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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4909 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 9 of 12 16 June 2013 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm in a similar boat. I had a series of bad school experiences in Spanish and I have hated it ever since. It doesn't help that I have never liked the sound of the language nor felt any affection whatsoever for its culture/countries.
Since I've never gotten over this, I'm not sure I can offer you any advice except to look for the things that you do like about the language. Sure classes may turn you off now, but if you had complete control over the curriculum would that help? If you have the ability to choose to practice with native or at last fluent speakers, would that encourage you? Lastly, I have to advise to consider whether or not learning Spanish is for you. Just because it's "important" or beneficial doesn't mean that you have to dedicated hundreds of hours of your life to learning it. If some other language strikes your fancy, I'd say just study that one. That's what I have done and I've never regretted it for a moment. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6512 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 12 17 June 2013 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I haven't had teachers screaming at me, but of course some were below par. For instance I had once written a hardcore structuralist analysis of a French poem (as far as I remember it was "El Desdichado" by Nerval), but unfortunately the recipient who had to judge it was a teacher with her main interest in some vaguely psychoanalytic 'human interest' angle, and that kind of endlessly babbling pseudoanalysis was not exactly my style so we were definitely not on the same wawelength. She rejected it, and I published it in the institute magazine. 1-1.
I dropped a conversation class in French where the teacher was a little leftist lady, who didn't even try to understand what I wanted to say if it didn't fit into her universe. On the other hand I had surprisingly good relations to my teachers and most of my fellow students while I studied comparative literature, even though I probably was the last staunchly non-socialist person left at an institute where the majority of the teachers and students were supporters or members of the Communist Party or other leftwing organizations (this was in the early 70s). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6965 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 11 of 12 17 June 2013 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
Time and an upcoming trip to where the language is spoken has helped me to get over the unpleasantness (or at least hold my nose) described here For related discussion, see the following: Ever fallen OUT of love with a language? Ex-Languages: reasons for divorce? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5537 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 12 of 12 18 June 2013 at 10:41am | IP Logged | |||||
The best way to overcome bad experience is to have good experiences with the language. Fortunately you don't have to deal with that teacher anymore so why worry? It's useful to realize that success in language learning is only in your own hands. Sure, it's great to have an inspirational teacher but it's not necessary. Just start learning and be kind to yourself. Read this forum and try out new methods for study.
That's a great start. You have a reason to learn it. Now start studying, find about methods people use, read the logs here to see how other people are doing it, search for interesting input in Spanish to make it enjoyable. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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