How to Improve Your Grade in Spanish Portland OR

Steps

1. Make sure you pay attention in class. Learning a foreign language is hard, so you really need to be engaged in the lesson.
2. Take notes! This really helps some people. Try to take notes on meanings of words, word origins, verb conjugations, or whatever you need!
3. Study for your tests and quizzes. Be very careful that you study well, because you may think you know it when you have your notebook in front of you, but on test day you may go blank.
4. With friends, go to a fast food restaurant and order soft drinks. Sit at a table and take out your class notes. Practice together. Say the words out loud.
5. Do all homework, even some extra. Do activities out of the work book or text book. This will increase your knowledge on the subject.
6. Actively participate in class. This will show people how smart you are and allow you to improve with practice.
7. In group activities, be the leader. Knowing all the answers will help, and soon everyone will look up to you.
8. When a test/quiz is coming up, write a study guide with all grammar and culture. Make a table of vocabulary, one side in Spanish and the other side has the English translation.
9. Study over the summer. Chances are, kids will blow off the summer. One hour a day of studying will prevent you from forgetting the important stuff.

Tips

• A great site for translation is www.babelfish.altavista.com.
• You may want to ask the teacher what your grade is every once in a while, just to see how much you are improving.
• While this is an extra step, get a tutor after school.

Warnings

• Never rely on free translation websites to get your work done. These websites will often perform literal translations that don't reflect the actual meaning behind the content. To see an example, try translating a complex English sentence into Spanish, and translate it back again.

Things You'll Need

• A Spanish teacher
• Notebook
• Pen/Pencil

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