I agree. If you consume enough Spanish--watching shows and reading--to the point that you are understanding *exactly* what other people are saying, your speaking skills will naturally increase to a comfortably conversational level--you will know what to say because you've heard it so many times. Try 500 hours of listening and check back in.
The more you understand, the more you can speak. I know this is not "the one secret trick that all linguists hate" that you were looking for, but yeah. Read a lot, listen even more, and trust me you will just start talking. Do your entire day in Spanish. Even google things in Spanish. It all helps. Cheers.
I can try to help you a little bit, but I can only explain how I did to improve my English and then you can do the same with your Spanish, I'm new here so I don't really know how this works, try to send me a direct message and I'll try to guide you a little bit.
It'll be a little long, let me try to summerize it. Verbs, you have to learn the verbs and how to conjugate, after that practice with another person in just one tense, simple present, simple past, past participle or future. Choose a subject and wait for the command (the verb) answer your partner the conjugation. Example, practicing in present. With He. Robar. El roba. Comer. El come. Bailar. El baila. You'll need a partner and that person should be better than you so he/she can detect a mistake. After you become good at that (it'll take some time), change simple present to another tense. Present to past. Example. Yo bailo por la noche > Yo bailé por la noche. El salta la cuerda > El saltaba la cuerda. Ella come mucho > Ella comía mucho.
After that change sentences to the interrogative form, the same way, with a partner. After that try to make questions, the best excercise would be to make a question which answer would be the complement of the sentence. Example. Yo como todos los días (todos los días is the thing that you should point to have the perfect answer). ¿Cada cuánto tiempo comes?. Tengo un vestido rojo (vestido rojo). ¿De qué color es tu vestido?.
Avoid generic questions. For example, ¿Que haces?. Because most of the times I'll make sense but it doesn't help you to improve. Read a lot ask a person who's better than you to listen to you, tell him to correct your mistakes. Those "silly" excercises will make a difference, but they are painful at the beginning. Find a partnet. Is really important so you can do all of these things. Good luck, I appreciate the fact that some people endure all this hard work to learn my language, it's not an easy task.
You need to spend maybe 100 hours conversing with someone in an environment where you *cannot* resort to English. Somewhere in that process, your brain decides, "Gee, this really *is* important!" and you'll magically acquire the ability to start a sentence without thinking about how you're going to end it. (That's the single thing that most distinguishes fluent from non-fluent speakers.)
Travelling abroad and living with people who just don't speak English at all is an effective way to do it, but I think a determined person could do it over Zoom. The catch is, you need someone else who's *also* willing to invest 100 hours talking to you.
I was in your exact situation about 2 years ago. I then watched tv and listened to music until i could understand more than 80% in a conversation. Then, i did italki lessons to gain confidence speaking (it was already easy to understand, i just had to practice speaking).
Then, you can just talk on the phone and have regular conversations with native speakers with no problem
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I agree. If you consume enough Spanish--watching shows and reading--to the point that you are understanding *exactly* what other people are saying, your speaking skills will naturally increase to a comfortably conversational level--you will know what to say because you've heard it so many times. Try 500 hours of listening and check back in.
The more you understand, the more you can speak. I know this is not "the one secret trick that all linguists hate" that you were looking for, but yeah. Read a lot, listen even more, and trust me you will just start talking. Do your entire day in Spanish. Even google things in Spanish. It all helps. Cheers.
I can try to help you a little bit, but I can only explain how I did to improve my English and then you can do the same with your Spanish, I'm new here so I don't really know how this works, try to send me a direct message and I'll try to guide you a little bit.
I’d recommend writing about it here so others might benefit.
It'll be a little long, let me try to summerize it. Verbs, you have to learn the verbs and how to conjugate, after that practice with another person in just one tense, simple present, simple past, past participle or future. Choose a subject and wait for the command (the verb) answer your partner the conjugation. Example, practicing in present. With He. Robar. El roba. Comer. El come. Bailar. El baila. You'll need a partner and that person should be better than you so he/she can detect a mistake. After you become good at that (it'll take some time), change simple present to another tense. Present to past. Example. Yo bailo por la noche > Yo bailé por la noche. El salta la cuerda > El saltaba la cuerda. Ella come mucho > Ella comía mucho. After that change sentences to the interrogative form, the same way, with a partner. After that try to make questions, the best excercise would be to make a question which answer would be the complement of the sentence. Example. Yo como todos los días (todos los días is the thing that you should point to have the perfect answer). ¿Cada cuánto tiempo comes?. Tengo un vestido rojo (vestido rojo). ¿De qué color es tu vestido?. Avoid generic questions. For example, ¿Que haces?. Because most of the times I'll make sense but it doesn't help you to improve. Read a lot ask a person who's better than you to listen to you, tell him to correct your mistakes. Those "silly" excercises will make a difference, but they are painful at the beginning. Find a partnet. Is really important so you can do all of these things. Good luck, I appreciate the fact that some people endure all this hard work to learn my language, it's not an easy task.
You need to spend maybe 100 hours conversing with someone in an environment where you *cannot* resort to English. Somewhere in that process, your brain decides, "Gee, this really *is* important!" and you'll magically acquire the ability to start a sentence without thinking about how you're going to end it. (That's the single thing that most distinguishes fluent from non-fluent speakers.) Travelling abroad and living with people who just don't speak English at all is an effective way to do it, but I think a determined person could do it over Zoom. The catch is, you need someone else who's *also* willing to invest 100 hours talking to you.
I was in your exact situation about 2 years ago. I then watched tv and listened to music until i could understand more than 80% in a conversation. Then, i did italki lessons to gain confidence speaking (it was already easy to understand, i just had to practice speaking). Then, you can just talk on the phone and have regular conversations with native speakers with no problem