Tools For Spanish Language Learning - Grammar Focus
Process Option 01 - "Start Mixing Creatively "
- Language is a creativity tool - start getting creative
immediately (Lonsdale)
- 10 verbs, 10 nouns, 10 adjectives gives you 1000
combinations (Lonsdale)
- Go for fun not perfection (Lonsdale; Bodner pp.5-6))
- Bodmer Cautions that we should be
careful about what grammar is selected. Most of it is not
needed, or is misleading as it is often just swiped for other
languages and plugged in rather than drawn out from the actual
structure of the current target language. (Bodner - especially
page 21ff. where he explains this and makes reference to other
sections of his book.)
Process Option 02 - "Skirt around Conjugations "
- Use :Modal verbs" or helper verbs to express concepts
without tense/person issues (Lewis)
- Preface the infinitive with a helper verb (Lewis)
- "want" works well(Lewis)
- can (be able to) () (Lewis)
- should ()(Lewis)
- would like to(Lewis)
- must/have to ()(Lewis)
- want to () (Lewis)
- start with I and you singular(Lewis)
- then go to we (Lewis)
- then he,s/she/it, them (Lewis)
- focus on polite form first (Lewis)
- woulda, coulda, shoulda...grin
- go/going to (aller)
Process Option 03 - Free Tutorial
Process Option 04 - Integrated with content in use
Process Option 05 - Get good explanations with examples
Process Option 06 - Get Familiar With The English Syntax
(Traffic Rules) First
- Bodmer (on p. 30), suggests that we start
by getting familiar with English syntax and terms used, and
offers his Chapter 4 as a first aid to those of us who have
forgotten more than we ever knew.
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