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Re: "Trying Rocket Languages, FluentU and LingoPie"
Maybe I'm not there yet... I've been watching a lot of Spanish shows on Netflix with subtitles, and seem to gain nothing... Over the past few week I've been catching more phrases from my other studies, but I'm not able to follow. I think it will happen, and then I' ll pick up the pace exponentially.
May 09 · 5 weeks ago
Pimsleur might be worth a listen, they are always excellent for pronunciation / natural speech, as that's the focus.
For example in French there is natural variation around whether you bother to say ending consonants when the next word starts with a vowel, "liasons". My French is not nearly good enough to have noticed this, but apparently if you check the audio closely you find there is a mix of present and missing liasons across uses of the same word combinations so you get used to the allowed variation.
Trying Rocket Languages, FluentU and LingoPie — Maybe I am wrong, but my approach to leaning Spanish is to avoid translation when possible, but instead try to internalize the language -- I want to feel rather than know. I think it's the key to fluency. And so, in addition to banging out DuoLingo exercises (which are surprisingly good at making their way deep into my brain), I decided to try out a few more apps, in order to get good enough to watch TV. Rocket Spanish They offer a free trial...