While in Spain I found my recordings useful, Michel Thomas and Pimsleur. I also found my notes helpful, I’ll come back to that . . .
One of the strange things I have found when going to Spain, or France, is the disappearance of vocabulary after one use. You prepare for the trip, have several prepared phrases ready, you use them on day one, everyone is impressed then you suddenly revert to "imbicile" mode – mind goes blank – can’t conjugate beyond present tense. What is going on!!
Michel Thomas and Pimsleur help enormously, don’t leave them at home!
Next tip is to lay your notes out in a way that makes it easy to revise:
Tip 1
If it is worth writing down – give it a line to itself
Tip 2
Buy a solid notebook – you are more likely to use it
Here is an example from my notebook. I write down some phrases from a lesson that I want to be able to use. I test myself by covering up either the English or the Spanish and say out loud what I think the translation is, if I am testing English to Spanish I work up the page – Spanish to English I work down the page. I do this every day for 5 -10 minutes. Try it, see if it works for you..
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