Where does one go to learn spanish?

Answer 1

For me, I learned the vocabulary basics for Spanish in Spanish I & II in high school. At this point, I could read and write a fair amount of Spanish, but I could not speak it very well.

The summer before I took Spanish III, I started playing soccer in a nearby park with some hispanic people, which is where I learned to start speaking Spanish. At first I was very slow and it took me quite a while to try and translate in my head what I was going to say. I often mis-conjugated words when I spoke and sometimes the meaning of what I wanted to say was lost.

I progressively starting getting into Spanish music (Reggaeton and Bachata) and began looking up the lyrics as I listened along to the songs. I also began watching movies I was familiar with in Spanish and turning on the English subtitles.

Somewhere between Spanish 3 and Spanish 4 I decided I was going to major in Spanish and therefore starting taking things more seriously. I started hanging out with more hispanic people and then I started go to a hispanic church. I learned a LOT about Spanish language from church. The words and 'slang' that you learn there is so much different then the street language most Hispanics will teach you.

So as I tell everyone who asks me: "I learned it a bit of everywhere. Reading and writing from school and speaking from hanging out with hispanic people".

The only true way to be able to speak a language is to spend time with the people who actually speak it. There is only so much a teacher can teach you if you are not able to communicate with other people who speak the language natively.

Answer 2

¿Cuándo aprendiste/aprendió español?

Answer 3

Señor high