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    The Dirty Frenchman
    • Nov 2005
    • 8904

    #1

    Best way to learn spanish?

    I've been debating relocating to costa rica for a while. I'm looking to better my spanish if/when i do move down there. Right now I know very very very very basic spanish (small conversational phrases). I'm completly bi-lingual speaking french and I can read/write latin, so i believe i'll pick it up quick. Obviously the best way to learn a new language is to immerse yourself in it and be forced to speak it, but i'm looking to improve my spanish before i go. What's your favorite method for learning a new language?
  • CaptainHowdy
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Dec 2004
    • 94032

    #2
    Rossetta Stone maybe??...

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    • sickkittens
      I am a meat popsicle.
      • Jul 2002
      • 25100

      #3
      Take some intro courses at a community college?

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      • BusterBunny
        perverted justice decoy
        • Aug 2005
        • 19291

        #4
        study the taco bell menu
        my sig caught gonoherpasyphilaids and died

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        • Big Red Machine
          Confirmed User
          • Jan 2005
          • 9586

          #5
          Originally posted by CaptainHowdy
          Rossetta Stone maybe??...
          I heard it was good.....Anyone try it?

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          • dissipate
            The Dirty Frenchman
            • Nov 2005
            • 8904

            #6
            Originally posted by BusterBunny
            study the taco bell menu
            pure genius!

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            • dissipate
              The Dirty Frenchman
              • Nov 2005
              • 8904

              #7
              rosetta stone is looking pretty good, im going to check it out

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              • smack
                Push Porn Like Weight.
                • Mar 2002
                • 10652

                #8
                eat the brains of a native speaker. then you can absorb his knowledge.

                his tasty, tasty, knowledge.
                Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

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                • kristin
                  GOO!
                  • Sep 2002
                  • 9768

                  #9
                  I've taken courses and it helps, but I never could really pick it up.

                  Just go there and having to pick it up they say is the best way like you said, but Spanish speakers are generally happy just when you attempt the language.
                  Last edited by kristin; 09-01-2006, 12:57 PM.
                  Vacares rules.

                  "Usually only fat guys have the kind of knowledge and ability that Kristin has."

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                  • =^..^=
                    Confirmed User
                    • Jan 2002
                    • 6935

                    #10
                    Rosetta stone is not al that good

                    you'll spend a lot of time learnign words you wont use

                    u need to learn good conversational spanish.

                    IN fact in any latin based language there are only 600-800 words in a persons ACTIVE vocabulary. So a lot of thee study programs teach very redundant words.

                    Im currently learnign spanish using

                    Michel Thomas's Learn Spanish CD's (which i downloaded in mp3 off bearshare)
                    its the best system (yes i have tried all the big names like rosetta stone and pimsler and couldnt learn shit)

                    my spanish is pretty good from just a few hours with these mp3's. I get practice by speakign/writing to native spanish speakers.

                    btw
                    IM also looking to locate to costa rica soon
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                    • dissipate
                      The Dirty Frenchman
                      • Nov 2005
                      • 8904

                      #11
                      Originally posted by =^..^=
                      Rosetta stone is not al that good

                      you'll spend a lot of time learnign words you wont use

                      u need to learn good conversational spanish.

                      IN fact in any latin based language there are only 600-800 words in a persons ACTIVE vocabulary. So a lot of thee study programs teach very redundant words.

                      Im currently learnign spanish using

                      Michel Thomas's Learn Spanish CD's (which i downloaded in mp3 off bearshare)
                      its the best system (yes i have tried all the big names like rosetta stone and pimsler and couldnt learn shit)

                      my spanish is pretty good from just a few hours with these mp3's. I get practice by speakign/writing to native spanish speakers.

                      btw
                      IM also looking to locate to costa rica soon
                      hitting you up on icq

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                      • Drake
                        Hello world!
                        • Mar 2003
                        • 12508

                        #12
                        Yo Quiero Yo Quiero Cojer Yo Quiero Cojer

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                        • Chillin the Most
                          Confirmed User
                          • May 2006
                          • 146

                          #13
                          Don't forget we use regional spanish and we also have lot of local slangs... I would study, practice and try to be around CR people.

                          Pura Vida
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                          • Chillin the Most
                            Confirmed User
                            • May 2006
                            • 146

                            #14
                            There u go,

                            "Yo quiero coger" is in the top ten list to learn
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                            • dissipate
                              The Dirty Frenchman
                              • Nov 2005
                              • 8904

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Chillin the Most
                              There u go,

                              "Yo quiero coger" is in the top ten list to learn
                              yo quiero coger = I want to take?

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                              • Chillin the Most
                                Confirmed User
                                • May 2006
                                • 146

                                #16
                                "coger" its the local slang for "fuck"

                                I want to fuck, I want to get laid :-)
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                                • squishypimp
                                  PostMaster General
                                  • Aug 2006
                                  • 10781

                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by BusterBunny
                                  study the taco bell menu
                                  yo quiero taco bell!

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                                  • shake
                                    frc
                                    • Jul 2003
                                    • 4663

                                    #18
                                    maybe go there for say a month, and try to talk to everybody you can in restaraunts etc. until you get the hang of it.
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                                    • swedguy
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Jan 2002
                                      • 7981

                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by CaptainHowdy
                                      Rossetta Stone maybe??...
                                      I concur.

                                      Una mujer encima en casa!

                                      If I remember one of the Rosetta Stone phrases correct

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                                      • Big Red Machine
                                        Confirmed User
                                        • Jan 2005
                                        • 9586

                                        #20
                                        Originally posted by smack
                                        eat the brains of a native speaker. then you can absorb his knowledge.

                                        his tasty, tasty, knowledge.
                                        You'll just end up with Laughing Death that way

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                                        • godisdead
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Jun 2006
                                          • 1213

                                          #21
                                          You go to a mexican bar, drink two bottles of tequila and start a fight. You'll wake up two months after that in a military prison's hospital where some guy in a general's uniform will ask you what the fuck you have been doing with his daughter and you will probably have lost a tooth or two. But you'll speak Spanish like a native.
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