Trying to learn Spanish

[Mu~]

Yea, pretty much the same in Portuguese.

As above, hearing people speaking it as their first language (and some people speaking it, very, fast) and actually understanding everything is probably one of the more hardest things to learn.

Sometimes I don't even understand when people who speak my own language talk too fast, lol.

 

[Alienfish]

Sometimes I don't even understand when people who speak my own language talk too fast, lol.

Yeah, people go like sdfldfgklgd and you're like.. umm que? lol

 

[AnimalCrossingPerson]

Spent five years doing Spanish in school.

?Hola me a?os tengos amigos!

That's all I know.

 

[Gregriii]

eh I've been living all my life in Barcelona so yes im spanish but ughhhhhhhh i hate spanish SO MUCH like English isnt my main language but i wish it was

pro tip: dont learn it

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Spent five years doing Spanish in school.

?Hola me a?os tengos amigos!

That's all I know.

may I ask whats that supposed to mean

 

[Mu~]

eh I've been living all my life in Barcelona so yes im spanish but ughhhhhhhh i hate spanish SO MUCH like English isnt my main language but i wish it was

Lol, I'd love to live there. Can I build a tree house in your yard plz? XD!!

 

[piichinu]

yeah i got thru AP spanish
go read books or something

 

[Kitsuragi]

?Hola me a?os tengos amigos!

That's all I know.

may I ask whats that supposed to mean

"Hello, my years have (tienes, not tengos?) friends!"
I think? //Loosely translated, I only learned spanish for 3 years before decided it wasn't keeping my interest
Don't know what you were trying to say, but uh...

 

[wolfie1]

I was born in Barcelona, so my first language is Spanish. I pity you guys because, when compared to English, Spanish is so difficult because of all the verbs tenses, grammatical gender and so on. I once tried to explain the difference between "ser" and "estar" and people were like wat, lol.

 

[Tensu]

Hi, I grew up with Spanish as my first language. If you would still like to learn, I highly suggest trying out Duolingo. You can learn Spanish there for free along with several other languages. But aside from that, it is a very pretty language and is worth learning in my opinion. I don't think it is very different from English's grammar, I may have a biased opinion, but the Romance languages are supposed to be easy to learn coming from English.

 

[MorphiGalaxi]

Kinda a weird spot for me, you see i learned both english and Spanish at a young age, and i'm both terrible at them. I a lot better at english tho. I can't read nor write Spanish either ahaha... I'd say keep working on it, i'm not much help but it'd be useful to learn since a ton of people speak spanish. By the way, which type of spanish are you learniing?

Well, I was trying to learn just like, what I think is mexican spanish, but honestly I really don't know XD

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you left out all the medium range options, like:

--I learned some Spanish from watching Sabado Gigante
--I learned Spanish so i could join a Pedro almodovar film discussion group
--I learned some Spanish to impress a chick (or dude) from Colombia by pretending I read all of El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera.
--i learned some Spanish so I could curse more effectiveley during my soccer matches

Omg XD Ummmm

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i don't know spanish and don't plan on learning it, since i don't have a reason or use for it.
and i know pretty well that even if i try, i cannot under any circumstance, roll my r's LOL

XD I knew French as a kid so I can roll Rs like, somewhat? I need to practice...

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I learned it in school but I never felt like I reached fluency. Even when I was getting good grades, I felt it was because I was able to stay ahead of my classmates, not because I could speak it well. Interestingly enough, I recently went to a restaurant where no one spoke English (I live in South Korea now). One of the servers asked if I spoke Spanish and we spoke Spanish the whole time! I'm really rusty but I'm surprised how much I remembered and how quickly it came back. Now I frequent that restaurant and I became friends with the server.

That's really great I think it helps having someone to talk to.

I do but...I don't know enough spanish to say much XD

 

[Berta]

Hi there! I'm new here! I came to the Basque Country and I had to learn Basque and Spanish. Spanish wasn't so difficult because I know Italian. But Basque...that's another level xDD In my opinion nowadays is easy to find people to chat in Spanish, there are many apps to learn for "free". Langademy or italki, gospeaky, hellotalk...it's not the same as live speaking but it's something

Btw, nice to meet you!

 

[AnimalCrossingPerson]

may I ask whats that supposed to mean

"Hello my friends!" I don't remember what the middle bit means - just the sentence itself.

 

[Bunnilla]

"Hello my friends!" I don't remember what the middle bit means - just the sentence itself.

But you put a?os?... Which is years

 

[AnimalCrossingPerson]

But you put a?os?... Which is years

"Hello, my year-old friends!" Must be a Spanish saying.

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Probably just doesn't translate well to English. I can't have spent five years for five words that don't even mean anything....

 

[Mu~]

"Hello, my year-old friends!" Must be a Spanish saying.

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Probably just doesn't translate well to English. I can't have spent five years for five words that don't even mean anything....

I've never heard of anything like that, the closest thing was 'hola, amigos'

 

[amanecer]

I've been learning Spanish (technically) since the 1st grade. So a while. They taught us a bunch of vocab words at first but over the last few years they've been teaching us how the grammar works and how to conjugate verbs and stuff. It's definitely worth sticking with. A lot of the times I find myself trying to translate songs or thinking in Spanish.

 

[Hopeless Opus]

as someone who somehow passed spanish 2 with a 98.. i have like no advice. it's so confusing and i had a lot of trouble with it and it made my life really miserable this whole past year. i did learn a little bit but not a lot.

 

[nintendofan85]

as someone who somehow passed spanish 2 with a 98.. i have like no advice. it's so confusing and i had a lot of trouble with it and it made my life really miserable this whole past year. i did learn a little bit but not a lot.

Yeah, I passed Spanish II with a 97 and Spanish III with the same, and I still don't know much at all. TBH, the teachers I've had haven't been very good.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

I don't speak Spanish but I know a few words here and there, like I know most of the words that go into making a sandwich from working at Subway, I know how to ask where the bathroom is from going to Mexico, and I know how to tell someone that I don't know how to speak Spanish. I never really cared to learn it because it seems forced on us at school, like I understand there is a large population of Spanish speaking people here but I'd rather learn another language like French.