Conversational Spanish
One of the big problems when it comes to conversational Spanish is that the only way to really develop it is through practice. Only by using the language, making mistakes and having those mistakes corrected can we learn to speak Spanish well and is a completely separate skill from learning Spanish grammar.
While Spanish grammar can be learned in class or from a book, your fluency in Spanish is far more dependent on practicing the right things – both your vocabulary and idiomatic usage will come from immersing yourself in a natural Spanish environment where the language spoken will be less formal than practicing in a classroom.
This highlights an inherent weakness in many language classes; although grammar can be successfully learned in a relatively large class, conversational Spanish is impossible in anything other than one-to-one. Not only this, but it is vital that the Spanish you hear spoken is completely natural – normal speed, accent and vocabulary will force you to cope and while mentally adapting.
The great strength of Learning Spanish Like Crazy is that it simulates a natural Latin American Spanish environment; you are immersed in a Spanish-speaking world. By adopting words and phrases direct from Latin American speakers helps you to mimic their way of speaking so that you are used to the idioms and accents you find in Latin America.