Today our homework included exploring the YouTube channel Bookbox Spanish. Watch a video and then comment on it.
The suggestions were:
- listen to a story and try to repeat the phrases to get your brain used to producing the sounds in Spanish
- Choose a level of story that you can understand the general meaning not necessarily every word
- Give yourself this input on a daily basis
According to the Bookbox Spanish Channel: These are simple, fun stories that can help you or your little ones learn Spanish! I guess in my case I am the "little one" 😁😊😉. This made me think of the old TV series, Kung Fu, where the master referred to his student as grasshopper. Which of course brought me to this clip. We must learn to listen!
Given my experience with UNESCO books, I thought I would try Level 1. I started with the Level 1 recommendation from our instructor, but I found the English/Spanish narration distracting. So I chose this Level 1 book with Spanish narration and English subtitles.
This one was a better fit for my skill level. Though I had difficulty trying to repeat the phrases unless I stopped it after every sentence, which I ended up doing. I also found it difficult to truly gauge if I understood the general meaning since the English subtitles gave the meaning away. I listened to it a second time without stopping. It was helpful practice listening at full speed. Like a podcast with pictures.
ReplyDeleteI certainly agree that having subtitles was distracting…impossible to try to ignore the English translation. It would have been better if you could have gone through it in Spanish only, then with English subtitles to clear up any vocabulary you didn’t know.
It's only day 10 of the challenge. There could be another channel he gives us as homework next!
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