Online Spanish Course Review

Hi.. I can only speak english, and I’m interested in learning another language. I did a two years of spanish in high school, wasn’t anything formal it was more like how to respond to a situation. I haven’t learned anything and I don’t know any spanish. Although I just had to memorize responses, it was very hard – I am naturally bad at learning languages. So can any of you guys suggest an easier language to learn?

I’m taking French and it’s pretty easy…I’ve tried latin and German also but I kinda found Latin boring and with German you have to learn to make different sounds that aren’t present in the english language.

I’m sure you know there’s no good answer to that question ;P lol
1.) Which language?
> A good way to tell how hard a language is going to be from an English speaking perspective is to see how far the country the of desired language is away from England.

2.) How committed are you?
>> If you are committed and genuinely interested in the culture you’ll never be fluent.

3.) Are you good at math and English? (grammar stuff)
>> Language and math are both functions of the brain’s left hemisphere yo.

4.) How old are you and are you monolingual so far?
>> Younger people and people who are fluent languages are more apt to pick up languages than adult monolingual people.

As a good general statement, I guess around 18 months for semi-fluency (But this varies A LOT)
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Rosetta Stone doesn’t really work y’know… it only works *okay-ish* for Western European languages.

consider a beginner who doesn’t know spanish at all and would like to learn the language to speak routine sentences,,,,which website would u suggest(with english translations and all)?pl.tell

Livemocha.com is absolutely the best.

If you like it and join, add me as a friend and send me a message. My username is LunaAkitylasaraleen. I’ll help you out if I can!

I hope you find a website you like! Good luck.

By the way – stay with the free courses. The premium content was only recently added, so it definitely hasn’t been refined and corrected yet. And, in my humble opinion, the information they’ve added isn’t worth paying. You can EASILY find any information you need outside of what is given for free from other sources. It is mostly extraneous information.

I like learning languages for fun on occasion and I would like to know a good way to remember all the words. I tend to learn things then forget later because I don’t keep up my study.

You’ve kind of stated what you need to do. The best way to keep up your knowledge of a language is to use it. Maybe you could keep a journal in the language or try going to foreign language sites on the net.

Carl Dundas speaks here about one of his most effective in-classroom resources, i.e. a role-play exercise which, when it was written, was originally intended to be short and brief, but later turned into something far greater – an ongoing series of events which takes the form of a light-hearted and ongoing Spanish soap opera which focuses on a middle-aged woman from the Midlands of the UK who speaks the foreign language, has an apartment in a fictitious village in the south of the country and enjoys engaging with the locals, few of whom are able to speak English. The language content is consciously structured to slowly and gradually introduce more complex tenses, but relies throughout on commonly occurring examples of words, sentences, interjections and other set phrases. With so many characters involved in the role play, this enables learners within a classroom situation to partake with great interest in such an activity, as well as put into practise and revise simplified forms of language on the basis of just a few thousand words. As a result, students become at ease with the fluid styles of language they use and are able to further their linguistic proficiency.

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im mexican american, my parents taught me spanish before they taught me english, so it was my first language. long story short, i no longer speak spanish, or at least i’m no longer fluent in spanish. i didnt use it so i lost it. i’m very proud of my family heritage and i would like to re-learn the language. what system did you use to learn spanish?

Try this:

http://www.LearnSpanishFluently.com

bye

I am a native English speaker, and am in my 3rd year of Spanish. I really love Spanish and want to learn another language, and I’ve decided French. I know that there are going to be grammar similarities and other similarities because they are both romantic languages, but how hard is it to learn the pronunciations of French? I have looked up some stuff online, and listened to audio clips, and it seems next to impossible to try to pronounce these words and phrases. With Spanish, pretty much every letter is pronounced, except h which is silent, but it seems like there are many more things in French that are hard.

Is French hard to speak at first?

THANKS!!

It’s hard at first, but then it gets extremely easy. there are a lot of false cognates, and there always exceptions( for example eyes in the singular l’oeil; in the plural les yeux. or the word for garlic l’air(pronounced liah with a tiny, tiny bit of a j.))

So, I heard about something online that is similar to Facebook. You can go on there and have a friend that speaks the language you would like to learn, and you can practice speaking to them. I cannot remember what it is called. Has anyone else heard of something similar to this?
No, it’s like a real website.. Like online penpals. If I wanted to learn Italian and there was an Italian person that wanted to learn English, we would be friends and learn from each other. Something like that..
I think that is it, Carter. Thank you.

I think you’re thinking of livemocha.com.

If so what are some good websites? can you learn to read and write it like that and then go into yahoo chat rooms and speak it?

Yes. Try visiting Livemocha.com

They offer free lessons and they put you in contact with other members who speak the language willing to help you.

I’m currently using the website to learn Mandarin.