Two steps gets combined today for my latest Curiosita endeavour. Mr. Gelb suggests a number of questions to find one’s ideal hobby. I actually have a number of undeveloped interests that I am working on and so insteaad of finding the most ideal of several, I’m just going to focus in one: learning a new language.
I’m taking the Spanish for Beginners course at Barnes & Noble University that started this week. It uses the Living Language CDs and workbook (note: the dictionary included is very shoddy, doesn’t even include gender of words) and helps pace you, also giving an opportunity to communicate in Spanish on a bulletin board.
One of the first assignments is to put post-it notes with the Spanish word on things in your home as a reinforcement of those words. I started with the bathroom, so now I have the words: ducha, lavabo, toalla, and espejo down pretty well. I want to add more notes around, but I just found out that my mate is actually moving in on Wednesday and so I will wait and let him relax a little bit before I force him to learn Spanish as well.
For the record, the others that I want to develop include more languages (getting back my French and Russian, and then trying Chinese), dance (jazz, modern, ballet), art (drawing and painting, mainly) and developing my culinary skills. For now, though, Spanish will have to be my main focus.
