Comments on: What are the best resources to learn Spanish?

By: alfredo_lopez_solis

alfredo_lopez_solis — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:35:59 +0000

First things you should know

I'm a Native Spanish Speaker, the best recommendations are:

Don't try to use Vowels "A", "E" "I", "O" "U" like English.
These are pure vowels,
A Sounds like > A/ (Short and without the sound #Ei#, only open your mouth and blow it)
It is very common to recognize the English accent when Speaking Spanish.
R is a big deal for Americans.

R is Short and Strong!!
No RRRRrrrrrrr, In English R is pronounced opening your mouth the closing it slowly, In Spanisk never close your mouth.
Have the same fluency RRRRRR.

O is another big deal for English Speakers
The same recommendation like previous one. (R)

O is only "OOO" , dont say "OOuuu"

For example: Pescado (Cut the O sound), don't say Pescadouuu.

Yor accent depends on Vowels pronunciation.

About consonants

H for us does not have any sound.
If we see Hamburguer, a native spanisk speaker would say
Amburger.
(not like JJJJaaamburguer )

V sounds like B.
In the same way
V does not sound like ffffffVViiii, it sound like Bi

alfredo.lopez.solis@hotmail.com is you have questions.
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By: Peter Brack

Peter Brack — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:02:59 +0000

hi,
Try this new method in order to improve your Spanish.

http://www.LearnSpanishFluently.com

Regards,
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By: ms_twixted

ms_twixted — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:43:59 +0000

You could use Rocket Spanish. You could go to http://bit.ly/zZcXF for more details. Good luck and hope this helps! =)
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By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:26:59 +0000

there is a website called http://www.freetranslation.com
you should try it it will help u
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By: SoxWaWa

SoxWaWa — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:54:59 +0000

I got to know my friend was getting a very direct & impactful learning from 1 site.She share with me that she learn it from http://budurl.com/snish
You can check it out too…
But all i know she really can speak fluent in Spanish now.
All the best.
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By: TexHabsfan

TexHabsfan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:13:59 +0000

immerse yourself with spanish speakers, and if needed, pretend to be from a non-english speaking country =) (for me that's easier because my dad is french)
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By: Ranius

Ranius — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:35:59 +0000

There is a series of learn-by-yourself CDs and books for different languages… wait, just hear me out… that teach you the basics of communication of a language in 3 months and if you're any good, by the end of those three months you'll have learned enough of the language to actually go and talk to people there in mediocrity. The title of a learning-box (1 book + 1 CD) is " in three months" and can be found at mostly any library without purchase (though it depends on the system you're in). Anyway, i can reccomend that thing. It takes you 10 minutes of reading/listening twice per day for 3 months, I'd reccomend in the morning and again in the evening and you can regulate that to make it go faster.

Other than that, going t oa foreign country with no lingual basis at all is suicide. It is a good way of quickly learning a language but you at least need to fall into their line of thinking or learn some basic rules, which will make the rest go much faster.
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By: Kazzol

Kazzol — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:49:59 +0000

Download Rossetta Stone it absolutely amazing.
I used it to learn Japanese and it worked way better than any other service including private lessons.
You can download it for free via torrent, or you can buy it its roughly $400. Definately worth it.
Also another thing you can do to help is watching spanish tv shows with english subtitles, it isn't very effective but it helps.
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Personal experience

By: Kristien

Kristien — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:44:59 +0000

you can just learn it online by going on google and searching for online books and all...
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By: marie

marie — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:12:59 +0000

Rossetta Stone!
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rossettastone.com