Does italki and having a language partner really help?
Hi everyone! Hola a todos!
Has using italki really helped your fluency in learning Spanish?
I studied Spanish in school for three years and did not really enjoy it and decided instead to focus on French. Now, I can follow the gist of a spoken conversation (if it is slow enough) in Spanish and pick up on the meaning of written Spanish if I know the context - for example I follow football in Spanish. However when it comes to speaking I can never quite remember enough to say whole sentences.
I'd really like to visit Spain next year and would love to get my Spanish to a level where I can communicate, if not fluently, comfortably.
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The paid teachers I've found through italki have been extremely helpful. Between video calls and their skillful use of screen sharing, Google documents, etc. I honestly believe that Skype video teaching is as effective as in-person teaching.
And of course one-on-one individual sessions are incomparably better than being in a classroom with one teacher and twenty students.
Language partners help me in a different way. I take a step closer toward really using the language, and I get experience speaking to people who talking naturally and not using a teacher's good diction.
Am I succeeding? What can I say? It's hard! I'll have short bursts of fluency, where I'll think something and speak a whole phrase intuitively, without stopping to translate. Then I'll come to a screeching halt and be paralyzed for seconds trying to remember a word or a grammar detail.
I don't think there's any answer but to keep trying... I try to use every method of learning I can, because they are all useful in different ways and none of them is a magic answer.
As an example of "other methods," I've chosen Spanish as the language my computer uses (Mac OS X). Have you? Pretty terrifying at first! Even now, the browser pushes my language setting through to some websites and now a lot of websites I NEED to use are coming up in Spanish. I'm even getting spam in Spanish now!
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I think italki will help you to find language partners to practice your language with them Just go ahead and look for them and start learning the Language you want :)
buena suerte :)
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I think a language partner its pretty usefull but you need time and to be very patient. Como decimos en mi país, "la paciencia es la madre de la ciencia" ;)
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Classes can be boring sometimes, but are a must in order to have some grammar to improve your knowledge on Spanish expressions. Speaking with someone will be a very good help. You only need to find the right person and everything is going to be fine. Step by step you'll get more confidence in yourself.
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It may help you, but you have to do other things to improve your Spanish.
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