Anyone on the OT learned a second language as an adult?

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Now im interested in learning Spanish but I'm wondering the best way to go about doing it without physically being in a spanish speaking country.

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Get a part-time job as a line cook.

I tried, but just didn't have the discipline to follow through...it all sounds good in theory, but unless you are around folks who are speaking Spanish all day every day, it is really just a struggle.

I studied French 4 yrs in HS and 4 yrs at LSU and never learned it very well.

I attended the DLI and in 51 weeks I passed board exams reading 3, writing 3 and speaking 2+ in Russian the end. Which secured me a job at the NSA directly following.

Isolation and submersion in the language is the only proven method to master board level mastery of foreign languages. Except the lower languages like French, Spanish and Hatian Creole.

I mastered "Serbo-Turbo" (as we called it) in a 6 weeks course one I mastered Russian. I've sense been able to pick up Polish and Ukraian on my own based on the previous languages mastered.

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You speak fluent Latin because of Sunday mass?

I learned Portuguese after 29

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Latin

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Is an international language used in the science community so many scientists pick up on Latin regardless of of they speak another language.

Learning Italian now... much harder as an adult

Currently speak English, Spanish, and French

Yes, I learned Russian when I started working in Russia.

You need a long-haired dictionary.