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CaptainTrips420
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I’m learning Spanish 1
#27633352 - 01/26/22 07:29 AM (2 years, 2 days ago) |
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I finally found an app that teaches you Spanish for free. Duolingo is what’s it’s called and it’s got advertisements but hopefully I can learn some Spanish. I learned if something ends in o it’s male and a is female. I plan on visiting South America at some point and would like to speak to people.
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try this site https://www.spanishdict.com/ it's also free and has a lot cool stuff. when registered you can add phrases and words to dictionary and such + it has app for smartphone
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Ditchdude
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I'm on an 800+ day steak on Duolingo for Spanish. It definitely has value. I have a very small amount of formal learning that also helps. I think of it as a hobby. Duolingo is a good part. So are several podcasts, easy Spanish on you tube and any other disgust media you can understand at least a little. If you can find a Spanish speaker willing to have spanglish conversations with you that's a huge plus, too. I support Duolingo but that alone won't be enough.
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sedulous
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Re: I’m learning Spanish [Re: Ditchdude] 1
#27713109 - 03/29/22 04:14 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Good choice! The new Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English VISUAL Dictionary and VERBOS are crucial. I love that the new MW Visual Dictionary has words that relate to everything that you'd need to know to go rock climbing and skydiving in Spanish! Getting a workbook (even for kids) is an excellent way to run through the Spanish language. Buena suerte!
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Re: I’m learning Spanish [Re: sedulous] 1
#27719055 - 04/03/22 07:39 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Barron's 500 Verbs is a really dank book. You can find it used pretty easily. Verb conjugation is most of the hump , and learning about irregular verbs (there are standard rules most verbs follow, but some verbs just do crazy shit. Often these are very common verbs.). Different countries tend to use some different nouns for common objects/food, for historical reasons.
I'd hit the music too:
South America los fabulosos cadillacs la vela puerca
Mexico Inspector Ska Panteon Rococo
Spain Gipsy Kings Manu Chao
Lastly, if you play video games you can set the in-game text to spanish. If there's a movie you really like you can check out the spanish subs or dubs. You can set your browser text to spanish as well.
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I am fluent in Spanish and learned at about 18 while living in Costa Rica until I was 30. The biggest tip I can give you is never feel stupid trying to learn and literally try speaking to complete strangers no matter where you meet a native speaker. Being embarrassed to speak is what slows people down the most and don’t worry too much about your accent that comes with time
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Re: I’m learning Spanish [Re: AlaskaDave] 1
#27748799 - 04/23/22 09:38 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Just got back from a week in a Spanish speaking country. After several years learning Spanish i was a shit show for about 3 days until i got comfortable. I personally need to talk to others more often in Spanish. Also, facemasks make it way harder to understand others.
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Re: I’m learning Spanish [Re: Ditchdude]
#27781407 - 05/17/22 10:09 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I took honors Spanish from 8th-12th grade (about 15 years ago) and I still remember a LOT of it. My accent is good enough that when I speak to a fluent speaker they reply super fast and I gotta hit 'em with the "mas despacio por favor" 
I live in North Jersey now so spanish is almost a must if you really want to be social and all that, I really want to get back into it to get back to that level I was at.
I love the reacitons I get when I bust out the Spanish. Like, "Ok, white boy knows what's up!"
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I was lucky enough to take two years of Spanish in high school, and spend 2 weeks in Chile and 2 weeks in Mexico. I've been wanting to get back in the language. Spending time immersed in the language is an amazing experience, and you very well may learn more in a week in South America than you will studying in your home country. That being said, the more the learn now, the more you will pick up on naturally once you're there.
I'd love to try the free app. I Would do anything to visit Chile again. I've heard most other countries down there are equally beautiful. The Andes mountains are fucking stunning!
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CaptainTrips420 said: I finally found an app that teaches you Spanish for free. Duolingo is what’s it’s called and it’s got advertisements but hopefully I can learn some Spanish. I learned if something ends in o it’s male and a is female. I plan on visiting South America at some point and would like to speak to people.
Congratulations on making the effort, I hope you succeed at it. I've heard that watching TV and movies in Spanish can really help. I am thinking about moving to Puerto Rico someday and Spanish has been on my mind lately.. I have a pretty big inventory of words for objects but i only remember a few verbs for some reason. I saw a suggestion that one should even learn to think in the language they're learning! Really seems like a challenge..
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Que bueno! Yo vivia en Colombia para 6 meses. A mi me encanta Duolingo. Aprendi espanol sin Duolingo pero lo uso para aprender ruso. Hay un recurso fenomenal para aprender se llama "SpanishDict". Hay up app y un sitio web. Lo uso todo dia.
That's really awesome. I lived in Colombia for 6 months and I love Duolingo. You should also absolutely have SpanishDict which is both a website and an app. It gives great examples of word usage, direct word translations, expressions and lessons on all the grammar rules of Spanish. Another cool resource is the website Interpals. It's a language exchange website so people wanting to learn English can connect with you and help you learn Spanish.
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Re: I’m learning Spanish [Re: Darwin23]
#27912866 - 08/21/22 08:35 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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When you say Encanta like that I think duolingo enchants you and that's why I love languages other than English I grew up with a Latino family as my best friend(guatemaltecos) and they mostly all knew English and would just speak Spanish to me instead, with that and taking it in high-school and watching movies in Spanish I usually keep it up pretty well :smiley: Then I have a Latina wife so I have to test or execute myself when around the inlaws bc honestly it's mostly old back of the brain knowledge and I still can usually do decent at least understanding nowadays and that's pretty nice. I just think English is shit ugly and more native Latin languages are prettier. I can only imagine knowing indigenous languages of these areas . The non white languages some of them still know. Mmm
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Re: I’m learning Spanish [Re: ashfiken]
#27922661 - 08/28/22 02:36 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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here you still need to understand how to choose the right movie so that your base is enough to understand it, otherwise you can just look at the picture and have no idea
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