Learning Spanish in Brighton

[churley1]

Has anyone on here done a course before which they would/wouldn't recommend? I need to improve my Spanish and although I have some cd's, I really need to be in a class room to learn properly.

Ta very much

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Don’t know about Spanish – but I did french at Berlitz which is just down from Brighton station. I did the one-to-one and found it really helped you to learn quickly. I’d definitely recommend them – they also have a lot of fit young women on their staff.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I found learning the words to the Spanish National anthem helped.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

check BHASVIC. I've been on one of their courses, and they do a lot of Spanish.

 

[cardboard]

PCC do Spanish evening classes

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Just go to a Starbucks or certain branches of William Hill!

 

[brunswick]

spanish - do the michel thomas audio course- uses nlp.

rules - no remembering, no repeating, no writing things down.
amazing - after 3 hours was having conversations.

he does an 8 hour crs, then a 4 hour advanced.

get on them.

then just watch films with subs. lessons are shit, too slow and costly.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Brighton Friends centre used to free (or very cheap) language courses?

 

[withdeanwombat]

Get in touch with the Albion.

Mr Poyet won't come cheap,but I believe his Spanish is impeccable

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

spanish - do the michel thomas audio course- uses nlp.

rules - no remembering, no repeating, no writing things down.
amazing - after 3 hours was having conversations.

he does an 8 hour crs, then a 4 hour advanced.

get on them.

then just watch films with subs. lessons are shit, too slow and costly.

I've yet to see an audio course that can replicate what you'd get in a lesson, and I'm not convinced they're likely to take you very far. If that's your experience of classes, you've been to the wrong ones.

Depending on your level, language exchanges/intercambios might be a good idea; there should be plenty of Spanish-speakers in Brighton who'd be interested.

 

[Gwylan]

Get yourself a Spanish girlfriend/boyfriend - that's what a friend of mine did, he's fluent in the language now.

 

[churley1]

Get yourself a Spanish girlfriend/boyfriend - that's what a friend of mine did, he's fluent in the language now.

Yep my girlfriend's Colombian and she has offered to teach me but with work commitments it's not easy to find a time!

Cheers for the info people, I've already got the Michel Thomas cd's and found the first half hour pretty useful but I never get round to listening to them!

 

[brunswick]

michel thomas is the way - ive given this to 4 ppl, and all still thanking me.

 

[Gwylan]

Yep my girlfriend's Colombian and she has offered to teach me but with work commitments it's not easy to find a time!

If you have the basics she doesn't have to teach you, she just speaks to you in Spanish. No mas Ingles

In Germany, I once stayed in a flat with someone who didn't speak any English. Before the visit, my German was basic: by the end of the week, I could hold quite long conversations. I probably learned more in that week, having to speak German than I had in two years of evening class.

 

[folkestonesgull]

coffee break spanish on Itunes (free) will help a bit

 

[Gully]

Yep my girlfriend's Colombian and she has offered to teach me but with work commitments it's not easy to find a time!

You might find that if she speaks with a South American accent it is slightly different to the Spanish spoken in Spain. I took some lessons on a recent trip to Argentina, which is definitely different...they don't even refer to their language as Spanish but call it Castellano.

I can recommend one on one tuition, if it doesn't work out too expensive, it really makes you learn as it isn't possible to just hide away at the back of the class. Have to say it is the easiest language I have ever tried to learn, if you speak a few words of French it will give you a bit of a head start as many of the words and principles are similar.

 

[New Carpet?]

About four years ago I did two years of weekly evening classes in Spanish at City College. It was really good to start off with, but got fed up with it in the second year as we went over a lot of the same ground.

I've forgotten a fair bit of it have got hold of the Michel Thomas CDs recently as I need to brush up on it before a couple of trips to Spain I've got planned for the autumn.

 

[churley1]

You might find that if she speaks with a South American accent it is slightly different to the Spanish spoken in Spain. I took some lessons on a recent trip to Argentina, which is definitely different...they don't even refer to their language as Spanish but call it Castellano.

I can recommend one on one tuition, if it doesn't work out too expensive, it really makes you learn as it isn't possible to just hide away at the back of the class. Have to say it is the easiest language I have ever tried to learn, if you speak a few words of French it will give you a bit of a head start as many of the words and principles are similar.

Yeah it's the same in Colombia, I prefer their dialect to be honest. Most one on one tuition is about £35 an hour and on a student budget it's pretty expensive!

I'll probably stick to the cd's and ask her for help. There's Spanish classes starting in July 2 hours a week for 10 weeks for £170, will probably do that as well to learn the grammar etc!