Spanish II

[jai6638]

By completing spanish II, would i be able to speak spanish fluently? if not, then would spanish III enable me to do this?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Depends on the course

Speaking fluently takes practice. You can be fluent after the first year if you use what you know enough but obviously you won't know enough to speak in a spanish speaking environment because you don't know all the tenses.

What tenses have you studied? I'm in my 4th year and I'll be taking a 5th year and I'm not fluent

 

[MartyMcFly3]

learn english first.

 

[brtspears2]

I finished Spanish IV and I still can't understand Spanish too good. Spanish III works on more verb tenses, such as future, past. My problem is I only took Spanish because the university said I had to in order to graduate.

 

[Coquito]

You'd be able to get sentences out & make small talk, but I don't believe you can be fluent, no.

Unless you use it everyday, once you leave the classroom, you deteriorate into spanglish & eventually all the way back to where you started.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

If you want to get better, start reading spanish books, newspapers, and comic books

You should have 4 years of spanish before trying to read those things though. I'm in my 4th year trying to read Spiderman in spanish and I still have a LOT to learn

 

[LtPage1]

lol no it doesnt get you fluent. even after AP spanish, im not fluent, although i was much better than just "getting by." after spanish 2, you dont even know all of the verb tenses, and youre certainly not using all of the ones youve been taught. also, your vocab is tiny. on the other hand, i thought it was the hardest year of spanish, so once youre through it, youre home free.

 

[Frew]

Spanish II is hard.... Its all Prederite and stuff. Extremely more diffcult to learn than Spanish III.

 

[ElFenix]

i took 16 hours of spanish in college at a school known for its spanish department, and i coudln't speak it. i could read it just fine, write without much difficulty, but speaking definitely not.

i want to learn though.

 

[jai6638]

thats a disspointment.. oh well, thanks much !

 

[Mayfriday0529]

last spanish class i took was college spanish in high school to get college credit, it was so easy got a 98%

oh wait i already speak spanish.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: LeadFrog
Spanish II is hard.... Its all Prederite and stuff. Extremely more diffcult to learn than Spanish III.

Yep, Spanish II is awful.

My Spanish classes went like this:
Spanish I - Cake
Spanish II - OMG WTF
Spanish III - Basically a review of everything learned in Spanish II.

 

[DeeKnow]

Originally posted by: jai6638
By finishing spanisH II, is a person able to speak spanish fluently?? if not, then does spanish III help u accomplish this?

nah i think spanish IV is what you really need...



psstt... i'll give ya a big hint. if you ask a stupid question, you're going to get a stupid answer

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: jai6638
By finishing spanisH II, is a person able to speak spanish fluently?? if not, then does spanish III help u accomplish this?

Work on English before you attempt another language.

Anyhow, though, back in the day I did take three years of High School Spanish and I still was not fluent. I could read rather well but fluency is something that is difficult, I think, to learn in most schools.

I am sure school districts have different instructional methods when it comes to languages. When I took Spanish III we started to learn things like past/present/future participles, perfect tenses, infinitives and a bunch of other advanced grammar things that most people (myself included) barely understood in English.

Reading other people's posts, my experience with Spanish III was totally different. In my school Spanish I and II were very similar. Spanish II was just building on Spanish I and adding a bit more. However Spanish III, for us, was a huge leap forward. Spanish I and II were basic type coureses and Spanish III was a 'honors' type course. It was like going from sixth grade to college level literature.

 

[sciencewhiz]

My sister took through spanish 4 and has been in Mexico for 4 months now on exchange an still has a lot she can't say or understand.

 

[Ryan]

I climbed the ladder all the way to AP spanish, spanish 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> AP, and It was only until the end that I could actually carry a conversation without much difficulty. That said, you better plan on using the language or you'll forget most of it (as I have)., To be fluent, you need to be in an enviroment where you interact with people and use the language on a daily basis. When speaking to a fluent person when I was in AP spanish, the difference between us was still great.