You can often find these advertising Spanish lessons in classified ads online. Take an extra five minutes in the Supermarket to read some labels before being removed by security ). Fifth: Bottles of wine!Ī lot of wine comes from Spain and a lot of the labels are printed in Spanish. I say I had it on in the car, I had it on playing from my phone in the car (because Radio Cinco has an app that lets you do this really easily and because I don't live in Spain or a Spanish speaking country). Gradually I would then understand more words around those. I hardly understood any of it to start with but I would sometimes have it on in the car or while cooking and listen out for words I did understand like 'Tambien', 'Ademas', 'entonces' and so on. Radio Cinco ( ) is the national news station of Spain which means its good clean Spanish! One great thing about YouTube is you can slow films down (look for the little cog on the bottom right, click it and go to 'Playback Speed') and that's a must because the actors talk real fast.īy the way, the way they pronounce words might also confuse you (especially Lola) unless you have listened to the whole of Language Transfer first and just got the concept of the 'Mood Tense'. Its super cheesey but it does the trick and it will teach you the way many Spanish speakers really talk, something you don't truly get on any of the other resources here. There are 12 episodes of Extra for Spanish learners ( Here is episode 1: ) on YouTube but your going to need to be fairly comfortable with the language before you dive in. Practicing and learning both decks needs about 20-30 minutes every day. I found Duolingo frustratingly slow for learning new vocabulary and as I wanted to get conversational I found Anki ( a great way to learn new words. To me DuoLingo is a must have but only together with these other resources. What's more you can do it on your phone which means there is always time for a quick lesson while waiting in the Supermarket queue! However it does give you excellent practice in listening and writing and helps you start to build your vocabulary.

Its all about repeating the same things over and over again until they sink in. On its own Duolingo ( ) is a bit of a parrot fashion learning method. I've listened to it several times now - its ideal on long drives or on the bus - and each time I learn something new.

Its the rules and methods of uncovering the language that you want to pick up. Just listen to the whole course first without feeling you have to remember the actual words, verbs or sentences. You'll learn hundreds of Spanish words within the first few minutes. Language Transfer is not about learning all of the Spanish language but it lays out some truly excellent rules so you don't have to learn parrot fashion and try and memorize everything. I wish I had found Language Transfer ( ) first, it would have made learning so much faster. That's worth bearing in mind when going through these resources. I class myself as a 'self-paced' learner which means I don't like schools or weekly lessons as they might move too fast or too slowly for me. Here I'll run down how I am learning Spanish and the resources I use. How you learn is a personal thing and what might be right for me might not be right for you.

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