Dos cervezas por favor, learning Spanish / español help and chat

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I did O level Spanish in the late 80’s and never went to Spain or spoke a word of it again till I went to Mallorca about 5 years ago. There were still useful remnants knocking about in the noggin.

Solo vegano para mi, pero unas cervezas frío sería hermosísimas.

Ooh, I've got a Spanish language pack downloaded for my phone keyboard, auto complete helps my English so no harm in having it to help with Spanish too, I'd definitely get the accent and probably some letters wrong in hermosísimas without it.

Wife had go with Duolingo app which starts super basic and kind of gamifys it and is interactive. Also the app pesters you to keep at it

You're doing really well, Rob, it's just your tenses you're tripping up on... That'll come in time... Watch some Spanish films and TV shows, you need to hear it spoken then you'll get it...

Should sería be plural with some beers too? Not really learnt that tense too much yet?

Ta, I'm pretty sure most of what I'm writing is littered with mistakes, but writing it means thinking about it and looking into stuff I'm not sure of, same as trying to read stuff, I'll get the gist of it but need to Google the odd word which is all more learning.

Yeah, serían...

Figured as much, there's definitely patterns between all the conjugations I recognise from the ones I know, which is nice.

@dubtap - I have been learning Spanish on Duolingo for a couple of years now. I only spend 10 mins a day and have a basic understanding now. Being competitive I like to see how long I can keep my daily streak going. Current streak is around 540 days.

@Eseman - I listen to Cypress Hill in Spanish. I am getting better at picking out the words in the songs!

Looking for help in reading, writing, aural or spoken?

Jesús, my streak is up to 98 days, which is when I picked up learning again after a break.

Radio Ambulante is a great podcast series but your need a decent level of Spanish to follow it. Their app, ‘Lupa’ is also very good.

Notes in Spanish was good too, but it’s all old topics now so not as interesting a listen.

I sometimes read BBC mundo to get my news fix and a bit of practice in at the same time.

Hace unos años vive en Chile por un rato trabajando como profesor de Inglés. Viajé por America Central y además hice un curso en España, en Cádiz. Hablo bastante bien, pero hago muchos errores. Me falta práctica.

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de nopal con salsa de mango

Esto suena interesante.

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Por supuesto José le gustó esto antes de fue genial.

She’s basque, living in London at the time.

Good work otherwise. Like Joe said, watch TV, news, ideally with English subtitles and when you reach a certain level with Spanish subtitles.

Me encanta los nopales.

Yo necesito practicar mí español también!

Todos son bienvenidos.

Lo que me gusta más del español es los insultos.

Son divertidos, creativos y variados.

Empezamos...

For other learners; I started off using a podcast/youtube based on a book called accelerated Spanish from master of memory, which is really weird and the cult leader American guy uses memory palace stuff like those people that memorise pi or cards and stuff. It's unusual but definitely good, I've not gone back to it since I had a break from learning as at the same time I realised I've probably got aphantasia, which is kinda having no "minds eye" so a lot of the visualisation stuff wasn't as effective as some people might find it, I'd still recommend it though, it starts with a lot of the really common things and some much harder grammatical things but was helpful to take that forward with Duolingo etc. which doesn't tend to explain things well but is good for practice. Also listened to coffee break Spanish and a few other podcasts that I need to pick back up and have Spanish people on Facebook from polo so read what I can from memes and Google the bits I don't understand. I've definitely learned as much about English as Spanish from that kind of stuff. Will definitely pick up Narcos again, which I was watching anyway, and if anyone knows some Spanish kids but still funny for adults cartoons I'll have a go on them. I did start watching a show about a crap superhero on Netflix a while ago, it was OK but was way above my level at the time and put me off a bit because they were speaking well rapid. Hablas más lento por favor.
Also have an app called conjugato for looking at verbs and Google translate close to hand for the odd word or checking something I know is at the back of my head, I'll probably be rubbish at actual conversation but learnings been quite good for my head during lockdown as it's an easy way to distract yourself with something useful and you can attempt to think about stuff in Spanish instead which is difficult.