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Ahoy comrades! Is anyone aware of any resources for learning Spanish for folks involved in organizing? It would be especially awesome if it was in the style of Dreaming Spanish, but I'm open to any suggestions.

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[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

I've seen good results learning Mandarin using this learning system, and you should be able to adapt it for Spanish.

  • Use LingoLooper (paid AI conversation partner app) to practice conversation every day until you're comfortable going to language learning discord servers for practice
  • highlight sentences you don't understand well in LingoLooper and bookmark them
  • export your bookmarks to an email, email them to yourself or use another method
  • copy only the Spanish sentence to your Anki card
  • add a word from the Spanish sentence you don't understand to a second field in the flashcard front
  • get github.com/msjsc001/Anki-TTS-Edge installed and add speech to text of the entire sentence to the back of the card
  • add a photo depiction of the word you are studying to the back of the card
  • when studying Anki, rate a sentence as Good if you understood the word under study. Then try to exactly imitate the TTS speaker when you read the back of the card. It's important that you choose a TTS speaker who sounds natural in order to do this. For Mandarin I prefer Yunxi for this reason.
  • limit Anki to an amount where you do a max of 30 minutes of Anki study per day. I have 13 new cards max and 130 max reviews. Anki creates learning debt so you must keep it under control.

This method lets you train speaking and listening the most while also training reading without excessive use of your first language, and should be very effective to help you make huge amounts of progress in Spanish. Once you reach a basic level of conversational proficiency you can start going to language learning Discord servers which will give you better feedback on what you are saying.

As for organizing-specific language you can translate a sentence you want to say from your first language in LingoLooper, then make a bookmark of it to study in Anki later. This will suffice to extend your general Spanish proficiency to organizing, and will give you a good enough starting point for you to start going out and talking to the people.

[-] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Jesus that's an intense learning schedule. But impressive! I do similar, but I really hate making my own Anki shit so I usually don't and just write news words down and try to memorize em the less good way until I see the word again. I just use premade Anki decks with similar vocab to my other sources and hope for the best lol

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

It's not that bad. You only have to make new flashcards once you run out of new sentences on Anki. I do it when I have a work meeting. You just have to get used to it ๐Ÿ˜”

For anki, using sentences is better because they're easier to learn than individual words. Plus if a word is hard to remember, you can just make another sentence with it. I have the leech threshold set to 2 so if I don't remember something very well, it gets suspended and I can have another go learning it with a different sentence. You can use any source of sentences, not just lingolooper. Graded readers are another good choice. Specifically for Mandarin, Little Fox Chinese is a good source of sentences to mine from beginner level. Also for Mandarin and Japanese specifically, Yomitan can help you make flashcards from sentences more easily, which helps you learn words in context.

[-] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Oh I definitely do only sentences, for sure! But the rest is so much hahahah. I've learned a few languages to B2 and 2 to C1. English was school of course, but another was just brute force with books and talking to someone fluent. That worked best by far. But I think we all know that :)

Without a native speaker to constantly talk to, your method sounds pretty effective. I just hate making Anki cards with a passion lol

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