Hello! My name is Abigail and welcome to Polyglot Progress!
Today is September 14, 2020.
This video is the first video...yes, the first video since the videos from the challenge with Mango Languages
It's the first video in Spanish in two years---three years?
I finished the book Spanish Tutor in July.
Or August...
I think I finished the book in July.
It was a bit useful, yes, but I think that is was less helpful than the other book, German Tutor.
It's the same book, yes: a "Tutor" book from Teach Yourself,
But it's not the SAME book, and I think that the German Tutor book is--was--more useful for me than the Spanish Tutor book.
In July I found a tutor on italki.
She is from Argentina
I [chose] a tutor from Argentina because my last tutor, from the challenge with Mango Languages, was from Argentina.
And I also like the Argentinean accent
I like the tutor and I bought a package of 6 lessons.
The first lesson wasn't...good.
It was difficult for me to speak in Spanish
Understanding Spanish isn't a big problem.
But it is very, very, very difficult for me to speak in the language.
At the end of the lesson, I said "you're welcome" instead of "thank you".
I said "thanks" after, but at first I said "you're welcome".
I cancelled my second lesson because my axolotl is sick.
I will have a lesson with the tutor today.
I'm nervous but I hope the lessons will help me.
I am reading the book "Poetas Del 27"
I like the book because I like the poems in the book and it's not very hard for me to understand and to read.
I also listened to "Coffee Break Spanish"
I like that podcast a lot.
I can understand Spanish, but my problem is always speaking.
It's very hard for me to speak and to communicate in the language
I need more practice with my tutor and just with speaking the language.
Also, I don't like my Spanish accent.
I can't say the "rr"
like
I can't
It's a problem because
I can say "but" (pero), but I say "but" (pero) when I want to say "dog" (perro).
I have never been able to say the "rr"
But
But I hope that with practice and with my tutor that I can in the future.
It's very important for my Spanish because
it's not just a problem with my accent, it's to do with the meaning of words.
I don't know if I want a tutor from Argentina or from Mexico or from another country.
I [chose] my Argentinean tutor because my last tutor was from Argentina and because I like the accent
But my last tutor used "yo" and and other characteristics of a general Spanish
But my tutor from now, she says "yo" (pronounced sho), and characteristics of Argentinean Spanish.
And it's not a problem that my tutor speaks Spanish like a person from Argentina
But
I think that I say "yo" and other characteristics of a general Spanish
Or from Mexico because in school it's Mexican Spanish
And I don't know if I want to learn the accent and the colloquialisms of Argentina or of Mexico
Because, yes, currently I speak like person from Mexico more than I do a person from Argentina.
I know that I don't speak like a person from Mexico, really, or a person from Argentina.
Right now, I speak like a person from the US.
But I would like to learn a Spanish accent and I know that for me it's easier to learn an accent when I choose 1 [regional] accent for me to learn.
I maybe want one tutor from Argentina, one from Mexico, tutors from other countries for understanding a lot of Spanish.
But really I want to improve my accent and
(I must) choose a country and an accent in order to improve my accent.
the Spanish of Mexico is a little more useful for me and it's also a little more useful for me to learn the accent and colloquilisms
of Mexico than the Spanish of Argentina for me because I am from the United States.
I don't know if I want the accent of Mexico or of Argentina, the Mexican accent is more useful, yes, but I like the Argentinean accent and it's a little more
Interesting for me because it's not... it's not the accent that I learned in school when I learned Spanish
and it's very difficult for me to choose an accent.
I will continue to read my book.
I will continue to take lessons
I have a lesson today.
And I will continue to improve my Spanish with lessons, with speaking, with studying the language.
I hope that I [can] improve my Spanish.
I want to improve my accent, I really want to be able to write and to speak and to understand the language
because I really like the language.
Yeah, that's the video.
I'm a little bit less nervous for today's lesson.
A little bit.
Thank you for listening to my Spanish.
See you Wednesday, Goodbye!!