Im going to Chile for July and August where school is still taking place due to winter time. The program I am getting into will consist of living with a host family while at the same time attend at a high school for 2 months. My questions is will I be fluent in Spanish by time I come back in the US? I have been taking Spanish for 5 years and I am pretty good at it.
2007-05-12 18:03:22 · 10 answers · asked by avalentin911 2 in Travel ➔ Latin America ➔ Chile
If you are already pretty good at spanish you should be better when you get back to the U.S.
The thing that is going to make you better is that you are going to get to practice every day and that will definately help your spanish to improve.
2007-05-12 18:07:10 · answer #1 · answered by dionne m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will tell you this, being fluent is a loose term. Since the Spanish language has been spread throught the Americas, many things have changed through the history. For exmaple, find and older version of Don Quioxte and a newer version, you will find major difference. I would say you are on the right track, immersion is the best way to learn, because you are dependent on communication. I have personally travelled to Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay and the language was different everywhere I went, espically Argentina. Diffferences will come a lot in the verb usage of when to use tu versus usted and the vostros. Plus everyday common words, like room, have like 20 translations, so room in Chile may not be room in Mexico. I admire your pursuit of learning and I hope you can hook up with someone back in the states who speaks fluent Spanish to keep it that way. Also, writing back and forth to a new friend in Chile would help. But to be fluent, I will give you the test of my Spanish teacher in high school. If I dropped you off in a unkonwn Spanish speaking country out of a plane 20,000 feet in the air with a parachute, the clothes on your back, 500 U.S. dollars, and a passport, can you find your way home without contacting a loved one or friend for help? With this trip, I have faith you could! Safe travels!
Forest D Bynum
P.S. Cuando vistas Chile, vas al terminal de autobuses y viaja a Vina del Mar, las playas mejores en el Pacifico, y solo cuesta cinco mil pesos . Solamente dos horas para Santiago. Hasta luego!
2007-05-15 15:13:23 · answer #2 · answered by ibuiltthishouse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These days you can learn how to speak Spanish over the internet. Check out this online course, it's voted as the best Spanish online course of all time: http://www.rocketlearner.com/spanish The course is very easy to follow, I was able to learn Spanish in just 3 months.
I live in New York City, I wanted to go to a Spanish language teacher but that would have cost me over $800 per month. Good thing with this internet, $800 it's a lot of money for me.
2014-07-19 10:15:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say you would be pretty close to fluent. I had two years of high school spanish and then moved to Chile. It took me about three months to understand everything the people were saying and a month or two more when I could really speak fluently.
2007-05-14 04:00:28 · answer #4 · answered by dir_buceador 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey I'm from Stgo Chile, if you have been talking spanish for 5 years I think in 2 month you'll improve your spanish and accent, if u need a patner for your spanish u can contact me and u teach me your english with me ok
good luck bye!
2007-05-13 05:48:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You too can do anything dull up right here and get tossed into prison. Foreign international locations are the identical as we're. Don't be scared off via stories you pay attention. As to your query: it's going to be rewarding to you. When you are round ppl speaking the language, you study it from a dialect and informal factor of view. You will even get a cultural enjoy, and I extremely endorse it if you'll be able to find the money for it. It's all facet of developing and finding out.
2016-09-05 18:30:37 · answer #6 · answered by brang 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well taking classes for 5 years will be a good stepping stone, but being over there you will actually have to speak spanish all the time so you will get ALOT of practice and im sure by the time you get back you will be fluent in spanish and it will be easy
2007-05-12 18:11:44 · answer #7 · answered by bandfreak006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess so! I mean if you already know a bit of spanish, now you can learn like the accent and stuff! you might not be perfect but yeah you're going to be pretty good!
2007-05-12 18:07:03 · answer #8 · answered by Dan =] 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may learn a lot, but not the whole language, spanish is very easy for me since I live in Venezuela, but you can try your best..!
2007-05-12 18:06:29 · answer #9 · answered by Ines F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if you've been taking it for 5 years, you should probly already be pretty fluent!
but exposing yourself to the culture definently helps.
2007-05-12 18:06:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