People spend way too much time learning spanish
from books and courses.
But anybody who knows how to speak spanish
like me knows you don't really learn spanish
that way.
In this video I will go over my tips that
are more useful, practical, less expensive,
fun, and better for conversation than courses.
Following these tips you will learn spanish
in a more natural way that immerses yourself
in spanish yet also reduces the chances of
you getting burnt out.
The First thing is to watch movies.
That is right get a spanish dubbed movie.
The more you love the movie and know the lessons
by heart the better.
For example, I have netflix and I love the
original Pirates of the Carribean.
And there is a button where I can click to
listen to the audio in spanish.
Sometimes I even click on the button to watch
it with spanish subtitles.
And other times I even do it with English
Subtitles.
This helps you get a feel for the language
because you already know what they are talking
about.
If I am around a computer while I am watching
the movie and if I really feel like learning.
I will write down a bunch of words they used
in each scene and then look them up and then
re watch the same scene until I can make out
each of the words.
The hardest part of conversation in any foreign
language is distinguishing each of the words
as separate words instead of hearing them
as big a mush of sounds.
Listening to movies over and over again will
help you do this.
That is more realistic and how we would naturally
learn the language.
As a tip Disney movies tend to speak a little
slower spanish if you want to begin with one
of those.
Now you might have to buy some of the movies
and I will link to those movies in the description
below.
Reading Books out loud
Wouldn't it be great if we just had a friend
to talk with us in spanish that wouldn't judges
us, wanted to speak spanish constantly.
Well the next best thing I found is reading
out loud a book in spanish.
I will link to some spanish books in the description
below.
Reading a book out loud will help you become
accustomed to speaking and hearing yourself
speak correct Spanish.
believe me this will help a ton to conversation
in spanish.
Killing down time with Music
If you really want to learn spanish you have
got to be listening and speaking as much as
possible.
Now don't burn yourself out but start listening
to music in spanish.
The good thing about spanish music is that
it is often slower than spoken spanish most
of the time.
I will link to below some of their popular
songs that I like.
So go listen to some of those songs, download
the ones you like and then look up their translations
so when you are listening to them in your
car or whenever you know what they are singing
about.
You can listen to spanish music in the morning
or during your bedtime routine.
Listen to them in your car or on the way to
work.
Audible books and podcasts
Some people say listening to spanish while
you sleep helps you learn it.
It might help a little but listening to it
AS you fall asleep will help.
You should go online and download a podcast
like this one: News in slow spanish.
Its cool you just listen to the current events
in slow spanish.
And my favorite is going to bed listening
to your favorite books in audible spanish.
I will link to those in the description below.
The more you do things like this the faster
you get to speaking conversation spanish.
Speaking Spanish with Someone
Eventually you will need to speak spanish
with an actual person in conversation.
I would invite a spanish speaking friend or
acquaintance to lunch and offer to pay on
the condition that you speak spanish the whole
time and that he overlooks most mistakes,
and only corrects major mistakes or helps
when you are stuck on what to say.
You can also go to an authentic sit down spanish
restaurant and let them know you only want
to speak in spanish to the waiter or waitress.
And you know they have to go along with it
if they want a good tip!
Then build a rapport with the waitress and
go in from time to time and just speak spanish.
Tip well and you will get better participation.
I promise you they will respect it even if
you make a ton of mistakes and most will just
go along with it.
Recommended Courses
Now it may seem like I am completely against
taking courses.
I'm not, unfortunately, to train our adult
minds a new language we do have to study spanish
through courses.
I will link to a few of my favorite spanish
softwares below.
I recommend them for their voice recognition
capability to get you speaking spanish.
Cone Azucar o leche.
Con Ambos por favor.
The best advise I got to learn to speak spanish
was, the first person to make 10,000 mistakes
will be the first person to learn how to speak
spanish language so don't burn yourself out.
If it ever becomes too much just put down
the books or in your case the online material
and focus on the fun parts.
Go watch a movie in spanish or turn on spanish
music, turn on a sports game with spanish
announcers.
But push through the hard times with some
of the fun stuff and one day you'll start
speaking spanish.
I have links to great spanish books, courses,
movies, materials, and music in the description
below.
And if you will do me one last favor.
Haz Clic en "Me Gusta" y "Suscribirse".
Que les vaya bien!
