Even 5 minutes made an incredible difference. The only money I directly spent on learning Spanish was ~$16 for the 501 Spanish Verbs book I think that was an awesome decision, because the biggest thing I did to really open up Spanish for myself was: I familiarized myself with the conjugation patterns and uses very early, in roughly this order: the present, 2 past, and 2 future tenses (technically one 'future tense' is just ir + a + infinitive, not an actual tense). I still look things up daily, still make mistakes when I write to my friends, still can't express everything I want to say as fluidly as I want to, but I'm able to do everything that I want to do with the language with some delay. These days, I read articles and watch videos on the things I'm interested in, in Spanish, and am starting to study Korean from Spanish. I recommend at least doing something, though, which I definitely didn't do sometimes. (Being conversational was a goal, so I started conversing very early with patient people, for example.) Because I was enjoying myself, I spent a couple of hours a day on it. I did fun things, and did things that were in line with my eventual goals from the very beginning. I looked up when I started with Spanish - 6/2017, so I'm 13 months in. You’d also be able to read most young adult books and articles in the newspapers. Provided many of those hours included speaking with a native speaker and you’d be able to have conversations with just about anyone about most topics that interest you. Compared to where I was 7 months ago I’ve made a lot of improvement.Īnyway, if you want to learn you can definitely do it, but you definitely gotta think of it in terms of just pure hours. I still struggle with my speaking if I try do deliver sentences with too many verbs that need conjugating, but my comprehension has gone up dramatically during my italki conversations and I can communicate pretty much any idea I want (albeit roughly and with errors).
#REDDIT LEARN SPANISH TV#
TV shows are generally too fast for me to understand though as well as most movies. I can understand spanish YouTube videos for the most part and a lot of podcasts-I basically just use native materials in the car now instead of Glossika/Pimsleur. I can’t read a novel without a lot of help, but I can read intermediate materials pretty easily (worked my way through most of the Berserk manga translated in Spanish, finished El Principito, and I’m almost done with a translated version of Watchmen). Within the last 7 months I’ve seen a lot of improvement. I also used LingQ to help me get into reading before I hit a level where I could do it more on my own. In addition, I read Fluent Forever and really got into Anki-I now “mine” sentences whenever I’m working through written material and spend about an hour a day doing my Anki flash cards to boost my vocabulary and grammar.
#REDDIT LEARN SPANISH PLUS#
I started using my commute to run through Pimsleur and Glossika (2 hours each day) plus I discovered iTalki and started scheduling 5 hour long conversations a week with tutors. This year I sat down and really reviewed my goals and designed my day-to-day around Spanish. Afterwards I basically wasted 2 years by studying way too little-every week I would speak about 1.5 hours of Spanish with my old teacher using Skype and I would do about 10 minutes a day with the Spanish Brainscape app.
I started by doing a 6-week, 4 hour-a-day intensive lessons immersion trip which gave me a strong grasp on the basics, but my Spanish was still very terrible. I’m 33 and have been studying Spanish for a few years.
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