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President Obama Wants You to Learn Spanish (short video)

by Andrew

Just found this, I smiled a bit, kind of funny (“Merci beau coup!” lol), but he’s absolutely right:

Most Western Europeans speak at least two languages fluently, and someone speaking 5 or 6 isn’t the least bit abnormal or special over there at all.  The fact that we’re a first-world, wealthy nation and we’re also the worst, among first-world wealthy nations such as Western Europe, Canada and Japan, when it comes to language education is just embarrassing.  Our education system is bad enough, this is just one more facet of it :(

Why do you think it is that we are this way (the worst as far as language education goes amongst wealthy nations)?  Seriously, let me know, leave a comment.

The secrets of how to use free online resources to teach yourself Spanish, from home, in just a few months - Also: Here are the internet's Top 33 free online Spanish-learning resources

I run a newsletter entirely about how to learn Spanish online for free where I send out every cool new tip and technique that I learn to my subscribers and not only do they get it before anyone else but frequently they get things that no one else ever does. Additionally, I've spent a great deal of time putting together a 3-part series of articles for you on the internet's best free resources for the Spanish-learner that you'll get when you sign up for my newsletter--in addition to all of what you get below, I'll be sure to send you any updates about cool new sites, resources, and learning tips and techniques that I come up with:

Part 1: An article called “Spanish Learning Systems: Should you bother?” about whether or not you should even bother with a pre-packaged Spanish-learning system (e.g. Rosetta Stone or Pimsleur) and, if you do decide you want to, where you can go online to find programs that are literally 1/10th the price of older, more common systems like Rosetta Stone and Pimsleur but actually work even better. Also, at the same time, you’ll get a separate e-mail with a very long list of my favorite Top 33 free online Spanish-learning resources (tools, references, sites with free lessons, articles, blogs, forums, etc.) that's far to long to include here, especially with all the other stuff I've got below that's just on this site alone, and I'd like to offer it to you (completely free, you don't have to do anything other than sign up) right now.

Part 2: I explain what language exchanges are (essentially they allow you free access to an unlimited number of native speakers to practice your Spanish with), why they're absolutely essential if you're teaching yourself (I'm serious when I say this: it's impossible to get fluent without them if you're learning a foreign language on your own), how to use them, and which ones are the best.

Part 3: I cover chat rooms which are specifically devoted to connecting you with native Spanish speakers who want to learn English so you can chat with them in Spanish (and they'll help and correct you) and then you do the same for them with their English (these are completely free to use, but rather hard to find, but I'll tell you where the best ones are!). Sign up below!



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Cheers,

Andrew

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  • http://www.mosalingua.com Sam (MosaLingua)

    Motivation is really important to learn a language.
    And I can understand that most american lacks a goal. What the matter of learning a foreign language as everybody speaks english ? At school, I was very bad in language classes, because the teacher was not really motivating, but I didn’t see the interest for myself (I was a bit stupid and lazy ;-) . But later, I found some interest to improve my bad english and learn spanish from scratch (I learned German for my second language). And it was easy, because the motivation was here…

  • admin

    Bingo. It’s all about motivation (and having a great teacher, or not, makes HUGE difference, of course). If you’ve got the will, there is a way, no matter what.

    I had no interest in learning French in high school, so I didn’t despite 4 years of classes.

    I had no interest in learning Spanish in college (University), so I didn’t.

    When I decided I wanted to learn Spanish, I did, and I learned quickly. Same thing with Japanese.

    Our problem here in the U.S. is that we’re isolated, we’ve got Mexico next door but the great, great majority of Americans will never HAVE to interact with them (and even if they do, they’ll often speak English), Canadians speak English, and…that’s it. It’s not like Europe where you all are surrounded by people who all speak a different language. Plus, your educational system is better than ours, generally speaking.

    Cheers,
    Andrew