How hard is it and how time consuming is it to learn Spanish ?

[RunLeeRun]

When you guys say 100% immerse yourself.
What is your definition of that?
30 mins a day?
2 hrs a day?
Every waking moment ?

Immerse means move to a hispanic speaking country like Texas.

 

[PatsFan1283]

Like Texas haha

But yes that is what immerse is. Be around native speakers and communicating with them. That is the fastest way to learn since you basically force yourself to in those situations.

 

[RunLeeRun]

Yeah, and Texas is right next door too. The immersion is necessary because when you get frustrated, you will look for the first exit back to your world.

 

[KingofNicotine]

Why are you trying to learn Spanish?

 

[CHOPTALK]

Yeah, and Texas is right next door too. The immersion is necessary because when you get frustrated, you will look for the first exit back to your world.

Well I can immerse myself with French speaking people and I do speak passable French but I am hardly ever exposed to Spanish speaking people in everyday life. Guess I need to start watching Univision.

 

[RunLeeRun]

Well I can immerse myself with French speaking people and I do speak passable French but I am hardly ever exposed to Spanish speaking people in everyday life. Guess I need to start watching Univision.

There is another language around them parts that I'm not sure even immersion could help you learn.

If I were going to guide somebody and they couldn't do immersion, I would suggest 1) private intensive intructions, 2) the Oxford spanish-english dictionary (the one that is 4 inches thick) that you carry with you EVERYWHERE, 3) a notebook where you repeatedly wrote verb conjugations/phrases a la Bart Simpson on the Blackboard, and 4) pick up some good novels and read. I have a buddy that learned English by watching movies and using the subtitles.

 

[HacheMan]

I'm Caucasian, have dated only Hispanic girls my entire life, my kids are mixed, my current wife is Hispanic, and i still don't know Spanish.

Mainly because I've never had a desire to learn it...

 

[RunMaker]

I'm Caucasian, have dated only Hispanic girls my entire life, my kids are mixed, my current wife is Hispanic, and i still don't know Spanish.

Mainly because I've never had a desire to learn it...

lol

You marry a Mexican woman?

 

[HacheMan]

lol

You marry a Mexican woman?

Yes

Mexican American

 

[RunLeeRun]

 

[RunMaker]

Mexico is like the Alabama of Latin America.

 

[CHOPTALK]

Yes

Mexican American

Is your wife voting trump

 

[CHOPTALK]

There is another language around them parts that I'm not sure even immersion could help you learn.

If I were going to guide somebody and they couldn't do immersion, I would suggest 1) private intensive intructions, 2) the Oxford spanish-english dictionary (the one that is 4 inches thick) that you carry with you EVERYWHERE, 3) a notebook where you repeatedly wrote verb conjugations/phrases a la Bart Simpson on the Blackboard, and 4) pick up some good novels and read. I have a buddy that learned English by watching movies and using the subtitles.

Thanks for the advice . I'm gonna give this hell for 3 months then evaluate my progress

 

[HacheMan]

Is your wife voting trump

Yes, and her entire (Large) family

They are like country-type Mexicans, as are many in these parts, or Florida in general.

Country music, cookouts with alcohol, speak more English than Spanish...

 

[RunMaker]

Think you're regionally lucky.

Mexicans here burn the flag, hate the U.S. and are openly racist and talk shit about the U.S.

 

[The Guesser]

Well I can immerse myself with French speaking people and I do speak passable French but I am hardly ever exposed to Spanish speaking people in everyday life. Guess I need to start watching Univision.

I took 5 years of French in JHS and High school, and was quite proficient at it. Then I took 2 years of Spanish in College, and found it very difficult because of knowing the French, and thinking in French. They were too similar, so try as hard as you can to not think French. Also, I found it very helpful to watch Spanish TV stations, so you might be joking about Univision, but that actaully helped me more than the Spanish Classes to pick up conversational Spanish. Especially if you can watch things that you already knew in English, like a Movie you've seen.

 

[KingEleven]

My Wife is fluent in Portuguese which is "pretty close" to spanish. I may know 10 words. I will NEVER be able to learn another language, I find it to be one of the most difficult things for me to do

 

[BillyRayValentine]

Well I can immerse myself with French speaking people and I do speak passable French but I am hardly ever exposed to Spanish speaking people in everyday life. Guess I need to start watching Univision.

and listen to espn in spanish

 

[CHOPTALK]

and listen to espn in spanish

How can it possibly help you to learn by just listening to a Spanish radio station.

I would think you would need pictures and people's reactions to put the words together.

I could probably listen to Spanish radio for a million year and never learn how to speak it.

 

[RunLeeRun]

The Mexican based version of ESPN is about 90% soccer. That's great if you are a fan, boring if not.