I am planning on traveling abroad and i really want to learn Spanish enough to speak fluently. I took two years of Spanish in middle school but it did nothing but give me some vocabulary knowledge. I looked at Rosetta Stone but it costs way too much. What is the best software to learn Spanish, especially Latin American, that won’t cost a fortune?
Go to a Spanish speaking country! or, go to anyplace that teaches English as a second language and talk to the students anout speaking Spanish with you. Watch Spanish television, like Sabago Gigante or any of them. Read Spanish newspapers that are always in Spanish markets or stores. Listen to the Spanish TV on programs such as I have named, because there is no plot to follow and you can get an idea of the meaning of words. It may be difficult , because in Spanish it is not spoken as English is spoken here, In Spanish, the words are supposed to flow into each other, whaer as here we enunciate each syllsbyle. In Spanish a consonant at the end of a word is not stressed as it is in English. That is why Spanish speakers have a problem with words like has,, had and have. They do not concentrate on the hesitant stop in English and prefer to have the words flow. Also, go to the library and it is free to check our Spanish courses. Just listen until it becomes familiar to you. You can learn vocabularly in many ways, books, CDs, etc. If you start to speak, the Spanish are very helpful and are complimented that you have made an effort. You don’t need to know how to give the Gettysburg address. I speak Spanish and when I don’t have the word, "Yo invento" or say several words and it works. My grammar is terrible, but I say " Yo no hablo Espanol, pero yo no tengo gramatica, pero yo mucho gusto hablar Espanol. Y yo no conoco bastante palabras!!! Just talk and listen you are younger than I am and have more time! Muy bueno
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Go to a Spanish speaking country! or, go to anyplace that teaches English as a second language and talk to the students anout speaking Spanish with you. Watch Spanish television, like Sabago Gigante or any of them. Read Spanish newspapers that are always in Spanish markets or stores. Listen to the Spanish TV on programs such as I have named, because there is no plot to follow and you can get an idea of the meaning of words. It may be difficult , because in Spanish it is not spoken as English is spoken here, In Spanish, the words are supposed to flow into each other, whaer as here we enunciate each syllsbyle. In Spanish a consonant at the end of a word is not stressed as it is in English. That is why Spanish speakers have a problem with words like has,, had and have. They do not concentrate on the hesitant stop in English and prefer to have the words flow. Also, go to the library and it is free to check our Spanish courses. Just listen until it becomes familiar to you. You can learn vocabularly in many ways, books, CDs, etc. If you start to speak, the Spanish are very helpful and are complimented that you have made an effort. You don’t need to know how to give the Gettysburg address. I speak Spanish and when I don’t have the word, "Yo invento" or say several words and it works. My grammar is terrible, but I say " Yo no hablo Espanol, pero yo no tengo gramatica, pero yo mucho gusto hablar Espanol. Y yo no conoco bastante palabras!!! Just talk and listen you are younger than I am and have more time! Muy bueno
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get Rosetta Stone because it emerges you in the language and i don’t think you should compare it to english
for example if you were learning japanese in english you can say stupid idiot etc. but there is just one word for it (baca) and even though it is still in America in hawaii you would only say aloha for hello and bye
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Hi,
Rosetta stone is probably not worth investment, although it is a good program. It is very good for teaching vocabulary, but not so good for building conversational skills. I agree that it is overpriced.
For less priced alternatives my personal favorites are Pimsleur Spanish or Rocket Spanish. Both programs encourage speaking right from the first lessons. That is probably what you need.
Pimsleur is audio only course, perhaps little too academic, but still effective.
Rocket Spanish is designed particularly to teach Latin American conversational Spanish and has audio lessons + software for grammar, verbs, flash cards and so on.You can download it for less than 100 usd.
If you are still not sure which Spanish software is better, here is a link to comparison of all Spanish courses and links to free lessons for most of the programs.
http://learn-spanish.learninglanguagedirectory.com
Good luck!
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rosetta stone software is indeed valid, but the price tag, but now there are many channels can be purchased online, recommend you a site, the above things is not bad.
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http://www.discountrosettastone4u.com
Hi! I am 16 years old and I am from Spain. In the school they didn’t teach me english so I had to learn it by myself, what I did? I started to hear a lot of american songs and traduce them, I learn a lot of vocabulary, so, start to listen spanish music. Here u have the most famous spanish music:
http://www.los40.com/
Later I started to see all the movies in english, I mean the original movie without dubbling, so u can see the films u like in spanish dubbling, search them in this web:
http://www.peliculasyonkis.com
And I started to speak with american people in chats so I learn A LOT of english and slung too, so join TUENTI which is a spanish web like FACEBOOK but only for spanish, to join here somebody have to send u an invitation I can but I need your e-mail, here u have my e-mail, you can send me messages, I will help you with spanish but my messenger doesn’t work I only can write messages =(.
helen_in_heaven@hotmail.es
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Although Rosetta stone is expensive I would reccomend it. or get a spanish/english dictionary.
hope I helped! <3
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