Learning Spanish language: The Spanish Learners' Society!

Hola todo! (does that even make sense lol)?

A former GCSE student here re-learning spanish potentially for use for work in South America in two years time. I'm using spanishdict.com and its been useful so far (even if the woman's voice is annoying! ). So far i'm finding that readin text it comes back quite fast (e.g. the posts above), however, saying and writing stuff is very hard! Just can't remember the vocab i used to have. Lots of work ahead of me!

May ask a few questions if freetranslation can't answer them. For now, in my broken spanish (and before i've learned to type spanish characters - doing that tomorrow):

Por que aprenden otras personas espanol? Solo los examenes?

I like the look of this thread. Spanish sounds really sexy, and it's one of the most widely spoken languages, so I want to learn it! I know a decent amount of french, I'm hoping there's some overlap between the two languages... but otherwise, I'm gonna be trying to learn it from scratch

I really need to improve my French. I started learning French before I learnt Spanish and then I didn't study it at A-level, which was a bad idea. My French has gotten worse dramatically since GCSE French Spanish is easier than French and your French will help you. That's why I learnt Spanish so quickly I find that my Spanish is helping my French now, haha.

Is Spanish easier? Yayyy! But they pronounce some letters differently don't they. I tried LiveMocha for Spanish but I guess that type of learning doesn't really work for me.

Yeah, that's the thing about languages, they're so easily forgotten. In a way that's good, because I've wanted to drop French so many times, but haven't just because I felt like all the years studying it would be a waste. And now I genuinely like French.

Is Spanish easier? Yayyy! But they pronounce some letters differently don't they. I tried LiveMocha for Spanish but I guess that type of learning doesn't really work for me.

How are you learning french?

I find that Spanish is a lot easier than French, especially considering that it's essentially completely phonetic

And the pronunciation will be really easy to get the hang of! The only real slight difficulties you may have is rolling your rs

i love rolling my rs... perrrrro... burrrrro... aburrrrrido

But they say "h" like... well, there isn't an eng equiv, it's like... throaty if you know what I mean, don't they?

Hopefully! I'm gonna try your suggestion of books and music but I don't want to with exams so close.

Rolling Rs sounds fun >:-)

I didn't want to drop French either because I've learnt it since I was in year 7, but my school has a weird blocking system for 6th form and French clashed with another one of my subjects I love French too I read Le Monde at least twice a week and I write a diary entry in French at least once a week. I learn new vocab by using Anki, but I find it impossible to speak French and I work on my pronunciation by reading out some of the articles from Le Monde. I also have some French songs I listen to and I listen to the French Radio...well I try to listen to it. I've kinda slacked off though because I have 5 exams next month.

I find Spanish easier and I've heard other people say it's easier. The pronunciation is definitely easier than French pronunciation I still can't pronounce the 'rr' sound in words like 'perro' and 'aburrido' which is annoying!! I really need to speak more French and Spanish, but I don't even like to speak English so it's really hard for me to have a conversation in Spanish or French

Actually I'm pretty sure they don't say 'h' at all I'm assuming you're talking about the 'j' sound. Which I s'pose can sound harsh sometimes, but Spanish (just like any other language) can still sound beautiful, and often does And it's not a very hard sound to replicate... and most people do just use the English 'h' sound for it anyway haha

Books and music is always the best way to go about things, and poetry, mmm poetry

Oops, I think I did mean "J". Or I might even be thinking of Russian This goes to show how much I need to learn spanish haha.
Yeah, spanish is beautiful, can't argue with that

I hate poetry But books and music are good!

Awww, that sucks. I was really lucky that I didn't get any clashes. What you're doing sounds like it's better for your French than an A level would be tbh. In my class we're encouraged to basically copy things from textbooks to get high grades, rather than actually coming up with our own stuff (which wouldn't make sense and have crap grammar ). Depressing.

Yeah, can sympathise with that. I used to watch loads of French TV but I've slacked too cos of exams. Although I only have 2. Good luck with yours, hope they go well.

Who would you have french/spanish convos with, if you did? Yeah, conversations that I've had with french people (well, Parasiens, specifically) are awkward because they look at you pityingly then speak perfect english at you smugly.

Wow! is there any reason there hasn't been a Spanish society till now? Spanish is such a popular language.

who the **** struggles with spanish? why don't you put something up that's useful.

Hola todo! (does that even make sense lol)?

A former GCSE student here re-learning spanish potentially for use for work in South America in two years time. I'm using spanishdict.com and its been useful so far (even if the woman's voice is annoying! ). So far i'm finding that readin text it comes back quite fast (e.g. the posts above), however, saying and writing stuff is very hard! Just can't remember the vocab i used to have. Lots of work ahead of me!

May ask a few questions if freetranslation can't answer them. For now, in my broken spanish (and before i've learned to type spanish characters - doing that tomorrow):

Por que aprenden otras personas espanol? Solo los examenes?

I like the look of this thread. Spanish sounds really sexy, and it's one of the most widely spoken languages, so I want to learn it! I know a decent amount of french, I'm hoping there's some overlap between the two languages... but otherwise, I'm gonna be trying to learn it from scratch

Hola a todo!

Me encanta a usar esto hilo para improvar mi Espanol. Estoy muy mal con examenes que necesita escuchando, hispanohablantes me parece que hablar con prisa! Empezaré a usar los emisoras que son en el primero puesto.

Pienso que es "Hola a todos/hola todos"

Hola!!! Aprendo espanol por mis examenes. No voy a estudiarlo en la universidad pero voy a continuar a aprenderlo. Dios mio. Es muy dificil escribir en espanol.

Necesito escribir y hablar espanol mas

Conoceis el sitio web http://www.sharedtalk.com ? Se puede hablar con y escribir a personas de todo el mundo

*Hola a todos
Que tal?
It's great that you're re-learning Spanish (although, you'll be amazed by how much you remember!).

Personalmente, yo aprendo español porque tengo familia de países como Cuba, La República Dominicana y Costa Rica! Entonces, el idioma me interesa mucho! Desgraciadamente, nunca he visitado a estos lugares, pero me voy en los anos próximos! Y tu?