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09-21-2006, 03:16 PM | #1 | ||
Minion of Satan
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Tips on studying foreign languages??
I'm taking a Spanish class. I need two intermediate credits to graduate from college. I just took my first quiz of the semester and totally bombed it.
The thing I hate about studying languages is that they just flat-out do not stick with me. Granted, I'm not a huge studier, but even when I do, it just goes in and out; it doesn't stay with me. What the fuck do I do? Do I start studying 4 hours a night? Do I just give up? Do I make a book of flash cards? WHAT THE HELL DO I DO?? Good grief.
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09-21-2006, 03:17 PM | #2 |
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Work hard, keep it up, I know you can do it.
And my final piece of advice, try not to get a partner in class whose breath smells like human feces.
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09-21-2006, 03:28 PM | #3 |
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Depends on your learning style - do you remember stuff from class better than stuff you study on your own?
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09-21-2006, 03:28 PM | #4 |
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The best way I found to learn Spanish was to get completely into it. Speak it, read it, write it, etc. Try to find someone you can have conversations with and ask your teacher for any good books that would be good for a beginner. When you start you have to constantly look things up and translate them, but after a while you start to understand the meaning once you see the word and it starts becoming more fluent...you start thinking in the language rather than seeing a word and translating it.
Although look at the good it did me, I can barely remember 10 words in Spanish now. You just have to keep at it, practice it like an instrument until it becomes comfortable. |
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09-21-2006, 03:29 PM | #5 |
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Also I'd suggest getting interactive computer games and stuff to help you learn it. I had this cheesy kid game where you have to like solve puzzles and whatever but it really did help me.
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09-21-2006, 03:32 PM | #6 |
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it really helps just talking with people who are fluent in spanish and just trying to speak with them in the language. you are forced to pick it up, you can even mix some english into it if you feel like it, but as long as you can somewhat keep up in a conversation then its easier to understand the language.
then again you need the basics, which you should just study a bit. its hard to study spanish without someone speaking it to you. its not hard to find fluent spanish speakers here in california. |
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09-21-2006, 03:38 PM | #7 |
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I had to learn french pretty quickly when i went an stayed there for a few months, and to help learn it a little quicker, i made sure that i learned about a particular theme, for example vocabulary to do with describing yourself. I practiced that, all the while grounding it in something i know very well. I find that if you approach a language as a whole, you learn a lot less than if you break it up into little scenarios... While you are learning it, you feel like you are biting off the tiniest bit of a spanish pie, but you will come across words and sentence structures that you recognise as you go on. Try not to flat out memorise stuff, try and see the rule behind it.
What part are you struggling with? the vocab? Grammar? Also, if you know any spanish speaking people, get them to help in exchange for something you can do, or for free if you are a charming sea dog... Yarr. |
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09-21-2006, 04:52 PM | #8 |
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i hate flash cards, they are stupid, and so cliche.
however. the last semester of spanish, i started using them, and my grades increased dramatically. |
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09-21-2006, 09:03 PM | #9 | |
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good luck.
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09-21-2006, 09:16 PM | #10 |
Minion of Satan
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I was about to say something and then I realized how I have no business saying anything to anyone about learning foreign languages.
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09-21-2006, 09:16 PM | #11 |
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immersion
move to mexico |
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09-21-2006, 09:17 PM | #12 |
Minion of Satan
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go to said country
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09-21-2006, 09:19 PM | #13 |
Minion of Satan
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reverse clock to childhood. learn language.
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09-21-2006, 10:57 PM | #14 |
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IMMERSION.
I studied Spanish for 4 years, and when I was given at class of 3rd grade latino children, I simply had to speak it, and got really good at it. I am studying Mandarin Chinese now and the only way I can practice is to go to Chinatown and just talk to people. It is embarassing, it is humbling, but it is also really really helpful. |
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