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Spanish is hard

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updated May 3, 2008
posted by shayna

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si es muy díficil y eso que soy mexicana

It is very difficult, I'm mexican

I know it because is my native language.

updated May 3, 2008
posted by luzpariseiffel
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Best piece of advice I ever got was to study abroad. Even if you can only afford to go away for 2 weeks and enroll in a Spanish immersion course, it will be better than nothing. It's hard to get the grammar and vocabulary hardwired into your brain unless you have a numerous opportunities to use it in real life situations.

Another way is to do an intercambio (a language exchange) through a site like Language-Exchanges.org or SharedTalk.com. A language exchange is a native Spanish speaker who wants someone to help them improve their English. In exchange, they help you with your Spanish. You can do this via Skype. But you have to have a basic level of Spanish before you can do this. By basic, I mean you need to know a few verbs and have a little bit of vocabulary related to yourself and your everyday life (school, family, work) so you can maintain a short conversation in Spanish. If you don't know any Spanish whatsoever, you're not ready to do an intercambio because you'll wind up talking only in English, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Here's a piece I wrote about doing language exchanges on my blog:

http://spanish-podcast.com/2008/01/30/find-an-intercambio/

Good luck and stay with it! It's definitely worth it. smile

updated May 2, 2008
posted by Voces
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I agreed. Learning a new language is both challenging and required a lot times and dedication. For myself, I have not discover the best way to learn Spanish yet. All the stuff they sell online are suppose to deliver but I try and it only help you a bit. You walk away from it for a while, you loose it. Maybe someone else in this forum might have some better idea to learn a new language.

updated May 2, 2008
posted by Henry-D
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Nah! Spanish isn't hard! You just gotta learn the rules. Everything follows rules in Spanish. Now, English! That's hard! There are rules in English, but nothing seems to follow the rules. I doubt that I would have ever learned English if it wasn't my native language.

On a difficulty scale learning English is about a 5; Spanish is about a 2. I don't know what languages are 1's--probably Tongan and other Polynesian languages, and Esperanto which is an artificial language. At the other end of the scale would be something like Icelandic.

updated Apr 29, 2008
posted by CalvoViejo
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Yeah, spanish is hard, but for me english is hard too raspberry

i'm learning english and sometimes i dont understand anything :(

updated Apr 28, 2008
posted by Matias
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idk but my spanish teacher does not teach me like anything so it's hard to get good grades in that class.

updated Apr 28, 2008
posted by emily2
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whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

updated Apr 28, 2008
posted by shayna