<p>I am starting SPanish 1 this year. is there anyway I can get to Spanish 3 next year? (I'm not a native Spanish speaker). How to learn a language FAST?</p>
<p>Umm maybe you can figure out a way with your school to learnr Spanish 2 next summer?</p>
<p>(rosseta stone?)</p>
<p>Rosetta Stone is overpriced garbage. Avoid it. </p>
<p>The fastest way is complete immersion, but I’ll assume you’re not able to do that.
Your next option is to study the language: every. single. day. Weekends, included. </p>
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<p>There are hoards of resources; if you put enough effort into learning, you’ll pick it up. You could also do “language exchanges” on Skype with native speakers.</p>
<p>my friend taught herself spanish 1 the summer before freshman year by watching spanish Sesame street, other TV, and reading grammar books all summer.</p>
<p>possible, but not recommended.</p>
<p>I took the first semester of Spanish 1 before my teacher moved me up to Spanish 3 for the second semester, so I took half of each class in one year. </p>
<p>I used language programs and my hispanic background to do this. I am not native but I really wanted to learn so I dedicated myself to it, and my intelligence helped out too lol. </p>
<p>I went on to lead my AP Spanish class this year, one of two non native speakers, and having mastered all the grammar and conjugations really helped in the class. Your writing skills should also be strong.</p>
<p>You’re NOT going to learn Spanish in the time span of a few months, but you might learn enough. You’ll need to learn all of the indicative and at least begin learning the subjunctive before you can reach Spanish 3, not to mention all the vocab words.</p>
<p>As for programs, check out Speak in a Week Spanish and the FSI courses which are part of the public domain. Get yourself a really good grammar book and a ton of flash cards.</p>
<p>It’s just something that your born with; some people can just learn languages faster than others. </p>
<p>But if you really want to become fluent in a language, I advise you practice EVERY SINGLE DAY, NO EXCEPTION! For the average native speaker, it takes about FOUR years as a child to learn it, so don’t expect any fast fixes. But, it only takes about 26 weeks to become proficient (can’t find the link on wikipedia) in a romance language such as Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese. That is, of course, for native English speakers.</p>
<p>So… just study and you’ll be fine. Try to use it as much as possible.</p>
<p>It depends on what your school allows you to do.</p>
<p>At my school you start a MFL (modern foreign language- not required) in grade 8 and do Latin (required) IA and IB in grades 7 and 8.</p>
<p>In grade 9, you can choose to continue said mfl, Latin, both, or change MFL. (Or start one if you didn’t in grade 8.)</p>
<p>So for students who say… took Spanish in grade 8, but want to take French and Spanish. They do French I and Spanish II the same year.</p>
<p>Then… to catch up on French, they would ‘skip’ a level (2, 3, or 4) so they oculd make it to AP.</p>
<p>But… the only way they can do this is by:
+Having an A in the current level of language
+Studying the ‘skipped’ level over the summer
+Passing the final exam of the ‘skipped’ level in August with a 70+</p>
<p>Your school probably does it differently… But the above three tips will definitely help you get your way into skipping a level.</p>
<p>I’m not really sure what you mean–you’re starting Spanish 1 for the 2009-2010 school year and want to do Spanish 3 instead? Or Spanish 3 for the next year after that, 2010-2011?</p>
<p>Anyways. It shouldn’t be too bad if you have any other Romance languages you know. Me I’m somewhat fluent in French and I studied Spanish for a while and it was really easy for me. Then I decided to drop it, I want to live in Canada where French would be more useful–thus I’m focusing solely on French.
But yeah, simply use it daily, I thankfully have a mom who’s fluent in French and have networked my way through to talk to a lot of French people, if I had to guess I would say I listen to French music 80% of the time on iTunes (so at least like, 3-4 hours a day) and talk to Qu</p>
<p>Find a Spnaish penpal.</p>
<p>I have a French penpal and we talk on facebook and stuff.</p>
<p>Rosetta Stone sucks and it is monumentally boring. We spent $600 on it and it taught me next to nothing. I got a private tutor for roughly 7 months (1 hour twice a week) and covered the eqivalent of 3 years of (very basic) French instruction. I have a telent with language anyway (well english, my first and only), and my tutor as awesome (elementary french teacher). hope to be in an actual French class next year at the intermediate level.</p>
<p>^ ditto!</p>
<p>i want to find whomever created the rosetta stone and beat them over the head with the biggest rock i can find and then find the people who lied (most likely) on the commercials and ask them why would they lie to little kids, then give them the rock too!</p>
<p>So, what is a good Spanish dictionary for me? (Spanish- English first and later move on to Spanish Spanish?)</p>
<p>Spanish to English first… if you are just learning spanish it doesn’t make sense to dive right into a normal Spanish dictionary, you need to expand your vocab (ie. with the Spanish to English dictionary)</p>
<p>So, what is a good Spanish dictionary for me?</p>
<p>Re: Rosetta Stone - it works for some people. I have a friend who has picked up alright Italian from it within a couple of weeks. On the other hand, it did absolutely nothing for me. It depends how you learn, probably.</p>
<p>It depends on what’s required by the courses - when I was in high school, they only permitted one to skip 3rd year in Latin, because one would have completed all the grammar by then. For modern languages, by the start of 3rd year, one would be almost done and just perfecting the use of the subjunctive. There’s no substitute for learning a language with others, since the point of language is communication. One can come to write decently with a speaker (native or otherwise), Skype/AIM/e-mail/etc., a dictionary, and probably grammatical help (though if the speaker learned the language, they’ll be able to help with that). The problem is speaking the language - this really only comes from being thrust into an atmosphere in which one must speak the language. If your classes are conducted in Spanish, that works. Otherwise, it’ll be more difficult.</p>