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Learning A New Language

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Can anyone recommend the best/quickest way of doing this? I'm new to learning Spanish but want to up my game doing it

Best?

 

Live there for a year

 

 

Quickest?

 

Go to a class and only speak Spanish.

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So classes would be better than say Rosetta stone?

Women who lives across the road from me has classes in her house..... Think she teaches at Bolton college too.

Chilean?

 

Nah, she's quite friendly.

 

I went to a spanish class, an advanced one :) at the college, try before you buy, liked it, said "where do I sign up and pay my £500?" "your £500?" They said "well, it's up to you how you pay, but if you pay all three terms up front at once you get a discount" - it was £500 a term, £1500 for the year, or about £35 a session if you broke it down...

 

I'll get some CDs.

Rosetta Stone allegedly

Yes I think that's her.....Margarita I think her name is, would be interesting how much she charges at her house, bet its a lot cheaper.

I have to admit, in my brief experience she seemed good, learned a few things in just one session...

 

I reckon' one-on-one it's probably £30-£40 an hour though...

 

My progress has reached a grinding halt as, strangely, I've started occasionally mixing with spanish speaking folk, and I'm so shite at conversational spanish, I don't bother, and have become really disheartened.

 

I might take up Italian instead. :)

Edited by Youri McAnespie

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As I'm travelling in car a lot, maybe Rosetta stone is my best shout

Save yourself the hassle and just speak louder and point at stuff.

And we speak the first language of the globe

 

 

Unless you've fallen for a spanish floosy?

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I want to get a holiday home or eventually move over, the company I work for is due to merge with its Spanish counterpart early next year. Seems a good time to do it.

So classes would be better than say Rosetta stone?

 

Rosetta stone is shite. 

To be fair I thought her work with the Happy Mondays was pretty good

Edited by jules_darby

Can anyone recommend the best/quickest way of doing this? I'm new to learning Spanish but want to up my game doing it

 

Google Instituto Cervantes Manchester if you want to look into lessons rather than doing it yourself.

To be fair I thought her work with the Happy Mondays was pretty good

she's a Munich too.

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Google Instituto Cervantes Manchester if you want to look into lessons rather than doing it yourself.

Nice one, will do.

Book a holiday in a non touristy place to practice. I learned more spanish in 2 weeks in Ezceray and Logrõno in northern Spain than 5 yrs at school.

If you do that, don't do it in deepest Andalucia. Somewhere they speak Castilian Spanish like where andydee went

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Rosetta stone is shite.

 

Can she play as a striker?

Just make sure you're learning the right language for the area you intend to live.

 

Barcelona and the area speak Catalan, not Spanish.

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Just make sure you're learning the right language for the area you intend to live.

 

Barcelona and the area speak Catalan, not Spanish.

Not thought that far ahead tbh.

 

Lots of hurdles to overcome, but opportunities are available. Would just like a command of the language first rather than go then learn.

Similar to what others have said... don't learn South American Spanish if you're intending to use the language in Europe. And you'll learn more by speaking it over there than by doing lessons over here.

I had a bunch of CDs from my dad. Think they were given away in the Daily Mail or Telegraph.

Tried them out myself and was enjoying them during morning and evening commute to work. But never carried on and can't remember anything I learned.

However, at the time, I also scoured the net and there's plenty of freebie stuff out there before you start spending with Rosetta Stone.

 

http://www.notesinspanish.com

(no longer free, but was originally, sure I downloaded quite a few podcasts)

 

http://www.fluentin3months.com/free-podcasts/

Edited by Smiley

Women who lives across the road from me has classes in her house..... Think she teaches at Bolton college too.

Is she fit and HBAHT?

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