How fast did you learn Spanish and what did you do to learn it so quickly?
I moved to Spain when I was 11, but I moved to the state of Catalunya, where the majority speak Catalan (one of the five major languages of Spain).I would say that it took me two and a half/three years to become fully fluent in Spanish. I have now been speaking Spanish for seven years, and I definitely consider myself to be a fluent speaker.The easiest way for me to learn Spanish was to talk to people in Spanish all. the. time.Holding conversations in Spanish, regardless of the topic, will help you get used to speaking in informal settings. This is probably the best thing you can learn because I'm assuming (since you didn't provide details) that you would like to be able to speak Spanish more than write/read in Spanish.
Trying to learn Spanish?
by the look of your avatar, you don't exactly like in the middle of kansas, miss nyc chick. you couldn't be in a better place to learn spanish, yet people on the post are telling you to take classes for a language spoken by the largest growing minority...... ummmmmm...... think about that. go stand on 125th street(that's pronounced "a hun-twunnie fiff stree" for non new yorkers) and see how quickly you will learn spanish. the point is, submerge yourself with spanish on purpose. lee las periodicas, y mira las noticias en la manana mientras esta haciendo desayuno, todo!! ya kno
My 4 year old wants to learn Spanish, but I think she should get better at English first. What do you think?
LET HER BEI think if you ever want your daughter to be bilingual, forget about English and let her roam free in that second language.I know a couple children of Spanish speaking immigrants who, by the time they started school, knew zero English. Their parents only spoke to them in their native language, so that's what they learned. They had to be placed in special classes in order to learn English to then be transfered to regular class.Today they speak broken Spanish. They have accents, they mix up words, they choke up a little and switch to Spanglish if the ideas get too complicated, bottom line: They're not 100% fluent as a native would be, they're quite evidently speaking a second tongue.Now, bear in mind these were kids growing up in the USA, with parents that were native speakers, and who at home communicated in their native language only, yet they ended up forgetting quite a lot of their Spanish.The moral of the story is: If these kids could forget their Spanish with all those advantages on their side, your daughter (presumably the child of parents that don't speak the language) has an even rougher road to bilingualism.English will come along, even if you didn't want it to. It's Spanish that will fade away slowly but surely, so the sooner she etches the language into her young brain, the more chances she'll have to fully adopt it. And oh boy, will she benefit from it.
Why should People learn Spanish in high school
Exactly right that it does help you with a future career. Also, it's helpful to be more aware of other ethnicities, especially one which has such a large population living within the Unite States. I was never good at Spanish and I regret not taking full advantage of the courses offered to me. In the long run, it will be worth it though.
I speak english My wife and step son english y spanish am i wrong to ask them to speak english when with me?
My wife and my step son wont speak english when im around even though they are bilingual.When they are alone they just speak spanish.When im with my wife she speaks english when im with my step son he speaks english.When they talk to each other they speak spanish even though im there.Am i wrong to say something? I feel so unimportant and I never know whats being said or whats going on Im always the last one to find out.Any advice would be appreciated.
What is the most effective and quickest way to learn Spanish fluently and be able to actually understand people speaking Spanish fast (if I put my heart and effort into it)?
Definitely IMMERSE yourself in the language. For example, work in a restaurant, where all the people in the kitchen speak Spanish (for example).As for my experience, I will tell you the 2 radically different ways I learned French and Italian.French was pretty straightforward. I studied it for 8 years in high school, then went on to study it at Harvard. I received an “A” in “French for oral survival” at Harvard. So, you would think I was pretty good, n’est-ce pas? Well, I had a rude awakening when I went to France. I found that I had to buy the book “Merde” (pardon me, French speakers), which is a book of slang. That book got me through my trip with flying colors. Without it, I would have been lost.As for Italian, I moved to Florence without knowing a word in Italian. I had to learn it by the “Baptism by fire” method. I took intensive Italian 3 hours a day. Our teacher only spoke to us in Italian, because we were from all over the world.I was also living with an Italian family, so I was hearing and speaking Italian ALL DAY. I wasn’t even translating back and forth into English, because I didn’t have time to do that - I just had to keep feeding my brain Italian, and eventually, my brain caught on.Within one month I was proficient enough to get around Italy with no problems. My accent was excellent, because the Florentine accent is understood by all Italians as “Pure Italian”. There are many dialects all over Italy, but almost everyone understands the Florentine dialect.Even though I only had a few months of intensive Italian, and over 8 years of French, I am less afraid to speak Italian, because I had to speak it to survive. That gets you over your fear pretty quickly. ;-)