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How to Become Fluent in Spanish

It’s Muy Hermoso!

By Peaushan DevanarayanaPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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How to Become Fluent in Spanish
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The thing about Spanish is that not only can you speak it in Spain it will also help you to speak it in South American despite the many different dialects. The ability to navigate through the language would open up so many avenues for you especially when navigating the beauty of the Caribbean and the Providenciales. Without much aplomb, here's how to become fluent in Spanish.

Why Conversational Fluency Matters

The first point in order is that you have to be able to communicate. So, before accuracy comes the ability to be conversational. The reasons for this are rather simple at best. You must be able to speak Spanish and make yourself understood. The more you learn it by speaking, the more you will be able to perfect the language. It is quite possible that when you are learning from books, you will get caught up on the technicalities of a language and be unable to trudge your way out of it. Perfectionism can be achieved after you have become conversationally fluent first.

Find Out Why You Want to Learn Spanish

It is easy, starting something. But the true difficulty comes from being unable to stick to it. In order to do so, ask yourself this very important question. Why are you doing this? What is your motivation and what is your goal? If you know why you are trying to learn Spanish, for example, to visit your relatives in the Providenciales by flying to them using a domestic carrier such as interCaribbean Airways, then you have your long term goal. You want to be able to converse with the ones you love. This provides you with the motivation to keep at it, even on the difficult days.

Create Your Own Spanish Language Phrasebook

While the number of Spanish workbooks that will provide you with a multitude of phrases are available for purchase, they might not be important words and phrases you are required to speak to people in Spanish on a daily basis. The best way to get a personalized phrasebook is to make your own. It is not very difficult as you can just start with a notebook and a pen and start making a list of all the words that you would use on a daily basis. You can have a sufficient list of things you would regularly say by the time you have been flying between the Caribbean Islands.

Learn Spanish Conversational Connectors

One of the important factors of Spanish is learning conversational connectors. Some great examples can be from when you are trying to elaborate, apologise, fill in, quote and disagree. This will give your brain time to think of the rest of the sentence that ties together to complete the thought you are trying to convey to the listener.

Chat with Native Spanish Speakers

Whenever possible try to chat with native Spanish speakers. Just because you live in a country that does not speak Spanish don't use it as an excuse. In the age of the internet, everything is closer, and this means you can make some actual friends in other countries particularly Spanish speakers with whom you can test your language skills. If they want to learn your native language in return that would be wonderful and you both could be mutually beneficial to each other. Whenever you can, try to speak to natives, explaining that you are trying to further your vocabulary in Spanish. You would be surprised to find how helpful they can be to you.

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About the Creator

Peaushan Devanarayana

Im a Sri Lankan travel enthusiast !!!

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