Practice Spanish

I used to be really great in Spanish, almost fluent and then I let it get away from me. I know I can get back to that level with practice, I just need to practice and find a place and situation to do it. Maybe moving to Mexico… :)

Volver, Quinceañera, Maria Full of Grace, The Sea Inside, The Crime of Padre Amaro, All About My Mother, Live Flesh, Amores Perros, L’Auberge Espagnole, Nosotros Los Pobres, Ustedes Los Ricos, El Mariachi, Tango, Belle Epoque, The Holy Girl, Elsa and Fred, Son of the Bride, Bombon The Dog, Valentin, Intimate Stories, The Lighthouse, A Less Bad World, and many more.
You can also find documentaries in Spanish with subtitles, like An Inconvenient Truth, March of the Penguins, and many of the National Geographic dvds.

well, I read little James spanish baby books…and I read through some parts of a spanish phrase book…better than nothing

I’m doing this right now! and I did it a little bit yesterday too!

I need to find my rosetta stone disc

since I’ve been watching lots of Almodovar lately :) also talking with a couple of the Spanish instructors in Spanish here and there… I’m going to get out the big yellow grammar review book and start going thru it for my summer review, plus continue with movies :)

I think thats about all you CAN do to learn a foreign language is just to practice and keep repeating yourself. I dont know if I’m some kind of a freak or something but I LOVE to study languages! lol Just knowing that I’m learning something new and becoming more fluent excites the hell out of me! hehe

I took four years of high school Spanish and got very, very good at it. In fact my teacher trusted me enough a few times to teach her first year class (whilst the substitute supervised) while she was gone because she did not want them to fall behind. I put so much effort into it, it’d be a shame to lose some skill. I can still easily read it and write it, but learning to speak and interpret what you hear, is difficult. I think I’ll watch some movies in Spanish, with and without English subtitles, and then in English in Spanish subtitles, to help. I think I’d also like to obtain some advanced Spanish textbooks (I used to have some old ones that were great, got them from my old teacher). Reading every day Spanish will also help, I think.

too embarrassed to practice. one of those things everyone means to do, but because of certain chauvinisms in our society, few have the social wherewithal to do.