Learning Spanish - where? (Pittsburgh: middle school, shop, campus)

[Oliviaa]

Hello!

Anyone has any experience or suggestion to share about a good Language school for learning Spanish?
(Adult classes)

thanks

[doo dah]

Originally Posted by Oliviaa

Hello!

Anyone has any experience or suggestion to share about a good Language school for learning Spanish?
(Adult classes)

thanks

CCAC has Spanish classes, three levels
looks like they have three locations: Allegheny Campus, on the North Side, Ft. Couch Middle School, and North Campus, in the North Hills

[Oliviaa]

Thank you!

[Goodjules]

Once you've found a class you like, I recommend joining the Pittsburgh Spanish language meetup group. They get together regularly and the crowd ranges from beginners to native speakers. I've gone and had a lot of fun. Great way to put your new skills to use.

[TechCom]

Originally Posted by doo dah

CCAC has Spanish classes, three levels
looks like they have three locations: Allegheny Campus, on the North Side, Ft. Couch Middle School, and North Campus, in the North Hills

I took the first two levels at Allegheny.
I barely passed. It was really hard.
I really recommend getting a beginners Spanish book and memorizing basic words and alphabets.
What killed me was in the second level class you had to write your own sentences. Much harder than answering questions from sentences.

I don't recommend taking it unless you have to or really want to.

[safak]

Some people take to things different ways.

I can listen to all the cd's and read all the books in the world, but I couldn't learn spanish until I had a teacher in front of me speaking it and explaining.

So do not agree with the above post. If you can learn from a cd great, but other than basic vocab I could not. Classes helped me a ton.

[jay5835]

The best advice I ever got when studying a foreign language was to start thinking in the language. It was French, in my case. It worked. I started translating everything I thought into French. It required me to memorize a lot of vocabulary, but it made it so much easier than listening to tapes. To this day, I translate into French from time to time, especially when I'm alone.

[TechCom]

Originally Posted by safak

I can listen to all the cd's and read all the books in the world, but I couldn't learn spanish until I had a teacher in front of me speaking it and explaining.

Short of a private tutor. Where do you get this? You can get pronunciation from youtube. In the end, even with a tutor it comes down to memory.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by jay5835

I started translating everything I thought into French. It required me to memorize a lot of vocabulary, but it made it so much easier than listening to tapes. To this day, I translate into French from time to time, especially when I'm alone.

Me too! I think "Oui, oui" ALL the time!

[BarqCider]

try duolingo, an app for your cellphone. its helped me learn SOME german.