Not a huge fan of Rosetta Stone to be honest, but the important thing is you are making progress and moving forward. You and your sister can definitely do it in a short amount of time 6 months. It just takes consistency and persistence! Thank you so much, I will talk to my dad about the tutor. So, one question, with the tutor what do the classes look like usually? Thank you so much Shannon Roman. Each tutor teaches a different way.
However, I usually would find one that was conversational and corrected my mistakes in Spanish. Though, all are great advices and I am no expert, reading is what I would recommend as a number 1 advice. Since, that is what worked for me when I began learning English more than a decade ago; eventhough speaking is also a great way to learn a language. Hi Leul, to each his own as they say. I am glad reading has worked out for you. I just personally have never used it really to learn Spanish, but it is definitely a great method!
Keep going with that third language. I spent over 25 years reading books in Spanish. I can now read almost any level of Spanish novel or textbook. However, I cannot speak it nor can I understand it spoken. I am attempting to learn how to move from reading and writing to processing the language verbally.
Very difficult as I learned it visually. All my coworkers speak spanish so I practice all day long. My verbal skills are slowly linking with my visual vocabulary. The hardest part is processing the verb tenses.
When reading the tense conjugation is already done for you. When speaking I have to do it. It is quite a leap. Any suggestions for speeding up the process…. Paul, that is understandable and a problem many of our students have. I think you need to find a tutor you like on Italki.
All the best! I have decided to learn Spanish as an adult. I am going to start by using a Spanish Studio. As a beginner I will start in a classroom and I will most likely have a tutor. The studio seems cool because they have book clubs, social gatherings, and lectures concerning the Spanish culture and language.
All of the teachers are native Spanish speakers. I really looking forward to doing this. Gracias por todos los consejos. About to start Notes in Spanish after finishing season 2 of coffeebreak. Enjoyed your article. The one thing you ripped apart that I disagreed with was about formal classes. I started taking Spanish classes in 8th grade. If you include required Language Lab time and homework, I probably had hours all-in.
Your characterization of classroom as passive learning is way off. I had 2 different teachers in high school, and at least 5 more in college, and sitting back and just listening was not something you could do in ANY of those classes. My classes were all extremely interactives.
I also agree strongly that your learning will be much more effective if you use a variety of resources. Hi Rick, thanks for taking the time to read the article and write in. Just for me I had the opposite experience and growing up with 4 years of high school Spanish proved rather fruitless.
But it was partly due to lack of interest… for me my learning took off once I started using some of those other methods outlined. Coffee Break Spanish is fantastic, glad you are enjoying it! Considering this will be my 2nd year in the class and there are 6 different years of it available.. I might genuinely be able to pull off the exam to skip that year of useless Spanish class!! Re: learning Spanish. I think being older, you possess more patience.
By older, I mean, older than the majority of people. You are wise enough to know that we are being forced into pointless competition for the ultimate purpose of consumerism…somebody trying to sell you something, or coerce you into certain behaviour. Keeping things simple is easier as an older adult.
You have been around long enough to know how to keep it simple. You know how to simply ignore the distractions and work away at a task. Would you not be more satisfied with taking your time and learning the basics of a language well, rather than knowing a lot but with only surface familiarity? Leave a Comment Cancel reply. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Going off my own personal experience, I reckon it took about that time, hours. How I studied was fundamental. They are such a passive experience. Studying smarter beats studying harder any day in my book although you need both. My improvement from day 1 to day was tremendous, mainly because of tutors like him.
It is much better to learn full sentences as opposed to just single word definitions. That's assuming you can put in an hour or so a day semi-consistently.
Although that does have value. Next time you think about taking class hours to learn Spanish, think twice. For sure. You can learn at any age so please keep at it. See All Reviews. Currently learning: Greek. Arabic Resources. Spanish Resources. French Resources. Italian Resources. German Resources. Mandarin Chinese Resources. Hindi Resources. Portuguese Resources.
Korean Resources. Japanese Resources. Russian Resources. Other Language Resources. Read time 7 mins. Comments 1. How long does it take to learn Spanish? But how long will it take you to get there? Table of Contents How strong is your motivation to learn Spanish? What resources are you planning on using and how often? How willing are you to connect with Spanish speakers? How many hours will you be dedicating to learning Spanish?
What Spanish level are you hoping to achieve? Get started. Grab the link to this article. Copy Link. Support me by sharing:. Go read my review of LingQ. Another thing in relation to your method of studying Spanish — is when you use these methods. In this case, a little study session each morning and another in the evening equals a much better result than a huge amount of time all at once.
This is because consistency keeps dipping your brain in Spanish. You never get to forget anything, because you always get back to studying and get reminded before the words are gone. Do you study 15 minutes a day? An hour? Maybe two hours? I recommend that you study between 30 minutes and 1,5 hours a day. Less will make your progress very slow and you will have a hard time both adding new material and revising.
You can be hard pressed on how to learn a language on a busy schedule , and it can be difficult to find the time. But spending a huge amount of time can be worse. Go read my blog post about fitting language learning into a busy program. I got obsessed with working as hard as I could for several months, thinking that my progress would be great. I was only saying sentences on command like a parrot, I was not really speaking Arabic. And then it happened: Burnout.
Working too hard takes the fun out of it. In answering how long it takes to learn Spanish, you need to look at your motivations. Over a decade ago when I taught myself French, I studied mostly for fun. This can be OK. I was on an adventure, learning something new and trying to impress myself with achieving something. When it really started working, however, was when I got a clear goal. I got the opportunity to become an exchange student in Paris for 6 months.
The semester were to start half a year later. Working towards an exiting goal like this was great motivation.
I had a whole new life in front of me — or at least it felt like it. Setting goals and planning for the future can be great motivation for learning Spanish. Being able to make friends with almost million Spanish speakers in the world can be another one. You can get by without conversing with Spanish speakers for sure. Researchers have already done the math.
Now what does that mean exactly? The classes are normally small, so the teacher is only shared between students.
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