Most folks, when they set out to study a new language, begin by enrolling in Spanish I at their local Junior College. This is not the way to begin. In fact, the formal learning about the language in a course at the JuCo is about 5 years away from where you are at if you’ve had no experience at acquiring the target language.
You begin by listening. You need this exposure to grow accustomed to the sounds of the language. You need this period of silence in which you listen, not produce, so you can bombard your brain with lots and lots of visual and auditory impressions in the new language you are seeking to understand and speak. You’ve got to learn “the music” of the language. You’ve got to experience comprehensible input.
It is relatively easy in today’s technology to immerse yourself in languages through television. Those seeking to acquire spoken fluency in Spanish have it made in the shade while living in the States. You not only can find multiple radio and cable TV stations that are 100% Spanish, you will most likely find an American-Hispanic community living in a neighborhood near you. You can listen to Spanish almost...
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