My adventures with Spanish lasted approximately 20 minutes. I learnt next to nothing but I don't think I'll ever complain about the FSI portuguese course after trying out the Spanish course. The first unit concentrated on learning sounds and intonation as did the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth and maybe more but by this time I was too put off by the programme to bother checking.I didn't learn any words but I did kind of learn how to distinguish between a statement, a polite question and an informal question of which I had not a single clue what any of them meant. Then at the end of unit 1, in small little writing at the bottom of the page, were sentences which pretty much said that these recording were heavily exaggerated so you probably won't be able to tell whether or not the speaker is asking a question politely or informally or making a statement.
So basically, I learnt 'hee-haw' as you might say in Glasgow.
Now I'm just back to studying some Portuguese. I've decided to make use of anki's online service because I don't want to have to keep on starting a new one anytime my laptop decides to screw up. I wrote a new entry in my lang-8 journal in Portuguese yesterday and one of the members suggested that I should rewrite the entry out into a notebook with all the corrections so I can make comparisons between the correct way to write the sentences and how I previously thought they should have been written. Also, I found my ipod so I'm going to download some podcasts and songs and put them on it so I can listen to it before I go to bed.
Update 21:27
Wrote another entry in my lang-8 journal. Was just complaining about my laptop and the freak weather we've been having in Ayrshire today but it was nice to talk about something other than languages in another language. Been downloading some mp3s of Portuguese thanks to last.fm to listen to tonight. I've also solved my problem about not finding enough material to learn Portuguese. I've been typing in aprender inglês/português into google Brazil and reading some websites. It's interesting to see the perspective of people learning your language and some of their main difficulties.
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