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joelle+cowbell
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who out there is trying to become fluent? what do you do to get better?

i've been selecting the spanish option on the atm and self-checkout. its not much but you pick up useful vocab. and listening to mexican radio in the mornings on the way to school.


Sep 5 2009 1:47PM
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CreamSteez.
Posts: 299 - Karma: 81
i enjoy giving a good dirty sanchez. is that spanish?
Sep 5 2009 1:52PM
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eastside
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ya. that's a very spanish thing to do. even more so than getting money at an atm in spanish.
Sep 5 2009 1:53PM
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Funnel
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I'd rather not become fluent, but, I live in CA.  Spanish is a second language here.  To get better, I'm in Spanish 2 and I live in CA.
Sep 5 2009 1:54PM
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soulskier
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once you start dreaming in a foreign language, that when you know you've gotten the hang of it
Sep 5 2009 1:59PM
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DrStrangelove
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spend a semester in a spanish-speaking country, there's really no other way to achieve fluency
Sep 5 2009 1:59PM
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doublexl
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hahaha i do self checkouts in spanish. i watch a lot of telemundo also. or i go to ross or the grocery outlet on the eastside and try to have little convos. most of em think im a total moron, but idc.
Sep 5 2009 2:16PM
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noname..
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work in a kitchen at a restaurant.
Sep 5 2009 2:17PM
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Piste.Off
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rosetta stone
Sep 5 2009 2:17PM
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joelle+cowbell
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i totally agree. i just don't have the money yet. but there are other ways of picking up vocab, slang idioms here in the U.S. i'm just talking about building vocab from day to day
Sep 5 2009 2:18PM
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Mooserz
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best way to force yourself to learn is to live in a spanish speaking country for a bit. I lived in Dominican Republic for a few months and I picked up a lot. unfortunately i dont have to use any of what i learned over here and forgot it all. My abuela says im a failure as a dominican.
Sep 5 2009 2:21PM
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Dr.Rick_Marshall
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I took spanish for fives years and you will never become fluent unless you live in a spanish speaking country for a while.
Sep 5 2009 2:21PM
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joelle+cowbell
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ross haha. but most people are pretty nice if you ask them 'de donde eres?' or something like that. ive started good conversations just like that.
california is a different story though, there are more sketchy mexicans/illegals. scarryyy
Sep 5 2009 2:27PM
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.jesus.
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i used to take spanish classes i forgot everything tho so no habla espanole
Sep 5 2009 2:29PM
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Campeador
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yes Mexican people are so scary, what the hell?
Sep 5 2009 2:32PM
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8ONE657
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so true! i had a dream in spanish at the end of last semester but after summer i've lost it all :(
Sep 5 2009 2:37PM
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eastside
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i live in ca. spanish is the second language pretty much everywhere in the u.s. i live in ca.
Sep 5 2009 2:49PM
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Funnel
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Que?
Sep 5 2009 2:57PM
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Pitolairas
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if you wanna learn spanish DONT listen mexican radios....they've got a strange version of it...talk southamerican spanish...im from argentina and we speak mostly like people in chile and uruguay..we have a very fluently way of speaking which anybody can understand...
Sep 5 2009 2:58PM
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joelle+cowbell
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no i never said mexican people are scary. guys who came here to continue living the life of crime, deal drugs, continue whatever they started south of the border--that's scary.
Sep 5 2009 3:24PM
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p-fo
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tu necesitas a hablar espanol con muchas personas. lo es muy divertido tambien.
Sep 5 2009 6:17PM
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-dva-
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watch movies in spanish. some DVDs have a spanish option, or you could just watch movies that are originally in spanish, like pan's labyrinth. kids movies are the best for picking things up fast though. for example, we watched finding nemo in one one of my spanish classes.
Sep 5 2009 6:22PM
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NESblowjob
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watch spanish channels

date a mexican
Sep 5 2009 6:36PM
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sarahskis
Posts: 1587 - Karma: 41

take an online spanish course
go into Allentown and chill
talk spanish with other spanish friends

El gato en mis pantalones hace calor!

Sep 5 2009 6:50PM
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TechnoPotamus
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haha smooth.

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Sep 5 2009 7:09PM
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Frank_Spinatra
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most of the mexicans I work with speak lazy slang-filled spanish.  If you speak like that in south america or spain they might be slightly confused. 

I would recommend hanging out in a mexican bar on occasion.  As long as you aren't a dick they are very nice and entertained by your presence.  In the summer it's nice to drink Sol, Pacifico and other delicious mexican brews so we started frequenting Rancho Viejo (most of the mexicans drank bud light though, wierd).  Drinks were frequently bought for us.  It's also hilarious how they like to sing to women.
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