play with all of them, but I'll always have something to check out. 

I am loving Duolingo I feel like I'm actually learning some stuff. Memrise is pretty good too. I'm supposed to learning 250 verbs and I was pretty surprised at the one that have stuck with me. So those are my favorites right now. 

I'm going to take the plunge and get on italki since I haven't heard a bad thing about it yet and it's pretty cheap for some of them. I might just start with a language exchange before I start shelling out any money. I'm so weird about talking to strangers in English, but I guess I have to get the hell over it if I'm going to be a bonafide Spanish communicator. So I'll keep you posted on that.

But I do have a new Spanish related project for Flempty. So I know a good thing to do is watch things in Spanish or at least with Spanish subtitles. I'm pretty sure Netflix used to have Spongebob with one of those, but it's gone now. I did find a Bob Esponja site, but it was actually, like, really fast. So, apparently, I'm not Spongebob level. Anyway, What I did find on Netflix was maybe 15 or so movies. They all look strangely sexual, even the one that's a cartoon about music. Anyway, it's a nice chuck of movies and I am going to watch all of them. So that's a project. 1A supplement: Watch all the Spanish language movies on Netflix. 

See you soon.

T

Happy New Year (An update)

So here's an update for my, as of now, nonexistent audience. Last year, everything got eaten by a monster called trying to get my degree. And guess what? I still don't have it, but I'm okay with it really. Well, okay, I'm disappointed especially since I was supposed to get it in December. I'm already tired of going over the story about why that didn't happen. Anyway, now I'll be getting it in May although I will be done with everything the first week of January. But I'm fine with it I swear.

Anyway, I've got this big gap between now and May and then, like, the whole rest of the year. So it's time to get back into Flempty. I will have to find the list and get started on something. Well technically I'm already undertaking the whole become fluent in Spanish thing. Apparently I should be able to do that in 3 months (so they say). We'll see how well that work out. I'm giving myself the same 3 month time line and the goal of being able to read a complex, well-known, text like 100 Years of Solitude. Something famous and beautiful that I can appreciate in it's original language. So shooting for 3 months, but giving myself till I get my degree, which is a little over 4 months. So that;s project 1A or 1 prime maybe, and it's the priority. I'll be working on it every day and reporting periodically. But I'll start some other thing too, a smaller thing. Like learning to put on contacts or tie a tie. anyway, I'll get on it even though I guess I feel sort of removed from everything now. So many things are connect to learning that I can't do it with Spanish I don't think. Plus I think I'm a little burnt out. Still, I promised I'd see this through and I will if only for myself.

Also big-ish news. For the year of 2015 this blog will now have a video component. So sometimes you will get to see my face and hear my voice at the same time. It's cray.

The first attempts at this video were really adorable okay. I've got to put video editing on my things to do.