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A Blueprint for Learning Spanish

Turn your reasons, available time, resources, and daily habits into a Spanish-learning plan you can follow.

We hope you will use BibleSpanish.com to learn Spanish. We also want to be clear that if it does not meet your needs, there are many other ways to learn.

One useful approach is to read Spanish translations of books you already know well. The Bible is a favorite book for many Christians, which is why this website exists. Language is also about culture, so explore the Bible readings, cultural resources, Christian faith, and Christian vocabulary below.

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Plan Your Learning

Begin with your purpose, constraints, resources, and the people who can support you.

  1. Conduct a personal evaluation.Consider why you want to learn Spanish, what difficulties you anticipate, what your previous language-learning experiences have been, and how you will overcome setbacks, schedule conflicts, or learning blocks.
  2. Create a learning program.
    • What kind of learner are you?
    • What language skills will be essential in the future?
    • What skills will I be able to hire out for?
  3. Conduct a SWOT analysis.Identify your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
  4. Assess how much time and money you are willing to spend.
  5. See if you have any friends or colleagueswho will partner with you on this journey.
  6. Determine if you will be able to do pro-bono work for your businesssome of the time to help Latinx folks in your community and surrounding areas.

Commit to Your Learning

Choose a repeatable routine and the learning materials you will return to regularly.

  1. Get a subscription to Yabla.
  2. Set a schedule that will allow you to use Yabla at least once a day for 10 minutes.
  3. Get a subscription to Duolingo and use it periodically.
  4. Get a translation of your favorite books that you are already familiar with in English.Make sure it is a Latin American Spanish translation and not Spanish Spanish.
  5. Create a Google Doc for translation work you will do.Use landscape format.
    • One column for the original text
    • One column for words you look up
    • One column for questions for me
  6. Buy the Random House Latin-American Spanish dictionary and make flashcards of words you know you will need.
  7. Buy Easy Spanish, Step by Step by Barbara Bregstein.
  8. Find a Spanish show you like or something on Netflix or YouTube and watch it with and without subtitles multiple times.