Spanish Workshop

1. No Grammar. You have to discover (turn up) the rules. This is a heuristic approach.
2. I am gonna speak crystal clear and slowly in order you can understand pretty well.
3. Look at my gestures (body language) and the movement of my leaps.
4. Don't try to translate into your mother language. The meaning comes from the context.
5. At the beginning, your mother tongue is your worst enemy. You are not gonna find up in your mother language, what you need to speak spanish.
6. Catch the general ideas, you don't need understand  100 % of the speech. Focus on the chunks of meaning or as I prefer to say: quantums of meaning.
7. Language is not about performance. Language do is about communication.
8. Making a lot of mistakes is not forbidden. You are going learn through your own errors. This is a trial and error process. Laughing about this ones is good.
9. Try to expand your vocabulary as much as you can. Reading and listening is the best way to garner lots of words and expressions.
10. Use the MP3 version of the videos to listen on and on. Repetition is the key.
11. Read the PDF files to understand the confusing words.
12. Listen in a passive and active way(manner). When you listen passively you are getting familiar with the sounds of the language and picking some words up. Besides you are learning unconsciously. When you listen actively you have to concentrate on meaning. Instead og concentrating on grammar structures.