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| RyanStraker Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4735 days ago 3 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 4 16 February 2012 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In school alot of people around me don't know where to begin to start learning a
language, they say that the language is 'too vast', or that there is 'too much' to learn. I am now an advanced Spanish speaker, and I just thought I'd share my technique with the forums. 1. I began by buying a dictionary (Collins unabridged) and a grammar book (Practice makes perfect Spanish grammar). In my opinion these resources are mandatory in the path to success, as you are literally surrounded by Spanish when you learn. It is written down in black and white. 2. I actually went about learning Spanish by splitting 60 minutes into 3, 20 minute sections:
For the vocabulary section, I began by learning greetings, introductions, etc. Later on in the learning process, I learned my vocabulary by reading, listening, pronouncing then writing down the word, including it's gender. Writing it down several times would successfully drill it into my head. For the grammar section, I would work from my grammar book, and link the grammar lesson in with the vocabulary in which I had previously learned in the last 20 minute section. For example, one grammar lesson in the book was a lesson on conjugating regular -ar verbs in the present tense. I then practiced this conjugation on the vocabulary I had learned previously, as this: 1) Focused on my conjugation skills, and 2) Drilled the vocabulary further into my head. I found this technique extremely successful, and I have never used any other method of learning vocabulary and grammar. For the pronunciation, I simply took the lessons offered free on studyspanish.com These lessons are invaluable to the Spanish speaker, as they are of high quality, give a written and audio explanations and they are 100% free. Again, as a way of linking the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation sections, I would practice the pronunciation skills I had gained in the section on the words and sentences I had practices/learned/constructed from the previous two 20 minute sections: vocabulary and grammar. Aswell as learning the language, I practised mainly by keeping a daily journal in Spanish. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6626 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 4 16 February 2012 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| RyanStraker Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4735 days ago 3 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 4 16 February 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
Who's Spivak? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6626 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 4 of 4 16 February 2012 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A Russian polyglot who wrote a book about learning languages. Use the G-search, there have been several threads about him.
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