I’ve been baby stepping my way into spanish, but living where I do it still means I’m exposed to Spanish all the time. Last year, – listened to a couple of spanish instruction podcasts, attended a free community spanish course for a couple of sessions, watched a few episodes of Destinos on PBS and online, and tried an immersion technique by reading a book in Spanish. I’ve read spanish language books with my preschool aged daughter, watched Dora and Handy Manny with her to pick up new words and tried to put them into our everyday usage.

This week I’ve finally started using Rosetta Stone. Some of it was easy but if I let myself take it for granted, I’d start to make a few mistakes. I’m excited about the potential. After completing the first set of lessons, I feel much more confident, and returned to trying to read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in spanish. Two chapters done and I’ve got the jyst of it.

I’m staring to pay more attention to those Spanish Word-a-Day emails now too. I’ve started again with putting them into my phone as flashcards, along with phrases, E to S and S to E.

I’m hoping to do another lesson and restart the Destinos in the next week or so.