2M + 1 Billy and Ian now retire !!

Question

By agreement with Billy I am posting this thread - we have had fun but it is time to do something more creative that will improve our Spanish.

2,000,001 points

That was our target and here we stop - unless we find a really good flashcard set that we want to practice on.

If we don't have enough vocabulary now we never will.

I wonder who will be next?

I would like to remind the website designers that we are not all "touch-typists" that have Spanish keyboards.

Writing down words - or keying them in - is a very good way of remembering words but the time allowed is not enough for most of us or for the the longer sentences and phrases.

SO please increase the time allowed for those of us with 10 thumbs

just fixed the bold word.... - hlsbookworm, Mar 1, 2010

I'm a good typist and I have my keyboard set up so I can type Spanish characters with two keystrokes but I still have a hard time typing a lot of the flashcard responses. I agree the time is way too short. - Lrtward, Mar 1, 2010

Amen! I am glad you said that , i thought it was only me who was so slow, Sadu Sadu Sadu!!! - ray76, May 11, 2010

Answer 1

Special thanks to Ian and all who answered and will answer this post. It has been a wild ride and I have gained much: a good friend in Ian and many others. I have learned many new words. I hope that we will serve to encourage others on their quest to learn Spanish. I totally agree with all Ian said. I have learned many words but now I/we must go on to study more grammer and other points of the Spanish language. I think I can safely speak for Ian when I say that neither of us are fluent. We must go on to other areas of study. I will still do flashcards but I will do them without loging in so that the points won't count. I think too big a score might discouage newcomers. I know when I first started even as much as 60K seemed impossible. Thanks and praise to the Lord and thanks to all of you my dear, dear friends at spanish dict punto com. Now, I'm going to Disneyland .

With me, 50K a week was impossible :) - Fidalgo, Mar 1, 2010

Now 50k is a slow day for you my friend :-). - billy-jones, Mar 1, 2010

Answer 2

wow!! 2M points !! That must be a huge vocabulary you both have now

Enjoy your retirement

Thank you Alrisaera, well...much larger than when we began :-). - billy-jones, Mar 1, 2010

Answer 3

Ok, I have already invited billy, and now I am inviting you, it is time you spoke some Spanish Last Saturday we met:

Valerie,, soccer, Goyo, Samdie, markbaker....and some whose names I don't remember.

Join us on the chat, we get a link from there to a tokbox, fun guaranteed!)

Turn about...Saturday, whose names, guaranteed. :-) JeJeJe!!!!!!!!! - 00d7cd75, Mar 1, 2010

Haha, must feel good to correct Heidita !! :))) - Alrisaera, Mar 1, 2010

Thank you Heidita, I may have to buy a new microphone. If time allows I would love to be there. - billy-jones, Mar 1, 2010

omg....I must have like a zillion mistakes, jejejeje, - 00494d19, Mar 1, 2010

Speaking of new microphones, mark.... - Valerie, Mar 1, 2010

Answer 4

Wow, Congratulations to both of you! I'm sure if you kept going you'd have 5M by next week But, that's your choice.

I can guarantee you, I won't be the next one with 2M, but Fidalgo is catching up to ya'll

Thank you hisbookworm :-), you can do it too! - billy-jones, Mar 1, 2010

Answer 5

That was our target and here we stop

Do you mean you're going to stop cold-turkey! Yikes. Shouldn't you try to get off of SpanishAddict in small, gradual steps? I wonder if there are any case studies dealing with withdrawal symptoms from doing lessons and flashcards on SpanishDict!

Thanks chaparrito, I will still do cards in a way that won't count...it is hard to stop.:-) - billy-jones, Mar 1, 2010

SpanishAddict ! jajajaja Absolutely!!! - Valerie, Mar 1, 2010

Answer 6

Numbers are not the most important. I wish you as well as Billy the ability to speak Spanish fluently

Answer 7

Wow! is seems like only a few weeks ago that we were celebrating your achievement of 1M points and, already you've doubled that score! I remember clearly when (last summer). Heidita asked a number of us to review the flash cards for correctness and my pleasant surprise on discovering that if you had already reviewed them, all the errors had been detected and it only remained for me to say "Yup, what he said."

Proofreading is not the same skill as fluency (if anything fluency can interfere because one sees what one expects to see) but your help was invaluable.

Thank you, samdie. Good comments, I am sure Ian's review was better than mine. - billy-jones, Mar 1, 2010

I am expert in "finding faults" so I am told. Not the best of attributes when it comes to personal relationships though. I am getting better at seeing what is "good". :) - ian-hill, Mar 1, 2010

Thanks samdie - I just wish I were fluent - maybe one day. - ian-hill, Mar 1, 2010

Answer 8

I hope you will both be there, like everybody !!! Everybody is invited!!!

We normally connect around 9.30 pm my time, this is around 5 or so in Alabama, if Valerie is not there...nobody talks, she is the heart and soul of Saturday¡s talks

Heidi, you are nuts! :D - Valerie, Mar 1, 2010

Answer 9

Hi Heidita

I will try to join you this coming Saturday.

What time (GMT) does it all start.

Ian

Your flashcards are always the best ones because of their quality. It has been helpful with me since the joined date :) - Fidalgo, Mar 1, 2010

It starts at 11 p.m. en España, 5 p.m. en los Estados Unidos (este); creo que es a las 10 p.m. gmt (no me permite usar mayúsculas) - Lrtward, Mar 1, 2010