An over welling majority of students in California wind up taking Spanish for a foreign language requirement or some other reason. And not surprisingly a large portion of these students taking Spanish in our middle and high schools struggle to master the language almost 44% of the Los Angeles speaks Spanish as either their first or second language. Yet instead of immersing our students with all the available Spanish speakers living around them, most schools spend a majority of class time learning vocab words and verb charts. While learning vocab words and memorizing verb charts and grammar rules are necessary to learn how to speak and perfect any language, the additional practice of working on actually using the Spanish learned in the classroom is the path to good grades and speaking the language the best. Many people say the most effective way to learn a language is to live in a country that speaks that language mostly exclusively and we are almost at the majority here in LA so what better place.
With so many primarily Hispanic and Latino areas in Los Angeles its easy to drive 30 minutes (well maybe an hour with traffic) anywhere into LA and find some area that speaks mostly Spanish. Once you find your place, just immerse yourself in the culture and language, try and only speak using the spanish that you know and like everything practice makes perfect. Another great place to practice your Spanish verbal skills is to come into the Study Hut and just have a conversation in spanish with one of our fantastic tutors here. We have multiple tutors here with the ability to carry on a great conversation with you. And if you were to atleast practice your spanish communication skills just once a week, I can guarantee a vast improvement in not only your speaking skills, but also your reading and writing spanish abilities. To improve you spanish you need to practice and use the language as much as possible, so why not use the vast amount of resources in our county of Los Angeles or here at the Study Hut.