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Learning to speak Spanish can't be too hard, right? After all, a 5-year old Mexican child does okay with it. Think again. It took that 5-year old Mexican child 5 years to get that good, and it will take another 15 years to achieve the Spanish abilities of an educated adult. It takes time to learn to speak Spanish. The purpose of this page is to tell you what it takes to learn Spanish well. Anyone can do it, but it will require an investment of time - lots of time. Spanish is among the easiest languages to learn from English. Its phonetic simplicity, the regularity of its grammar patterns, and its linguistic kinship to English, all help in learning. The student who applies himself/herself should be able to learn how to speak Spanish, and speak it fluently, in less than a year of concentrated study. The best immersion programs expect to bring students to a minimal proficiency in no less than six months. Even living in a Spanish-speaking environment can't remove the need for acquisition time. The student who begins from scratch - knowing almost no Spanish - can learn how to speak Spanish with relative fluency in 4-6 months of continuous living in Latin America or Spain . Anyone claiming to reach fluency in less time is either a genius or has wrongly believed the effusive praise of his/her Spanish-speaking associates. Web Design - Small business custom website from EverestWebDesign.com. Rich Christiansen: - Management metaphors at RichChristiansen.com. |
Learning to Speak Spanish
