top of page
Writer's picturehhshirt

Wavetshirt - I love all HBCUs Mine’s just bettfa shirt

If you want conversational fluency, begin with the I love all HBCUs Mine’s just bettfa shirt But I will love this beginner’s class before you go to a Spanish speaking country or afflict your Hispanic friends. It shows respect to study beforehand, so you aren’t wasting their time. You should arrive in country knowing all the verb conjugations and with a healthy respect for gender agreement. There’s no shortcut for this. You have to be able to build sentences with the right verb conjugation, even if you have to stop and think. Thinking before speaking isn’t bad in any language. If you arrive in country with some grounding in the official grammar and pronunciation, you will learn far more and far more quickly from conversation with native speakers. But be prepared: for the first few days or weeks you won’t understand anything you overhear, and only the things said to you when they speak slowly and clearly. That’s because, like speakers of every language, the locals will leave many words incomplete or partially pronounced, and some letters will not be textbook. Imagine if you learned Mexican Spanish and then went to Castile where the accent sounds like lisping (many unvoiced S sounds replaced by English TH), or to Chile where initial Y and LL are pronounced like English J.



You get used to these things quite soon. It’s fine to pick up the I love all HBCUs Mine’s just bettfa shirt But I will love this local (mis)pronunciations, as long as you recognize their informality and you suit your language to the occasion. Remember that the people you’re conversing with are not getting paid to teach you Spanish. If they switch to English, then try to stay with Spanish in your reply until they specifically ask you to use English. Don’t despair. Just study more and try again later. Most people will be patient with you for a while, depending on how busy they are. If you’re going to a certain kind of place or event, study beforehand to learn some vocabulary so you’ll know what others are saying. Read Spanish newspapers and magazines every day.


2 views0 comments

Comments


bottom of page