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Ideas para la práctica diaria
Practice is the key to improving your Spanish. One class or club meeting a week is simply not enough to make any significant progress; you have to study and practice regularly, preferably every day, even—especially—during school breaks.
Just 15 minutes a day on some kind of Spanish activity can make a huge difference, so here are some ideas for quick practice that you can pick and choose from every day. Of course, you can change this schedule around to suit your own needs and preferences.
Lunes – Vocabulario
- Study a vocabulary lesson
- Follow me on Twitter or Facebook for the beginning-level palabra del día (and other Spanish lessons)
- Create and work with flashcards
- Label everything in your home with post-its or stickers
- Write your shopping lists in Spanish
- Whenever you need to count something, do it in Spanish
- Keep a notebook to jot down new words you learn or words you want to look up
- Look up new terms in a Spanish-only dictionary to see if you can guess the English equivalent before using a bilingual one
- Write a paragraph featuring 10 new words on Facebook or Twitter
Martes – Pronunciación
- Study a pronunciation lesson
- Practice the sounds and words you find most difficult
- Sing a song
- Read something out loud with an exaggerated accent (think Speedy Gonzales)
- Record yourself, then listen carefully to pinpoint problem areas
- Check out my tips and tools to improve your Spanish accent
Miércoles – Gramática
- Study a grammar lesson
- Review a topic you find difficult
- Work on your Progress with Lawless Spanish suggestions
- Take a quiz
- Select a random expression in the Subjunctivisor
- Try a writing challenge
- Write 5 sentences featuring a specific grammar point on Facebook or Twitter
Jueves – Lectura
- Try a reading comprehension exercise
- Or a bilingual reader article
- Read a newspaper or magazine
- Start reading a book
- Test a new recipe in Spanish
- Cross-practice tip: add new terms to your vocabulary notebook
Viernes – Expresiones
- Study an expression lesson
- Use an expression you’ve learned
- Make a list of 5 expressions that all include the same verb
- Look up a word to see whether it’s found in any expressions
- Write a paragraph featuring 3 seemingly unrelated expressions on Facebook or Twitter
Sábado – Verbos
- Study a verb lesson
- Review a lesson you find difficult
- Work on your Progress with Lawless Spanish suggestions
- Using a single verb, write 3 sentences: in the present, past, and future
- Select a random expression in the Subjunctivisor
- Conjugate 5 verbs into a tense or mood you have trouble with
- Write a paragraph featuring a certain tense or mood on Facebook or Twitter
Domingo – Escucha
- Try a listening comprehension exercise
- Do a dictado
- Listen to music
- Listen to the news
- Listen to the radio
- Watch a movie
- Watch TV
- Subscribe to Yabla Spanish for videos and dictados
- Or try a FluentU video
- Cross-practice tip: add new terms to your vocabulary notebook
More Spanish Tools and Practice Ideas
- Subscribe to my newsletter for weekly Spanish reminders and new features
- Follow me on social media for regular Spanish reminders and new features
- Find Spanish speakers and improve your speaking skills
- Ask questions on the Facebook or Twitter
- Make LawlessSpanish.com your browser’s homepage
- Set your devices and software to use Spanish as the system language
- Play a game
- Keep a Spanish journal
- Do the Weekend Workout at Progress with Lawless Spanish (emailed every Friday to Premium subscribers)
- Designate one day a week as "Spanish day" and speak only Spanish with your spouse, kids, or roommate – assuming they’re also learning Spanish 😉
- Sign up at Hotel Borbollón for humorous lessons and corrections
- Join the Instituto Cervantes, a Spanish Meetup, or your nearest college’s Spanish club, or just gather some friends and classmates to create your own
- Check out my tips on relearning Spanish
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