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Starboard Tack

(11,181 posts)
Fri Dec 9, 2011, 09:28 PM Dec 2011

Immersion is the key. That's how you learned your first language.

Sounds like you have a good grounding in grammar and vocabulary. That's your toolbox. Now you need to learn how the tools are used. If you have a Spanish speaking community available to you, spend as much time as possible there. Same with TV, radio and newspapers. Forget English. Stop trying to translate and you will start thinking in Spanish. That's how children do it. Listen and repeat.

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