[sonoran_]

i stopped duolingo a while ago cause it got super boring and repetitive. Im still watching the show Muneca Brava, but recently Ive been learning through music. I basically look at the Spanish and English lyrics of a song and go through each line until it starts to make sense. I sing along many times as well.

Its a fun way to see vocab and grammar working together in a new language.

[Vinny]

@RedBeard: It mind sound crazy but Harry Potter is a good book to be a first in a certain Language. It is easy and addictive. Get yourself an audioversion in Spanish.

@sonoran: Met quite a few Argentinian chicks in Peru. It always cracks them up when I say I watched "Muneca Brava". I sing them a bit of "Cambio dolor, para libertad..."

[sonoran_]

haha i should memorize that theme song

[sonoran_]

Ive been doing Spanish verb drills for the past month, and this shit is getting complicated. There is a different conjugation with a simple change in how you say a sentence.

Any advice on verbs in general??

The following list contains all of the non perfect tenses. It is a crazy amount of information and Im just thinking to myself " why do i need to know all of these"?

Preterite, imperfect, future, condition, present perfect, past perfect, imperative, present subjective, imperfect subjective, future perfect, conditional perfect, present perfect subjective, pluperfect subjective, passive.

[The Man w/ the Golden Gun]

I'd like to add that I found many Pimsleur courses at my local library. Download one to my phone, practice Russian on my commute. Check out what your local library has on offer for language learning.

[Seth_Rose]

Can anyone recommend interesting shows in Spanish? No soap operas please haha!

What about Narcos? Seems to be a popular show, but I feel I may be too drawn into the show itself and ignore the language aspect.

[edlefou]

(10-16-2017 08:41 PM)Seth_Rose Wrote:  

Can anyone recommend interesting shows in Spanish? No soap operas please haha!

What about Narcos? Seems to be a popular show, but I feel I may be too drawn into the show itself and ignore the language aspect.

I recently watched the 13 episodes of Extra, which I think is mentioned upthread somewhere. It's a pretty cheesy Friends rip-off from the early 2000s, but it was ok to watch for learning.

On YouTube I found some spaghetti westerns en espagnol and a Jerry Lewis film. I saved them on my phone, but haven't watched them yet. I prefer shorter episodes over long movies though.

For Russian learning I love to watch Spongebob, but I haven't found a Spanish version I can download. I found a streaming site, but I prefer the flexibility of saving it so I can watch it whenever.

[sonoran_]

I invested in Netflix just to watch Spanish shows. Youtube has a very low selection of decent shows with subtitles.

With netflix you can switch from english to spanish subs as you please.

Have watched Club de Cuervos and Mar de Plastico and both are very good.

[ZanMack]

One idea for the sports fans out there is to find games on foreign streams. I regularly watch football with Spanish commentators. Many of the same basic words and phrases are continuously reused throughout the 90 minutes.

[The Man w/ the Golden Gun]

Every single opportunity you get, get a little practice in! Whether it's reading something in your native tongue and thinking about the foreign equivalent, or realizing someone in your immediate environment is speaking your language and striking up a conversation when appropriate. I wouldn't intrude on a conversation, but I'd definitely look for an opportunity to learn from someone about their language and culture.

I'm focusing on Russian at the moment, but I know a little Polish. It just so happened I chanced across two people speaking Polish yesterday. They were wearing name tags and on those tags I saw a mishmash of strz, cz, and sz. Definitely Polish.

"Vy mowicie po polsku?" is all it takes to start.

[flanders]

(04-29-2016 07:24 AM)redbeard Wrote:  

Great tips, Vinny.

Any suggestions as to which TV show to watch? Are telenovelas the go-to for Spanish?

I stumbled upon the show "Extra," it's pretty much "Friends" but in Spanish...but it was made for people learning Spanish. The plot is about a gringo showing up in Barcelona and hitting on girls with shitty Spanish. The script uses basic Spanish so it's good for beginners.

Episodes, vocabulary, etc. can be found here:

http://www.celebratelanguages.com/esextra.html

That show "Extra" sounds like the exact same show I saw (also called Extra!) where some guy is an American exchange student who couch-surfs for a few weeks at an apartment rented out by two big tittied sluts. If I recall correctly, they think he's some kind of nerdy weirdo with a ledger full of pictures of his toy car collection until they see a news report and find out that he's secretly a multimillionaire and an heir to some kind of billion dollar dynasty, and those car photos of his are actual Ferraris and Porsches. The two female roommates made a lot of really comedic not really PG-13 passes at him for a few episodes until he copped to his real identity. It was actually pretty hilarious.

If it's some kind of language learning company that produces this they did a surprisingly good job casting everybody and the acting was not bad at all. I might have a torrent of the German one somewhere.

[markygras]

Flanders - the Extra's company produced it (with the same scripts/storyline) for Spanish, French, German and English (where the Paul/Paulo/Pablo character is spanish and learning from brits). Incidentally, most of the languages ended after like 13 episodes, but the English one made it all the way to like 22, so if you're curious where the storyline would have headed you can check that out.

[Moma]

(10-22-2017 02:12 AM)flanders Wrote:  

(04-29-2016 07:24 AM)redbeard Wrote:  

Great tips, Vinny.

Any suggestions as to which TV show to watch? Are telenovelas the go-to for Spanish?

I stumbled upon the show "Extra," it's pretty much "Friends" but in Spanish...but it was made for people learning Spanish. The plot is about a gringo showing up in Barcelona and hitting on girls with shitty Spanish. The script uses basic Spanish so it's good for beginners.

Episodes, vocabulary, etc. can be found here:

http://www.celebratelanguages.com/esextra.html

That show "Extra" sounds like the exact same show I saw (also called Extra!) where some guy is an American exchange student who couch-surfs for a few weeks at an apartment rented out by two big tittied sluts. If I recall correctly, they think he's some kind of nerdy weirdo with a ledger full of pictures of his toy car collection until they see a news report and find out that he's secretly a multimillionaire and an heir to some kind of billion dollar dynasty, and those car photos of his are actual Ferraris and Porsches. The two female roommates made a lot of really comedic not really PG-13 passes at him for a few episodes until he copped to his real identity. It was actually pretty hilarious.

If it's some kind of language learning company that produces this they did a surprisingly good job casting everybody and the acting was not bad at all. I might have a torrent of the German one somewhere.

I saw that show as well. I started on French and then moved over to Spanish.

[MrRoundtree]

So VInny how did you learn german?? It is a really tough language to lean, many more verbs than inf rench with all the separable prefixes.

[Vinny]

I haven't. All I know in German is few phrases and some swear words