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Did anyone else find their Spanish classes in High School entirely useless? (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 months ago by cosecantphi@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I took three years of Spanish and got an A every semester. Even when it was still fresh in my mind, I was nowhere near able to hold even a very simple conversation. And now just a few years later it's all totally gone from my brain.

My mother's native language is Spanish and she never taught me, which I resent her for. But I still find it incredible how shitty my public school education in Spanish was. We really should be teaching kids a second language from kindergarten up.

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think they should do language classes in elementary. Your mind holds on to those far better. I had mine as electives in High School and it was brutal. My mind doesn't work that way and I really tried. We did end up going to Mexico for a month and it only cost the families $800. One of the best experiences of my life.

Unfortunately it was 20 something years ago and I barely remember things. I have some reading comprehension and some very basic conversational spanish but not much remains to be fluent at all.

[–] electricaltape@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My mind doesn't work that way and I really tried.

Look into comprehensible input, go to the Dreaming Spanish youtube channel and start from the super beginner playlist (or whatever it's called)

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

This is the correct answer, dreaming spanish is very worth it.