My Search For Spanish Books Online in the Philippines! (2/2)
Okay so you know what happened when I looked for Spanish books in bookstores... Now I will tell you how I got the four books I am now reading one by one. Hehehe.
In case you haven't read the first part of this post you can check here. Otherwise let me tell you what I did next!
Online Book Hunting
Since I had a quite disappointing result from my first store hunt, I decided to try online sellers. There are many people selling used books on social media sites so I was sure I'd find something.
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I didn't want to buy brand new ones so I just checked some second hand book selling groups in Facebook. Too bad the only thing I found there is one that's BookTok famous last year. It's a romance book in English. 😂 Okay am not gonna mention it so you don't get distracted. 😆
*(hashtag for book recommendations on TikTok, which I didn't check)
Since that was no different to actual bookstores I checked the Marketplace instead. Voila! I found a few of them! (No I never checked Shopee because it sucks. I did not check ANY other actual online stores at all. Only Facebook and Viber marketplaces. Yes I know I've been brand dropping since the first part of this post. I didn't get sponsored though, I wish. Haha.)
Suffice it to say, I didn't find any Spanish stuff in the two online places I looked in. So I just inquired from the sellers in the marketplace in Meta.
Unfortunately one of the books I inquired about at a really good price suddenly got bought after a few hours! I was like, incredulous! How could someone else buy it when it was posted 13 wks ago! And then suddenly it gets sold the next day after my inquiry!? Dang. So unfair. 😅
Meanwhile there are also other legit and specialty bookstores with a Facebook presence. The brand new and significant (Philippine and history related, etc.) books are really expensive too! Of course I could not buy them because I don't even understand the language that much yet.
Other than that I was able to find secondhand and really good ones from two individual sellers. One lives in Cavite province while the other one is from Manila City.
Last weekend I finally got all four books I ordered! Batch one was via personal pick up and batch two via delivery. 😀 All of these are second hand ones. Three are actually imported. No surprise there. Haha. Two are in quite new and very good condition. The rest are not bad at all.
The oldest one I haven't opened yet because it looks... old! The seller said it was from a local antique shop. Well it's a very good find imho! Online there aren't any search results coming up for Literatura Filipina en Español compiled by Carmen N. San Agustin. So I dunno if it's a great find or not... still what's inside should be useful.
Oh Yeah! Success!
Now I have everything. For sure I do! I could buy some more children's booklets but nah. I think these are enough for now.
Will all these really help me? It should! It's all up to me now. Huhu. What if I don't become fluent? Omg I dunno what else to do if I don't. 😂 How long it will take me really depends on the things I do from now on.
On another note, it looks like I need to buy another dictionary. It must be the Spanish-English one because I realized the one I got is not really helping me enough while reading. 😅 (No I don't think there's any Spanish-Tagalog one at all.)
I began reading Sopa de Pollo para el Alma (Chicken Soup for the Soul) and saw some words I didn't know. Unfortunately I don't have the right book to check the meaning. 😂 Had to go online just to satisfy my curiosity. Well... that means I will not be reading it until I have what I need.
Meaning I'm reading the next book now which is the Spanish Coursebook. It has lessons and short tests too! Am definitely doing well on the first few quizzes. I always get perfect scores haha. Hope I can continue the trend 'til the end. Although if I am quizzed without choices I will have a harder time... 🤔
So far most of the quizzes I've done since December are either multiple choice or matching types. There's this one site though where you have to translate the English words to Spanish and that's where I stumble a lot. Haha. Just goes to show I need to know and do more.
Ah... Not sure what I will write about next in my Spanish learning journey. For now I will end my online study journal here. Until the next blog!
What do you think I will (or should) write about very soon? Hahaha.
XOXO,
@artgirl
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