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linguoboy wrote:those on my campus, for instance, are open only to faculty, staff, and students, but I wonder if anyone's actually checking IDs to screen out people from elsewhere.
TheStrayCat wrote:linguoboy wrote:those on my campus, for instance, are open only to faculty, staff, and students, but I wonder if anyone's actually checking IDs to screen out people from elsewhere.
Yep, they do. Always.
Seal wrote:I have been studying Spanish for 9 or so months now from a book.
I've reached an intermediate level, but can't really say anything without taking at least a minute to translate and think it all through.
Cant travel right now and I don't have any Spanish speaking friends, so I was wondering, what's the best way to get fluent otherwise?
Ciarán12 wrote:- If you can't speak to anyone, speak to yourself, or record a vlog (you don't even have to put it online if you don't want, it's more about the act of actually speaking). This will help you figure out what vocab you still need to brush up on, what awkward constructions you need to use in conversation that you still can't manage to pull off fluently in conversation, and it will train you to do things like conjugate your verbs on the fly much faster.
linguoboy wrote:I tend to have a narrative voice running in my head when I'm alone and not otherwise engaged (e.g. walking on the street) and sometimes I'll challenge myself to narrate in an L2.
My two cents based on recent experiences getting to a fairly high level of conversational fluency in Portuguese:
- Listen/Watch LOTS of stuff in Spanish (YouTube, podcasts, basically you should be trying not to ever have media content that's not in Spanish in your life if there's a way you could have it in Spanish). It will train you in the comprehension side of fluent conversation and it will give you an intuitive feel for how things are said in the language, how often certain expressions are used, what kind of intonation they are used with etc.
- If you can't speak to anyone, speak to yourself, or record a vlog (you don't even have to put it online if you don't want, it's more about the act of actually speaking). This will help you figure out what vocab you still need to brush up on, what awkward constructions you need to use in conversation that you still can't manage to pull off fluently in conversation, and it will train you to do things like conjugate your verbs on the fly much faster.
- What Linguoboy said - try to find a conversation exchange partner.
Seal wrote:Oops, I spelled "desperté" very wrong... Sorry
Seal wrote:Gracias por responder en españole, es lo que necesito. Sé todas las conjugaciónes y como hacerlos, pero cuando trato de escriber o decir algo es difícil para mí recorder cual usar.
¿Me dijé es bien?
Seal wrote:Estaba tratando de decir que todos los consejos que te me dió al principio,
Seal wrote:no los puedo hacer y no puedo viajar y entonces voy a esperar que me despierto en España.
Pienso que "desperté" lo no es correcto ni.
Seal wrote:¿qué quiere decir "has" en español?
linguoboy wrote:Seal wrote:Estaba tratando de decir que todos los consejos que te me dió al principio,
Ya puedes tutearme.
Seal wrote:Veo, estas leyendo "espero" como: "wait".... Estoy lo usándolo como: "hope"
Seal wrote:linguoboy wrote:Seal wrote:Estaba tratando de decir que todos los consejos que te me dió al principio,
[Quote="Ya puedes tutearme.
Puedo usar la Ud. forma si quiere.
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