Quote: (01-18-2013 08:11 PM)LaPastillaRoja Wrote:
Quote: (01-18-2013 07:51 PM)MattC Wrote:
Quote: (01-18-2013 07:47 PM)LaPastillaRoja Wrote:
Quote: (01-18-2013 07:35 PM)MattC Wrote:
I might be moving to Madrid some point this year. What level of Spanish speaking should I be at to get by to game las senoritas?
This is my impression from living in Barcelona and visiting Madrid for weeks at a time on dozens of occasions, and maybe other guys who have spent more time there can back me up on this/correct me but I find the level of English on average in Spain to be very poor compared to other European countries (France, Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Switzerland, etc.)
I think with an intermediate/quite conversational level you should be able to game some girls, and obviously if you immerse yourself in the language you will learn very very quickly. Spanish girls like British guys as I have come to learn and I'm not saying you couldn't get laid by just speaking English in Spain but it would be astronomically more difficult than with conversational Spanish! When you get closer to moving there send me a PM and I can recommend some good places to check out in Madrid!
Nice one lad, I'm doing Pimsleur's Spanish course at the moment, only about 13 lessons in but this stuff sticks like glue to my mind. What did you do?
I honestly didn't use any of the kind of traditional programmes to learn a language (Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, etc.) My ex girlfriend who I was with for a long time lived in Madrid and I always spoke to her half the time in Spanish half the time in English. When I went to visit her, her family spoke no English at all so I kind of had to learn or just not speak. I also used resources like LiveMocha to talk to other native speakers (I highly recommend LiveMocha for a lot of reasons by the way).
I supplemented all this by watching spanish language movies, listening to spanish music, and reading the news/sports on Spanish websites like MARCA and AS. I hear excellent things about pimsleur on the forum and elsewhere though! How are you finding it??
It's going alright yeah, as I said this kind of stuff sticks to me so I'm finding I remember a lot, but I guess that's what the course was designed for. I'd definitely recommend it. I switched my phone to Spanish in the language settings but it wasn't really helping that much, all I was picking up was "escribiendo" all the time as that's what I pretty much use my phone for haha.
I need some Spanish chicks in my life.