I also listened to Earworm Spanish and spanish learning podcasts in the car.įor vocabulary, I purchased the cheapest current Kindle. You can slow down language, everything is subtitled. For listening, I subscribed to Yabla (9 bucks a month). Once that was complete, you really only need to focus on strengthening your skills. I did one lesson per day, and by the 150th day I was well into the intermediate level. It's composed of 150 lessons (each take about 45 minutes). It effectively teaches the language, its rules and grammar. I purchased a learning program called Fluenz. Learn to try to help yourself by using the sidebar and search feature. *Almost all of this was copy pasted from this comment within the sub besides some minor modifications. Learning a language is a lifetime journey, don't rush yourself into exhaustion and give it up completely, the most important part is to have fun while you're doing it. You will obviously move more quickly with 2 hours a day of Spanish than you will with 20 minutes, but everything helps. Even better if you see it in the song/movie/show etc first, look it up, and enter it into a Spaced Repetition System like Anki yourself.ĭoing all of these things should get you fluent as fast as possible without actually being able to go live in a Spanish speaking country.
Learning a word through a flashcard and then later seeing it pop up in a song or movie really cements it in your brain. Vocabulary, use memrise or anki for a few minutes a day to help learn new words. One idea is to go through an article a day and make sure you've got that grammar concept down in your mind 4. as well are the Texas Proficiency Exercises great websites to practice grammar as well as listening, as the UTexas site has multiple videos from different native speakers on every concept. Listen through the Spanish Language Transfer podcast. How well can you understand what's being said to you in natural conversation? Can you respond back quickly and understandably?Ĭontinued study - 1. Practicing with native speakers will test your actual knowledge gained from everything. You can memorize a definition or translation a million times, but nothing sticks it in your as head as well as hearing it naturally in context over and over again.
This will teach you practical applications of the words you have been learning.
The books, movies, and TV shows are also critical.
Once you know a certain song pretty well, sing along and try and sound just like the singer in your pronunciation. Hell, if you're serious enough about it set your OS to spanish. If you know any native speakers, speak to them in Spanish as much as possible. Spanish TV shows and movies (no English subtitles) 3. But the best and fastest way is to do both at the same time. You can learn something well by studying it over and over, and you can also learn something well by hearing it naturally over and over. Both of these together will get you fluent as quickly as possible.