Two Primary Ways I Learned My Third Language

I learned my third language, Spanish, at the age of 23 while living in Venezuela. There were two primary ways I learned vocabulary. I would go to market every Friday morning and help the fruit and vegetable man set up his little vender’s hut. The time of working with him and purchasing 500 pounds of fruits and vegetables was spent learning new vocabulary and how it was applied in a real life event. I also would go to the local university every Wednesday and sit with the college students around the snack bar and discuss life in their country. In this setting I learned how to apply my vocabulary within the language context, its grammar and conjugation, and the use of verbs.

The fact that I practiced weekly using the new language vocabulary