Teaching and Learning Centers (TLC)
Conversation Strategies
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Communication is the goal, do not worry a lot about grammar.
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Listening is as important as speaking. Repeating what you hear as an active listener is a helpful learning technique.
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Just one other person is all it takes to have a dialogue. When going to a conversation table is not convenient, arrange to spend 15 minutes with your instructor or a classmate just speaking casually.
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Talk to yourself. Keep a running verbal account going in your head (or even aloud when appropriate) of things you see and ideas you have.
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Tune in to Spanish TV or rent a Spanish film to adapt yourself to the rhythm and pattern of Spanish speech. Invent your own short account of what you have seen (using vocabulary you have just heard) and tell it to someone else, or tape record it and be your own critic.
Please direct comments or suggestions about these services to Kathie Houchens, Coordinator of Tutor and Conversation services.
