it really shouldn't be a problem with the amount of media and native Spanish speakers in the states picking the right gender for nouns might be a pain tho thank god i'm a native speaker lmao Just think how an entire continent will open up to you if you get spanish down
The problem is more with how languages are traditionally taught all thru school. They are taught completely incorrectly and that creates major problems with learning. People don't learn languages by repeating vocab or running thru conjugations of verbs. You learn it by listening to phrases, repeating them, and drilling it. This helps to create more automatic and more natural responses rather than struggling to remember how to conjugate a verb. It also helps to create a bit more confidence when you subconsciously spit out a phrase in Spanish without thinking because you've practiced the right way. I didn't learn about this style of language learning until I was in my 4th year of college and poorly trying to minor in French. The last class I took before I switched minors was done in this sort of conversational immersion and drilling style. I couldn't really handle it back then because I wasn't prepared for the amount of time I needed to put in. When I stumbled on these Pimsleur lessons I realized they were done in the same style and they dramatically helped me with getting more comfortable in conversational Spanish. ...But it takes time and practice...
The long-term relationship I had before my wife was with a first-generation Mexican. She said she didn't like me learning Spanish because she liked be able to talk **** in Spanish without me knowing what she was saying.
Yeah the best way to learn Spanish is to get a Hispanic girlfriend or side piece.... you will learn a lot of Spanish during sex and also when she is pissed at you.
@Deckard my son a few years ago picked Japanese as the language he wanted to learn. Has the hirigana down now and a ton of words (nouns). He goes to Kealing a magnet school. Which has Japanese in 7th. Just recently we looked into him going to Japan for a month in the summer. Probably early high school or so. Did knowing the language well help her down the road at all?
She's a lead software developer, who got dragged into management for a while, but has escaped it for now. Knowing Japanese isn't something she has used in her career, at least not yet. It's more of an interest she has. Wish I could be more helpful. It sounds like a great opportunity for your son, although the world is incredibly complicated right now.
A good friend's son got into Japanese in middle school. They got him lessons and he spent a year going to school in Japan and then got a Japanese major from UT. By that point, he was learning some other Asian languages. He now works for an agency in the federal government.
It's not for everybody, but... 4 yrs HS Spanish (learned the basics, I was also a terrible student) then travel extensively South of the Border while working for a few years in Houston with native speakers while living with a bilingual woman for 3 years then live in South America for a year then move to the Texas country and hire a worker or 2 who speak minimal English profit, fluently
