How to keep practicing a foreign language without going abroad or taking classes?

<p>I will be unable to take any more Spanish classes or go abroad during the school year due to my extremely hectic/tight schedule. However, I'd still like to keep practicing/speaking Spanish as much as possible (I am pretty proficient). Does anyone have any ideas on how I could due that in college?</p>

<p>Get a Spanish-speaking friends or better yet find a Spanish-speaking girl/boyfriend. The bed is always the best motivation and location to learn and practice a foreign language. :wink: </p>

<p>Don’t forget to watch movies and read newspapers/books.</p>

<p>Music also helps.</p>

<p>There is a livejournal group dedicated to pairing up spanish pen pals (via email) that you should check out, Ive used that and really like it and there are probably other websites out there that you could find if you look. You could also offer Spanish tutoring to beginners if you’re any good at it, or just find another person who takes Spanish and practice with them periodically. I watch Spanish tv and movies and read Spanish books, too, to help keep my vocabulary going.</p>

<p>yes! surround yourself with the language. My apartmentmate is a german minor, and I have a german co-worker. She gives me plenty of german media to browse, and I often have a meal at her place. Her children all speak german at home, so Im bombarded with the language at dinner time.</p>

<p>Read some books in that language.</p>

<p>I changed laptop language to german</p>

<p>Like the others said. Find yourself someone who speaks Spanish. :slight_smile: Thats the best help & practice you will ever get.</p>

<p>Of course you could alway just watch the Spanish soap operas “telenovelas” :p</p>

<p>My university has a language coffee hour every Monday where groups of students meet up to speaker foreign languages–you should see if your school does that.</p>

<p>■■■■■■■■■■ forms groups of people with similar interests such as speaking in a foreign language. You can read newspapers in spanish, watch spanish shows, watch youtube clips in spanish, listen to spanish audio broadcasts – all over the internet.</p>

<p>Order your cafeteria food in spanish</p>

<p>The best thing for my spanish was volunteering at a daycare for homeless families. The 2-3 year old kids were right at my level of spanish after taking 3 years of spanish in high school.</p>

<p>Yeah definately change facebook, and most of your other sites to spanish - I did that and now i have learned many new words.</p>

<p>There are TONS of cool websites and language blogs and intrusctional learning videos on the internet.</p>

<p>Buena suerte.</p>

<p>While in class you can translate the lecture into Spanish (in your head of course).</p>