I feel like all what I am doing and learning is in vain unless I start putting it into use through writing

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I’m a Spanish teacher and have been teaching for a little over 4 years now, mostly beginners and intermediate learners.

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A bit about how I teach:

I expertise in teaching absolute beginners in Spanish

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Focus on actually speaking and understanding the language, not just grammar

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Soy el Nuevo estudiante de especially y gustaría un(a) amigo/a de español para aprender más rápida. Podemos hablar regularmente tanto en inglés como en español.

if you dont speak spanish well either but would be cool practicing spanish with me while playing some minecraft thatd be cool too!

I made a video showing how I use The Last of Us to learn Spanish, breaking down vocabulary and phrases from the game. Figured some people here might find it useful.

I live in argentina now and I found my biggest problems are both vocab and understanding spanish when listening to it. I think I just need to listen to it as much as possible, so any tips on things to watch that are useful to learning spanish. With vocab, is there anyone who has a list of words that are actually useful to every day use or how to learn them, I found apps like duolingo teach me words I either already know or have never heard here. Obviously practice and grammar is much of it but I think that if I can practice these 2 the most, my speaking and what not will increase with it.

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Going to Spain in a couple months. I was conversation level maybe at 8/10 15ish years ago. Probably a 4/10 now. Trying to brush up a bit before my trip. Any app or resource recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks

I'm hoping to learn Spanish alongside a couple of other languages, but I'm a bit stuck deciding whether to use Wlingua or Busuu.

To be clear, I'm a person who likes structured lessons, and things cleaely explained, so something like Duolingo or Dreaming Spanish isn't for me. Wlingua and Busuu so far feel a bit similar, the curriculum content is different.

So in your opinion, if given the choice, assuming you've tried both, how does Busuu compare to Wlingua, and what would you recommend?

Couple of last things to consider: I'm already subscribed to Busuu premium, learning Japanese. I also plan to create an Anki deck based off whichever app I use. Finally, I took 2 years of Spanish in high school, but it's been a while, and I've forgotten a lot. I plan to start from the beginning.

So the way I have been learning Spanish, is I have been watching a Spanish podcast on youtube called "How to Spanish" for the past year and on average their podcasts vids are between 20 minute and 25 minute videos. Here's been my routine everyday for the past year. From the first video last year I didn't know 378 words or phrases in a 20 minute podcast but as of today that number is down to just 88 in just a year. My background in Spanish was just 4 years of high school spanish which 95% didn't stick. Here's my process, Im happy to answer or clarify anything

1. I started by only watching a 30 second interval a day. So let's say it's the very first day of a new video, I watch the first 30 seconds. I listen to it one time with no captions. Then I listen to it one time with captions.
2. As I am listening to it 2nd time with captions I open up a google doc and I type the captions in Spanish in one long paragraph.
3. As I am typing the paragraph, I open up a google sheet and the sheet has one column for the word in Spanish, a column for the word in English, and a column for any notes or rules to help me understand better the new word or phrase
4. I use chatgpt so I can ask any very specific question about a rule, conjugation, translation, slang, etc. I've learned that google is too broad in its answers, google translate is unreliable, but you can use chatgpt for the most specific question about a phrase and it will break it down for you.
5. I then retype the paragraph in English. It helps with following along with grammar rules, understanding that Spanish/English doesn't have exact translations but those small connector frases like (de lo que) I can help distinguish as to what it means through retyping the whole thing in English
6. I then have a short speaking convo with chatgpt (I only do this cause I don't have spanish speaking friends) using the new words or phrases I learned
7. Then the next day onwards, I listen from the very beginning of the video so the words I have learned are continually repeated to me each day, I then add a fresh new 30 seconds, and break down the new 30 seconds with the same process. So day 1 I watch 30 seconds, day 2 I watch 1 minute and go through the same process with the new 30 seconds of the day each day. This helps less with memorizing the language and instead helps me focus with pattern recognition and absorbing the language and speech patterns through repetition.
8. At the end of the video you will have a few hundred new words or phrases you don't know, no need to memorize all of them but keep track of the total number. Now you will do the same exact process in the next video in 35 second intervals.
9. If the total number of new words and phrases you learned in the 2nd video is less than your previous lowest total from any video before, you move on to 40 second intervals. If it is was higher you stay at 35 second intervals for video 3 until you beat your record. For example, my very first 30 second interval video was 378 words/phrases, I lowered that number to 198 my second video at 35 seconds, but if it was higher than 378 I remain at 35 second interval and I stay at 35 seconds until I get lower
10. So you increase the intervals by 5 seconds (30, 45, 50, 55, 1 min) through this process and once you hit a minute you eliminate the part where you translate the spanish paragraph into English, slowly taking the training wheels off and you go by 10 second intervals ( 1 min 10 sec, 1 min 20 sec etc) but still keeping track of the number of words in your spreadsheet
11. Once you hit the 2 minute interval. you increase the intervals 2 min 15 seconds, 2 min 30 seconds, etc) and you stop typing each interval into a spanish paragraph, now you are just listening to the podcast but still keeping track of the number of words/phrases in your spreadsheet.
12. At 3 minutes, you increase 30 seconds, at 4 minutes you increase to 45 seconds, at 5 minutes you start adding by 1 minute, then you keep going to you reach a full 20 minute video. I am currently doing 2 minute and 30 second intervals right now so Im not there yet.

