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Al fin, el fin (and that’s fine!)

Not that I will stop learning Spanish now, but… Today I reached a huge milestone! After 413 days, I finished learning all the words in my vocabulary book (Uso interactivo del vocabulario from Edelsa). I added a few extra words as I went along, but also some synonyms got merged into a single entry (in my stats), but it’s “roughly” 3043 words (averaged 7.4 words per day over the year-and-a-month)…

No es que ahora hable español perfectamente, tampoco que siempre pueda recordar aquellas tres mil palabras cuando las necesito, pero… Digamos, por lo menos, que ya hablo y entiendo un poco mejor que lo hacía hace un año (Spanish corrections — I mean, come on: “hacía hace?” (-; — are still more than welcome, señores y señoras blog-lectores ;-).

For fun, here is the final chart of my progress through the chapters. You can see how I really cranked up the progress in the last two months! I had hoped to finish in a year, and that’s around when I realized I wasn’t going to make it — so then the goal was to finish before the end of October…

Spanish vocabulary progress

And all the boring details, more for my own pleasure than yours…

Category

Words

Start

Days

Avg./day
El cuerpo humano 148 Sept. 10 (2005) 12 12.3
En familia 86 Sept. 22 11 7.8
Los viajes 139 Oct. 3 21 6.6
Los alimentos 310 Oct. 24 64 4.8
La vivienda 191 Dec. 27 24 8.0
La ciudad 135 Jan. 20 (2006) 15 9.0
La ropa 157 Feb. 4 21 7.5
El tiempo y la tierra 125 Feb. 25 14 8.9
La música 134 Mar. 11 23 5.8
El coche 134 Apr. 10 9 14.9
Las profesiones 172 Apr. 19 19 9.1
Los deportes 185 May 8 44 4.2
Los animales 159 Jun. 21 26 6.1
La salud y la enfermedad 199 Jul. 17 47 4.2
Las vacaciones en el mar 109 Sep. 2 6 18.2
La televisión 123 Sep. 8 8 15.4
Los bancos 108 Sep. 16 14 7.7
Las fiestas 94 Sep. 30 10 9.4
El orden público 150 Oct. 10 8 18.8
La enseñanza 185 Oct. 18 10 18.5
 
TOTAL 3043   413 7.4

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3 Responses to “Al fin, el fin (and that’s fine!)”

  1. gocam Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 3h26

    dude - by my calculations, in mid-Jan you could be on 10-word-a-day happy street if you carry on with your current trend. This latest charting looks suspiciously like the Bay Area housing market from two years ago, however, with a zero-adjusted baseline so I may be wrong. As your foreign vocabulary has increased, even my native verbal dexterity has declined, so chapeaux off to you !

  2. El jardinero zurdo Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 13h29

    Yeah, but, uh, like isn’t 3000 words, like, enuff? No? I mean, like, ya know.

    Seriously, I’m going to focus on grammar again for a while.

    P.S. “Like” (64) is (7) number (82) 64…

  3. gocam Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 16h44

    ah - so you be aiming more high than our illustrious president in the how to be talking stakes?

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