A friend of mine went on a 2 week intensive business course to learn Dutch, he went in not knowing a word, and left speaking almost fluently. I have a basic understanding of spanish, but i am looking to try a similar course.
Does anyone know of any intensive courses that could get me speaking to a decent level in 2 weeks?
Hi - there's lots of language academies here in Madrid which can give you intensive classes- do a search on this board for specifics, but the best feedback I've heard was for Elemadrid. I took classes at Acento Espanol for a couple of weeks and that was fine. Still, in my humble opinion how much you can pick up in a two-week intensive course is going to be more a function of YOUR determination, patience, and discipline rather than the quality of instruction (though that's important too). You can search for the individual websites to get costs, they're all there.
I also think it's unrealistic to expect to achieve anything even close to fluency in two weeks.
Posts: 132 | Location: Manila | Registered: 28 February 2004
I have been trying to teach my Spanish girlfriend Dutch for about 2 years now and still fluency is not to be expected in the near future. Where did your friend take this miracle course?
Posts: 114 | Location: madrid, spain. Born in Westeremden, Netherlands | Registered: 02 March 2004
It took me three years to become near fluent in Spanish and 5 to become fluent and put a LOT of energy and work into it. No class taught me. It was a lot of time at home going online and talking to Spanish people, watching Spanish TV, listening to Spanish radio and staying away from English media.
I highly doubt there is anyone in this world capable of becoming fluent in another language in two weeks. You can't even get through all the verb tenses in that time.
