Need advice from Spanish speakers...

[KimHFNP]

Hi, I recently got a part-time job (2 days per week) at a Spanish speaking clinic. I do not speak Spanish, but really want to learn. Do any of you have any experience with online Spanish language courses? Any advice? Also, if any of you would like to "chat" online in Spanish sometime, let me know. I have tried some Spanish chat rooms to try and find people, but all I have found are teenagers trying to pick each other up (which is pretty much the scene with all online chat rooms, if memory serves) and I don't exactly fit in with that, being almost 30 and married. Also, it doesn't help that I am really bad at Spanish and those kids go so fast I would'nt even have known what they were talking about if ther weren't some English mixed in. Anyway, I know that helping improve my almost non-existent Spanish skills is really an exciting prospect (that was sarcasm) for all of you. I would be really thankful if any of you are interested. It could be your good deed for the day. Thanks!

[NewYorkCityRN]

try this:

[color=#3333ff]learning spanish book: speak, write and understand basic spanish in no time

frank h. zambrano, jacqueline e. pastor, frank zambrano, barry littmann (illustrator)

format: paperback

bilingual

i have heard nothing but good things about it! buena suerte!

[Elizabeth Hanes, BSN, RN]

I have had four semesters of college-level Spanish (following 2 years of HS Spanish) AND YET I still do not speak/read/write it very well. It's not so much the basic grammar and vocabulario, but the colloquialisms (if you will) that do me in. I mean, I try to transliterate from English to Spanish, and it just doesn't work.

All of this is a long way of saying I would love to have online chats in Spanish with others, especially for the purpose of practicing medical terms and phrases.

Let me know if you set something up.