While reading comprehension is often seen as an “easy” skill when learning Spanish. It can be underestimated in various ways. Students have a tendency to overestimate how well they understand the reading in front of them. When learning a language, reading material is extremely valuable because it provides a model that can be studied and used for many different learning purposes. By passively reading you can implicitly take in how a language puts words together into sentences and sentences into paragraphs. By focusing explicit attention you can learn to more fully comprehend what you read and what you hear, AND learn to do this yourself in writing and speaking. All of the language skills are interconnected and can and should be used to support one another. Use the following approach to train your brain to not only passively absorb the language but go more deeply into the inner-workings to easily understand more and more complex readings in Spanish.
Do the reading, listening, speaking and then writing for each episode in this order.
Pro tip: Count all of your mini successes along the way!
[simple_tooltip content=’Step by Step’]Paso por Paso[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Step One’]Paso Uno[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Look at and study the translations of the text’] Mira y estudia las traducciones del texto [/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Step Two’]Paso Dos[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Read the text in Spanish’]Lee el texto en español[/simple_tooltip]
The link takes you to the first episode, follow the same process for each one
Paso Tres
[simple_tooltip content=’Read and listen to the text’]Lee y escucha el texto[/simple_tooltip]
Try to make as strong a connection as possible between the way the word looks and the way it sounds Try to read it to yourself the way it sounds
Paso Cuatro
[simple_tooltip content=’Go to Worksheet-Lectura and write all the words you remember from memory’]Ve a la Hoja – Lectura y escribe todas las palabras que te acuerdas de memoria [/simple_tooltip]
Paso Cinco
Mira las traducciones otra vez
Paso Seis
[simple_tooltip content=’Put the words in Anki’] Pon las palabras en Anki[/simple_tooltip]
Paso Siete
[simple_tooltip content=’Study the vocab in Anki’] Estudia el vocabulario en Anki[/simple_tooltip]
Estudia [simple_tooltip content=’the grammar’]la gramática[/simple_tooltip]
Estudia [simple_tooltip content=’strategies’] las estrategias[/simple_tooltip]: “Retrain your brain”
Paso Ocho
[simple_tooltip content=’Read it again until you understand the text without looking at the translations’] Lee otra vez hasta que entiendas el texto sin mirar las traducciones[/simple_tooltip]
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