Comments on: Make it fun!

By: Ramses

Ramses — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:37:05 +0000

Watching The Simpsons and South Park in Spanish (and now French). It’s the ultimate fun thing to do. In fact, it’s the only thing I do.

I became fluent in Spanish by just watching a ridiculous amount of comedies and getting speaking practice by going out with natives. There’s no need to study, just to have fun!

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:17:56 +0000

Thanks for the comments!

Fiona – Cartoons are awesome! I just recently discovered robot chicken in Spanish (Pollo robot!) Not exactly a kid’s cartoon though… hehe

Willem – I will go check out “Where are your keys?” now! It sounds really interesting.

By: Willem

Willem — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:47:07 +0000

I totally agree – I don’t think the learning even starts until you can have fun in your target language.

My partner and I developed a conversational game for language learning that is laugh-out-loud fun, we call “Where Are Your Keys?” (whereareyourkeys.org). It’s essentially a conversation in your target language, about everyday objects, that gets more and more complicated…and more, and more, and…until things just get out of hand and you get “full” on the language.

You can also follow the game on twitter, @fluencygame and #wayk.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:24:07 +0000

I really like listening to music myself… either translating English songs into my target language or my target language into English. It’s fun, and it’s a whole new technique of learning because there are usually idioms involved… which you’d translate differently than regular text if you want them to make sense.

I also LOVE watching little kids cartoons.