Como saber cuando parar?

Question

Yo estoy muy mal en español, mas quiero aprender un poco para hablar con mis amigas. Cuando estaba hablando con ellas una de ellas me irritó hablando que no preciso tentar mucho para hablar correcto, mas que cuando hablar és necesito que hablo en una meneara que personas poden me entender. O que ella quería decir és que é mucho mas importante para hablar con un acento correcto de que hablar con as palabras correctos. ¿No sé mucho, mas como una persona pode entender o que estoy tentando hablar sen as palabras?

¿O que anchan? ¿Preciso hablar mas correcto para comenzar o preciso conjugar los verbos correcto? ¿Cualquier jeito preciso continuar, mas o que és mas rápido?

También, se escribo algo errado perdone-me. Estoy tentando de mas. Todos os sugestiones san bienes.

¿E, enguanto están ojeando aquí, por favor escribe o que te ayudó o mas enguanto aprendiendo español? ¿O, se ja conoció español, o que te ayudó con el inglés?

How do you know when to stop? - lamlcr, May 24, 2010

Answer 1

Estudia de todo lenta pero perseverantemente y los resultados vendrán por si solos. El acento no te preocupes mucho, eso se desarrolla con la práctica.

Answer 2

It's hard to tell from your post the exact nature of your friend's complaint. One possibility would be that your pronunciation is so awful that they/she simply has no idea what you are trying to say (perhaps, even, that it simply doesn't sound like Spanish). This is fairly unlikely. Even Spanish spoken with a strong English accent (butchering various sounds) is (should be) intelligible to Spanish speaker (with a bit of effort).

If they understand what you are saying (a pronunciation issue) they may, still, be confused about the way you are saying it (grammatical/vocabulary issues). Now we're in the realm of guessing what was intended versus what was actually said. In many cases, this is a problem of the powers of imagination of the listener. Some people are confused/stumped by relatively small deviations from the standard language (or what they expect). Others go through a process of thinking "Well when he said X, he probably meant Y, etc." and manage to "puzzle out" what you intended.

Of the two, pronunciation is the vastly easier problem. Really accurate pronunciation is not easy but understandable/intelligible pronunciation is within the reach of almost everybody (you may sound "foreign" but they'll know what you're trying to say). Grammar is harder to learn (more complicated) but people tend to be less confused by grammatical mistakes than by those of pronunciation. Perhaps, in the case of English speakers, because they are so rarely exposed to grammatically correct English.

Answer 3

I certainly wouldn't stop. What you wrote contained a few errors, but it was understandable. Isn't that the ultimate goal: to communicate?

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