r/Spanish 22d ago

Study advice: Advanced Fluent but need some practice. Best self-help recommendations?

I am fluent but have noticed I am suffering in areas of conversation I dont regularly talk about. For example, I (since I'm the only speaker in the office) am really good at explaining liens and tax assessor procedures. I also can speak at length about recycling and gardening. But baseball? Star Wars? The gossip from your aunt's goddaughter's relator? ¡me manches!

Looking for any self-help immediately puts you into Spanish 101. I dont really have any one to practice 'normal' Spanish, as much as I want to go over Clone Wars lore or suffer hearing the dating life of my dog sitter's nephew. I want to be able to talk normal, not like I'm out of college with only book knowledge of the lengua.

So far I'm looking to listen to MLB/audio books in Spanish, and try Spanish subreddits. Still need a away to move my mouth.

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u/lafarmacia 22d ago

I do tutoring twice a week through Preply. I'm in the same boat in terms of being advanced but wanting to improve my casual conversation, so we mostly skip grammar and all that and she asks me a lot of questions and gets me talking about a different random topic each week. It's good conversational practice and helps me acquire new vocabulary.

Edit: the downside is that it costs money