How To Learn Spanish Online Fast - 5 Steps To Getting Started

Step 1: Determine Your Goal The first thing you shouldto grab a paper dictionary and a wonderful little book
do is ask yourself: what exactly do I want tocalled '501 Spanish Verbs' that has the most commonly
accomplish? Am I going for total native fluencyused verbs and shows their conjugations, very helpful.
(requiring years of work) or do I just want to have aStep 5: Learn at Least ONE New Spanish Word Each
decent grasp of the language so I don't come off asDay--You MUST Commit! Commit to learning at least
completely ignorant when speaking to a nativeone new Spanish word per day--this will be HUGE for
speaker? Also, what is your time frame for learningadding to your vocabulary although it might not seem
this material? Do you have years to work on it or onlylike it at the time. I like to use a site called
a few days or weeks before you go on vacation orSpanish-Word-A-Day who will gladly send you a new
meet your significant other's relatives? Step 2: Get Aword to your RSS feed or to your iGoogle
Home Study Course There's no getting around it:homepage--I know there's other sites that can also
you're going to have to spend some money on someemail you a new one(s) each day as well. The
basic educational materials and this one is probablyimportant thing is to commit to actually doing this, that
going to be the most expensive AND the mostway if you don't get any other Spanish work done that
important. I've used Pimsleur, Rocket Spanish, Berlitz,day then at least you still did SOMETHING if you've
and Rosetta Stone amongst others, and personally Idone this, and it really doesn't take but a few seconds.
liked Synergy Spanish (see my review at the end)Bonus Step: Watch Telenovelas! (Spanish language
better than any of the others, especially for someonesoap operas) One of the best things you can do to
who just needs to get to a basic level of proficiencyimprove your Spanish is to sit down for 30-60 minutes
where they can handle simple day-to-dayeach day and watch a Spanish language soap opera,
conversations and transactions, and they only have acalled a telenovela, which will almost always be
few days or weeks to get there: Synergy uses 68available if you have cable or satellite. Personally, I find
lessons of 10 minutes each so you can complete thethe best thing to do if you have Tivo or something
whole course in a few days or weeks depending onsimilar is to turn on subtitles (Spanish not English) and
how much time you can invest, it's only $49, and ifthen after a character says something pause it EACH
you're in a rush nothing will up your Spanish languagetime and figure out what they said, then repeat it a
skills faster. Step 4: Find a Native Spanish Speakerfew times to yourself until you've got it and could
Who to Talk to It could be a friend, it could beunderstand it if you heard it again at full speed, then
someone you met through a site such as Friendsunpause it and continue to do this. You might only get
Abroad, it doesn't matter just so long as you have athrough 5 minutes worth of the show in 30 minutes, but
native speaker to converse with occasionally. Youyou will learn a LOT of Spanish.
don't need to do any type of formal lesson, in fact theWhat do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?
more casual and colloquial it is, the better. Step 3:Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks 2
Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Translators Personally Ilanguages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who
like to use for my online Spanish-English dictionary, Ispeaks 1 language? ... American. That's a funny but
used Urban Dictionary to look up spanish slang andsadly accurate joke I heard recently. Do you want to
curse words (they're better than anybody for this), andbe the ignorant gringo when you travel?
I use Babelfish for my translator. You might also want