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Author:  Skirtchsnbadguy [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:12 am ]
Post subject:  Just hired a spanish tutor (newbies please read)
Okay, so after my virgin trip back in april, I decided to buckle down and really attempt to become fluent in speaking, reading, and writing spanish.

I purchased a program called called "speak in a week" that was functional for my trip and helped me get by (just barely) with basic phrases. But something was still lacking- the quality of my trip would have been ten fold if i'd been even mediocre with the spanish.

Forcing my hand, is my august adventure coming up in MDE. I hired a tutor off craigs list, and *gasp* she is 18, a student, and straight from Bogota colombia! hahaha! Talk about a wolf in a hen house.

Anyway, I am paying her $20/hr to teach me. She's a great teacher, and I plan on meeting her twice a week for a total of 4 hours per week of tutoring and conversation. Not only that i'm going to be glued to Univision, and study my a.zz off. Yes, you can post an ad on CL for a tutor. THe prices were from $12/hr to $30 that I was quoted.

I highly recommend getting some spanish lessons under your belt, even if it is learning from books or tapes. It will pay dividends!

- The bad guy
Author:  CaptainCohiba [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:46 am ]
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Also, if you are into Ipods, there are many free tutorials on itunes. Very laborious though!

PURA VIDA!
Author:  Cujo's [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:54 pm ]
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Congrats. Push through in your learning you won't be disappointed. Imagine a CR trip where you're semi fluent, that should be motivation enough :wink:

Keep it up 8)

Cujo
Author:  Pacifica55 [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:40 pm ]
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Geez, where ya been, Cuj'? I thought you would have posted hours ago! :lol: 8)
Author:  Cujo's [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:46 pm ]
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Cut me some slack, I was up all night with a crying baby...oh wait, that wasn't me :shock: :wink:

Cujo
Author:  NYG [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Just hired a spanish tutor (newbies please read)
Skirtchsnbadguy wrote:
Okay, so after my virgin trip back in april, I decided to buckle down and really attempt to become fluent in speaking, reading, and writing spanish.

I purchased a program called called "speak in a week" that was functional for my trip and helped me get by (just barely) with basic phrases. But something was still lacking- the quality of my trip would have been ten fold if i'd been even mediocre with the spanish.

Forcing my hand, is my august adventure coming up in MDE. I hired a tutor off craigs list, and *gasp* she is 18, a student, and straight from Bogota colombia! hahaha! Talk about a wolf in a hen house.

Anyway, I am paying her $20/hr to teach me. She's a great teacher, and I plan on meeting her twice a week for a total of 4 hours per week of tutoring and conversation. Not only that i'm going to be glued to Univision, and study my a.zz off. Yes, you can post an ad on CL for a tutor. THe prices were from $12/hr to $30 that I was quoted.

I highly recommend getting some spanish lessons under your belt, even if it is learning from books or tapes. It will pay dividends!

- The bad guy


Now that is a great idea 8)

This board needs more of that :P

NYG
Author:  El Viejo [ Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:40 pm ]
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I think that $20 per hour is a bit much, but the experience should be stellar. You might like her as a friend. You might meet her friends. Her friend might become your friends. You might have a great time and you might learn the language. All of that is very enriching. Life is a voyage, not a destination.
Author:  J0sie [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:31 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Just hired a spanish tutor (newbies please read)
Skirtchsnbadguy wrote:
the quality of my trip would have been ten fold if i'd been even mediocre with the spanish.


Congratulations, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and the rewards will make that $20/hr a pitiful sum. You are on your way to the deepest form of GFE and PSE that a Latina can give you.
Author:  Skirtchsnbadguy [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:47 am ]
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awesome! thanks for the feedback. I think by retirement i'll have several languages under my belt (i'm early 30's)....

I was going to go for my MBA, but i'd rather travel and learn more languages.
Author:  El Viejo [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:21 am ]
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If your career is on track without the MBA and if you are interesting and saving for your retirement years then you are on track. Learning a couple of languages will enrich your life more than an MBA IMHO. The experiences of travel and meeting different people beats the hell out of anything you can buy in a material sense.
Author:  CaptainCohiba [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:10 am ]
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MBA? today? Stick to the traveling unless you are talking Ivy league, and even then. The whole college diploma, unless very specialized, seems pretty worthless. And yeah, I have one and I am not sure it is worth the debt. I have learned way more on my own than I ever did in a campus.

PURA VIDA!
Author:  JazzboCR [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:30 pm ]
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Ditto all the above. Speaking Spanish especially but any other language is a truly transferable skill--advanced degress not so much. Of course put them both together (language skills AND the degree) and the business world opens up further...
Author:  Cujo's [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:19 pm ]
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I hope guys who become fluent over the years and have subsequent trips to CR tell their stories on the differences of their mongering experiences.

Over time it stands to reason that the more comfortable you are at a specific mongering destination the greater the experiences should be regardless if you know Spanish or not.

That being said, I would ask newly fluent speakers to focus on things like price, time, pse, gfe, etc.. Because its those things that will change that will eventually leave you feeling like you're getting away with something.

So it may be sometime down the road, but it would be nice to hear of guys tales of how things have changed. I would particularly like to hear in person at the SL someday :wink:

Cujo
Author:  Orange [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:02 pm ]
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Skirtchsnbadguy wrote:
I was going to go for my MBA, but i'd rather travel and learn more languages.

Get the MBA, then get the languages. The MBA will allow you to travel more and learn as many languages as you want.
Author:  Estebanh [ Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:25 pm ]
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I, too, have have gotten the bug to learn Spanish. I have been doing things a little different:

I am taking a class at the community college. Its 7 weeks, three hours at a clip ($80.00).

I have also taken one-on-one lessons over Skype. My teacher is in Nicaragua. These lessons are taught by professional language teachers and are only $11.00 per hour

I am involved with Spanish Meetup groups. Most major cities have meetup groups that are free. These are usually excellent. Every one of these that I have attended are facilitated by a high school or college level Spanish teacher who is doing it just for the fun of it. Just go to Meetup.com and search for Spanish groups. These are usually free.

I can't say that I am getting good. I can conjugate a lot of verbs.
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