I drive around all day for work and trying to use this time creativity. So instead of searching for music all day every day like I do, can anyone suggest FREE ways to learn a new language?
Please send any convenient ways that you’ve come across! Podcast, classes, apps, YouTube?
Thanks
I work as a translator and if you want to actually learn a language and not just pick up a few words in a game app like duolingo, you need to practice speaking listening reading and writing, not just listening
Thanks for the suggestions. I understand that will help me exceed but like I said, I’m trying to help get familiar/comfortable while in the car all day.
Knew a guy whose family is Sinhala. He can understand spoken Sinhala, yet he can't read it or speak it.
DuoLingo is a good start but you need to supplement it with media in the language of choice. radio, tv, podcasts etc.
How did you become a translator? I assume you weren’t just bilingual by default.
this.
>I understand that will help me exceed but like I said
dude, don't even bother wasting your time if you're not going to commit. If you're gonna want to learn the language, you're going to have to crack open a book, you're going to have to learn grammar, you're going to have to start listening to simple material (ie children shows, baby speak) and work your way up. Listening to the Spanish radio station isn't going to do shit for you because you have no idea what's being said. It's the same reason you can't walk in the gym on the first day and bench 300 lbs, or jump in at the deep end of pool on the first day without drowning. You have to start with baby steps, chop the language into little digestible pieces and consistently chew on each piece. You'll just here a wall of sound.
yeah I don't think people realize how compartmentalized learning a language in. Reading and writing, listening and understanding, and speaking are all seperate skills that need to be worked on it's completely possible to excel at one and be dog shit at the other.
>t. getting decent at reading/writing, not to good at listening/understanding, and dogshit at speaking.
and of course that's the order that I spend most of my time.
Ok don't know why that hasn't worked, go to SighSee and check out the /lang/ general, or just make a thread on SighSee.
languagetransfer.com
They have an app as well. It's probably your best option
just steal some spanish pimsleur lessons online. they are 100% made to be listened to.
Are there torrents or they just links online?
Install a Spanish keyboard on your phone and learn how the accents work. I recommend OpenBoard.
Pretty much this, it’s all about immersion. Switch your devices over to Spanish (you don’t have to download a keyboard, just can set the proprietary keyboard to switch between whatever languages you need). The only app I really used was conjugation nation, which has a finite number of tenses and verbs, but it compliments learning grammar well.
you can listen to podcasts and watch content based around slanish-learning, but after about 3-4 months you’re gonna wanna switch to content targeting native speakers. Netflix has commissioned a lot of spanish language series due the success of La casa de papel/money heist, and my teachers always insisted to NOT use any subtitles. The point of watching that kind of content isn’t to practice reading lines, it’s to understand context, phrasing, colloquialisms and conversational flow.
I also subscribed to new channels on YouTube like el pais and bbc mondo. I listen to a shitload of music with spanish lyrics, not only does it help with vocabulary, but native speaking’s think it’s crazy when you can recite the lyrics to a banda song or even know about a group like hombres G. If you like sports watch La liga and NFL offers Highlights in Mexican spanish.
I went from tourist levels to nearly fluent (for you euros A2 to B2/C1) in about 9 months, but that involved 6 months of intensive lessons in Spain/Colombia. If anybody decides to go that route DO NOT fall back to hanging out with your classmates and speaking English. You will go nowhere and forget everything the moment you go home.
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En serio, para estudiar su Espanol, necesitas práctica. Y autocorrect.
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Play videogames in Spanish, preferably those you´ve already played. That´s how I learned English (Spanish native speaker). Obviously my English is not perfect, but I never took a class and I can read, write and even talk a little.
Italki is based and you can talk to Latina qts for 5$ an hour. Refreshing to talk to non entitled westoids and they ask about your life and remember details for your next session. The only podcast I like is how to Spanish, it’s by a husband and wife duo and they talk at a good speed that’s understandable. The duo lingo pod is incredibly pozzed and the narrator is extremely fricking annoying