Best way to learn spanish?
 

I've been debating relocating to costa rica for a while. I'm looking to better my spanish if/when i do move down there. Right now I know very very very very basic spanish (small conversational phrases). I'm completly bi-lingual speaking french and I can read/write latin, so i believe i'll pick it up quick. Obviously the best way to learn a new language is to immerse yourself in it and be forced to speak it, but i'm looking to improve my spanish before i go. What's your favorite method for learning a new language?

Rossetta Stone maybe??...

Take some intro courses at a community college?

study the taco bell menu

I heard it was good.....Anyone try it?

pure genius!

rosetta stone is looking pretty good, im going to check it out

eat the brains of a native speaker. then you can absorb his knowledge.

his tasty, tasty, knowledge.

I've taken courses and it helps, but I never could really pick it up.

Just go there and having to pick it up they say is the best way like you said, but Spanish speakers are generally happy just when you attempt the language.

Rosetta stone is not al that good

you'll spend a lot of time learnign words you wont use

u need to learn good conversational spanish.

IN fact in any latin based language there are only 600-800 words in a persons ACTIVE vocabulary. So a lot of thee study programs teach very redundant words.

Im currently learnign spanish using

Michel Thomas's Learn Spanish CD's (which i downloaded in mp3 off bearshare)
its the best system (yes i have tried all the big names like rosetta stone and pimsler and couldnt learn shit)

my spanish is pretty good from just a few hours with these mp3's. I get practice by speakign/writing to native spanish speakers.

btw
IM also looking to locate to costa rica soon

hitting you up on icq

Yo Quiero Yo Quiero Cojer Yo Quiero Cojer

Don't forget we use regional spanish and we also have lot of local slangs... I would study, practice and try to be around CR people.

Pura Vida

There u go,

"Yo quiero coger" is in the top ten list to learn

yo quiero coger = I want to take?

"coger" its the local slang for "fuck"

I want to fuck, I want to get laid :-)

yo quiero taco bell!

maybe go there for say a month, and try to talk to everybody you can in restaraunts etc. until you get the hang of it.

I concur.

Una mujer encima en casa!

If I remember one of the Rosetta Stone phrases correct :winkwink:

You'll just end up with Laughing Death that way:upsidedow

You go to a mexican bar, drink two bottles of tequila and start a fight. You'll wake up two months after that in a military prison's hospital where some guy in a general's uniform will ask you what the fuck you have been doing with his daughter and you will probably have lost a tooth or two. But you'll speak Spanish like a native.