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Unit 01 Test A Frustration (Spoiler)

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Topic: Unit 01 Test A Frustration (Spoiler)
Posted By: Zenia
Subject: Unit 01 Test A Frustration (Spoiler)
Date Posted: 16 March 2007 at 6:22pm

******** Don't read if you haven't taken Unit 01 Test A ********

 
 
 
 
 
 
I started working on the Spanish course today, and the whole thing has left me with the word "papa" and "papa'" stuck in my head. I still hear it! If I'm reading the instructor's manual right, every answer was like dad with the second syllable stressed. I missed 6 out of 15! Should I listen to this over again or move on?



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Posted By: livetolearn
Date Posted: 01 April 2007 at 2:31pm
Zenia,
 
Frustration is a natural part of the process of learning a non-native language as an adult.  Hang in there.  In the meantime, go on to more lessons and come back to this one in a couple of months.  Only the extremely gifted can master a new sound at first hearing.  I can't, and I'm working on my fifth language and can tune a piano by ear.
 
I was impressed by a story about how the US Women's Olympic Softball team practice: balls are painted with a number inside a colored spot and they are fired at the ladies from a machine at an ungodly speed. First they train their eyes to see the color of the spot and eventually they can call out "green six" as the balls go whizzing by.  I would get bruised.
 
I took the test, and the sounds are indeed distinct.   Embrace every misstep as a learning opportunity! 
 
Keep the faith!
 
livetolearn


Posted By: sepulnation
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 3:03pm
no you werent completly wrong the numbers in parenthesis are the number of repititions of the word not the answer for the placement of stress. I guess it would have been assumed that the instructor would already know that information so they didnt write the answers for them. For rules about the stress of words in spanish take a look at these rules. http://www.studyspanish.com/accents/rules.htm
im not an expert so i cant give the asnwers i just figured this out for myself and will be grading my own test now after much frustration



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