Does anyone have a suggestion on the best way a middle aged dude with the attention span of a goldfish can learn Spanish? I've picked up so many Hispanic customers in the past year, it would certainly be an asset. Thanks!
I took plenty of Spanish in school, but when I started working in Mexico it was tough to get the language to slow down. People I worked with were generally polite enough to talk to me like they were speaking to a small child although despacio was a word I used often.
While the maid and prison idea sound........interesting, the BEST way is to get yourself dropped off on an all female remote island where the beautiful babes only speak Spanish, and don’t know any English. Try to pick one where they’re also not cannibals. It’s called Total Immersion. My wife was a Spanish teacher for 25 years, and did her Doctorate on that.
I never learned much Spanish, would have been handy driving to California all those years. Good luck learning it as an older adult, much easier when you are a kid.
Wife is now a District Administrator in a 50/50 Latino school and they have a dual language learner K-5 program that she implemented. Half day taught in Spanish, half in English, half English speaking kids, half Spanish speakers. They learn faster from each other than from the teacher, I guess. They have quite a few kids show up every year that don’t know ANY English, it’s a problem.
Ive asked her a couple of times about me learning, thru tapes or something and she says it’s not possible any more, for me really. I’m 61. We had plans for her to speak to the kids in Spanish when they were little, but gave up on it as I never knew what she was saying.
Does anyone have a suggestion on the best way a middle aged dude with the attention span of a goldfish can learn Spanish? I've picked up so many Hispanic customers in the past year, it would certainly be an asset. Thanks!
You may have the attention span of a goldfish, but I bet you can make it through a Mexican television weather forecast.
Talk about assets.
Seriously, though...taking a home course and watching Spanish language television is probably a good way to learn some rudimentary Spanish. I think that learning is easier when you are being entertained, and a lot of the programs on Univision, Galavision, etc. are entertaining in their style and presentation, which is different than typical American TV. You'll be surprised how much you will start to understand on these TV channels as you progress in your regular course.
I'm sorry, you lost me after "you". What were you saying again?
Oh. My.