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[Updated] Learning Spanish

I may have mentioned that I'm taking a beginning Spanish course through PCC. Our teacher (Henry) is from Ecuador and he sends us practice exercises every week from the Learn Spanish web site. E-mail is such a horrendous archival system, especially since I haven't started using my gmail account yet, so I thought I'd post the links here in a new category "language." Since languages are sort of a dormant interest of mine (slowly awakening, but still relatively dormant), I'll keep the category generic and perhaps other language related posts will make their way to my Awake subconscious.

So here's the links and stuff Henry's sent so far...maybe it'll be useful to someone besides me...who knows?

• Spanish Pronunciation Tutorial
• Exercise with "verb conjugations"
• http://www.studyspanish.com/practice/regverb1.htm
• http://www.studyspanish.com/tests/regverb1.htm
• http://www.studyspanish.com/sounds/exercises/regverb2_l.htm
• http://www.studyspanish.com/sounds/exercises/regverb1_s.htm
• http://www.studyspanish.com/practice/regverb3.htm
• http://www.studyspanish.com/tests/regverb3.htm
• http://www.studyspanish.com/sounds/exercises/regverb3_s.htm
• http://www.studyspanish.com/practice/hay.htm (remember "hay" means there is, there are)

Grammar - Possessive Pronouns

[Henry wrote...] Like English, the Spanish possessive pronouns differ depending on the person they are referring to. Unlike English, the possessive article also changes depending on the number of items that one possesses (for example: mi libro = my book, mis libros = my books). It can also change depending on the gender of the item (for example: nuestro perro = our dog, nuestra casa = our house). The following table summarizes all Spanish possessive pronouns:

[Henry did this schweet table too, I just tweaked the html a little bit...]

Exercisios

Rellena los espacios en blanco (Fill in the blank)

1. Manuel tiene una bicicleta. bicicleta es azul. (Manuel has a bike. His bike is blue.)
2. clases son a las nueve por la mañana. (My classes are at 9:00 am.)
3. Nosotros visitamos a abuelos. (We visit our grandparents.)
4. Los Mexicanos tienen día de independencia al 16 de Septiembre. (The Mexicans have their independence day on September 16.)
5. Tú juegas con amigos. (You play with your friends.)
6. ¿Puesdes mostrarme casa? (Can you show me your house?)

Time and numbers

• http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/time.htm

Por y Para

• http://www.studyspanish.com/practice/porpara.htm
• http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/porpara.htm

I also added Spanish word of the day and lesson of the day to the bottom another page of my on Awake home page. It's from a different site than the one that provides all these great lessons, but the coding was a little more flexible and generally more likable than the word of the day content "for your site" offered through Learn Spanish (IMHO).