Hello,
for my first topic on this forum, I would like to ask a question that I consider "useful". How would you, an English speaker, recommend a non-English speaker to speak and write/read English? Reading and writing is my main concern at the moment as I don't have much opportunity to interact with people other than at work. I would like to be able to read English and speak in a forum without using automatic translators that I'm sure distort a lot of what I want to say in the first place and distort the English pages to my original language with a lot of nonsense. Beyond the social aspect, I would like to know more English because I think it is a career boost because all the best documentation on all areas of life are in English.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, this topic comes from a 20 year old Frenchman who has not been very attentive at school but wants to
I don't know where in MX you are located but there are schools/colleges there that help English speakers learn Mexican Spanish. When I was attending university here in the states, I studied abroad for a summer in Cuernavaca, state of Morelos, Mexico. It's like 50 miles south of Mexico City. I attended a school there called El Centro Bilingue, which was pretty much all American college students there with the intention of learning or honing their Spanish skills. I know there are other language schools but that is the one I attended.I'm already in Mexico which is why I need to learn the language. When I decided to come here I stupidly assumed that when almost everybody under 50 speaks some English in Europe, the neighbour of the states couldn't be worse...... Well, assumed too fast. They have an English school in every second street, it's the most abundant thing next to police, but nobody actually speaks it, specially not the people working in shops, restaurants, police, even doctors know just the very basics. Thought for doctorate you'd need English.
I am much much better in understanding than speaking myself and better with written than spoken but still too n00b to watch movies, I grew lazy with learning because it's so frustrating, I don't know how much is condition and how much conditioning. Need to source some stims, gas adult ADD diagnosis even before the dissociatives but these years exacerbated my attention deficit.
Yeah, Spanish is quite different than German and English, will need to exercise verbs.. Hated that already with French in school.