Best Way to Learn Spanish - Best and Quickest Method Out of 3 Revealed

By Chris J. McWilliams

Best way to learn Spanish - what is it? This is a question that many prospective second language learners ask themselves. In this article, I will critically analyze 3 different learning methods and finally reveal to you the best.

Immersion Alone

Immersion means to surround yourself with the target language. Of course, the best way to do this is to simply go to the country yourself. You will be faced every day with the target language and will not be able to escape it. You will even be forced to use it - but if you don't know any already then you will have a lot of trouble.

Of course, you could do this at home instead. Watch Spanish TV and Youtube videos as much as possible. Listen to Spanish radio and music. There are many people who have done this and it takes approximately 10,000 hours of exposure alone to learn a language to a comfortable level.

So, immersion works well but the drawback is that it takes a long time if you are not learning the language in any other way.

Traditional Classroom Learning

Many people think that this is the best method. So much so that people are prepared to spend large amounts of money for what they perceive to be the most effective teaching method there is.

But cast your mind back to the last time you had formal classroom lessons for learning a language or any other subject. Just how effective was the teaching, really? Can you honestly say that you did most of your learning in the classroom?

For many people, scheduled classroom lessons are just a way to commit yourself to a program of learning but, once in the classroom, the learning process slows down a lot. Let me give you an example.

I tried to learn Korean by attending lessons. They were fun and I met some nice new people but I did not learn much in the lessons. Everyone had different learning speeds and I tend to need a slower pace than most people. I found that the classes were useless. In fact, I learned the most when I went home, reviewed the lesson at my own pace and did the homework! The only thing that I could not do at home effectively was listening comprehension because I only had a book and no CDs or MP3s.

Self Study Audio Learning

When I first heard of this method I thought that it was too good to be true. With this method, you learn Spanish by listening to audio.

You basically hear some audio, you repeat it and then you check that you said it right. You also have to produce your own sentences in Spanish based on the words that you have already learned earlier in the lesson. This closely reproduces real situational Spanish and really gets you thinking - it seems that the more you think about what to say, the better you learn.

It turns out that there is a solid science behind these audio courses. They use ideas of anticipation, organic learning and regular recall. Here is the thing that really shocked me about audio courses - you don't need a textbook!

I was shocked - I had always thought that a textbook was essential for language learning - this is what we are taught at school. Not just that, but there is no need to memorize any word lists. Because the audio course uses regular recall, you automatically remember everything that you learn because you use it - a neat idea and it really works.

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