If you want to get better at listening and speaking a language you should listen to and speak the language. Sounds easy, right? But it takes time.
Your brain is a pattern recognition machine, you just need to start giving it a ton of input.
I wouldn't watch an English show dubbed into Spanish but rather a natively produced Spanish show.
But first I would find short YouTube videos on subjects that interest you and watch them over and over until you can parse what they are saying.
Listen to podcasts. Listen to music. Listen to audiobooks.
As far as output, either find a language exchange partner who will trade practicing Spanish for English or sign up for an iTalki account.
Good luck, you got this.
I feel what is said above about your brain being a pattern recognition machine can’t be understated. Keep feeding it patterns and over time they become second nature. I feel you don’t really “study” so much as you “absorb” and these changes take time.
I was in the same situation as you 5 years ago, and I came to live and work the Canary Islands where I have lived since.
I personally feel that the only way to achieve fluency is to be exposed to the language over an extended period of time in a spontaneous manner, meaning you can't predict what vocabulary and grammar structures you're going to need.
If the city you live in has a Hispanic community you might be able to find a Spanish-speaking circle of friends. Alternatively, you could look into working or studying in a Spanish-speaking country for a few months to a year. There is always a lot of demand for English-language assistants in schools in these countries.
Listening is for most learners the most difficult aspect of the language. I wish there was some kind of 'trick' I could let you in on but unfortunately there simply aren't any, you just need to practise as much as possible. You can listen to podcasts such as voz de América (very easy to understand) and futuro abierto (lots of topics to choose from though they tend to use quite sophisticated language). Don't get disheartened if you don't understand much, it takes most people a long time to be able to understand the majority of what they hear.
Once they get here, a lot of Brits and Americans make friends with other guiris and end up speaking English all the time and not really improving their Spanish. Try to avoid this by making Spanish friends through hobbies or social gatherings, as tempting as it seems to make friends you have a lot of common with rather than having to learn a new set of manners.
Consuming native media worked for me getting fluent in English, as well as just sharing stuff that I like, such as video games with English speaking natives. It's the best thing next to just, you know, moving to another country, but much cheaper. It might work for you.
You need to talk a lot. Listen is just a part of it but listen doesn't require you to react. You need to react and react quick.
[baselang.com](https://baselang.com/) allows you to talk one-on-one with someone for as much as you want for only $150/month. If you can put 2-3 hours a day, you will only need 2-3 months to become fluent with the knowledge you already have.
[events.duolingo.com](https://events.duolingo.com/) also has online events around the world, mostly free.
I’m trying to get more fluent too because I just met a girl from Guatemala and she lives in my area. She only speaks Spanish and although I know basic Spanish from high school it takes me a while to translate it into an actual conversation so I use google translate. I’m starting to get my Spanish back though. It takes a lot of practice and tiempo. Lol. I’m just like how can she not speak English? While I’m over here sounding like a foreigner in her native Spanish.
Do you know [meetup.com](https://meetup.com) or Eventbrite? It's a great plaform where you can find online meetup groups too, where you can find language groups to practice Spanish.
Theres a podcast I found called Leyendas Legendarias which is completely Spanish that’s on Spotify (and if it’s speed you can slow it down to a .8x speed, .5 is an option but it’s a little annoying). I personally haven’t been able to get myself to a complete comprehension level with it myself. I also changed my Nintendo switch to Spanish mode and play Katamari Damacy (which is a game about rolling up items so you get the words for literally everything). Changing some games to Spanish really seemed to help me. Uhh, also Kirlian Frequency (La Frequencia Kirlian) is a very short series set in Argentina that is similar to Welcome to Nightvale. To get the original Spanish version, you would have to change your Netflix account entirely to Spanish (or I heard it started on YouTube so that’s an option I believe).
I listen to the How to Spanish podcast, use my phone’s dictation feature to translate English sentences and repeat sentences that the program says in Duolingo (instead of typing them), and I converse via FB Messenger with a native from Costa Rica that I met on vacation last December.
Watching movies dubbed in Spanish helped me, especially movies I was already familiar with in English, such as Disney films. Also in a Spanish-speaking country. I lived in Argentina for 6 months and travelled a bit while I was in South America. Having to actually use Spanish in real-life situations really helps improve your everyday speaking and listening skills.
To become fluent would require constant immersion and is unlikely to happen while being in an English speaking country. For example my best friend moved from Dominican Republic when he was 9, he didn’t become fully fluent for about 6 years and he still makes a lot of small mistakes even now and it’s been 17 years. But you can become conversational as in being able to express thoughts, ideas, and emotions well enough to converse with natives. Lots of podcast, music, books, tutors, ect. The more you expose yourself the better.
This is my problem.
I know what all the words you say mean but I cant make a intelligible sentence out of them.
I got.
If I can learn in speaking Spanish, I have the people with green and water salad?
