I just wanted to make a suggestion. I've been relearning my Spanish (stopped using it at a young age) throughout the past couple years and have found a good way to hear Spanish on a regular basis, and at the same time learn some phrases....the secret: Watch Telenovelas.

I started watching one called Amor Real and got absolutely hooked! It's set in the 1800s and has all the good stuff that a good telenovela has. Unlike soap operas, they only run for 6 months so they have a beginnning, middle, climax, and definitive end. It was such a great show to come home to every day of the week.

Unfortunately, Amor Real aired its finale recently in the U.S.....but my friend who works at umvd told me that its set to be released on DVD today! So I'm waiting in anticipation for tonight when I'll pick up a copy. The drawback to these telenovelas lasting only 6 months is that you don't get to enjoy the characters and the storyline for too long....but now that Amor Real is being released on DVD I don't need to worry about that....phhhew. Plus, it'll have subtitles, so it'll be interesting to see how they have translated it with culture in mind.

Anyone else watch telenovelas to help their spanish aquisition? Which is your favorite? Heard of Amor Real?

lol, I also agree with this! It helps you pick up on dialects and actually hearing it spoken in convos, rather than computer prompted exercises or book/cla** learning. It's very helpful and resourceful along with learning in a cla** setting. I have to retake Spanish 2 and 3 soon, and thats how I'm re-learning it


C'mon God...do I seem bullet proof?

I started a Spanish course in the fall and one of our assignments that we always had to do was to watch Spanish soap operas that the college rented to us. So it must work!

yeah, I just watch the spanish channel.
I have a bunch of friends from Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, and Peurto Rico that do just as well, though


Wondering who it was who told her...

i agree with you bunburyna! and another advice, if anybody want to learn spanish he/she must know that the accent is different in mexico, spain, argentina, etc, i don't know if in schools you learn spanish from spain or from another country, if you wanna speak like spanish people you can see spanish channels or tv series or music, if anybody want to download good spanish tv series (not novelas) just ask me!


La envidia es como un puñal
¿a quién se lo voy a clavar?
te comento que insultar...
...no es ninguna novedad.

wow como que se te perdio el spanol? how could you lose your spanish!? its the bomb *bomb*