Hi everyone, this is Lindie and this is the first time I'm doing a video in Spanish...
...for my channel without an idea or text (script), without, anything!
I just want to talk a bit in Spanish, about my level and how it's going with my Spanish.
And sorry for the light on my glasses lenses
I think there are a lot of people who ask me how it's going with my Spanish
I don't study Spanish every day, but I want to try ...
...speaking now without any preparation
yay! it's so difficult lol
okay
The first thing - how am I learning Spanish these days?
Number one: I have one hour of Spanish lessons
on italki, once a week.
My "prefesor"... lol
My tutor (profesor) is really great
let's continue
and also, these days
how do you say tweet? Like, I tweet about...
I write tweets in Twitter in Spanish a lot more than before
and there are many people on Twitter from Argentina, Mexico, Spain...
with whom I can speak, or rather, write, in Spanish
And the third thing is that I watch a lot of movies and series in Spanish
I use Lingopie to watch videos in Spanish
And number 4 (I forgot to put the cute number animation on the screen lol)
Uh, I also write short texts in Spanish
This month (November) is #NaNoWriMo
and the Polyglot NaNoWriMo is for writing something in a foreign language
and I write things in Spanish
about languages, about my family, etc.
It's a good way for me to practice Spanish because
when I write in Spanish, I don't use any...how do you say "dictionary"? or translator
and I just write things that I am able to (at my level)
of course it's difficult to write in Spanish because I don't know many words
and I don't know much grammar yet either
I still barely know how to say things in the past tense!
that's the hardest thing for me now
I can just speak in present tense now.
Here we have my little Spanish notebook for notes from my italki lessons
these days I prefer talking in Spanish a lot
I write and speak a lot more than reading and studying with a book
I don't have many notes because the majority of my lessons are speaking lessons
The themes ... about which ... we speak?
I don't know how to say that
The things we talk about for instance are work,
podcasts, Spanish phrases, traveling...
Something that is difficult for me is that I don't know how to say, for instance,
(phrases like these in Spanish)
so here I have those phrases thanks to my tutor, for example....
these kinds of phrases you can't really learn with a book
it's only when we speak and watch lots of things in Spanish that we learn these... phrases.
I have another book
It is Short Stories "en" Spanish. I mean, short stories "in" Spanish
by Olly Richards. I like books like these (writing subtitles now I realise I should have said me gustan lol)
in various languages because they're for my level/for a beginner
~ brain glitch ~
There are words and vocabulary and interesting stories in these books.
So that's why I also use this book in Spanish
To summarize, my methods for learning Spanish are this book, my italki classes and this little notebook, and
Spanish movies and Twitter.
Ok. Anyway, this video is really hard for me to make
it's hard to speak and sorry that my Spanish is still very beginner
but thanks also to everyone on Twitter and Instagram (who send messages or correct my mistakes) - I read all the messages
but I don't always have the time to reply to all of the messages
thank you so much. Well, that's it! That was my level in Spanish. Still a beginner who cannot speak in Past tense lol
but I study a bit each week for about an hour or two and I really want to continue more with my Spanish!
Thank you so much everyone and see you soon!