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Welcome, and congratulations with learning Spanish . Don’t feel bad when people say you’re acting over the top. Yes, at times they may seem worried, but often it’s because they’re jealous. They’ve been telling me that I’m an extremist when it comes to learning Spanish for over a year. But now they’ve seen it worked and continues to work they’ve started to implement Spanish in each and every crack of their life as well. And it’s working for them as well!

Good that you found the AJATT site. Although Khatzu brags about how great Japanese is etc., the advices itself are applicable to every language you’re learning. So yes, read it but don’t spend too much time on it. I’ve been looking for so many methods in the past that it got me distracted from the actual learning, so beware.

Oh and about the sentence-method: better start today than tomorrow! Just start out with Spanish – English sentences and after some weeks you’ll be amazed how natural Spanish sounds to you and that a lot of it already goes automatically.

My final advice: don’t rush speaking/writing/any other form of producing. Breeding bad habits is the worst thing that can happen and often happens. I’ve bred bad habits (like breeding a bad pronunciation) and it took A LOT energy to finally get a native-like pronunciation.

By the way: cool blog. I’ve bookmarked it . Again: good luck and hope to see you more often!

I’ve recently started learning Spanish (only a month or two ago) and I tend to go all out when I pick up a new interest. I thought I was going too far over the top until I was pointed (in a very roundabout way) to this site and now feel better about things like changing my computer to a Spanish operating system . I agree completely: what is the point keeping everything in your native language when you already know all those words and phrases?

I wrote this article on my blog a week or two before I started looking for more ways to incorporate the language into my life (and found this site): http://endlessscholar.com/2008/09/learning_a_language_the_diverse_way.html

I’m going to give the sentences method a try since I’ve seemed to come to a slow-down in my learning lately. I think I just need something new and this looks right up my alley. I hate word lists as well, and memory games aren’t my thing, but something with rhythm and flow (like good sentences) sounds much more enjoyable and useful.

But wow, that AJATT site is addictive to read! I spent a few hours just reading today and finally convinced myself to try the SRS w/ sentences method.

Anyway, best wishes with your fluency. If I were anywhere near where you are, I would have commented in Spanish, however I’m still in the basics and it would have been horrible, short, and slow .

Cheers,

Tracy