| Step 1: Get a Home Study Course There's just no | | | | turn on the English subtitles and sit there with your |
| getting around the fact that you're going to have to | | | | dictionary--the KEY is to try to repeat everything you |
| spend some money on your own education if you're | | | | hear the actors say! You know what you're saying |
| really serious about learning Spanish especially if you're | | | | since you've got the subtitles on and if you do this |
| really in a hurry and don't have time to sample | | | | enough you'll start to get certain little phrases, words, |
| everything out there. Personally, for this purpose, I like | | | | and patterns that are common in daily conversation |
| Synergy Spanish (see bottom) because it's specifically | | | | ingrained into you. Step 4: Spanish Childrens Books |
| designed to get someone has proficient in simple daily | | | | These are great for teaching you basic Spanish |
| conversational Spanish as quickly as possible, it can be | | | | reading/writing skills because they're specifically written |
| completed in a few days to a couple weeks | | | | for people with very limited vocabulary and language |
| (depending on how hard you want to work at it) since | | | | skills, aren't they? Except in our case it's adults |
| it's only 68 lessons that are 10 minutes long each, it's | | | | beginning to learn Spanish instead of young |
| only $49, and it's almost entirely audio (it does include | | | | Spanish-speaking children. They're available free down |
| an e-book) so you can listen to it in the car. Step 2: | | | | at your local public library OR online at places like: Step |
| Talk to Yourself in Spanish Carry a Spanish-English | | | | 5: Practice with a Native Speaker! This is one of the |
| dictionary with you everywhere you go (they make | | | | most important things you need to do for your Spanish |
| pocket dictionaries so there's no excuse!), and | | | | and it's the one that people like to avoid like the |
| whenever you're thinking or saying something to | | | | plague--look, if you need to prepare to talk with |
| yourself ('Where's the milk at?') try to remember to | | | | Spanish-speaking natives, what do you think one of |
| figure out how to say that same thing in Spanish | | | | the best things is that you can do? How about actually |
| ('¿Donde está la leche?')--you'll learn probably | | | | practicing your Spanish WITH a Spanish-speaking |
| 20 or 30 new phrases in Spanish everyday if you will | | | | native? If you don't have any friends that are native |
| just commit and do this consistently. Step 3: Watch | | | | Spanish speakers then there's lots of sites online like |
| Those Telenovelas (Spanish-language soap operas)! If | | | | Friends Abroad where you can meet someone online |
| you get cable or satellite I can almost guarantee you | | | | who's from a Latin American country and needs |
| that you get a Spanish/Latino channel that plays these | | | | someone to practice their English with and will be glad |
| things all day long (they're VERY popular in Latin | | | | to help you with your Spanish in return. |
| America, much more so than our soaps); you can just | | | | |