3 ms·
hey 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.
by dominotw 8y ago
hey 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 8y 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 8y agohaha yea definitely. we've talked about this for a while time to do it.
- odysseus 8y 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 8y 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.