Spanish

[spazzychic]

Is someone out there in cyberspace reasonably fluent to fluent in Spanish so that I can practice speaking? The mechanics are getting crowded around in my head and I need to practice them before they fall out. :)

Secondly, can someone recommend some Spanish language music that will

a: Not put me to sleep

and

b: Is not predominately trumpets?

Amber

Comments

[elysiankitten.livejournal.com]

Selena, her early albums. Absolutely GREAT stuff. I have all her albums at home.

[elysiankitten.livejournal.com]

One more. Also Carlos Santana. He does guitar, but has a lot of singers.

[baeritone.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I'll have to put this to Paulo. All my Spanish music is jazz, mariachi (trumpets), or opera. :)

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

You should post for an IM chat buddy, unless you need to actual speak aloud. There is probably a community for music suggestions -- you could try linguaphiles. I'll ask my friends, but what they like might not be available here or online.

[(Anonymous)]

Justin is pretty fluent in Spanish.

[celluloid-jam.livejournal.com]

And that was from me.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

Really! Huh. Learn something new every day.

[celluloid-jam.livejournal.com]

He's also been a tutor at the UW! So. He might be a good person to hit up.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

Would I need to call him Reverand?

But yes, an excellent idea.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

I wish Portugese was closer to Spanish!

It would give him and I an excuse to talk more!

[baeritone.livejournal.com]

Não é muito diferente, minha amiga...

Paulo speaks Spanish. :)

[aurora77]

I used to be decent at it. I could carry on conversations with random people and I could understand it when two fluent speakers talked to each other, given that they didn't talk too fast or slur too many words. I did a bit of tutoring in college, too. But that was about 6 or 7 years ago, so I'm nowhere near as good as I was then.

Look for free Spanish magazines or surf Spanish news/entertainment sites. Just reading stuff can go a long way to refreshing your memory.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

Aiee. Diga Paulo me llamar, por pavor, para practico mi espanol.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

The reading and writing I can do pretty well.. sometimes. (I think I butchered the Spanish I did above). Speaking it, and being able to create and conjugate on the fly is a harder skill which I need to work on.