Learning a language is like finding yourself at home in a kind of building site. Your bricks are words of all sorts, such as verbs, nouns, adjectives, connectors. Your mortar is grammar. So what role do you play among all that raw material? Your role in the process of learning a language will change over time. You will follow instructions, but soon enough you will also “play” and experiment with those bricks and mortar. The idea is to build some little “houses” of meaning. You will also make decisions. For example how to get familiar with your raw materials and how and when “play” with them.
In an ideal world, the more you “play” the better “buildings” you will make. Under the supervision of a tutor, you are in a safe environment. This guarantees success, as long as you keep “playing”. Success in learning a language is already happening as long as you engage with your raw materials in order to make something with them. Being successful will also be to be understood, to notice what you need to do more of in order to correct some misunderstanding, or misconception.
Your achievements will be measured eventually by a test. However, the test will mostly show you, like a mirror, the degree of success you had in engaging with the subject at the right time, with the required frequency, in the areas that needed more work. If you did your weekly “playing”, surely your language muscle will develop in time for the mirror to show it to you.
So there you go, it is as simple as that. And in order to make the point more clear, here you have some opportunity to get into the muck and do a bit of what you need to do often: practice!
HERE you can do some activities for revision regarding the use of SER and ESTAR. You can also check that you know how o express high numbers or refer to amounts of something. Finally, you can LISTEN TO or SEE the answers to the activities, or combine both.
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