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Hi, im taking a spanish course in spanish, sadly i cant remember anything after i get outta that class untill im reminded of it. and worste, after summer vacation i cant remember like anything of spanish. And i also need to speak it this year, at which i'm bad at.
Can some1 give me tips at remember it really when and being able to talk it fluently, like a site or a program would be really great.
Also, please dont say practice it, because for that to work i'd have to work on it 5 hours a day everyday and i have a life. This question is like quick and simple suggestions.
Thank you all for your help
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i think of spanish as like english. spanish courses in general are easy and you should be able to ace that class..
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you're not being specific. Are you taking a Spanish course?? spanish 3, AP Spanish, etc. And what do you need to learn to speak? Just anything?
Don't just say you need help speaking Spanish.
However it's pretty easy if you just remember all conjugations, tenses, etc. I will say its hard to remember the irregular conjugations where it only applies for that verb.
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If you're in a first-year Spanish course, they aren't expecting you to be able to remember that stuff just yet. I'm in Spanish III and I couldn't talk to anyone in Spanish to save me.
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im in spanish 2, i can hardly speak any spanish at all, and i can hardly remember any of it from last year.
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i'm in italian 1 and i find it pretty easy. just pay extra attention in class and YES PRACTICE. not like overly practice, just look over your notes or whatever every night. maybe say them to yourselves a little bit.
or sneak over the border to mexico(lol reverse) and live in mexico and pick up the langauge 
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well then i recommend taking some after school classes to brush up on your spanish because spanish 2 is alot harder compared to spanish 1 (thats what my cousin said)
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attention in class is kinda hard cause half the time she speaks in spanish, well more than half and she wants us to come up with responses
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I'm in Spanish 2 and it's incredibly easy. I'm not saying I'm smart or you're stupid, but this is the 3rd language that i have to learn and speak, and I still find it easy. My teacher talks in Spanish a lot too, and it's not like I get it right away, I have to think word for word about what they mean.
Are you having trouble with past tense, because that is what we're learning right now. I can help you with whatever you need help with.
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today she gave us questions on about the day, like what is today, whats it like and stuff like that
then she also asked what do you like to do, i said me gusta nado...
of course me is obviously saying its only m so i didnt have to change it and i made myself look like an idiot in front of the class.
I find it very hard, each and every day im searching the back of the book for translations and i can hardly remember it much less complete sentence, but for a certain subject can some1 tell me everything that has to do with time like say menos tres or something
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when you learn a language, you always have to work hard and review for it. if you dont review and you just take the class, your going to end up forgeting spanish really soon..
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I took four years of spanish
The most i can conjugate is in the present tense, and my vocavulary is limited to no more than 50~ words.
No I'm not stupid and I dont usually get bad grades, but I was forced to take spanish and there was nothing I hated more than that (except french, but that's another story). The only time I would ever bother to read any of my notes was before an exam, so that i could hopefully pass.
But I'm guessing you had a choice?
So you must want to learn it, well then you dont have to spend five hours a day studying (either way i doubt you go to parties every day or that your work shift is till midnight)
Take 15-30 minutes per day reading ur vocabulary and verbs, you'll notice that as time goes by your spanish will improve greatly!
But this wont work if you dont like spanish, or if your always gonna be like "damn i gotta study spanish again". You gotta be enthousiatic about it and try to enjoy it.
So if your not, quit now and dont bother, but if you are, go ahead, its always helpful to know an extra language!
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the easiest way to speak//learn a different language is to USE the language. when i started spanish i was HORRIBLE i couldent do anything half way through the year, then my girlfriend *who was in spanish 3* told me that and we started using it as much as we could for awhile putting in words or using words that we knew until they stuck in my head and pretty soon i was the best in my class. Its really not tough when you get used to it and i personally think its alot of fun to speak a different language
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alright thx for the tips. I'll also try putting a half-hour a day reading the back of my book till i have something definite on what im learning directly in class.
But i hav no1 to speak it too except a friend online who is also learning, hopefully i can play more and when im not doing that or homework, i can study.
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bluebleeder Wrote:today she gave us questions on about the day, like what is today, whats it like and stuff like that
then she also asked what do you like to do, i said me gusta nado...
of course me is obviously saying its only m so i didnt have to change it and i made myself look like an idiot in front of the class.
I find it very hard, each and every day im searching the back of the book for translations and i can hardly remember it much less complete sentence, but for a certain subject can some1 tell me everything that has to do with time like say menos tres or something
That seems a lot like Spanish 1 stuff. Maybe you guys are reviewing? Also its Me gusta nadar. I Like to swim. Me Gusta nado means I Like I swim. Don't feel like an idiot because over half of my spanish class don't know shit about Spanish. It's a new language and it will be hard for some people to learn it
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she's just seeing what we've learned and what she should go over.
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