Listening to Spanish

Listening to someone speaking Spanish is a 2 part skill, broken down into decoding the sounds into words and then decoding the words into meanings. You can focus on each part, trying to hear the sounds better without attempting to understand, which come from having a larger number of phrases stored in your memory from which to synthesize new phrases.

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Getting out of a rut

If you find you're stuck with your language course and making no progress then it's time to pause and find out why.

All you need to do is identify what us holding you back - usually it'll be just one area that is doing so - and formulate a learning strategy to get you past it.

Basically your problem will fall into one of 4 areas - listening, understanding, formulating or performing - and so you need to find out which area is the problem and decide what you need to do to effectively learn.

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Learning Spanish Like Crazy

Do you want to learn Spanish the way the Real Acadamia wants you to speak it? Or do you want to speak it like it spoken by native Spanish speakers?

For most people the answer is the second, but most Spanish courses focus on teaching the very formal Spanish that you won't actually encounter.

Learning Spanish Like Crazy concentrates on the second approach and you can read my review of it on my website at www.SimplyLearnSpanish.com.