<p>Basically what the title says. I'm doing okay in Spanish 2H, but I just flunked a test today and I guess it was a little wake up call. So any tips or sites to do better on.</p>
<p>Move to Spain.</p>
<p>If your trouble is vocab, make flashcards maybe? That usually helped me! Otherwise just review over and over the grammar forms and practice conjugating the verbs.</p>
<p>Read a book in spanish! I’m in the middle of Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal and I’ve picked up so many phrases and grammatical tendencies. I don’t know if it’s a common thing but my library has a whole foreign language section.</p>
<p>listen to Spanish music! read the news in spanish</p>
<p>Well, like any other subject, you should first pinpoint what it is that you need to work on.
For verbal comprehension, like nith901 said, watch Spanish-language TV shows/movies and listening to songs in Spanish. I can recommend some films and bands if you’d like.
For reading skills, like rebeccar said, you should read something, anything you can get your hands on. I’m reading “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, and it’s hilarious.
For speaking, well, practice with someone. Practicing by yourself won’t do much good, since you won’t get any feedback from your (non-existent) conversational partner. It’s fine to practice pronunciation alone, if you’re worried about messing up in public.
As for writing, you should get a pen-pal, or find someone on CC that can help.
Conjuguemos.com is a good site to practice conjugating verbs.</p>
<p>Learn French, it’s helped me.</p>
<p>Most cities have a Univision station - watch television in Spanish. Movies too.</p>
<p>BBC Mundo has tons of news articles in Spanish. Work through some, looking up the words you don’t know. Keep a running list of words you don’t know, and review them to learn them. Come to think of it, this may be difficult if you are only in Spanish 2, but you can still see what you can do. Once you learn more tenses you can definitely start doing this. </p>
<p>I also occasionally watch the news in Spanish a little. Believe me, your listening activities will be really easy if you get used to keeping up with legit Spanish speakers. </p>
<p>Of course, study the stuff you’re learning in class, but these things help in addition.</p>
<p>Watch movies in Spanish with English captions or vice versa. That’s how I learned English. But choose carefully. You will not understand Caribeans. Not even us native speakers understand them. Also, while Spanish from Spain MAY help you in school, it will not help you in life</p>
<p>^True that. Caribbean accents are tough.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions and I’ll try some of them. By the way if I did the penpal thing does anybody have a site that I could find somebody to write to.</p>
<p>penpalworld.com is a decent one. Or you could go to any forum/social site relating to your interests and see if there are any Spanish-speakers there. For example, on ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■, if you’re an artist.</p>