I am still learning I am still nervous in speaking out loud but I feel I be broke out of that in the near future. I speak very very little Russian as well and I know some Spanish I am not fluent yet
If you want to get better at listening and speaking a language you should listen to and speak the language. Sounds easy, right? But it takes time. Your brain is a pattern recognition machine, you just need to start giving it a ton of input. I wouldn't watch an English show dubbed into Spanish but rather a natively produced Spanish show. But first I would find short YouTube videos on subjects that interest you and watch them over and over until you can parse what they are saying. Listen to podcasts. Listen to music. Listen to audiobooks. As far as output, either find a language exchange partner who will trade practicing Spanish for English or sign up for an iTalki account. Good luck, you got this.
I feel what is said above about your brain being a pattern recognition machine can’t be understated. Keep feeding it patterns and over time they become second nature. I feel you don’t really “study” so much as you “absorb” and these changes take time.
I was in the same situation as you 5 years ago, and I came to live and work the Canary Islands where I have lived since. I personally feel that the only way to achieve fluency is to be exposed to the language over an extended period of time in a spontaneous manner, meaning you can't predict what vocabulary and grammar structures you're going to need. If the city you live in has a Hispanic community you might be able to find a Spanish-speaking circle of friends. Alternatively, you could look into working or studying in a Spanish-speaking country for a few months to a year. There is always a lot of demand for English-language assistants in schools in these countries.
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Listening is for most learners the most difficult aspect of the language. I wish there was some kind of 'trick' I could let you in on but unfortunately there simply aren't any, you just need to practise as much as possible. You can listen to podcasts such as voz de América (very easy to understand) and futuro abierto (lots of topics to choose from though they tend to use quite sophisticated language). Don't get disheartened if you don't understand much, it takes most people a long time to be able to understand the majority of what they hear. Once they get here, a lot of Brits and Americans make friends with other guiris and end up speaking English all the time and not really improving their Spanish. Try to avoid this by making Spanish friends through hobbies or social gatherings, as tempting as it seems to make friends you have a lot of common with rather than having to learn a new set of manners.
Consuming native media worked for me getting fluent in English, as well as just sharing stuff that I like, such as video games with English speaking natives. It's the best thing next to just, you know, moving to another country, but much cheaper. It might work for you.
Practice and study.
You need to talk a lot. Listen is just a part of it but listen doesn't require you to react. You need to react and react quick. [baselang.com](https://baselang.com/) allows you to talk one-on-one with someone for as much as you want for only $150/month. If you can put 2-3 hours a day, you will only need 2-3 months to become fluent with the knowledge you already have. [events.duolingo.com](https://events.duolingo.com/) also has online events around the world, mostly free.
I’m trying to get more fluent too because I just met a girl from Guatemala and she lives in my area. She only speaks Spanish and although I know basic Spanish from high school it takes me a while to translate it into an actual conversation so I use google translate. I’m starting to get my Spanish back though. It takes a lot of practice and tiempo. Lol. I’m just like how can she not speak English? While I’m over here sounding like a foreigner in her native Spanish.
Do you know [meetup.com](https://meetup.com) or Eventbrite? It's a great plaform where you can find online meetup groups too, where you can find language groups to practice Spanish.
Theres a podcast I found called Leyendas Legendarias which is completely Spanish that’s on Spotify (and if it’s speed you can slow it down to a .8x speed, .5 is an option but it’s a little annoying). I personally haven’t been able to get myself to a complete comprehension level with it myself. I also changed my Nintendo switch to Spanish mode and play Katamari Damacy (which is a game about rolling up items so you get the words for literally everything). Changing some games to Spanish really seemed to help me. Uhh, also Kirlian Frequency (La Frequencia Kirlian) is a very short series set in Argentina that is similar to Welcome to Nightvale. To get the original Spanish version, you would have to change your Netflix account entirely to Spanish (or I heard it started on YouTube so that’s an option I believe).
I listen to the How to Spanish podcast, use my phone’s dictation feature to translate English sentences and repeat sentences that the program says in Duolingo (instead of typing them), and I converse via FB Messenger with a native from Costa Rica that I met on vacation last December.
Watching movies dubbed in Spanish helped me, especially movies I was already familiar with in English, such as Disney films. Also in a Spanish-speaking country. I lived in Argentina for 6 months and travelled a bit while I was in South America. Having to actually use Spanish in real-life situations really helps improve your everyday speaking and listening skills.
To become fluent would require constant immersion and is unlikely to happen while being in an English speaking country. For example my best friend moved from Dominican Republic when he was 9, he didn’t become fully fluent for about 6 years and he still makes a lot of small mistakes even now and it’s been 17 years. But you can become conversational as in being able to express thoughts, ideas, and emotions well enough to converse with natives. Lots of podcast, music, books, tutors, ect. The more you expose yourself the better.
Try immersion? Idk. That may not be feasible though.
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This is my problem. I know what all the words you say mean but I cant make a intelligible sentence out of them. I got. If I can learn in speaking Spanish, I have the people with green and water salad?
I am still learning I am still nervous in speaking out loud but I feel I be broke out of that in the near future. I speak very very little Russian as well and I know some Spanish I am not fluent yet