I have a Spanish final in six days [View all]

[lazarus]

Spanish 2. We've learned preterite, imperfect, and subjunctive, along with a raft of vocab.

I'm most concerned with the writing assignments on the finals. I've done well with the writing assignments so far, but they were done at home with a dictionary. Three 60 word paragraphs.

I do very well with vocabulary and basic grammar, but I have a block with speaking and writing, especially the Mexican accent my teacher has. Very thick. I have, I think learned to distinguish his V's and B's.

I've found that those of us who went to high school in the early 80's or before have no issues with subjunctive case, because we learned it in school as formal English. But they now only teach indicative case, apparently. That's a shame.

(Did you know they don't teach students how to diagram sentences anymore? Diagramming is the best way to learn proper grammar, I believe.)

Any tips on getting the fluency block conquered? I have Spanish 3 next semester, and am terrified. It's apparently total immersion, no English spoken at all.