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How serious are you about learning Spanish? One of the first things you will learn is the futility of “I am going to learn it in X months.” Try not to assign a
by wallflower 7y ago
How serious are you about learning Spanish?
One of the first things you will learn is the futility of “I am going to learn it in X months.” Try not to assign an unrealistic deadline (you don’t know what you don’t know), enjoy the long hike.
Think of Duolingo as, at best, riding a scooter or tricycle, if your goal is to ride a bicycle for a century (competency).
Check out iTalki. You can find hundreds of teachers for real live practice at reasonable rates. If you don’t click with a particular teacher, there are so many others to find a match with your schedule, learning style, and personality.
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Buena suerte!
- dominotw 7y agohey helps that my wife is Mexican :D but I've been lazy learning spanish all these years. I just need a full immersion where i can enjoy the full payoff.
- wallflower 7y agoI know you are qualifying your efforts with the weasel word “lazy”, and I hate to break it to you but there is no magic bullet to learning a language after early childhood. (Invested time x Motivation) ÷ Inhibition = Result https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kató_Lomb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kató_Lomb As the Spanish saying goes: los idiomas se aprenden en la cuna o en la cama ("languages are learned either in the cradle or in bed") One of my acquaintances who is married to an Argentinian now does one day a week (Tuesday) in which they will only speak Spanish to each other the entire day and watch TV in Spanish. She is getting better. You might consider something similar. You definitely have an advantage there. I hope you use it. You don’t need full immersion. You just have to start vomiting words out.
- dominotw 7y agohaha yea definitely. we've talked about this for a while time to do it.
- odysseus 7y agoThank you for the inspiration regarding your acquaintance. I am trying this now with my wife who knows Spanish. We are doing Sabado por la mañana español. Lots of fun already!
- wallflower 7y agoNo hay de que. Buena suerte! The key, as you seem to already have found out, is to have fun with it. There is a Portuguese saying along the lines of “Language is learned in public”. That is, to truly learn a language you must practice it in public spaces, with strangers and “danger” around.