More Progress!

Last Blog's Plan

In my last blog post, I shared the following plan:

1. Continue advancing in Duolingo. The next areas that I will be studying include Time, Adjectives, Verbs Present 2, and Determiners. I will also go back and strengthen all of the areas I've completed.
2. Read some of the book I checked out about the culture of Spain. I would like to learn about Spanish food over next couple of weeks. Maybe I'll even try a recipe!  (Ok, that's probably not wise. I'll get Randy or the girls to try one!)
3. Start watching YouTube videos on learning Spanish. I'll specifically be exploring www.youtube.com/user/SpanishStepbyStep to see if that will enhance my learning.

Progress

I have progressed in all three of those areas.

1. In Duolingo, I have completed Time, Adjectives, Verbs Present 2, and Determiners. In 
addition, I've done Places, Adverbs, Objects, and To Be Verbs. I'm currently at 4% fluency. 
I worked on it every day in February except two.

2. I read about the cuisine of Spain on 2/22/17. It was interesting to read about the differences 
from one region to the next. For example, in northwest Spain, they eat a lot of seafood 
whereas in inland Spain they eat a lot of lamb and veal. I did not try a Spanish recipe.

3. I watched one video on www.youtube.com/user/SpanishStepbyStep. It was on the 
alphabet, which is something I learned in Spanish I 25 years ago and forgot! I'm not sure the 
videos will be very useful moving forward, but I will try one more to be certain.

In addition to the three items above, I also obtained vocabulary flash cards from a friend to 
enhance my vocabulary. (Thanks, Ms. Jessup!)

I also communicated with my mentor about some questions, including the placement of 
adjectives in a sentence. (When does the adjective come before the noun, and when does it 
come after?)

New Plan

Moving forward, I plan to do the following:

1. Since I have read about Spanish cuisine but didn't get a chance to cook anything, I will be 
doing that over the next two weeks. One of my mentors will be in town for Spring Break from 
college, and she offered to cook with me. If you knew anything about my cooking skills, you'd 
know that this will be quite an undertaking.

2. I will continue with Duolingo. The next categories I will work on are more pronouns, 
numbers (I feel like that should have been done sooner in the program...), and past tense 
verbs.

3. I will use the flash cards I received from Ms. Jessup as a supplement to Duolingo. 

As you can see, that might take a while!

I'm looking forward to cooking next week! Stay tuned!