Sep 22, 2010

Lean to Speak Spanish Fluently - How to Go From Zero Or Basic to Fluent Spanish Quickly

Learn to Speak Spanish fluently - that is the goal of many language learners but many of them quit when they reach a basic level. They look ahead and all they see is a learning curve the size of Everest and they soon lose interest. In this article, I want to show you how it is much easier than you may think to gain fluency with my 3 great tips.
First Things First - A Good Core Learning Program
You could learn to speak Spanish fluently by just watching Spanish TV but it might take you 5 years or so. Clearly, a good language learning program is the key to accelerating our learning.
The problems with traditional classroom lessons are many. First, teachers cannot accommodate everyone's learning speeds, secondly, there is an over-reliance on memorization and textbooks.
I highly advise you to get your hands on a self study audio course. These are what most people are using these days, including the US Foreign Service. The organic learning methods of audio courses - listen, repeat, create your own sentences - mean that you learn more quickly and without textbooks or memorization.
Daily Exposure To Spanish
I highly recommend that you expose yourself to the Spanish language every day, even as little as 5 minutes. Here's an easy way - tune into a Spanish internet radio station while you are doing the chores.
It is not important that you understand anything being spoken at first. Your brain will hear the Spanish passively and get used to this daily exposure and become more receptive to learning the language.
You could take this to another extreme - I know a guy who learned Japanese by doing a total immersion: he listened, watched, put up posters around the house, even went to sleep listening to everything Japanese! He learned fluent Japanese in less than one year! But be advised that most people find these intense methods to be too much.
Listening Reading Method
Once you have a basic level of Spanish - which should only take a few weeks using an audio course - you can try getting some bilingual parallel texts. Your local language stores may have these books which feature facing pages of English and Spanish.
So as you read the book in Spanish, you can quickly scan across to the English if you don't understand any words. As you progress, you'll soon be looking almost exclusively at the Spanish side only (in all languages, most people only use a small set of words and recycle them, again and again).
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