become fluent in spanish

I have a CD-Rom for Spanish. I found it recently and I finally used it today. I did five activities. I have 12 left. They weren’t too difficult. There were some vocabulary words I didn’t know and they kept using two forms of the future that I am not familiar with. Well, I don’t know any proper forms of the future at all. I can recognize the future when I see it, but I don’t know how to conjugate verbs in any future tenses. I didn’t get that many wrong either.

El sábado pasado hablé en español un paquito con algunos hombres al partido de fútbol.

I have been working more on writing those Spanish verbs in different ways. I emailed my professor about some grammatical Spanish things and for one of them I was just guessing, and I was exactly right. I think that’s crazy! :D

I wrote down three Spanish verbs tonight in the 10 different ways that I know how to use them: present, preterit, imperfect, present perfect, past perfect, subjunctive, present progressive, tú commands, nosotros commands, and Usted/Ustedes commands.

My goal is to do this for every verb possible. It helps because I make myself think and not look the answers up in my textbook.

Last week, I spoke in Spanish with a couple from Bolivia. The woman corrected me once. I didn’t understand everything she said in Spanish, but I think I got the idea. They kept trying to talk to me in English and I only wanted to talk in Spanish. But it was good practice.

Hablé en español con una pareja de Bolivia el jueves pasado.

I might get to take two more Spanish classes in the coming year! I didn’t think that I would be able to, but it looks like I will. How exciting!

I have a Spanish tutor now and I have met with him twice. I did terrible on my first test, but I am hopefully going to bring that grade up significantly.

My Spanish grades have been pretty good. I’m really frustrated right now though because there is so much that I still don’t know or understand. I can’t even put complete sentences together.

I have two Spanish classes this semester. Today, I bought a Spanish dictionary and 501 Spanish Verbs. I actually used my Rosetta Stone the other day too. And I study quite frequently. I’m still unsure of how to put complete sentences together. But I will work on this.