A Summary of my Learning Experience
At the beginning of this journey I was at a toss up with what I wanted to learn. I debated between ASL and Spanish and I ended up choosing Spanish. I am very happy with my decision and I feel like I have found some great ways to learn using technology. I began not knowing…
Learning More Palabras (Words)
This week I wanted to keep focusing on learning words. I have realized that learning a new language is quite challenging and takes a lot of time to do. I do not having everything memorized and I think that is fine. I just want to have basic things memorized that I think I would use…
Learning Words
This week I wanted to start learning some more words that I think would be useful to know in Spanish. I found a great website that shows the English word next to the Spanish word. It starts out with showing basic words, then moves into basic questions, greetings, verbs, people, and weather words. I didn’t…
A Fun Learning Experience
I wanted to try a tool I haven’t tried yet which is a website. The website is called Duolingo. It is free to use and it didn’t make me create an account which was nice. It is very easy to use and asks you a few questions to get to know where you are at…
An App With Many Uses
The online tool I wanted to try this week was Pinterest. I love Pinterest and use it for so many things like recipes and décor ideas. I did think that using this platform could be slightly difficult because it would not read the words to me but I wanted to try it out anyways. I…
Using my Interests for Learning
My next online tool I used to help me learn Spanish is TikTok. I love TikTok and I scroll through it quite a bit which is why I decided to try it out. I already have an account made on TikTok but if you do not you would need to make one to use the…
Apps are SO Useful
I decided to explore with an app this week. This app was suggested to me by some people in the class so I wanted to give it a try. The app is called Babbel and it is for learning new languages. It has a variety of languages to learn on it. I am trying to…
New Experiences
This week I selected a tool I have never used before with is Canva. I used Canva to create a video about my learning project from this week. I know many people have used Canva and enjoy it, so that is why I wanted to try it out. When I began I needed to create…
Giving Números a Try
This week I focused on learning how to say the numbers from 1-10 in Spanish. I found this week went a lot smoother than last weeks alphabet! The main learning tool I used was YouTube. On YouTube I was able to find a very useful video of someone teaching Spanish numbers. My original plan was…
Not a Great Start
This week I focused on learning how to say the alphabet in Spanish. I found it to be quite difficult to do based on the online tools I used. I used images off google to see the whole alphabet as well as google translate to learn how to pronounce the letters. I found google translate…