I'm currently working on learning Spanish. I moved to Puerto Rico (I'm a SE contractor) and am studying using a variety of resources including memrize, Quizlet & various books & PDFs. Not a big fan of Duolingo, I've used it extensively in the past.
Usually when I start learning something new, I get an idea of how it could be taught better. Looking for feedback on this idea.
It feels like the way to break past the beginner plateau is reading immersion. However, it's very difficult to find easy to read stories for a beginner.
My little sister learned to read by using Bob Books. The stories started with simple sentences like "Bob has a broom", "Jill hit bob", "Bob was angry". Gradually, they introduced more complicated stories.
The idea:
Build a Spanish learning course that's centered around introducing core glue-vocabulary and grammatical structures, then provides stories & comprehension quizzes written in Spanish for the language learner to reinforce the lessons. Vocab & grammar is first introduced, then used in the stories.
Users can click on words if they don't remember them, and they'll be automatically added to their vocab study deck (based on spaced-repetition).
Gradually, the stories & comprehension quizzes will get more complicated as more grammar structures & vocab is introduced.
If there's a course out there that's like this, LMK. This seems like it would be way more effective & motivating than studying random generated sentences & phrases out of context like duolingo.
I'm looking for feedback, and potentially a spanish-speaker that would be interested in helping me write stories & structure the course. Ty!
I'm currently working on learning Spanish. I moved to Puerto Rico (I'm a SE contractor) and am studying using a variety of resources including memrize, Quizlet & various books & PDFs. Not a big fan of Duolingo, I've used it extensively in the past.
Usually when I start learning something new, I get an idea of how it could be taught better. Looking for feedback on this idea.
It feels like the way to break past the beginner plateau is reading immersion. However, it's very difficult to find easy to read stories for a beginner.
My little sister learned to read by using Bob Books. The stories started with simple sentences like "Bob has a broom", "Jill hit bob", "Bob was angry". Gradually, they introduced more complicated stories.
The idea:
Build a Spanish learning course that's centered around introducing core glue-vocabulary and grammatical structures, then provides stories & comprehension quizzes written in Spanish for the language learner to reinforce the lessons. Vocab & grammar is first introduced, then used in the stories.
Users can click on words if they don't remember them, and they'll be automatically added to their vocab study deck (based on spaced-repetition).
Gradually, the stories & comprehension quizzes will get more complicated as more grammar structures & vocab is introduced.
If there's a course out there that's like this, LMK. This seems like it would be way more effective & motivating than studying random generated sentences & phrases out of context like duolingo.
I'm looking for feedback, and potentially a spanish-speaker that would be interested in helping me write stories & structure the course. Ty!