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 Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:50 am
I just graduated and will be starting college. I took four years of Spanish in High School. Thing is, I am planning on taking French instead of Spanish. (Yay, new language!) I think I've learned enough Spanish that taking another class would just be review.
However, I don't want to lose the Spanish I have learned. I was wondering what things I could do to keep up with it independently.
Thank-you! biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:52 pm
I stopped taking Spanish classes too, and started German instead. I don't want to lose what I've learned either so here's what I've done so far to keep practicing:
1- I have tons on RSS feeds in Spanish on my iGoogle homepage, so I see them everytime I open Firefox.
2- I read in Spanish exclusively (and I read quite a lot)
3- Everytime I find a movie that has a Spanish version, I watch it in Spanish, even if it's a dubbin (though the original version is usually better)
4- I found a Spanish penpal
It seems to be working so far, though I feel I'm losing my English now... (I'm a French speaker) xd
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:26 pm
Thank you for you response. 3nodding
I just watched two movies in Spanish and was already starting to get back into Spanish. heart
I don't understand what you mean by RSS feeds, though. Mind explaining it a bit more? smile
Thank you
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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:10 am
I also took Spanish in high school. And i'm in college now. Ha, i know how you feel not forgetting a language. Cuz that was my problem....lol... after i stopped taking spanish classes....and i wasn't using it either...XD not as much as i could have... i slowly started forgetting spanish little by little.
But you know...once you learn a language...the understanding is always there i believe...even if you forget some things in the language.
But let's see...to prevent yourself from forgetting spanish....
You could read in spanish, listen to spanish music...talk to friends and/or family in spanish perhaps?...lol...or just find a penpal. Find people who are fluent in spanish and communicate with them. You could also watch movies in spanish... stuff like that will help keep you from forgetting.
For me...i'm actually bilingual. I know English and Tagalog. And i'm actually out of the U.S for college....
and i have to learn tagalog again....cuz lol....i can understand it...for the most part...but i can't speak...much in it. But right now...it's getting better. And i worry about forgetting english. LOL. XD but that's funny. cuz i use english constantly....so i know i won't lose it. =D
I'm learning Russian and Polish on my own. lol. My fav language to learn is definately Russian though. =D when i began learning it, it was easier for me than learning asian languages. lol. i find it funny cuz i'm asian. lol...
And for Polish...i had a met a girl in my old school in high school that was Polish. I loved the way she spoke polish.... the language sounded soooo nice.
So I hope i'll be fluent in Russian and Polish someday. 4laugh
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:50 pm
I deal with that frustration all the time. When I was in High school, I took so many languages and spread myself too thin that I never became proficient in anything. By the time I graduated, I had 3 years of french, 3 years of Japanese, 2 years of Spanish, a year of chinese, and a year of latin under my belt...
Now that I'm in college, I've realised that I totally should have picked one...maybe two and stuck to those and maybe, with all of that hard work I was pouring into all of those during those four years, I might have been semi-fluent in something....ugh...
So now that I've decided German [yeah...where did that come from wink ] and spanish (because its so readily available) I feel sorry for my long lost french and japanese.....but I don't dare try and pick them up again for awhile or I will get sidetracked again...
I agree with you tho, the understanding will always be there. And the vocabulary is already learned, I'm just hoping that all I will have to do is 'dust it all off' when I can get back to them...
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:41 am
4 years of a language in high school isn't that much. At least in California, it's equal to the first three semesters in college (the first two years are equal to one semester, with each additional high school year equal to one college semester); if you took AP, that might be equivalent to having completed the first two years of college Spanish, but it's still nowhere near the full extent of the language. That's usually considered intermediate.
Unless your college has a truly lamentable language department, there should be other classes to take, beyond the standard Spanish 1-4 stuff. Many colleges offer foreign-language majors; if yours is one of them, then there will definitely be some classes you can take that won't just be review. Even the community college I went to had several Spanish electives (4 on history and culture, taught in Spanish; 1 course of conversational Spanish and at least one advanced composition class).
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