improve my spanish

My spanish use to be so good when i was younger. i would spend about three months in Mexico with my relatives every summer until i was about 15, i’m now 22. now that im older and my little sister is around, my spanish has decreased because my mom doesnt speak to me in spanish anymore.

The job i have requires me to speak spanish which is a good start because my little spanish speaking kids help me as do their parents. :)

I am currently living and working in Spain. I am working on this goal everyday! :)

I’m taking the Spanish course after two years. I’ll have French at the same time, so I might get mixed up with those two languages, but I hope to learn something. I know only basic stuff so my Spanish isn’t that good at all.

I don’t want to call this goal done because I’m hardly bilingual, but even just hearing the language a couple times of day, listening to a song, and reading a newspaper article here and there seems to be keeping Spanish in my brain.

I stayed in Spain for 5 months and studied Spanish for 6 months before going. Now I read and understand, but not fluent and not upper-intermediate level.

I did it. I found some call Spanish podcast to learn Spanish. Even though I’d prefer to practice my Mexican Spanish, for now I will stick with the podcasts I have discovered. So far I’ve been listening to “Notes in Spanish,” which features Spanish from Spain, but I love the hosts of the show. Marina, the native Spanish speaker, has a beautiful accent. I think it is important to hear Spanish spoken from a native. On the other hand, I disliked Insta Spanish Lessons, which does not feature a native speaker. Her Spanish is really atrocious to me, especially when I am trying to perfect my own American accented Spanish. In any case, maybe it’s a “different strokes for different folks” thing. The podcasts are perfect for morning and evening traffic rides alone in the big city!

Today I decided that my Spanish sucks. I grew up with the stuff but never acquired it completely. I’m thinking for now I’d like do some daily journaling in Spanish to get back into the swing of things and maybe even rock some podcasts in Spanish. Maybe someone knows of a good free instructional Spanish type of program I can upload onto my Ipod??

The main reason i want to improve my Spanish is because most of my family speaks it. For some of them it is their only language. When i speak to my grandparents i feel as though i can’t think of what to say because it does not sound right.

This weekend we went to a part at my aunts house. I spoke mostly Spanish to all my aunts and uncle. I realized that my Spanish is not as bad as thought it was. Considering I learned it when i was little, it is still not as good and it used to be or where it should be but i am getting there little by little.

haha I am spanish but I think I’ve let my family down when I say something incorrectly

I was born speaking Spanish.
Like, it’s my first language.

I was born in Venezuela so yeah.

BUTTT, I started learning english from a very early age, cause my dad lived in Arizona for quite a while and he always spoke to me in english, and my mom always spoke to me in spanish, so I started distinguishing both and replying to them in different languages. But spanish was always my main language.
Until I moved away when I was nine.
My dad got transferred to Malaysia and I went to an International school with an American curriculum, so I spoke english all the time there. and so my spanish started deteriotating slowly, but surely.

And now I live in Australia and I barely speak it anymore =(

And that sucks because it feels like I’m loosing my heritage along with it.

Que peo…

So I am going to start speaking it with my family again; cause they’re the only ones that speak it here.

And it’s not like I can’t understand it, I can understand it perfectly. And I can read it and write it too, but it’s just the speaking part that messes me up, because the vocab is all gone now.

Pero estoy determinada en hacer esto antes de Diciembre. No voy a hablar mas ingles con my familia.

=D did anyone understand that last bit? =D