#coffeebreakspanish

[midwesterndays]

Vacation Prep (week 1)

A long time ago I set off on my own to go hiking in Nepal.  I did very little training and even less research and came up totally unprepared.  In my twenties that was fine, there were a lot of challenges and some stupid mistakes but I made it through.  Now, a bit older, my husband and I are about to embark on another long, high-altitude trek and this time I’ve decided to do a little preparation.

For the week:

EXERCISE

Stairs: Got up early two days and ran stairs at Minnehaha falls (between 44-48 floors) - legs were SUPER Sore, I have a long term goal of 100 floors a session.

Biking: 28 miles.  I only got two bike commutes in because of the rain.  OMG it rains here a lot!  The MN climate is getting wetter and wetter I swear.

Push-ups: abysmal (ugh, this is embarrassing, 10 girl pushups the whole week)

Crunches:  even more abysmal (maybe 10 the whole week)

SPANISH PRACTICE

Podcast:  I just finished episode 13 of CoffeeBreak Español.  It’s all been review for me so far, I do have a bit of Spanish under my belt but I’ve still gotten something out of each episode i.e. that five hundred in Spanish is ‘quinientos‘ not ‘cincocientos‘ - which is what I always assumed it was.  (side note, my husband and I love the theme song)

App:  Duolingo - I am on a 29 day streak and on ‘numbers’ which I could test out of but I like to review things.

Conversations with my Spanish speaking co-worker:  One, it was 5 minutes long and not great.

[gullahislandfarmer]

So for lunch we’re having a frittata with bacon, peppers from the porch, cheese, potatoes and a combo of chicken and duck eggs from our fowl. I’m enjoying a portion while listening to lessons on @coffeebreakspanish #podcast on #podbean #eatlocal #eathealthy #foodiesofinstagram #foodie #frittata #bacon #peppers #fresheggs #farmkitchen #cooking #cookingathome #homestead #farmstead #cookforfamily #eatathome #beaufortsc #sthelenaislandsc #ibegullah (at Morning Glory Homestead) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHit8boBL47/?igshid=1pzkfpfnfyz4k

[anyisa]

Some of my friends asked me about how is my spanish so far. To be honest, without any proper spanish class I’m pretty good. I can make daily conversation with the locals. Most of the time I don’t need Luis help to translate for me. . HOW?!? . 1. Duo Lingo - it’s an app to learn languages (not only spanish) that is easy to use. I started using @duolingo before I arrived in Colombia. I tried to do one lesson per day at time until I speak 1% of Spanish. 😄 Then I stopped use it due I have to have internet to use it and when we start the trip, I can’t have internet everyday. 2. Coffee Break Spanish - radio podcast. After few weeks in Colombia, we met a family traveler from France. They introduced me with @coffeebreakspanish Podcast. Since then, I tried to listen at least one episode while I’m pedaling my bicycle. This podcast helps me to understand the pronunciation, feminime or masculine words and basic daily conversation. But somehow, I stopped listen to it and didn’t download more episodes. Last episode was 23 of season 1. 😅 3. The last and more important way, talk and direct practice with locals. Since Colombia until Bolivia, we rarely met locals who speak English. So, want it or not, we have to speak spanish with them. Practice is the best way to learn languages. And I’m doing it until now. 😃 . Trust me, if you listen them carefully spanish isn’t far from english nor Bahasa Indonesia. As Indonesian, the spanish words have the same pronunciation as it written. And the spelling is simillar as English. While the grammar is more simple than English. 😃 . The good thing I’ve got to learn spanish in South America is the people in here speak slower than Spanish speaker from Spain and since Colombia until here, in Bolivia, all of the countries speak spanish. It demands me to speak better spanish along the way. . . 📸 @worldsketchingtour (at Peru) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpnu1ZJBEVS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13v5rshy3atns

[eldramirez-blog]

List of online resources to practice Spanish (and other languages).

Compiled are a list of websites and applications you can use to learn/practice Spanish and other Foreign Languages. Feel free to add any sources you use or find! 

https://www.duolingo.com/

 http://studyspanish.com/

https://www.babbel.com/learn-spanish

https://www.spanishpod101.com/

https://radiolingua.com/coffeebreakspanish/