Reasons You Would Need To Learn Conversational Spanish
When you learn any language you are taught all the proper ways to speak that language in all of grammatically correct and proper situations. When you are a child and you are being taught English you are taught all of the proper ways to speak English and the rules for speaking and writing proper English are taught to you constantly. But even with all of the schooling and training we get in proper English there is such a thing as proper English and conversational English.
Conversational English is the form of English we will use most as it is the kind that we use in regular communication with people we come into contact with each day. In many cases conversational English is nothing like proper English and in some circles you can get ridiculed for using proper English as opposed to conversational English. The same thing holds true for Spanish. When you learn Spanish in school, or with any program that teaches Spanish, you will learn proper Spanish.
This is fine for reading information in Spanish but when it comes to actually communicating one on one in Spanish you will have to learn conversational Spanish just like you needed to learn conversational English growing up. It can be difficult and when you start to learn conversational Spanish you may find that, just like English, conversational Spanish turns the proper language upside down.
Not only will you need to learn conversational Spanish to be able to properly communicate with people but you will also need to learn conversational Spanish to understand Spanish in mass media settings. Proper Spanish probably isn't going to help you understand what the actors are saying to each other in a Spanish language movie or in a Spanish language television show. You will need to learn conversational Spanish in order to understand what is going on as many of the twists and turns to conversational Spanish can look almost nothing like proper Spanish and if you did not learn conversational Spanish then you would have absolutely no idea what is going on and movie tickets are too expensive to not be able to understand the movie!
Casual And Business Settings
Proper Spanish probably is not going to do you any good in a regular Spanish restaurant either. In a casual Spanish setting you will need to learn conversational Spanish in order to not only understand what is being said but to be understood in what you are trying to say as well. There is a lot to be learned from the common use of Spanish that cannot be learned from the pursuit of proper Spanish and even though the intellectuals will tell you that proper Spanish is what you should learn the majority of the population will encourage you to learn conversational Spanish.
It can be very useful to understand any language in an informal setting and in many ways conversational language enters into business conversation as well so learning the conversational form of a language is always beneficial.
