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| NoChance Newbie United States Joined 5361 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 1 of 3 25 March 2010 at 2:03pm | IP Logged |
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So I'm currently living in South Korea saving a bundle working as an English teacher. When I finish my contract next March I'll have a fair amount stashed away. After a brief stint back home in the states, I hope to head to South America for around year, with the goal of achieving Spanish fluency (which for me does not entail perfection, just complete ease in speaking and understanding).
First my background. I have never truly studied Spanish, but I lived in France and Brazil, learning French and Portuguese, respectively. I'm by no means fluent in either, but language similarities have made Spanish relatively easy to understand and pick up. I'm currently working through Rosetta Stone and will work on vocabulary and verbs separately. Hopefully by the time I get to South America, I will be at an intermediate level. Suggestions welcome, here. :) So I have a year starting around July 2011, and will have maybe $10-15K. I've been thinking around 4 months of immersion classes in Santiago and then getting involved in an internship/volunteer project (business related, hopefully), and spending the last few months working my way up through Latin America and back to the US. What do you think? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5425 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 3 26 March 2010 at 3:47am | IP Logged |
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When I say LA I thought "Los Angeles" and I was going to reply telling you not to go there at all :P
Sounds pretty good, you know some Romance languages to a decent level and you are currently studying it, so by July 2011 I'd think you'd be pretty good at Spanish. ¡bueno suerte amigo! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5989 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 3 of 3 26 March 2010 at 4:34am | IP Logged |
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It might be cheaper to create your own immersion environment with movies, books, and audiobooks, rather than 4 months of classes. If you're not going until mid-2011, then you have a long time before you go. Through self-study and home immersion, you could be highly proficient in Spanish before you get there. That way, you could have a lot more fun when you're there, and spend more time practicing your speaking.
There are lots of interesting study methods listed in the forums here, and I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to help out if you wanted to start before you go. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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