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I'm Steve. Learning Spanish purely for fun, because I'm a bit obsessed with Mexico. I love the food and drinks, music, movies, lucha libre! Only started recently, my Spanish is very basic but I'm keen to chat with someone about rock bands, beers, horror movies, etc. I don't have any friends that speak Spanish that I can practice talking to. I'm not looking to pay for lessons, I thought this was more of a site where you could just practice chatting to people so I came to check it out.
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    Puede recomendar algunas peliculas en Espanol? Solo estoy empezando a aprender Espanol. He visto algunas peliculas en Espanol pero me gustaria ver mas. Las peliculas me han gustado son: Matando Cabos: me encanta esta pelicula! Kilometro 31: muy buena pelicula. Impavido: gran pelicula de accion Mortadelo y Filemon contra Jimmy el cachondo: mucha diversion no me gusta aburrido peliculas. quiero accion y comedia y zombies! Unas recomendaciones?
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    What sort of movies do you like?  I know a few but they're all a bit weird!

     

    'Casa De Mi Padre' is a movie that Will Ferrell did a couple of years back, it's all in Spanish.  Apparently he learned Spanish for it in about 6 weeks so it's pretty basic and easy to follow!

     

    [REC] is a decent series of zombie films, if you like horror, I think there's three of them.

     

    'Mortadelo y Filemon contra Jimmy el Cachondo' is a fun animated Warner Bros film.

     

    'Anina' is another animated movie, it's a kind of quirky little fantasy about a girl with a lot of imagination and the weird punishment she gets for having a fight at school.  It's pretty cool.

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    August 24, 2015
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    If you only just started learning, shows like Mi Vida Loca, Destinos and Extra En Espanol are good.  Well, they're not great shows, but they're good for learning!

     

    Not sure what music you like, but I love the band Chingon.  It's got Robert Rodriguez on guitar, I guess you'd call it hard rock mariachi?  It's got a very Mexican feel and they do a lot of traditional songs, but it's pretty wild rockin stuff!

     

    Movies, again, depends what you like.  'Mortadelo y Filemon contra Jimmy el Cachondo' is a good fun Warner Brothers animated film.  'Casa De Mi Padre' is all in Spanish, it's a Will Ferrell movie that's a pisstake of an overly dramatic Mexican soap opera.  He's pretty easy to understand in it, which is good.

     

    What sort of movies and music do you like?

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    August 23, 2015
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    Do you know the band Chingon?  They are from Texas, and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez plays guitar for them.  They play on the soundtrack to a lot of his films and Quentin Tarantino's films.  It's Mexican, all in Spanish and inspired by mariachi and Texas rock.  It's pretty wild, loud crazy rock and roll.

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    August 21, 2015
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    There's no definite answer, it just means at the start of the year.
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    August 20, 2015
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    I haven't been learning long, but I've found:

     

    learning words with duolingo or at learnalanguage.com is fun when you start because you feel like you're getting somewhere quickly but I found it got boring because you're just memorising words and phrases, not really applying them.

     

    Try and find anything by Michel Thomas.  I found his CD's at my local library. While you're there, see if they have any cool looking Spanish films or comics or anything.

     

    Look up Mi Vida Loca on YouTube.  It's not a great show, but good for beginning.  Then look up Extr@ en Espanol, it's more entertaining but doesn't hold your hand quite as much.

     

    Check out your DVD collection and see which movies have Spanish subtitles or Spanish dubbing.  I found Batman was good, because he speaks very slow and deliberately...and I love Batman.  And Jackie Chan's American movies like Shanghai Noon and Rush Hour, because his English is very basic to begin with!  Something like Seinfeld isn't for lightweights though!

     

    Have some fun.  And don't just try and learn rules and lists of words, it gets boring.

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    August 15, 2015
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