I was born knowing spanish help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant deal with it?

Question

k then along the years i only talked to my mom in spanish in my school i hanged out mostly with americans now in highschool i have spanish speaking friends and im not good with my spanish anymore i know the words but i cant speak it fulently what will help watching novelas reading spanish or what?

Answer 1

si.. watch novelas.. and try to speak spanish at home..

Answer 2

Fluency comes with total immersion in the language, and lots of practice. ;-)

There are a few tips to help you more speedily attain fluency:

1) make the first words out of your mouth in the morning spanish. To help you do this, jot down a few things you would like to say to yourself or your mom at night just before bed. Leave it at your bedside. When you awake, read it aloud. Repeat it to yourself in front of the mirror, and then to your mom. When your brain starts thinking in spanish in the morning, it'll go better for you the whole day.

2) Plan a conversation with your mom or your friends. Speak spanish only for 10 or 20 minutes with your mom every day. Be the sherrif, if mom or your friend slips up with spanglish, say, no te entiendo. Do NOT ever mix spanish and english - we are either speaking spanish or english, not both.

3) If a conversation occurs, and you're left silent hunting for words, do your best to remember the conversation. Review it later, and coulda/woulda/shoulda, think about what you wished you had said. Repeat what you would have said to yourself four times.

4) ?como se dice... ? Avoid it. That's the easy way out. Use circumvention instead. If you don't know a word, describe what you mean using words you know - don't just ask your friends to give you the word. If you describe it using circumvention, frequently they will offer the word you're searching for, but the point is you will be learning fluency instead of translation.

5) If your friends watch telenovelas, then it might help you to watch telenovelas. If your friends don't watch the telenovelas, then these will probably just make you dumber because they're usually so lame. There are plenty of good spanish speaking movies that you can rent. Avoid subtitles. If you must, watch the movie twice, once with subtitles and once without.

6) Listen, read, write, speak spanish. Speaking helps with fluency the most, even if you are just repeating something you heard. Stop by the local book store or library. Find the children's section with the spanish books and browse through them reading a few lines. Buy a spanish magazine or newspaper and read about current events - this way you'll be better prepared for conversation that might come up.

That's about it. You'll get there eventually. What you're going through, lots and lots of kids from spanish speaking or bilingual homes go through. You'll get it, just be determined.

!Buena suerte!

Answer 3

Watch Univisión, Galavisión and anything else available on TV, look up their websites, read whatever you can get hold of in Spanish and see if there are any Spanish language cultural courses available for you to attend, where you will be in a Spanish speaking milieu. It is important for you to communicate in the language as well as acquiring a passive knowledge. I truly believe that if you started off with Spanish it is still there within you and that you can recapture it easily.

Answer 4

You were not born knowing any language. No one is. People learn most of the language before thdy are six years old. If you were not speaking spanish before you were six then you did not know it very well and it is easy to forget much of it.

The best thing iis to talk to your spanish speaking friends and just tell them you really want to learn and they will help you. Yes they will make fun of you some times and that is not bad at all.

Spend more time doing your homework, you really need it.

Answer 5

I've heard people who don't know spanish very well or at all learn very quickly when they are in a spanish speaking country. Maybe if you're planning on going on vacation make it a place like spain or south america, or if you can't afford to go to those places, Mexico is really close and probably not as expensive. You get a nice relaxing vacation plus a really good lesson in spanish all in one.

Answer 6

my husband grew up in PR but then moved to CA when he was 20. After 28 years of being in CA, we moved back to PR. Because he didn't have to use his spanish that much in the states, he had forgotten how to say some words and phrases. After being back over a year, he has had to use his spanish daily. He know remembers what words are what. Be sure to use it every day. This will definitely help.

Answer 7

well since you knew spanish beofre all you have to do is oractice it. everyday talk your mom and it will come back by its self. there was this white girl who hanged out with us and in 2 weeks she knew the basics of spanish, now she's almost an expert. since you already knew it im sure you will get it. if there your frinds they wont laugh at you. ask them to tell you everyhtini in spanish. they will help too. good luck

Answer 8

tell your mom to teach you i have a similar problem but mine is that everybody in my house speaks Spanish and i was raise in Texas since i was little and i don't really know how to speak English

Answer 9

since you knew spanish... just speaking with your freinds daily will help. maybe in 6 months u will be back to where u were before.

im no expert though

Answer 10

maybe ur friends speak a different dialect from it. u can try watchin univision n all those channels, if u already know a lot of spanish it should be easy for u to get fluent again. i dunno how u forget to speak spanish...