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I wish I’d learned one of Russian/Turkish/Japanese in retrospect tho

But alas my school only offered Spanish and French

japanese education in US highschools (and many colleges) is dogshit anyway.

bonus points if your teacher is american there's no way you're learning s***

study hard OP, idk if you're gonna take classes or not but here's some advice whether you take them or not:

You don't need to force yourself to produce (speak) early to acquire a language. You can worry about it later.

Consuming Spanish media (i.e. watching Spanish dramas, reading news/ect in Spanish, ect) along with some explicit grammar/vocab study (let's say maybe 30 minutes a day or so) will lead you to acquisition and be super fun (if you're into spanish media).

Crine I already lost the duolingo streak back at it

Yo volví, KTT I'm getting better at the pronunciations and I'm learning new words everyday

Watch the first 5 minutes of this OP, its pretty crazy tbh

The natural approach is a method of language teaching developed by Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It aims to foster naturalistic language acquisition through comprehensible input, and to this end it emphasises communication, and places decreased importance on conscious grammar study and explicit correction of student errors. Efforts are also made to make the learning environment as stress-free as possible. In the natural approach, language output is not forced, but allowed to emerge spontaneously after students have attended to large amounts of comprehensible language input.

Basically the most efficient way to learn a language is to learn the same way a child acquires a language - you dont practice grammar and you dont practice pronunciation

Instead you read/listen to comprehensible input (demonstrated in the video) until your understanding and vocabulary is significant enough for the words and language to quite literally spring from out of you

no vi esta mencion
en que estamos cabron..

Bien ahí @op

Best of luck. I had to learn it for my job in the army.

Spent the last 2 years learning Spanish 8 hours a day.

interesting video, though I found some of his statements too absolute and dismissive of the individual learner, which in my experience plays a huge role in learning a new language

let's say OP wants to travel to Mexico and speak to locals there, I too would recommended not getting bogged down by grammar and instead focusing on expressing himself. if he wants to study in Mexico, better work on his grammar because it's necessary to know when writing. pronunciation is always important too. the worst feeling for a student at a high level is not being understood by native speakers

people definitely do learn differently, and should tailor their studies to how they learn.

my advice for OP would be to clarify why he wants to study Spanish and what his goals are and then develop a study plan with different resources to achieve those goals. duolingo alone isn't going to cut it

viva españa jj

my learning Spanish too, if you want to hop in a discord one day to chat it up in Spanish, I’ll be down

Spanish countries

i need to get back at it fr

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It's important to also keep in mind that there are plenty of disputes to Krashen's claims among other ESL educators/linguists. There is also plenty of research that suggests that grammar instruction/study is necessary (to a degree, definitely not as much as FL courses in the US high schools/colleges for example do).

It can also create glaring issues in your output later on if you never study/learn anything about the explicit rules of grammar, though I think this also largely depends on the language (for example I think perhaps this process is easier to use from English to Spanish, French ,ect than it would be to Chinese, for example, considering the similarities between the languages)

A la verga OP

I dropped spanish in high school... want to pick it up again

@op por favor ves “dreaming Spanish”. Las videos son “comprensible input” y hace aprender español muy fácil. Los videos sigue la teoría de Stephen Kranshen