

When I’m chatting people tend to understand me, or at least I think they do. Using the same words and intonation often seems to work for me. For speaking the language I tend to learn mostly by osmosis listening to what people say. I need to spend some time to really study and learn this part of the language. There are at least three different types of past tense I need to know about. The thing about learning a language is you need to learn how the verbs work and I specifically have problems with the past tense in Spanish. The idea is to use this to build up my Spanish vocabulary. I downloaded a deck of flashcards with 5000 cards contained within. The woman sat next to me in the test was struggling and still scratching her head long after I had finished the test, She definitely gave me a funny look as I sat there with my arms folded with the job done. I was a little bit surprised at how well it worked. I just kept repeating these flashcard questions until I kept getting the right answers. When it came to do the test I was able to fly through the answers easily and get, I think, all of them correct.


When I was studying to pass the test for my Spanish exam I used a website which provided flashcards. So I’m trying to keep my brain working with training. I like my marbles and I want to keep them. It’s a bit of a worry because I’ve read that this could be a precursor to Alzheimer’s and I don’t like the idea of that. Nothing comes to me and it might be a couple of days before I remember or can find a way to remember. I try to think what these words are and my head is completely empty. There are words I know, both in English and in Spanish and I just forget them. Lately I’ve noticed I’ve been having the same problem myself. My mom is only 20 years older than me and she complains of forgetting things all the time.
