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Okay, I probably slaughtered that. I have recently been inspired to pick up Spanish again, thanks to encouragement from a very dear friend of mine, and thanks to the generosity of my dear wife in purchasing this course for me. As I mentioned in my profile...
I studied Spanish in junior college exactly 30 years ago (as of this entry in October of 2015). I enjoyed it thoroughly, received high marks, and planned to continue studying one day. But then life happened. Lots of life -- some bueno, some not so bueno. Well, I'm ready to kick life's tail out of the way and pursue learning it again, this time until any native Spanish speaker would swear I was his/her very pale-skinned hermano!
That about sums up my history and goals, but I wanted to stop in and let you all know that I look forward to learning this beautiful language again, this time for keeps!
Oh, and one more thing: I'm considering starting a blog to chronicle my progress and challenges -- something along the lines of the movie Julie and Julia. If I do, I'll be sure to share the link here once I get a few posts under my belt, in case anyone's interested.
terriH
April 29, 2016
My llamo Terri. Yo quierro hablar espanol!! Estas apriendo.
Dan-H24
April 29, 2016
Dan
vivi-mora
May 27, 2016
I'm new here, I'm learning English and this tool is remarkable. I'm native Spanish speaker so if somebody need help with that I can help you, because I have time and I know that the more important when you are learning any language is have contact direct with native people.
I moved recently to Halifax, I born in Colombia, I'm Web Developer Designer and I want speak English.
Dan-H24
May 29, 2016
Saludos,
Dan
vivi-mora
May 29, 2016
Your Spanish going to good way!!!
Dan-H24
May 29, 2016
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\n¡Espero que oír de tí pronto!
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\nSaludos,
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Danny-C5
July 31, 2016
Hola a todos!!
wrnidea
August 11, 2016
Necesito intercambiar mi ingles con espanol. Aguien?
Muchas gracias por ayudarme.
Contacto por Skype, por favor.
marieg-rocket languages
August 16, 2016
Qué bueno saber que hay muchas personas interesadas en aprender español! :) Recuerden que el Foro de español está siempre disponible para ustedes y si quieren crear un tema para intercambiar ideas o practicar un poco, son más que bienvenidos a hacerlo!
Saludos a todos!
jonnyl1
August 17, 2016
Well it looks like this is it. I'm from the US, but since I've lived in Mexico for 2 years, I'm determined to learn Spanish--and I've tried a couple of teachers.
1) An older, Mexican woman here in my town. She understands both English and Spanish well, and I actually like her program, which involves lots of practice sentences. The small problem was that I had to leave home to go see her every week, and I'm pretty busy since I work from home. The bigger problem? While the idea behind her learning program is, I believe good, I began to notice words slipping into the lessons that we'd never learned. But she proceeded as if we did. No big deal one or two words per lesson; I figured them out. Later there'd be 5 or 6 like that. By Lesson 30? 68 new words--not listed as new--but presumed to be understood and sprinkled throughout the practice. "I think maybe I smoked too much pot the day I made this lesson," was her reply. Jajaja. I liked her, but I thought I'd try something else.
2) I found a bright, young Mexican teacher on iTalki.com. Very sharp, very patient, and I'll say a good teacher. Problem? The program! It consisted of him giving lectures on Skype for an hour, and waiting for me to write down nearly everything he said. Truth is I enjoyed his lectures; found them very interesting. But I never received any kind of practice lessons or drills in which to exercise what he was teaching. When I asked for something like that he very nicely sent me a general book of Spanish drills. I thanked him so much for finding it for me, but (jaja) they didn't have anything to do with what he was teaching me. Ay, ay, ay. After 21 lessons I explained that it wasn't just that I wasn't learning how to speak the language, but that I couldn't understand how I'd ever learn it without practice materials.
I've learned quite a lot just by living here, but I must do better. I have a Mexican girlfriend who's absolutely wonderful, and I want to be able to communicate with her--and everyone else in town at least somewhat fluently. If half the expats in town can do it, so can I!
So here I am. I'm going to plow through and make the most of this. Wish me well.
Hasta luego,
Jonathan
Dan-H24
August 17, 2016
The reason for my interest is that this fall I am spending a month in Costa Rica, studying Spanish in the mornings and traveling, exploring, and photographing the area of the country where I will be staying in the afternoons and weekends. I am purposely staying in a region not heavily visited by tourists, but since tourism is Costa Rica's main industry, I am likely to encounter other English speakers, and I suspect many of the natives speak English as well.
But I am determined to conduct as much of my life in Spanish during that month as possible. I realize the difficulty; it is so much easier and more efficient to slip back into English. But that is the challenge I am setting for myself. I am hoping that a month of immersing myself in Spanish will help me reach my goal of comfortably conversing in the language.