Should I be taking notes? What do I do with all these notes?
So I just rebuilt my computer, my old one had thousands of documents of notes on it. As I watch this show now I have:
enviados - sent fuiste enviados - u were sent retar to challenge (a to) To insult (insultar). de milagro - by a miracle aun esta vivo de milagro - he's still alive by some miracle Que ha pasado = que pasó aguardar - to wait for iniciar - to start, initiate ella la inició - she started it fallido,a unsuccessful, failed (esfuerzo, intento); vain (esperanza); missed (disparo) Deceived, disappointed, frustrated. contraseña password escalar - to climb (subir, trepar) De primera clase - first class No tengo que llamar a ella con ese nombre CON No tengo que llamarla por ese nombre. No tengo que llamarla así. I don't have to call her that (with that name) Trepar" requires a part of the body to push oneself up. "Escalar" requires either a ladder, or a part of the body (i.e. it also means "trepar"). "Subir" is possible, but for a more expressive option here you can use verbs like "elevarse", "alzarse", "levantar/alzar/remontar (el vuelo)"...for a fighter plane climbing the sky caducar - to expire "Tire out" can be translated as "agotarse", which is fine for the fuel of a missile, but not "cansarse". Anoche una chica muy bonito llegó a nuestro restaurante. Dijo que está en una cita con un desconocido. Maria me dijo que fue una "blind date". Le dije a Maria que ¿"Una cita con un ciego"? Qué pena por él, no va a saber tanto belleza que tiene.
Dakie: Anoche una chica muy bonita llegó a nuestro restaurante. Dijo que estaba en una cita con un desconocido. Maria me dijo que fue una "blind date". Le dije que ¿"Una cita a ciegas"? Qué pena por él, no va a saber que tanta belleza tiene.
Fue is era. A blind date is a cita a ciegas. LA belleza. You have to stay in same tense - Anoche = estaba.
Lazarus: Anoche una chica muy bonita llegó a nuestro restaurante. Dijo que tenía una cita con un desconocido. María me dijo que era una "blind date". Le dije a María: ¿"Una cita con un ciego"? Qué pena por él; no va a saber la belleza que tiene.
TonyRiva: Anoche una chica muy bonita llegó a nuestro restaurante. Dijo que estaba en una cita con un desconocido. María me dijo que era una "blind date" (cita a ciegas). Le dije a María "¿Una cita con un ciego?" Qué pena por él, no va a saber la belleza que tiene (enfrente).
en directo, -a -> live (retransmisión, concierto) tenme paciencia NOT ten pacienca conmigo tenerle paciencia a alguien martillo = hammer Be Patient with me. Sé paciente conmigo. Puede tener sentido - it could make sense reclamar - to claim (because clamar is to clamar - to cry out) en fin - in the end
This computer already has about 100 sheets of notes, these are just from the past 2 hours, I don't want to keep going over my notes, I literally never want to see them again once I type them in. Should I be typing them in at all? Gracias.
I think what I am really asking is: Is this how you learned English? With a giant stockpile of thousands, maybe even a million pages of notes? I hate, hate, hate backtracking through them. Gracias.
6 Answers
I personally have never taken any notes for review. Initially, when I was at school, I studied for years and I learnt little or nothing, apart from useless grammatical rules and to be afraid of the complexity of the language.
As soon as I started using English to read or hear things I wanted to know about, I couldn't care less about grammar or else as long as I could enjoy the activity doing what I really wanted. Therefore, I skipped all those words I didn't know as long as I could get the gist. In time, somehow, I realized I could understand countless words I had never checked in the dictionary, and I knew how to use them. This is the time when my English really improved dramatically.
If you write rules about how to use your own language in detail, I wouldn't be surprised if you need several tens of thousands of pages using a small computer font. I don't think it is the way to learn a language. Surely you could speed up your process a bit using some shortcuts, but enjoying the language and letting your brain figure out how most things work seems to be the most efficient method.
I just write words that remember me what was I learning, like in example, once I had a quiestion about the use of the phrase "Good riddance", and after I received the answers I only wrote in the note pad: Good riddancce --> Por fin/Vaya¡¡.
- I personally think that a lot of sheets won't help you.
I reckon everyone eventually comes up with a method that makes sense for them. So the notes are ok if they help you learn, and you find you use them constantly. Otherwise, you may find you're wasting your time.
I became fluent by forcing myself to full and exclusive immersion for several years, and reading lots and lots. But I realize that method is not readily available to everyone - so you've got to find what is practical and works for you.
I will abandon the notes then for the most part. It seems there are so many idioms, so many different ways to say things, especially the little constructions like that you say "tenme paciencia" and not "ten paciencia conmigo" and these aren't obvious outright, but I spend hours everyday listening to Spanish movies and TV shows. I worry that I will lose all that I have attempted to gain, or that I have gained very little despite investing very much. It's as if the notes are proof of time spent. Still, they are quite daunting. It's not very much fun to watch a movie when I am also transcribing it word for word. Who knows, maybe this will help me enjoy the learning process, by abandoning some of the workload. Thanks for the responses. 
No. Probablemente aprendiste inglés con unos padres que te repitieron mil cosas hasta el cansancio y que después obtuvieron ayuda adicional enviándote a la escuela para que tus maestros hicieran otro tanto... Me encanta la profundidad con la que te tomas tu aprendizaje, pero parte de aprender un idioma (he estudiado varios, y algunos de adulto) estriba en relajarse para disfrutarlo. Así que quema las notas y afina el oído que talento tienes de sobra.
I would transfer the notes, one by one, or as a group, to the recycle bin, and hit "empty recycle bin."
