Name: Anonymous 2011-01-19 17:11
Hello everybody, I'm a french student on my last year of high school. At the end of the year I'll pass a general exam, in which there's a spanish test. I have chosen spanish as my 2nd foreign language (my first is english, as you can see).
I'm pretty good and "fluent" in english, better than the majority of other pupils, but there's still a major issue for me to succeed my last-year exam : spanish.
It'd be more correct if I've said : "I'm supposed to have chosen spanish", because, like many other french pupils, there was only spanish and italian to chose, and my parents didn't want me to chose italian (it was like 4/5 years ago).
I'm INSANELY bad in spanish, although french is my mother tongue and therefore I can recognize many words with latin's origins, the text usually makes me having a headache.
There's many reasons for my bad level in spanish : the first one is the chaotic french education system, especially a problem with language-teaching teachers. They're often girls moreover, and it seems that all my spanish (and english, that I really worked alone) teachers have been doomed to get pregnant the exact years I have them. There even had been a year during which the supply teachers get pregnant... (and the new one fell sick !).
And whenever I had a teacher, the themes were always boring : Franco (what a shitty symbole of hispanic culture ! A cultural slaughter that lasted such a long time...), Gypsies, Cristobal Colon, shitty popular songs like Hijo de la Luna that I've "studied" 4 times...
The method is always boring, academic... and chaotic at the same time.
Though, it'll be such a waste if I get 5/20 at the final exam, therefore losing several points in the mark just because of my lack of interest concerning spanish.
The TL;DR part is here, without all the excuses exposed :
It seems that Hispanic america is on a way to grow faster than ever, and Argentinia seems to be a beautiful country (esecially Patagonia), therefore I'm not losing all my hope in learning spanish.
Would some spanish-speaking guys, please advise me some good things to read/do/listen in spanish ?
Since I'm on 4chan, I assume that it's likely for us to share some similar tastes, so I accept all the propositions.
TO DO LIST :
-Stop being lazy and pick up a complete grammar book, and start doing rigorously exercises, to fix my broken mental organization (the fondamental point of grammar is that.)
-...
Thanks in advance.
I'm pretty good and "fluent" in english, better than the majority of other pupils, but there's still a major issue for me to succeed my last-year exam : spanish.
It'd be more correct if I've said : "I'm supposed to have chosen spanish", because, like many other french pupils, there was only spanish and italian to chose, and my parents didn't want me to chose italian (it was like 4/5 years ago).
I'm INSANELY bad in spanish, although french is my mother tongue and therefore I can recognize many words with latin's origins, the text usually makes me having a headache.
There's many reasons for my bad level in spanish : the first one is the chaotic french education system, especially a problem with language-teaching teachers. They're often girls moreover, and it seems that all my spanish (and english, that I really worked alone) teachers have been doomed to get pregnant the exact years I have them. There even had been a year during which the supply teachers get pregnant... (and the new one fell sick !).
And whenever I had a teacher, the themes were always boring : Franco (what a shitty symbole of hispanic culture ! A cultural slaughter that lasted such a long time...), Gypsies, Cristobal Colon, shitty popular songs like Hijo de la Luna that I've "studied" 4 times...
The method is always boring, academic... and chaotic at the same time.
Though, it'll be such a waste if I get 5/20 at the final exam, therefore losing several points in the mark just because of my lack of interest concerning spanish.
The TL;DR part is here, without all the excuses exposed :
It seems that Hispanic america is on a way to grow faster than ever, and Argentinia seems to be a beautiful country (esecially Patagonia), therefore I'm not losing all my hope in learning spanish.
Would some spanish-speaking guys, please advise me some good things to read/do/listen in spanish ?
Since I'm on 4chan, I assume that it's likely for us to share some similar tastes, so I accept all the propositions.
TO DO LIST :
-Stop being lazy and pick up a complete grammar book, and start doing rigorously exercises, to fix my broken mental organization (the fondamental point of grammar is that.)
-...
Thanks in advance.