Hardest thing for you learning a new language?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by María José

Why the sarcasm? I'm in a sensitive mood today. I never seem to reach an agreement with my workmates when we have to mark finals. According to them I'm too 'optimistic' and in my opinion they want the students to speak better than us.
I need a rest...
Nice reading you, as usual.

The smiley states it is sarcastic, I just use the smiley as I was referring to the "baby" steps...

I love your posts too.

I never post with ill/mean intentions. If anything, with the intention to and make people laugh. I am not afraid of making a fool of myself. (besides not being hard...)

[CrOtALiTo]

The smiles aren't sarcastic nonetheless they are the life of this website, the Chileno used in all the time the smiles for express his feeling.

[María José]

Originally Posted by chileno

The smiley states it is sarcastic, I just use the smiley as I was referring to the "baby" steps...

I love your posts too.

I never post with ill/mean intentions. If anything, with the intention to and make people laugh. I am not afraid of making a fool of myself. (besides not being hard...)

I had forgotten about this thread completely. I know you are never mean... at least on line. As I said, June is not a good month to talk to me, but things are back on track again.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by María José

I had forgotten about this thread completely. I know you are never mean... at least on line. As I said, June is not a good month to talk to me, but things are back on track again.

Hey! welcome back!

Vacations started already?

[CrOtALiTo]

Nonetheless the vacations stared for the children, but the we as parents continue the road of the word all the days.

Chileno.
Do you work even?

I dare say is worst the vacations already the children are more insupportable without the school.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

NonethelessAlthough the vacations started for the children, but the we as parents continue the road of the word working everyday. all the days.

Chileno.
Do you work even?

I dare say is worst the vacations already the children are more insupportable without the school.

I dare say it is worst during the vacations, because the children become more unbearable when they are out of school. ???

Yes, I do work.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes man.
Thank you for the corrections.

Nonetheless is not very used right.
I should to use although, I didn't remember the word every.

I dare to say the children when don't go the school, they then became unbearable without the school.

But anyway we continue working for them jijiij.

See you anon.

[vita32]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

The life is ironic when you are a teacher and you teach your own knowledge, because you have the security of that you are teaching well, and when you are alone in your desktop with your book to trying to learn something new for you and that in that moment you tend to be nervous, then all the I said before result a great but great life ironic.

Hi Crotalito, are you trying to say that what is ironic in life is that as a teacher it is so easy to teach others but then even as a teacher it is hard to teach one's self.?

[emilwest]

Right now I have a little trouble learning the spanish object pronouns (me, te, la, lo, le, se, etc...). It's so tricky. Especially when there's more than one object pronoun in a sentence, like for example: "Ya le has comprado el regalo a Silvia? Sí, se lo he dado esta mañana." I find it a little hard because it's a little different from swedish.

But I will practice this hard and hopefully I'll get it soon!! Any learning tips, by the way? Gracias.

[CrOtALiTo]

I taught a few Spanish to a American native and just she has a lot of troubles saying Me, la, el, because she doesn't very accustomed with the kind to words, and she was a little Spanish for me, but it's doesn't enough until now, then I don't know how I should to teach her with, I guess it in a method easier as she was a kind it likes in the kinder garden, in essence she can keeps the information taught for me.

Then I can understand your situation, because it result familiar in my day to day, but I can tell you something true, if you practice daily the language, I believe with that method you will keep more information in your brain instead of you practice or write anything only two days per week or less it.

Good luck

[Jessicake]

Speaking and listening is always a problem. I'm just plain horrible at it, even in my own native language.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Jessicake

Speaking and listening is always a problem. I'm just plain horrible at it, even in my own native language.

Although, if you strive to get another language you will get proficient at it eventually and it will help you with your own language too.

[tmember]

I'm trying to get a handle on all those little Spanish words like por, de, ser, le, para, que, etc... The hardest thing for me is to speak....given time I can construct a pretty good sentence, but if it were an emergency, someone would surely die before I could get it all together. Then I'd just have to say....Oh No!

[chileno]

Originally Posted by tmember

I'm trying to get a handle on all those little Spanish words like por, de, ser, le, para, que, etc... The hardest thing for me is to speak....given time I can construct a pretty good sentence, but if it were an emergency, someone would surely die before I could get it all together. Then I'd just have to say....Oh No!

Well, what will usually discourage a language learner is his/her own impatience. They will quit because they think they are not advancing fast enough or at all.

Unfortunately.

[vita32]

What is so hard for me in learning Spanish is memorizing the conjugation of verbs and applying these in actual sentences. It does not help me to memorize the conjugation of every spanish verb if I do not understand how it is used in a Spanish sentence. I memorize and then I forget.

[JosephThomas]

I find the most difficult part deciding when I need to alter a word,
such as dónde.
ie. Adónde

or Vino, i am not even sure how to change that word yet. or how I could

I just don't know what calls for a transfiguration/ alteration/ modification.

That and it's more or less my third day.

[chileno]

That's why I advise to translate a novel from Spanish to English. You have to write first in Spanish what you want to translate. Look in the bilingual dictionary for the words in order to find out what they mean in English. Try to make out how each word is pronounced in Spanish. Check that it is legible in English. Write again in Spanish what you forst wrote in Spanish.

This way you get "accustomed" to Spanish.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Vita: Memorizing is useless if you don't associate a method to do it with a specific kind of verb. Try using a conjugation manual (not a list of conjugated verbs), so you will have a model to conjugate the different groups of verbs and their regularities/irregularities.

[vita32]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@Vita: Memorizing is useless if you don't associate a method to do it with a specific kind of verb. Try using a conjugation manual (not a list of conjugated verbs), so you will have a model to conjugate the different groups of verbs and their regularities/irregularities.

Thanks for the suggestion.I will really have to buy a good book for learning Spanish. I'm not happy with the ones I have now.

[ChilenoAlemanCanada]

Originally Posted by vita32

Thanks for the suggestion.I will really have to buy a good book for learning Spanish. I'm not happy with the ones I have now.

I highly suggest Spanish Made Simple.