Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Learning Spanish Does Not Have to be Hard

By Alex Weston


If you're only fluent in your native language, learning Spanish may seem like a formidable task. Perhaps you heard it's best to learn Spanish because it's an easy language. The secret is that almost all languages are fairly easy to learn, you only need to decide what tricks to use for learning. There are many tips and suggestions to make your learning a lot easier. Here are a few tricks that you can try:

Developing a Spanish accent or tongue is a good place to start your study. You can study grammar from books and memorize vocabulary, but how you actually speak is of primary importance. Look for anything written in Spanish and practice saying the words out loud; this is a good way to improve your speech in the new language. In addition to reading from Spanish books or newspapers, you can also listen to conversations you hear in Spanish and repeat sentences to yourself. By doing this, you'll start to instinctively use the right words and inflections when you speak. Start practicing this whenever you can; you may be surprised to find that it's fun. It can be a kind of game, or like making music. Try to make yourself think in Spanish as much as possible. This takes some work, but as you are going about your day try to translate your thoughts into Spanish. You won't be able to do this very well at first, but be patient. The idea is to take any internal dialogues you might have into the Spanish equivalent as much as possible. The more often you do this, the better you will be at it. The more you do it, the more quickly your mind will be able to convert words into the new language. At some point, you will become so accustomed to this that you won't even have to make an effort; you'll just find yourself thinking in Spanish. Of course, you also want to say some of these thoughts out loud, so your ability to speak improves as well.

If you plan on using your new language by visiting a country where Spanish is the dominant language, learning to speak in the local dialect will help you communicate with the people you meet! More importantly, a tutor can tell you about the casual uses of the words you will be learning. Language CD's and books are usually more formal in what they teach. And a tutor can help you learn slang.

Great convenience because you can listen in MP3 format or use your CD player. No problemo! There are no limits to where you can learn Spanish. Just get on the net! There are a lot of sites offering great information to help you learn Spanish. Here's a fabulous tool: Babelfish, it's a translation bot. All you do is input your Spanish sentence, and you'll get the translation. The reason this is so nice is because you can compose any sentence and have it translated into Spanish for learning. But try to remember that Spanish sentence structure is not exactly the same as English structure. Using the translation tool will help you understand how the sentence structures are different. There are other tools available on the net to help make learning Spanish a little easier.

Are you close-by any area where the spoken language is mainly Spanish? An excellent way to learn is by listening to a fluent conversation between two people. People are usually more than willing to help others learn their language and communicate. You won't have to travel far, and you can get the same experience and practice with your second language. Learning how to speak Spanish, or any language, doesn't need to be an experience in frustration. The net is full of helpful ideas and cool tools to help you. One great key to learning any language - an open mind. You can absorb the information much more with an open mind. You will only experience more difficulty if you try to make it sound like your native language.

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