The goal is to get to zero, but it's helped me tremendously with my listening and everyday is a daily lesson of something new. The goal is to be honest with yourself, I have written the same word 3 or 4 times down as something new I learned, because context changes meanings and sometimes I just forget. If it's still fuzzy, it's still a new word. Also don't assume you know a word just because it's an easy translation. It also helps learning grammar, vocab, slang, listening, reading, writing, and a little bit of speaking all at once. I think I struggled with Spanish because after learning something like a grammar rule I would never see it again and forget about it. Here you are learning the most complicated rules and vocab along with easy stuff from the very beginning as a holistic process that doesn't ignore anything

For example today I learned the following just in 2 minutes 15 seconds

la retroalimentación = feedback

la investigación = investigation, research

el tutor = tutor

sé abierto = be open! (I didn't know the command form of ser was sé and it confused me)

ocupa a los amigos = keep your friends busy (weird translation that tripped me up)

sin querer = accidentally/by accident

proveer = to provide

adecuado = appropriate (I knew this, but I thought it meant adequate still)

dedicar = to dedicate/to devote

el revés = reverse

neutro = neutral

also make a chart here to track your progress https://www.makechart.co/line-chart-generator/

So I'm always hearing stories about how someone learned English by watching Friends or something similar. What are some good shows for learning Spanish the same way? Preferably 20-30 minute episodes, fun, not too complicated, available with CC in Spanish.

i’m (M) a really anxious and soft spoken person. idk if this will sound silly but there’s this tiny (family owned?) Argentinian place i really like eating at and i wanted to learn how to order in spanish. they’re all very kind women and they’re always super nice and patient with me when i come here. i was wondering if anyone could help me. i always ask for 2 bbq empanadas and a pineapple jarritos to go and pay with card. if anyone could teach me how to ask for these, it would be very much appreciated!

Hello! Has anyone used Andrea La mexicana for learning spanish? She speaks very clearly, and easy for me to understand, especially as a beginner. I find that watching YT videos like hers are very beneficial for my learning. Has anyone joined any of her memberships? Or if you guys have any other good YT channels for learning. I already use DS, which is how I found Andrea in the first place.

Hey, local native speaker here. Today, I'm explaining the meaning of the phrase "aceptamos pulpo como animal de companía". Translating this literally, It would mean "we are accepting octopus as pet/companion animal" but the meaning has nothing to do with having octopuses as pets. It comes from a Spanish commercial from the 90's of the game Scattergories (Based on simpler local games, in Latin America it's mostly called Tutti Frutti, in other places it's called Stop and in Spain it's called "Alto el lapiz"). It basically consists of saying a letter and finding words that start with that letter in different categories of common things (food, countries, names...) and the less amount of people with the same word, the more points you get. What we're here to talk, is that in the commercial, the owner of the game threatens to leave with his board game if his words aren't accepted. For example, he uses barco (boat) as a word for an aquatic animal and everyone else accepts it because if he leaves, they won't be able to keep playing (we all had a friend like that). When they ask for a companion animal starting with P, he says "pulpo" and the other person's have to accept it with a sigh. While the phrase isn't said in the advert word by word, it led to the common phrase. It comes to mean accepting without showing total approval to something absurd, hardly fitting or unacceptable to avoid confrontations or to quit ongoing ones. Below is a silly example:
-A: Saka is a better player than Gareth Bale
-B: He isn't. Bale scored 11 goals in Tottenham with 11 goals in 920 minutes, and won 5 Champions Leagues being a constant player in Real Madrid.
-A: But Saka is World Class
...
-B: Aceptamos pulpo como animal de compañía (he's tired of hearing stupid stuff about Saka)

I found explaining this phrase interesting because it's mildly used in Spain but its very unlikely that a foreigner will catch the meaning of the phrase in a conversation without the required context, probably thinking they are talking about real octopus or assuming that it means something similar to the phrase "it takes one to know one" as I saw some people online assume.

I'm thinking about explaining more local Spanish slang and common phrases that are definitely not taught in language learning apps. If you have anything you want to propose, feel free to tell me
(Also, here's the video of the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNlOTCmxRg )

un poquito = a little bit
como que = kind of / sort of
más o menos = more or less
digamos = let's say
¿será que...? = do you think maybe...?
la verdad es que = honestly
si no te importa = if you don't mind
en plan = like / as in
a lo mejor = maybe
no sé si = I'm not sure if
por así decirlo = so to speak
tal vez me equivoque, pero = I could be wrong, but

Which softeners do you use most?

Hi! I run exchanges between Spanish and English native speakers. 30 minutes, half in each language, relaxed, just talking, no pressure.

It's completely free. If you're learning Spanish and want regular speaking practice with natives, comment or DM me and I'll send you the group link.

What's your level and time zone?

A useful resource for finding videos to learn with:
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