08-24-2006, 06:49 PM | #1 |
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How to improve one's Spanish?
I'm reminded, perhaps of an apocryphal event of Earnest Hemingway, who apparently was on vacation in Venice, when somebody critisized his Italian after those years.
And then I look to my own dabbling in Spanish and feel somewhat ashamed at how poorly I communicate in Spanish. So I wouldn't mind improving my Spanish, but I wonder what's the best way to go about it? I can read adequately especially if a dictionary is nearby. Most persons that speak Spanish locally are workers with whom I don't come into contact often. So what's the solution? And which version? I'm focusing mostly on speaking Spanish, as reading comes easy enough. Ideas.
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08-24-2006, 07:18 PM | #2 |
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Puedes hablar conmigo.
However, my spanish is rusty... so I don't think that I'd be much help. I listened to a lot of spanish music when I got home from the mission and that was good for a while. Then I got sick of it and quit listening and my skills went down... |
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Buy fast food in California. You have to be able to speak Spanish to order.
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Take a few trips. You can listen to CDs in the car or make chit chat with the guy at taco bell but NOTHING will do what a couple of weeks in Latin America will do.
Mix up one of your Ironman trips with a spin south of the border. Find an imersion program while you're down there and learn while you recover. My roommate did a two week thing at the tail end of a business trip to Costa Rica. He had a great time and came back speaking MUCH better.
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Most people who travel spend the majority of their time with people who speak english or are at least trying to make speaking spanish easy for you.
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