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Why can I still not understand spoken Spanish well?
I've studied Spanish for more than four years now. I spent seven weeks in Spain. I've received awards for how well I do in Spanish (grammatically, with my writing). But still, my listening comprehension is bad in an effort per improvement ratio. Some natives I understand perfectly, some I hardly understand. What's wrong with me? My friends that went to Spain can understand better than I can. Also, I can easily block out spoken Spanish when I hear it and understand literally nothing, which I can't do with English but it involves no effort to understand it obviously. Advice?
*because it involves no effort . . . i.e., I have to concentrate hard to understand spoken Spanish
1 Answer
- Tony RLv 76 years ago
The problem is probably a few things. If the person is speaking clearly and not running words together, then you can problem understand them, but when you run into a person that runs things together, you become lost. That is the problem with class learning, you get the clearly spoken Spanish. Like the other day I heard someone say something to his kid like "Wait, I need to check som'em." I know instantly that the last word was "something". Then I thought I bet learners of English are not taught these kinds of contractions that are commonly used in some areas. I bet this is part of your problem.
