rosetta stone spanish software, it is the quickest and clearest way to learn the language. go to amazon.com and they have it for $459. i hope that i helped. it is also the number one recommended choice of the country.
If you have the opportunity to live in a Spanish-speaking country for a while you’ll pick it up immediately. When you need to know it, you’re forced to study it properly.
Make sure that the Spanish you LEARN is the Spanish you’ll use.
It sounds silly, but there are different kinds. They’re all essentially the same language, but different dialects. The standard textbook Spanish is Mexican Spanish. I learned this, but the only Spanish I hear (friends, boyfriend, music, etc) is Puerto Rican Spanish. Slightly different pronunciation, some different words. Spain Spanish is different too… they use “vosotros” which is another (pronoun?)
In English we have “I, you, he/she/it, we, they” and in Spanish, there are “yo, tu, el/ella/usted, nosotros, ellos/ellas/ustedes”
I can’t remember what “vosotros” is for, but it’s different and used only in Spain. Quite a different pronunciation there too… I find it difficult to understand.
Take classes, but if not, do the Rosetta Stone software. In the mean time, start watching some tv/listening to music in Spanish. You’ll pick up phrases and pronunciation MUCH more quickly that way!
“Jammerbe…” touched the point, which I would say. There´s no better way, once you´re in a hurry. Go to Spain or other country where Spanish is the most used language and take ALL the chances to speak, to ask, to write, to listen to, to hear: EVERYTHING, ANYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ANYWHERE (according to your limits, for sure!).
Get yourself airlifted and dumped someplace in central Mexico, or Spain, where they don’t speak word one of English…Many such places exist. Just make sure you aren’t near some big university or language school, cause there will be tons of English speakers for you to lean on….
Seriously, though, you’ll do MUCH better, if you start with a good base of vocab and grammar. THEN go someplace where you won’t be able to communicate in English. (works better)
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Go to Spain. Actually it’s amazing how fast you pick it up when you NEED to know it. That’s how I learned French.
join a spanish class or buy books that teach spoken spanish
rosetta stone spanish software, it is the quickest and clearest way to learn the language. go to amazon.com and they have it for $459. i hope that i helped. it is also the number one recommended choice of the country.
If you have the opportunity to live in a Spanish-speaking country for a while you’ll pick it up immediately. When you need to know it, you’re forced to study it properly.
Make sure that the Spanish you LEARN is the Spanish you’ll use.
It sounds silly, but there are different kinds. They’re all essentially the same language, but different dialects. The standard textbook Spanish is Mexican Spanish. I learned this, but the only Spanish I hear (friends, boyfriend, music, etc) is Puerto Rican Spanish. Slightly different pronunciation, some different words. Spain Spanish is different too… they use “vosotros” which is another (pronoun?)
In English we have “I, you, he/she/it, we, they” and in Spanish, there are “yo, tu, el/ella/usted, nosotros, ellos/ellas/ustedes”
I can’t remember what “vosotros” is for, but it’s different and used only in Spain. Quite a different pronunciation there too… I find it difficult to understand.
Take classes, but if not, do the Rosetta Stone software. In the mean time, start watching some tv/listening to music in Spanish. You’ll pick up phrases and pronunciation MUCH more quickly that way!
Buena suerte!
“Jammerbe…” touched the point, which I would say. There´s no better way, once you´re in a hurry. Go to Spain or other country where Spanish is the most used language and take ALL the chances to speak, to ask, to write, to listen to, to hear: EVERYTHING, ANYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ANYWHERE (according to your limits, for sure!).
Get yourself airlifted and dumped someplace in central Mexico, or Spain, where they don’t speak word one of English…Many such places exist. Just make sure you aren’t near some big university or language school, cause there will be tons of English speakers for you to lean on….
Seriously, though, you’ll do MUCH better, if you start with a good base of vocab and grammar. THEN go someplace where you won’t be able to communicate in English. (works better)