Many Spanish language learners get frustrated at the moment of listening to native Spanish speakers. When you repeat out loud a word or a sentence your brain will be more active and you will be more likely to remember what you said afterward. It won’t distract you, if you do it consciously. You can also improve your pronunciation skills while listening to something. This is useful because your memory is fresh and you can look them up later.
#I WAS LISTENING IN SPANISH MOVIE#
When listening to a song, a movie or a conversation you can take notes of words that catch your attention. But there are few things you can do in parallel which will help you to improve your Spanish. You can also be an active listener while practicing the other language skills.ĭon’t get us wrong, we did say that you should focus on listening, and we mean it. You will be keen on asking questions and, ultimately, you will understand the context even if you don’t understand every single word.įor instance, if you are listening to your friends talking, don’t be afraid of asking them the meaning of certain words or the context of the conversation. When you are an active listener you will notice new vocabulary. Listening actively means being attentive. Listening passively is not enough to make you a good listener. Become an active listener instead of a passive listener But don’t forget to train your ear with other accents.
When learning Spanish choose Bogota’s dialect, it’s the easiest to learn. Only in Colombia, there are dozens of different accents and dialects. One of the biggest mistakes is getting used to only one person’s accent, you will find it difficult to understand other people. You will also tune your ear to different people, different accents and different speeds. If you are consistently pronouncing a word wrong, you will struggle to understand a native speaker when they say it correctly. The way you pronounce Spanish directly affects your ability to understand it. When you listen you can also improve your pronunciation. Believe it or not, they are way different than the English sounds. You will get familiar with the sounds of the vowels and consonants in Spanish. They struggle to understand other people, they can’t make proper sentences, and they get frustrated. They try to memorize it.īut the problem comes when they want to have a conversation. Some people start learning Spanish by “reading” and “writing”. And it makes sense, we invest part of our time in learning a new language and we want to make the best of it.īut let’s take it easy and enjoy the process. When we are adults we want to see the results of everything that we do quickly. Is there one skill, in particular, you find it the most difficult? Let’s start from the beginning. If this is a natural process, why do some people find it more difficult to learn one skill than another? And, only after that, they start making sentences. Then, they start learning the vocabulary. If we want to learn a second language, then we should follow the same process.īabies spend their first months and years listening and replicating the sounds they hear.
When we are learning our native language we go through a simple learning process: No matter what language we learn, we should learn these skills equally. These are called the four language skills. When learning a language, there are four skills we need for complete communication: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
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