I’m absolutely loving deep-learning espanol. I bought the perfect book to keep me enthusiastic about it, too.

 

It’s called Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish. I have been completely through it already, handwriting 150+ pages of notes all along the way. (I tend to learn best when my fingers are forming letters and sentences. Doing so slows me down enough to seriously pay attention and understand what is being taught.)  I’ll share some examples of my notes here:

 

 

 

 

 

I have three additional Spanish workbooks, one of which is accompanied by 30+ CDs. I got to CD #11 or #12 but stopped listening to them when the Madrigal book arrived because I realized it would be smarter for me to start with that book to get my feet under me before I continued with the disks.  I decided this because I started falling a little behind after disk #10, so I figured that becoming more familiar with the Spanish language and its various tenses, conditions and anomalies would be helpful when I resume listening to the CDs.

 

I also have a common/familiar Spanish phrase book which I go through often to learn the ones I don’t already know.  (There are a lot of them I don’t already know.)

 

Between the three books, I am feeling greater and greater comfort each time I dive into any of them.  It takes repetitious exposure plus verbal and written practice for me to learn something in depth.  I am an eager, willing student.  It doesn’t feel like work at all. In fact, I have to restrain myself from doing it ten to twelve hours per day. When my penmanship starts to get sloppy is usually when I decide, “OK, take a break. You don’t want to be struggling to read your notes next time you review them!”

 

I was born to be a lifelong student.  Nothing makes me happier than gaining new insights and learning new things. That’s probably another reason I became a writer!  I need to keep learning to keep having stuff to write about!