A counting game over 100?
Hi I'm looking for a counting game with sound for numbers over 100. The one I have found only goes up to 99. I think all of you are familiar with the situation when you are in the store and they tell you what to pay. And it always sounds like nonccnoeowdwpd, and it ends with that you have to ask them to write it down for you =) This time I want to be able to be so quick in my head that I can both hear and understand the numbers. This is the counting game I have found.
http://childtopia.com/index.php?module=home&func=juguemos&juego=encuentra-3-00-0002&newlang=spa
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I already know the numbers. What I need is to get a quick understanding when I hear someone else telling it to me.
Well, I went through this in German, and it took a long time, even after I was basically fluent, and even though I studied Engineering there.
Knowing that I´d never have that luxury there, I´ve tried to work on it explicitly more carefully in Spanish. I´ve received some good suggestions, and read some articles and I´ll share a bit of what I learned.
First, it´s just going to take practice. Lots.
Second, people tend to gloss over numbers when reading a language for practice, often mentally saying the numbers to themselves in their native language. Stop doing that.
Third, people who study these things have found that there is a much stronger link between our comprehension of a foreign language, and our ability to pronounce and say it rapidly, than many people believe. This seems especially true of numbers, which are processed, primarily, in another area of the brain physically. Saying them, out loud, has been shown to better recruit (involve) the language and numeric portions of the brain.
So... Knowing that, practice saying numbers, a Lot. If you can´t say them well and easily, at the very least, numbers you know fluently in English, then your ability to understand them will not be high, as such...
Fourth; Make a list of numbers you know well. Your phone number, your address, addresses of people you stalk, your SSN, SSNs of people you want to defraud, secret phone numbers ´special confidantes´ etc etc. Practice being able to say them, easily, and fluidly This will be a great gateway drug into understanding others.
Think about it. If you can´t easily say all your own, known, numbers very easily, then why would you possibly be able to understand unfamiliar speakers spouting unfamiliar and arbitrary numbers, right?
People much sharper and more experience in both speaking and learning and aquisition, than me, have come up with this. I´ve just used it (though never enough) and found it to be very helpful (though I´m still not good, just not horrible anymore)
It really will help.
I promise
Deseo que puedas mejorarte 3541%. Buena suerte.
Although not a game, these flashcards might be a start.
LSLC http://www.learninglikecrazy.com/ sells one package called Anna's 800 Spanish Phrases (or perhaps it is only one small part of a package, I forget). Besides getting to hear each phrase rattled off by a native, you get to hear the number of each sentence before he begins to repeat it. Just listening to the number is challenging as he wastes NO TIME rattling them off.
As others have mentioned it does take a while to get this right, but it does begin to happen after listening long enough. Also it does help to repeat the numbers to see if you can get the speed and cadence right. That goes a long way to hearing it more easily.
I already know the numbers. What I need is to get a quick understanding when I here someone else telling it to me.
