Not a dirty one.
I will be starting a Spanish class at the end of the summer and it will last all fall. My goal is to take the language exam during the spring semester and never have to take the final fourth semester of college level Spanish. The only way I can do this is if I get a messload of practice speaking Spanish and my fluency increases at a pretty drastic rate. I have many friends who are/have been fluent and I am hoping that I can specifically schedule multiple times per week in which I need to speak Spanish in order to increase my vocabulary and confidence in speaking. In the past I have gotten to the point where within my somewhat limited vocabulary I could speak fairly rapidly and easily but I am nowhere near that at this point. I would strongly prefer getting out of taking the second class due to time and money constraints.
Help?
in my broken Spanish, with an English keyboard
Yo hablo espanol un poquito. Pero y tienen mucho mas espanol.
I’m available for this as well, but I should warn you that my inner tongue-tied, frozen-with-fear-shy child comes out in full force when I’m speaking Spanish. It works well for me under pressure, but not when I’m merely trying to converse.
I’ve half managed to strangle that child into submission in English, but I’m wretchedly self-conscious in any other language. (You should hear my Lithuanian.)
Get a hold of. She’s fluent in Spanish and has a very flexible schedule.
Heh… I can speak my exciting Italian/Spanish blend at you! I used to be able to speak Italian, but it is all fucked up now.
Deliriouslove was trying to learn Italian by tape. she heard if you put the earphones on and play the tape while you sleep you learn faster. She promptly fell asleep and had a dream where she was riding a bus. A man came up to her and started shouting “l’autobus!” in her face over and over. After that, she never tried it again.