to learn Spanish well enough to be able to talk to a native speaker? I plan to spend three hours a day on it. I was under the impression that Spanish is very close to English, but besides being able to guess a few words, I find they are very different. I have no idea what a native is talking about--all I hear is "el", "la", and a lot of "cions". Well, I'm only a week into it. Does it take months or years? Gracias. BTW, anyone interested in helping me with Spanish, I'd be happy to help with English.
Hi there! It might depend on a lot of things including your kind of education, feer for langauge, etc. Spanish and English are quite different languages since Spanish is a Romance language (just like French and Italian) and English is a Germanic langauge (just like German and Dutch). It's hard to say something about the amount of time you may spend on practicing your Spanish, to your desired level in particular. However, I guess it would take a few weeks to understand some simple, basic conversations, maybe a few months for some more advanced level (I assume you'll be more time practicing speaking/listening Spanish than writing/reading the language).
I'd say that if youre in mexico, el norte entonces puede hablar estabien en dos semanas a dos meses, depende de cuantos horas su pase en las barras.... toma mas, habla mas... baila y trata hablar, abre su miente un hombre que dicho a mi en mexico, abre su miente!... cuidate
diederik512: I concur on the language difference. It appears to me, from my limited experience, that in Spanish a group of words or even a group of sentences (context) are more important in conveying the meaning than individual words. That makes it harder to learn, because "divide and conquer" doesn't work well. Spanish/French/Italian speakers must be thinking differently from English/German/Dutch speakers. A few months? No problema. It's going to be months before I visit Mexico. I'm finding the BBC language site very helpful. yonosoymedico: No, no en mexico. Vivo en Las Vegas. Aqui televisión por cable tiene cinco canales en español. ¿Dos meses? Tengo más que dos meses antes de que visito Mexico. Gracias. ¿Cómo mi inglañol?
