Posted on 03/04/2021 2:45:12 PM PST by freedumb2003
Has anyone had any success with online learning? I am about to retire and soon will probably be where they speak Spanish. I can get by on my Spanish but just. I cannot carry on a conversation.
I have looked at the big names like Rosetta Stone, Babble, Mondly and the like but still do not know what I should do.
I plan to do it an hour a day, just like a job.
I do not trust the side by side reviews as they conflict and many times are hiddenly sponsored.
Cost is not a big deal but I am no sanguine about an open-ended subscription.
Thanks!
I don’t know about online, but the best language learning system is to date someone who speaks that language, and not a word of English.
Are you married? Find a hot Latina and learn Spanish OnHer.
Phone apps work best. Duolingo is free and has a lot of languages.
I would suggest looking into Spanish music, too. It could be very useful, especially if you sing along.
We had a French person working with us whose English was very, very good. He said that he was in a French choir which sang American songs.
My local library offers Rosetta Stone online for free. All you need is a library card and you can access it from home. Mixed feeling on the software, started to learn Russian using it, but I do better when I’m with people who speak it.
Bookmarking
I have tried in class learning and intensive learning (several hours a day). Intensive was far better. Some of the suggestions here are good. I did learn a lot from a one on one vacation trip where my partner spoke only spanish. This will work best after you have learned how to speak about things. What is that? How does it work? What is it for? How do you spell that, how do you say?
Finally, the advanced subjunctive mood is very important and not usually taught until later in a course. (Thi is where you use phrases like I would like to see, or To me, this seems pleasant.
Buena suerte
Same. Bkmrk.
Where, SoCal, S. Texas?
Russian?
/thinking ahead
:D
You must be able to think in Spanish and not simply translate from English. Learning sentence structure is the key. In your studies learn to write it. Reading is also key. Good luck.
/thinking ahead
Aha! Plotting to help Trump collude with the Russians again in 2024!
/sarc
My high school son was an exchange student to Spain for a year. He had 2 years of Spanish under his belt. He was placed in a home (right on a Med beach!) with a family who had no English. In his school there, the only English speaker was one teacher. It took him about 3 months of this total immersion before he could understand and speak half decently. By the end of the year, he was fluent. If you really want to learn Spanish, total immersion is the way to go.
Watch some Spanish cable or Mexican soap operas with English closed captioning. This will give you excelent phonetics, the rhythm of the language, some intuitive sentence structure, and a good working vocabulary. While you’ll still need an academic grounding in grammar, you can get that from a book.
Russia will be more free than the United States soon.
I thought I would never be able to make that statement.
Moving to China helped me learn Chinese
Duolingo is free and worth looking into. Download it to your smart phone and have it with you wherever you go.
Spanish language YouTube videos are helpfulas well.
Look for the movies with English subtitles.
Back when I was in college (many years ago),the conservative history professor suggested that we learn Russian while it was still an elective.
I guess now it would be Chinese.
I found success using Duolingo along with some work with a native speaker very successful to get basic use of the language. Important one read the discuss sections if an item is issued because explanations taught me a lot!
Buena suerte!
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