Learning Spanish the Right Way

What They Don't Teach You in the Classroom

Spanish - The Logical Choice

In The United States, with the exception of English, our official language, there is no language so widely spoken as Spanish. Due to our geographical isolation, few other languages have taken hold sufficiently to offer much opportunity for use here within the U.S. borders. I speak some Portuguese besides Spanish, but I rarely have occasion to use that language, and this is typical for many other languages as well. You could choose to try to learn French or perhaps German, but how often would you find occasion to make use of these unless you are planning a trip to Europe sometime soon? Consequently, your experiences in your language classroom would likely be the extent of your usage of all that knowledge that cost you so dearly to assimilate. So, if you are going to put out the effort, why not pick the one that you will actually have the most opportunity to use? And I assume that you no doubt agree, or you wouldn't have found this article to be of sufficient interest to invest your time in reading it.

Since you have determined that learning Spanish is of interest to you, lets have a look at what the Spanish teachers aren't likely to tell you - how you really go about learning Spanish successfully! And what, you ask, makes me so eminently qualified to determine what is needed to be successful in learning Spanish? Well, for starters, I have had to learn it myself, and did it "the hard way", just as you will need to do... from scratch, as an adult learner - and I did it successfully, much more so than most of my fellow English-speaking U.S. citizen counterparts who study Spanish. I actually get mistaken for a native speaker much of the time. On one occasion, I had to briefly interrupt a conversation in Spanish with a Hispanic fellow I had just met, to discuss an issue with an English speaking associate who had tracked me down. Upon resumption of the conversation in Spanish with my new acquaintance, he commented (translation, of course...), "Wow! I can hardly believe it!!! ...your English is almost perfect!!!"