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| nazehner Newbie United States Joined 4946 days ago 9 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 6 28 March 2012 at 5:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I am intermediate Spanish speaker roughly around a 6 or 7 out of 10. I live in the
Dominican Republic and work as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I would like to be a 9 or a 9.5 by the time I leave, in roughly one year. My plan: Finish Michel Thomas: Vocabulary Advanced Course Language Builder Penton Spanish Vocabulary Course Finish Breaking out of Beginner's Spanish and Finish all of Platiquemos What do you think? Where would this probably get me? Thanks for your advice! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Superking Diglot Groupie United States polyglutwastaken.blo Joined 6647 days ago 87 posts - 194 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 2 of 6 29 March 2012 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I won't tell you what to do, but if I were in the same situation as you, here is my plan:
Talk to as many Dominicans as possible on a daily basis Listen closely to their conversations to hone my listening skills Repeat x100000 Take advantage of being in a Spanish-speaking country; those books will be there when you get back to the US, the people will not. That's not to say you shouldn't use them at all, they'd be a good supplement to reconcile what you're hearing with what you already know and build upon it. But I'm a 9 out of 10 in Spanish and trust me, it would have happened a lot faster if my immersion had come sooner and been more complete like it can be for you in this situation. The books can only get you so far, and in fact, the immersion will be a really good indicator of where you really are. Five years ago, I THOUGHT I was an 8/9 in Spanish until I had to speak it and realized I was maybe a 6, tops. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5266 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 3 of 6 29 March 2012 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
1,000% agree! The books and study materials are your supplements. Your main resource should be the Dominican people. Instead of listening to Michael Thomas, you should be talking to Miguel and Tomás. That's how the author of "Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish" learned his Spanish whilst living in Mexico- then, afterwards, he wrote a book about it. Speak as often as you can whilst you're there. Ask for corrections. Avoid English as much as possible. You're in a great situation for language learning. Edited by iguanamon on 29 March 2012 at 3:50pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sam88 Newbie India Joined 4621 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 4 of 6 04 April 2012 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi,
there are lot of sites that provide the source for learning the new language,they provide the basic,intermediate and advance course for study. -------------- Debra Fine 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5277 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 5 of 6 07 April 2012 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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1.) Talk to a lot of native speakers, especially monolinguals who can't handhold you with English.
2.) Drop the course materials and move onto native literature: magazines, news articles, TV, radio, novels, short stories, poems, etc. Everything can teach you new syntax, stylistics, and vocabulary. Practice what you read in written language in an oral context to see if it sounds natural or too formal, and then shift to more colloquial forms while retaining the formal forms in your reading/writing inventory. 3.) Good luck! 1 year is more than enough time for fluency in Spanish given immersion. It may be enough even for a language as hard as Chinese, but for Spanish it is certainly more than enough. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7209 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 6 of 6 08 April 2012 at 12:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I agree with everyone else about taking advantage of your immersion situation. I do think you might get some benefit out of the FSI Basic Spanish course as a supplement. It's available for free at http://fsi-language-courses.org/.
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