<p>Ok, Spanish is the class I hate the most, and I have my final midterm for that class tomorrow. My class is doing grammar, reading, and listening. Does anyone have any advice for studying for Spanish? For the past couple years all my strategies never work out well...</p>
<p>Watch any of the Spanish news channels if you get them :). Then the listening for the test will be a lot easier.</p>
<p>^ I have on that right now. Some random girl is dancing…
But actually my friend just text me that the listening part is online, just the questions are missing.</p>
<p>Nice. Listening to people speak is the only way I can study for Spanish. By doing that, you learn how they apply all the grammar and stuff.</p>
<p>OK…can’t just be all grammar–is it accents, verb conjugations, adjective placement? There are really good reviews online if you google the specific topic. OK…listening practice…again, do you have certain topics from the first part of the year that have been stressed? Just listening/watching the wildly varied accented stuff on TV is useless unless your teacher is from Mexico or Venezuela. If your teacher is from Puerto Rico, all is lost since even native speakers can’t understand people from the spanglish island. Call the best student in your class and have them read questions to you over the phone…best approach EVER! Last chance (and coming from near native speaker who learned this way) …ask your native spanish speaker classmates in the lunchroom to tutor you by just chatting one lunchtime per week going forward. Worked wonders for me and made new friends</p>
<p>^ Thanks for your advice, but sadly no one in my whole school is a native from Spanish Speaking countries, even my teacher. She’s an English major who minored in Spanish for some reason. As for grammar, I’m talking each and every conjugations in the Spanish Language, listening is a random listening from the radio in Spanish. Reading, I think is a random Spanish Book.
So far, I have flash cards and I’m repeating all the irregular verbs in the different forms.</p>
<p>What textbook are you using for that class? Some of the textbooks have studying skills for each chapter in the back. I used the studying skills for French and they help a lot.</p>
<p>^ We don’t have a text book. It’s A.P Spanish, so we’re pretty much left to our own devices. :</p>
<p>oh woww. that’s tough, I’m sorry.</p>
<p>Write a bunch of Spanish verbs on little pieces of paper and put them into a box or a hat. Pull them out one by one and conjugate the verb in every tense. You could also put different tenses on other pieces of paper and pull one out with every verb so you don’t have to conjugate every verb in every tense, although that would be great practice. Make sure you include lots of irregular verbs. This website will do it for you if you don’t want to write everything out. </p>
<p>[CONJUGUEMOS:</a> Learn Spanish (and French, German, Latin, and Spanish) the fast and fun way](<a href=“http://conjuguemos.com/home/index.html]CONJUGUEMOS:”>http://conjuguemos.com/home/index.html)</p>
<p>If you have any novels/articles/readings from class, read them out loud to yourself. You’ll get practice in reading, as well as getting more familiar with the sound of the language. When you write down verb conjugations, read them out loud- it helps reinforce memory. </p>
<p>This is a good site for listening to native Spanish speakers: [Spanish</a> Proficiency Exercises](<a href=“http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/index.html]Spanish”>Spanish Proficiency Exercises)</p>
<p>You said the listening was from Spanish radio, so listening to BBC Mundo might help:
[BBC</a> - Podcasts - Mundo](<a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/mh/]BBC”>http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/mh/)</p>
<p>I hope that helps. Good luck!</p>
<p>^ Thank you very much for the tip. I’ll try the hat and the web sites.
I feel more confident in taking the test now already.
Thanks everyone for the great advices!</p>