Bilingual Speech Pathology Extension

[Cece93]

I wanted to complete a bilingual extension but I know I’m not ready to do so. I still struggle a lot with conversational Spanish and I’d feel more comfortable waiting. So, I’ve been practicing with friends and family so I am ready to complete an extension after I become a monolingual SLP. What are some programs you guys chose? Are any of them online? Also, if any of you aren’t native speakers what helped you in learning conversational Spanish?

Thank You!!

[AARTH]

Hi!! With my newfound free time, I’m also trying to improve my Spanish as I’m stuck at home! My goal is to work as a bilingual SLP, but I also am not quite at native proficiency. My mom’s first language is Spanish, so I’m used to hearing it, but I’m not great with the grammar and everything. I’ve been using a free trial of Rosetta Stone, but I found that it seems to be more helpful for learning vocabulary than teaching explicit grammar. I think Duolingo is a great free resource if you haven’t tried that! I also think Studyspanish.com has fantastic explanations of a lot of grammar rules. There are some good YouTube channels and podcasts out there for Spanish learners as well. One thing I haven’t tried that might help with conversational Spanish are some online services where you Skype with a native speaker to practice talking, but I think those are usually somewhat pricey. 
 

Following for other people’s suggestions! 

[Cece93]

2 hours ago, AARTH said:

Hi!! With my newfound free time, I’m also trying to improve my Spanish as I’m stuck at home! My goal is to work as a bilingual SLP, but I also am not quite at native proficiency. My mom’s first language is Spanish, so I’m used to hearing it, but I’m not great with the grammar and everything. I’ve been using a free trial of Rosetta Stone, but I found that it seems to be more helpful for learning vocabulary than teaching explicit grammar. I think Duolingo is a great free resource if you haven’t tried that! I also think Studyspanish.com has fantastic explanations of a lot of grammar rules. There are some good YouTube channels and podcasts out there for Spanish learners as well. One thing I haven’t tried that might help with conversational Spanish are some online services where you Skype with a native speaker to practice talking, but I think those are usually somewhat pricey. 
 

Following for other people’s suggestions! 

I wish my parents had learned Spanish from their parents but sadly they did not. I’ve always wanted to be competent in Spanish but besides school and what little my parents know, I’m not where I’d like to be. I’m going to see if I can find any books that explicitly talk about grammar since that’s my weakest point. Vocabulary I’m good with but when I’m speaking to friends and they start conjugating those verbs.....I’m done for haha. If I find any good books that are nice and simple but effective I’ll let you know! And I’ll be trying Duolingo. Thanks for all the suggestions! I really want to take these next two years to become bilingual and help bilingual children. I was looking to get into a master’s program that had a bilingual extension so I could kind of poke my head in and ask questions and what not but so far none of the schools I was accepted into has one. 

[lifeispeachy]

17 hours ago, Cece93 said:

I wish my parents had learned Spanish from their parents but sadly they did not. I’ve always wanted to be competent in Spanish but besides school and what little my parents know, I’m not where I’d like to be. I’m going to see if I can find any books that explicitly talk about grammar since that’s my weakest point. Vocabulary I’m good with but when I’m speaking to friends and they start conjugating those verbs.....I’m done for haha. If I find any good books that are nice and simple but effective I’ll let you know! And I’ll be trying Duolingo. Thanks for all the suggestions! I really want to take these next two years to become bilingual and help bilingual children. I was looking to get into a master’s program that had a bilingual extension so I could kind of poke my head in and ask questions and what not but so far none of the schools I was accepted into has one. 

Hey! I’m also hoping to become a bilingual SLP, and I would consider myself a fairly advanced speaker of the language, but I’m not a native speaker. I learned in high school/college and in a few trips abroad. I’d be more than happy to help you out with the grammar side of things if you want. I used to tutor high school Spanish, so I’m pretty familiar with teaching it! Just send me a dm if you’re interested?