Professionalize Your Spanish Skills

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So you studied abroad…

(Insert classic study abroad picture here)

Ta da!

You learned all kinds of Spanish…

You learned all kinds of Spanish… Tapas!  

Viajar  

Fiesta!    amigos  

lituratura  historia  

Comida,  comida,  comida  

And  how  to  curse…  colloquially!  

…and you felt good about your skills!

And you felt good about your skills:

Look at all the happy people!

But now you’ve got a real job and a real life…

administración  

lograr  habilidades  

mercado  

ventas  Servicios  sociales  

¿Ha  examinado  las  cuentas?  

negocios  

colega  etiqueta  

¿Como  puedo  ayudar  Usted?  

salud  

recursos  humanos  

técnico  

liderazgo  

…and need to professionalize your Spanish

Four strategies for professionalizing

your Spanish skills:

Four strategies for professionalizing your Spanish skills:

1.  Build your Vocabulary

2.  Practice speaking with real, live people…including you

3.  Read “real” Spanish

4. Get a coach

1.  Build your Vocabulary

2.  Practice speaking with real, live people…including you

3.  Read “real” Spanish

4. Get a coach

Four strategies for professionalizing your Spanish skills:

Let’s learn more details…

•  Search for vocab lists for your industry or field

•  Find industry blogs and other publications in Spanish, make vocab lists of all the words you don’t immediately recognize

•  Follow Macro Spanish (that’s us) on social media and learn an advanced Spanish word each day–  Twitter: @macrospanish–  Facebook: search Macro Spanish

1. Build your vocabulary

•  Search for vocab lists for your industry or field

•  Find industry blogs and other publications in Spanish, make vocab lists of all the words you don’t immediately recognize

•  Follow Macro Spanish (that’s us) on social media and learn an advanced Spanish word each day–  Twitter: twitter.com/macrospanish–  Facebook: facebook.com/macrospanish–  Or, our blog.

1. Build your vocabulary

That’s right, flashcards! (you know you kind of miss them…)

•  Do you have a Spanish-speaking colleague or friend who would be willing to talk to you for an hour each week?

•  Find an online language partner– italki.com– mylanguageexchange.com

•  Talk to yourself, out loud.

2. Practice speaking with real people (including you)

•  Do you have a Spanish-speaking colleague or friend who would be willing to talk to you for an hour each week?

•  Find an online language partner– italki.com– mylanguageexchange.com

•  Talk to yourself, out loud.

2. Practice speaking with real people (including you)

Maybe over coffee or a drink? That sounds fun!

•  Do you have a Spanish-speaking colleague or friend who would be willing to talk to you for an hour each week?

•  Find an online language partner– italki.com– mylanguageexchange.com

•  Talk to yourself, out loud.

2. Practice speaking with real people (including you)

It isn’t that strange and is really, really good practice.

•  Follow Spanish-speaking people on your favorite social media. Note verb usage, sentence structure.

•  Watch Spanish movies with the Spanish subtitles on. Same goes with television.

•  Those industry blogs or publications you found in step 1 – make a goal to read them each day, or week.

3. Read “real” Spanish

•  Follow Spanish-speaking people on your favorite social media. Note verb usage, sentence structure.

•  Watch Spanish movies with the Spanish subtitles on. Same goes with television.

•  Those industry blogs or publications you found in step 1 – make a goal to read them each day, or week.

3. Read “real” Spanish Really engage with all of these in order to note the language structure and usage. How are ideas articulated differently than you would say them in English?

•  A coach will help you stay organized, motivated and engaged

•  Spanish coaching? That’s what we do! (You saw that coming, right?)

4. Get a coach

•  A coach will help you stay organized, motivated and engaged

•  Spanish coaching? That’s what we do! (You saw that coming, right?)

4. Get a coach

Happy Spanish-ing!

You got this.