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Thanks for sharing. I'll get on it right away. It's so nice that there are people out there who are willing to share their services for free.

Indeed active listening is the key. Listening passively will get you nowhere. Your ears have to be alert and your brain has to be fired up. You have to make your mind remember stuff. Talking on Skype is also a very wonderful idea for Spanish interactions. However I am on the introvert side of life and I tend to be very careful and wary of people. I will have to brave up and look more into skyping.

Wow... I could almost envy you. I wish I had started English at such a tender age. I know I would've made the most of it especially because of the fact that I want to travel the entire Spanish world. Even though you are still learning to articulate, I must say that it's very commendable and invaluable that you are actually able to understand a Spanish speaker. I would give anything for that any day. My understanding is a bit slow, but my articulation is ok. In your case I would just suggest that you continue to interact with Spanish speaking persons. Not just any kind of Spanish speaking person but someone who is very intelligent. Someone who has a very wide and vast vocabulary and thus able to help you to increase in your Spanish expressions.

Wow thank you so much. I never knew that there were websites dedicated to movies with subtitles. I'm definitely gonna check it out. Thanks again.

It's weird how I've been doing Spanish for years And yet haven't delved into this kind of practice. Practicing to watch movies in English with Spanish subtitles is a great way for learning Spanish. I haven't done it deliberately but the few times I've watched movies like these it has really brought to my attention this fact. Now that you have mentioned it, it's like a reminder to me and I'm now going to go on YouTube and watch some movies with Spanish subtitles.

I know what you mean. My issue is that I experience it the   way around. I can speak the language but to listen to it takes great concentration. But it only goes to show that we are human beings. Some people learn faster than others, but the point is that we must spend adequate time around the language to learn it.

Yeah I make the language mistakes too. That's why I have taken to reading because it really broadens my scope and helps me to realise the errors in my day to day speech.

I think I understand what you're saying. Being that we are not infallible human beings, we will make grammatical errors in our speech and writing. At the same time, I do understand that our dialectal can be corrupted with mispronunciations grammatical errors but because It is what is spoken on the streets and in the home, we practice it without even realizing the language mistakes.

Indeed Rome is the destination to go. You know with all these modern technologies and means of communication, it's not very hard to learn a language at all. Last year I spent 6 months dealing with customers of a different language than my native one, and in no time I was speaking like them. All it takes is a trip to or a contact with a different language culture.

Thank you so much for making yourself available to teach us. You are correct when you say that we need someone beside us to help us to stay on the focused path. There is this saying that 2 is better than one. I do the Biblical studies and one of the main languages of my studies is Latin.

Definitely it will come back to you. After all it was ingrained and inculcated. It's already there in the head written on membranes and neurons.

I don't think it's possible to completely forget your native language. There maybe some phrases and words that just don't click at moment, but once you begin to converse and read and interact with that familiar environment again, then your brain will receive a refresher. If you have spent all of your childhood and teen years knowing a language, there is no way on Earth that you are going to forget it.

Are you sure? Just by looking  at the Japanese writing, i get nervous about learning it.

Indeed I have studied and am still studying Spanish. I am not at all lying, Spanish is very easy to learn for me. It may not be closely related to the English language, but it's super fun and simplistic.

I learnt some time ago that all germanic languages are closely related. If I were to develop a study pattern for different languages, I would study all germanic languages together. Like you said though, easy or hard, it takes commitment and dedication to learn a language.

Continue learning the language with subs. After awhile you should be confident enough to do without the subs. After all, the ultimate objective really, is for you to be able to listen and understand the language without any form of help.

I find that if I don't get the meaning or interpretation of an expression now, I will end up getting it later. So I don't allow these loonies to drive me to a point of frustration. It's amazing to see though how the Internet can be more reliable than people.

Learning more languages widens your scope economically and socially. I want to learn more languages but at the same time I do not want to overcrowd my brain. At the end of the day I don't think I will be able to stay abreast of all the languages that I've learned because it takes a lot of revision and continuous practice. Unless I plan on teaching many languages at a language school.

My problem is that my brain does not interpret what I here fast enough. If the native speaker is speaking slowly however, I will be able to understand most of it.

I'm currently having the same challenge. For some weird reason I know how to write on paper what I wanna say, but to articulate it it's hard. I even find it harder to listen to somebody else speaking in their native language which I am currently studying. I know for sure that if I improve on hearing the language then I will improve in speaking the language.