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Did anyone else find their Spanish classes in High School entirely useless? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You need to learn languages by immersion, school can only do so much without it being reinforced.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Immersion only works well with acquiring a baseline through which to understand the experience. You can listen to a conversation all day long but without context through visual, audio, previous knowledge or other means you won't actually learn anything.

I know this may come off as pedantic but it's important for people who are trying to learn a language to not expect to pick up on things without having to put in a bit of book learning, even if it's just at the beginning. Jumping off into the deep end doesn't really work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Comprehensible immersion is the key in my opinion, where you slowly build up your input ability.