I’ve spent a big part of the past 30 years in Spanish-speaking countries, and I’ve been a full-time resident of Panama for seven. I figure it’s time to learn to speak Spanish.
I studied French, not Spanish, in high school and college. A year or so after graduation, I took my first trip to a Spanish-speaking country, Costa Rica. I packed a phrase book and boarded the plane without any concern that I didn’t speak even a little of the language of the country where the plane was headed. Ah, youth.
Over the next couple of years, as I returned to Costa Rica often and began traveling as well to Nicaragua and Guatemala, I figured I’d pick up the Spanish I needed as I went along. How hard could it be?
By my late 20s, I finally realized that I wasn’t going to get this through osmosis. If I wanted to learn to speak Spanish (as I did), I was going to have to study Spanish.
I bought a language program on cassette (remember, this was the early ‘90s) and listened in my car during my daily commute. I bought Spanish Made EZ textbooks, watched children’s programming on television when traveling in Spanish-speaking countries, and ran through verb conjugations in my head at night when I couldn’t sleep.
All of which is to say that I still don’t speak Spanish. Not really. One of my 2015 New Years resolutions is to fix that, finally. My husband Lief and I are planning to reposition ourselves back in Paris by the end of this year. This is my window for serious Spanish study before I have to try to remember my French.
The best way to learn a new language is to get a boyfriend (or girlfriend) who speaks only that language. That ship has sailed for me.
The next best way to learn a new language is to engage a private tutor you like. Someone you look forward to spending an hour with a few times a week and who forces you to take your studies seriously. I’ve tried hiring Spanish tutors in the past. A couple of years ago, I tried private lessons with a young girl, but she was too intimidated by our age difference to crack the whip on me. Other tutors have over-focused on grammar, while I’m more interested in mastering conversation.
Then Finally I got the Synergy Spanish a Spanish Learning System where i get all my spanish learning tutorial & stuffs that helps me to master the spanish language conversation.
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