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Getting neurotic waiting on secondaries. Anyone have any experience with Spanish language teaching software? What works? Thanks.
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How much Spanish experience do you have? If you have a decent amount of experience (ex: you took Spanish in high school, it's just buried under everything else you've had to learn since then), then I might suggest a podcast like the News in Slow Spanish, because then you're getting familiar with pronunciation and getting more used to conjugations again. If you don't know a word, look it up! I did this when I was trying to regain my fluency for my job, and it really helped me.
If you don't have any Spanish background and you are just trying to learn cold, DuoLingo is pretty okay (and free, which is a plus). They have games and stuff and you earn points (you can even get it as an app on your phone). I'm not sure about the larger programs (Rosetta Stone, etc) because I've never wanted to pay for one. However, try to get some kind of conversation experience, as that's often the hardest part. In my area, there are a ton of Meetup groups for people learning Spanish, and they can help with the intangibles of the language (slang, idioms, regional word preferences). My husband is learning Spanish right now, and he's doing DuoLingo and trying to talk to me more in Spanish, and it seems to be working okay for him.
If you don't have any Spanish background and you are just trying to learn cold, DuoLingo is pretty okay (and free, which is a plus). They have games and stuff and you earn points (you can even get it as an app on your phone). I'm not sure about the larger programs (Rosetta Stone, etc) because I've never wanted to pay for one. However, try to get some kind of conversation experience, as that's often the hardest part. In my area, there are a ton of Meetup groups for people learning Spanish, and they can help with the intangibles of the language (slang, idioms, regional word preferences). My husband is learning Spanish right now, and he's doing DuoLingo and trying to talk to me more in Spanish, and it seems to be working okay for him.
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Heard good stuff about Language Transfer (its free). Haven't personally tried it yet.
http://www.languagetransfer.org/#!complete-spanish/c1313
http://www.languagetransfer.org/#!complete-spanish/c1313
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I use duolingo, a phone app, but the website is better. It's great to get started to reaching a beginner level, and it's free. I am level 14 now and at 75% done. I use it with a website called studyspanish dot com. I listen to Spanish radio stations while I drive, but I can only pick out words here and there.
