Tips for improving your Spanish without leaving home!

When you decide to learn a new language, you have to be prepared to take a commitment with yourself, why? Because the progress you make will depend on you, as a speaker of English as a second language I realized this over time. Here I'll give some tips that will help you to success and not to give up on the road. 

• Consume as much content in Spanish as you can. If you enjoy watching TV, reading books or listening to music, the best you can do is to do it in Spanish. It will help you to get familiarize to the language and learn new words everyday. Try to surround yourself with people who speak Spanish, there are many apps where you can talk with people that want to practice too, such as Tandem Language Exchange.
• Practice everyday. There are many different ways to learn a language. The most effective way is to have a tutor, someone who speaks the language and has the appropriate tools to teach. Nowadys we have this amazing thing called technology, if you don't want or have the possibilities to go to a classroom or pay for a trip to a Spanish-speaking country, you can have an online Spanish teacher, there are a lot of platfroms where you'll find one.  
• Don't be afraid to be wrong. A common error everyone makes is to be afraid of making a mistake when speaking. It is not as bad as you think, it means you are trying hard to learn, in fact it will help you to learn more and better. Native speakers who listen to you will appreciate your effort, and not if you are wrong or not.
•  Be patient. Last but not least, the key to success in the proccess and not give up is to be patient. At the beggining you may feel frustrated for not understanding anything, but little by little you'll get used to it and you'll start to understand more and more everyday. 

Don't forget that learning a second language is one of the most enriching things you'll do in your life for all the advantages this encompasses. It is an amazing experience to be able to understand and know another culture. You won't regret to take the decision, and the best is that you can do it from the comfort of your home.