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Offtopic, but hello, how are you learning Spanish? Any hacks or cool techniques so far?

I’m learning it too and I’d like to think I’m 30% there, and I’m learning for my family .



Absolutely! I personally started using Busuu about two years ago. I'm now at 85% level and almost ready to take the B2 exams.

In the meantime, I joined a Spanish/English exchange Meetup group. We did weekly sessions talking in Spanish.

I started listening to Spanish podcasts made for beginners. I like the Hoy Hablamos. Started listening to Spanish music, tried to read the lyrics of my favourite songs.

At this point, I'm watching Spanish films in Netflix with Spanish subtitles. I think I'm getting 70% of it, quite a lot I need to pause and translate something or rewind a few times.

I'm definitely nowhere close to being fluid but I'm feeling the progress I made over those two years and I just keep going. I'm not in rush in any way so I'm not pushing my self too hard.

My ultimate goal is to be able to go to Spain and talk fluid Spanish with locals. :)




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