reusing vocabulary
I'm very much a beginner her -- I'm only up to lesson 1.4. However I've noticed several things that are a bit strange. Two have been mentioned elsewher by others: non- pronunciation of the ñ (eg in señor), and getting the stress wrong in two syllable words with no stress mark (stress seems to be on the last not the first syllable).
Another that bothers me a little is that so far lots of vocabulary has been introduced in each of the three lessons I've done, but very little of it is re-used from lesson to lesson. This makes it a bit too easy to forget the new words as you are not using them regularly.
Any comment from thew Admin'
3 Answers
You said "tell that to Paralee".
How do I do that?
Sorry, I talk to her so much about the lessons that I have her on speed dial.
I don't know if you were here before the remodeling, but communications has changed since then. You no longer have to be friends with someone to private message (PM) them. Also we can email each other.
Of course, everyone has the option of blocking someone or turning those features off.
To Talk to Paralee, go to the Users page. Search for Paralee under Screen Names **and it will give you a link to her page and other info. Once at her page click **email or PM.
If you create a Buddy List it works just as the contact lists for email or instant messengers. Add Paralee to your Buddy list and when you Compose a new PM and enter P into the recipient box it will pull her name from your buddy list, just like with other mail services.
http://my.spanishdict.com/forum/member/7024/
that may be a link to her page. I pulled it off the User page, but I didn't try it out.
Let me know if you have trouble contacting her. Heidita also posted a link to Paralee in a discussion in the Questions about this Site category (or whatever the name) since some of us didn't know how to contact people right after the remodeling.
Well, as long as I'm writing an article on the new mail system let me go a little farther. I told you to contact me if you had any problems (by the way I checked the link. It does take you to her page). How would you do that? At the top of this message my screen name in blue is a link to my profile page. I have email, PM, and www (instant messenger) enabled. Click the mode that you wish to use and send your message.
You don't have to go a person's page to PM them. You can Compose PM's to your buddies from your own page.
Buena Suerte.
You said "tell that to Paralee".
How do I do that'
: non- pronunciation of the ñ (eg in señor), and getting the stress wrong in two syllable words with no stress mark (stress seems to be on the last not the first syllable).
Any comment from thew Admin?
I'm not part of the staff, but I just wanted to make a comment. The quality of the pronunciation in the lessons has drastically worsened since the 're-modelling'. They haven't explained why, but I just wanted you to know that it used to be better and, hopefully, it will be returned to it's former state. I didn't want you to get discouraged and dismiss the lessons at valueless.
As for your comment about reusing the vocabulary over from lesson to lesson...tell that to Paralee, herself. I'm sure you'll get a kiss or a hug. She was just mentioning how hard it is to come up with new vocabulary for the lessons. I'm sure she'll love your viewpoint.
