Pregunta Uno: Where are the conversational Spanish classes? (Miami: buy, college)

[Coconut1]

I know this had been discussed before, but for up to date information, where can one take a conversational Spanish class? Not for a grade, not for a diploma, just to learn it.

I don't want to learn how to write it now, just speak.

Gracias

[stat3man]

Miami-Dade College offers community courses in various languages at all its campuses. They usually mail out a catalogue before the start of each semester. They seem pretty affordable. I'm thinking of taking conversational Italian at their Wolfson campus, downtown.

[Coconut1]

Thanks... looking at it now, it looks like they have "Beginning Spanish Conversation," "Everyday Spanish 1 & 2" and "Intensive Spanish 1-6."

I wonder what the difference between them is? The 1 series for Everyday and Intensive both say they're for beginners.

Not a bad price either way, $149 for 42 hours.

[stat3man]

Buena suerte!

[thelion]

Originally Posted by Coconut1

Thanks... looking at it now, it looks like they have "Beginning Spanish Conversation," "Everyday Spanish 1 & 2" and "Intensive Spanish 1-6."

I wonder what the difference between them is? The 1 series for Everyday and Intensive both say they're for beginners.

Not a bad price either way, $149 for 42 hours.

UM has an intensive one week course too, but it's pricey and I can't vouch for it's effectiveness. UM also does evening classes in Spanish, again they are pricey.

Miami-Dade College also gives salsa dancing lessons... should you be wishing to meet and engage with some sultry senoritas....

[Marlin331]

Originally Posted by Coconut1

I know this had been discussed before, but for up to date information, where can one take a conversational Spanish class? Not for a grade, not for a diploma, just to learn it.

I don't want to learn how to write it now, just speak.

Gracias

Another good option is to join a meet-up group for people who want to learn/practice their Spanish or to find a tutor for $20-30/hour (this is the going rate, I believe) on Craigslist. When I was a student, I sometimes tutored Spanish for a few hours per week- one older woman just wanted to talk to me about different subjects and didn't care about learning grammar, etc. She said she just wanted to be able to travel in the Spanish-speaking world and talk to people in restaurants/stores where Spanish was spoken here in the U.S.

[Coconut1]

Originally Posted by thelion

UM has an intensive one week course too, but it's pricey and I can't vouch for it's effectiveness. UM also does evening classes in Spanish, again they are pricey.

Miami-Dade College also gives salsa dancing lessons... should you be wishing to meet and engage with some sultry senoritas....

Will check them out, thanks!

And muy bien to the sultry senoritas. The only issue is I don't like to dance. Now, if we have a wine aficionado classes with other sultry senoritas, then we're talking

Originally Posted by crisp444

Another good option is to join a meet-up group for people who want to learn/practice their Spanish or to find a tutor for $20-30/hour (this is the going rate, I believe) on Craigslist. When I was a student, I sometimes tutored Spanish for a few hours per week- one older woman just wanted to talk to me about different subjects and didn't care about learning grammar, etc. She said she just wanted to be able to travel in the Spanish-speaking world and talk to people in restaurants/stores where Spanish was spoken here in the U.S.

Thanks, I've looked in to Meet Up, but didn't see any groups about that.

I'd really like to start a weekly wine samplers Meet Up. Have it in the social room of the building. Everyone brings a bottle of wine and their own glass. Everyone can then sample other wines and see what's good and what's not. I often find I buy a bottle and then don't like it, only then to throw it out. I'm not sure how well it would be received, though.

I'm not too concerned with learning grammar, either. I just want to be able to communicate with others verbally.

[xS☺B☺s]

Originally Posted by Coconut1

I'm not too concerned with learning grammar, either. I just want to be able to communicate with others verbally.

Reading and writing Spanish in the easy part - you should take the time for it- first in fact. It's way easier than English. You could probably learn that in a day. Do that, and it will warp speed your other learning. Understand Spoken Spanish is the hard part. Cubans don't pronounce s for example. "Como eta uted?" Mexican Spanish is much clearer to me.

Try translating music.

Download this song, fetch the lyrics at musica.com, then pop 'em in google translate. Marciano's pronunciation is very clear, the song is great you'll enjoy it, and besides learning several hundred words from this one song, you learn a bit of the culture.


YouTube - ‪Enanitos Verdes - Lamento Boliviano (video oficial)‬‏

[Manolón]

Reading and writing Spanish in the easy part - you should take the time for it- first in fact. It's way easier than English. You could probably learn that in a day. Do that, and it will warp speed your other learning. Understand Spoken Spanish is the hard part.

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Sorry, but you don't have the foggiest notion of what you're talking about.

[Manolón]

Coconut

Why not a Weekly wine samplers Meet Up in Spanish?
After a couple of bottles of Jumilla wine you'll be talking in Aramaic.