Are you fluent in spanish?

Question

are you

Answer 1

I have no idea what the 'real' definition of fluent is, it's such a moving target anyway. As CalvoViejo said, I can spend a lot of time talking with people, and I know I make mistakes, but I'm still conversing.

I do know that I would drive a Spanish Teacher bat crazy because I have focused on learning how to speak Spanish and have not focused on learning grammar as much.

This very weekend I had three Hispanos on three different occasions tell me, "your Spanish is very good". One lady asked my wife "when are you going to speak Spanish like Jack. He is very good". Kind of embarrassing for white bread like me, but fun nonetheless.

I would never consider myself fluent, there are just so many words that I don't know, and I'm probably horrible at grammar, but, on the other hand, someone else may consider me pretty close to fluent.

As a sidebar, today at church this lady from the Dominican Republic was visiting her sister, and she brought her over to me to introduce us. Now, neither of these ladies speak English, but our 'common bond ' is, both of us watch the novella Dónde está Elisa?, and this lady's sister's name just happens to be Elisa. We had a lot of fun talking about the novella, and also that 'hey, here's the answer to your question. Elisa is here'.

Sorry about the ramble.... I get kind of excited sometimes

Thanks for sharing, it is great to hear about your experiences. - margaretbl, May 2, 2010

Yo tambien veo Dónde está Elisa. Me gusta mucho las telenovelas sobre - gayland--Smith, May 2, 2010

Answer 2

Sí, lo soy

jejeje! - Rikko, May 2, 2010

True, but your pronunciation is a bit odd. jeje - samdie, May 3, 2010

Answer 3

Define "fluent".

Some people would call me fluent, others would say I'm an early advanced student of Spanish.

I can carry on a conversation in a variety of subjects and spend hours visiting with other people in Spanish without using a dictionary, but I still make mistakes with the subjunctive and have a limited vocabulary in some areas. Does that make me fluent?

Or were you asking for a translation of the question?

¿Habla español con fluidez?

Answer 4

Hablo español bien pero no con fluidez. Creo que estoy mejorando más y más cada día. En mí experiencia hay una problema: hay siempre muchas cosas nuevas que aprender y cuánto más aprendo más me doy cuenta de lo poco que sé. (Comparado que nativos en mí patria) Jajajaja es verdad! Pienso que mi nivel es intermedio puedo conjugar muchos verbos correctamente en varios tensos (presente indicativo, futuro, condicional, pretérito, pasado imperfecto y presente subjuntivo además de perfecto de indicativo con haber y el gerundio) Hablo español con un buen acento y sé como a decir muchas cosas en español con expresiones A pesar de todo este conocimiento que aprendido me siento que sé tan poco todavía porque hay tanto mucho más que aprender. As veces me siento avergonzado que no pueda hablar y escribir español con fluidez todavía porque es la lengua materna de mi país de nacimiento: Perú. lo único que puedo decir en mi defensa es que tuve que salir de Perú cuándo tenía solamente dos años.de edad... y no tenía la oportunidad para aprender español como un nativo de Perú.
As veces - como ahora - me siento desalentado y creo que gustaría ( o debería?) renunciar con aprendizaje de español

I speak Spanish well but not fluently I believe that I am improving more and more in my Spanish each day In My experience there is a problem: there are always so many new things to learn and the more I learn the more I realize how little I know (compared to native speakers in my homeland. of Peru) Hahahahaha... it is true! I think that my level is intermediate. I can correctly conjugate many verbs in various tenses present, future, conditional, simple past and imperfect, present subjunctive in addition to perfect indicative with haber and the present continuous form) I speak Spanish with a good accent and I know how to say many things in Spanish with idioms. In spite of all this knowledge that I have learnt I feel that I still know little because there is so much more still to learn. Sometimes I feel ashamed that I cannot speak Spanish fluently yet because it is the native language of the country of my birth: Peru. The only thing that I can say in my defence is that I had to leave Peru when I was only two years of age and didn't have the opportunity to learn to speak Spanish like a native of Peru. Sometimes -like now - I feel discouraged and feel that I should give up leaning spanish. (Will I ever attain to that elusive level of fluency when the bar for the standard seems to be forever raised?)

un problema - Incógnito, May 2, 2010