All you have to do is choose the right study methods to learn Spanish quickly. Download: This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that you can take anywhere. Click here to get a copy. One popular reason to learn Spanish fast is for an impending trip. If you learn some Spanish very quickly, it just might kickstart your journey to fluency.
Finally, you might want to learn Spanish quickly in order to communicate with native speakers soon. Research shows that immersion is highly effective for learning languages. Immersion is also the most intuitive method for language learning.
After all, we learn our native language through immersion. Here are some options for achieving immersion at home:. Check out In 24 Hours Learn to Speak Spanish , which aims to teach you the most common and useful words and phrases in a flash. Learn Spanish Quickly offers more than 1, phrases broken down into easy categories, so you can quickly study the most important word categories obviously food and shopping! Quizzes and flashcards help you test your knowledge, while a favorites list helps you tag certain words for future review.
Whether you tour a Spanish art gallery, navigate with Google Maps in Spanish or read dual-language Spanish literature, these unconventional tools add a bit of fun—and applicability—to your living room immersion. In fact, using these unconventional tools will allow you to see authentic Spanish and English side-by-side. By doing so, you can watch your Spanish vocabulary and grammar competence soar as well as immerse yourself wherever and whenever is most convenient for you.
And the best way to enjoy studying is to make it fun. A big problem that many people face when trying to learn Spanish quickly is that they lose focus. After all, once you get down the basics, delving into the nitty-gritty can seem boring or frustrating. Why not plan a trip to a Spanish speaking country, and maybe include a few weeks at a language school. I have always found it best to go the country where the language is spoken, not when I start in a language, but after I have achieved a level where I can take better advantage of being immersed.
In other words, when I already understand a fair amount and want to push myself to the next level. There are many resources available on the Web such as Unlimited Spanish and LingQ that will get you started.
Plan to put in at least six months on your own, and then, if you can, set yourself the goal of going to a Spanish speaking country as a reward. Most Spanish speaking countries, all with their own attractive cultures, offer Spanish programs. Is it even your goal to become a fluent speaker? If you are simply hoping to learn a few phrases, this will not take long. That is why experienced language learners, who have learned other languages, often do better in new languages.
They have done it before. They know they can do it. Your attitude will have a determining influence on your language learning progress. Your determination to succeed and your commitment to staying the course will depend largely on whether you can visualize yourself achieving fluency, even before you achieve.
In fact, when you begin your learning, you should have a clear picture of the end result. Imagine yourself conversing freely with Spanish speakers, and enjoying books, movies and television programs in the language. Once you are able to engage in these activities, however imperfectly at first, your Spanish language skills will just take off.
If you have not yet had the experience of having become fluent in another language, give yourself the benefit of the doubt. TOOK 3 Months and voth went back to driving. Now 49 years later I can still understand any dialect of Spanish thanks to those two gentlemen. Maybe those can be useful for people who want to learn castillian Spanish. This leads to a loss of confidence that can manifest itself in various harmful ways.
There are a number of government organizations that have also weighed in on how long it takes to learn Spanish. By far the most popular, widely quoted opinion is from the U. According to an FSI study , it should take classroom hours to achieve conversational fluency in Spanish.
Furthermore, they suggest an approximate ratio between time spent in the classroom, and time spent studying independently most people miss this part. Therefore, the total time spent will actually be around 1, hours!
If that seems like a lot, it is! Believing a statistic like this is just as damaging to language learners as the unrealistic promises we talked about earlier. One of the most important things for a beginner is to start learning Spanish with a positive, confident mindset.
However, figures like the 1, hours quoted by FSI paints the goal of learning Spanish as a daunting, massive undertaking. Rather than doing people a favor by telling them what to expect, it intimidates and discourages them from wanting to pick up Spanish in the first place.
The problem is, the traditional classroom is one of the least effective ways to learn. In a group Spanish class, you have one teacher lecturing students. In a 3-hour class, each student might only get 10 minutes of actual speaking practice. In a classroom, you can hide in the back and passively listen to a lecture.
According to research from the NTL Institute, people remember much more information if they are learning it actively:. By concentrating on the most efficient ways to learn Spanish rather than the slow, outdated methods recommended by the FSI, you will be able to learn in a fraction of the time. I must learn Soanish right away. Why Guatemala?
Last I was there, they were robbing people at night along the highways. Yes, Antigua makes no sense if there are many English speaking people.
Anna I ended up going to,Cabo for 3 more weeks of private Spanish lessons. I now may be appointed an ambassador to a South American country and really need to finish my lessons so I can speak and communicate reasonable so. The best for me would be to hire a teacher to live with my wife and I in Scottsdale to finish my process. Otherwise, I will be forced to go back to Cabo and learn. I only have 6 more weeks to finish and get fluent. I am very concerned , any thoughts or new ideas?
Much appreciated. A live-in Spanish speaking person is great. Avoid your own language like the plague. Constantly do a little work, every day. Much better than doing a huge amount once a week. Read books, watch films, or listen to music in the foreign language — all three if possible.
Hang around only with the natives. No expats or any of that see rule 1 above. WOW what a journey. I got so immersed in the culture s I have not been able to stop learning and Latin America become a part of my life.
Which keeps me motivated. And incredibly how fast you learnt spanish, something not easy to do for most of us. This has been extremely inspiring and helpful. That is a lie.. Maybe small conversations, ordering lunch, talking about the weather. I watch hours upon hours of spanish TV and movies.. I speak in spanish all day everyday for a year now and I still am at a very basic level. It takes years and years to get the the point of actual fluency.
I have a friend living in mexico for three years and his spanish is still not so great and he is always asking questions still. I agree, I I am college educated and have 10 weeks of private lessons along with spending three months in Mexico and Costa Rica and barely can speak a few sentences and lines. Anna has lived and traveled in Spanish speaking countries for 10 years.
Each person is different. After 10 weeks of private lessons, it sounds very suspicious that you can only come up with a few lines. I suggest you change your teacher and also read books in Spanish in your free time. A ver tia,? Estoy aburrido y francamente me interesaria obtener algunos consejos sobre como aprender frances y aleman mas rapido.
Por cierto como veo que eres muy aplicada, debo mencionarte que no he puesto ningun acento o nada por que no tengo teclado para hacerlo mas rapido… y como no me dan ganas de presionar la serie de numeros pues no lo hice.
Por cierto el ingles lo aprendi a hablar completamente en 9 meses, no es por presumir. Creo que para ti aleman va a ser mas dificil que frances, porque frances es mas parecido a espanol. Te recomiendo empezar con los libros de self-learning para que entiendas la gramatica.
Luego puedes empezar a ver las peliculas en frances y aleman, pero activa los subtitulos en estos idiomas para que puedes escuchar y leer en los mismo tiempo. I love this. My Spanish is trash and even I Notice minor mistakes here. Hi Anna! Thanks for your informative blogg! I want to learn arabic and many other languages too later.
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