Spanish Learning the Fun Way
Scott Adams, of Dilbert Fame, provides a great motivator for learning Spanish.
Scott produces his daily comic strips in español.
These comic strips also come with an English-Spanish and español-inglés word list to help you translate a few of the Dilbert-related words found in the cartoon.
Unfortunately, the word list is the same each day and you need another dictionary to look up the ordinary words.
Link to an online Free Dictionary Spanish-English
Spanish Dictionary and Translator
Word Reference Spanish-English dictionary
Google™ search for other Spanish-Engish dictionaries
The reasons that using this method works so well are:
- There is a lot of action and interaction with the language, i.e., the learning active
- The humor in understanding the cartoon adds to the intrinsic value of solving the cartoon
- There is a sense of accomplishment in translating and understanding the entire cartoon
- The humor reinforces memory of the vocabulary words
- The target language is seen as important for more than conversation
- The work with a dictionary cannot be cut and paste into a translator because the cartoon is a graphic image, not computer text
- The humor may loose something in the translation, providing a better window into the culture of the target language
Additional Cartoon Language-Learning Tips
You can also keep a tally record of 1.) the number of cartoons that you have read, 2.) the number of words that you have to look up and 3.) the number of words that you knew.
A simple method like this builds your confidence in your ability to use the target language.
Use cartoons such as Scott Adam’s Dilbert to increase the practical learning of Spanish.
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