Spanish is accepted as one of the easiest languages for English speakers to learn.
So why is it so hard?
Spare a thought for anyone trying to learn Chinese. They have to deal with a tonal language.
If you say mai with a falling then rising tone it means buy. However if you say it with just a falling tone it means sell.
That’s tough!
If you want to learn Chinese, I hope you’re not busy for the next decade or so.
There’s just nothing in Chinese to grab onto. The words, writing system and pronunciation are so different.
Spanish on the other hand has much in common with English.
These commonalities can make it easy to start speaking Spanish.
Unfortunately most textbooks do their best to make Spanish just as complicated as Chinese.
Flip open a Spanish textbook and see for yourself.
They’ll most likely start talking about how Spanish nouns have gender and English nouns don’t. And how the noun gender has to agree with the adjective gender and agree whether plural or singular.
I’m falling asleep just thinking about it.
You could study those minor points of grammar for weeks, months and years on end and still not be able to hold a decent Spanish conversation.
Right now there are people all over the world sitting in Spanish classes suffering.
Es absolutamente absurdo.
It’s absolutely absurd.
Es completamente ridiculo.
It’s completely ridiculous.
Here’s how to stop your Spanish suffering.
Firstly, take a look at the two Spanish sentences above. I’ll bet you could have had a good idea of what they were even without the translation right next to them.
That’s because there are literally thousands of Spanish words that are almost the same as English words. Por ejemplo;
completamente, absolutamente, ridiculo, absurdo.
They are familiar aren’t they?
Here’s a tip:
Many English words that end in LY end in mente in Spanish
Posiblemente, finalmente básicamente, totalmente, personalmente
Francamente, It made Spanish a lot more doable for me when I started noticing patterns to make Spanish words. It takes just 31 patterns like changing LY to mente and you can have a 3145 word Spanish vocabulary.
Spanish also has speaking patterns that English speakers can use instantly.
Por ejemplo, to talk about what you and your family, friends or spouse will do you just use:
vamos a + verbo
Vamos a hablar mucho Espanol pronto.
We are going to speak Spanish soon.
Vamos a practicar con nuestros amigos mañana.
We are going to practice with our friends tomorrow.
Vamos a visitar Costa Rica en mayo.
We are going to visit Costa Rica in May.
Put these patterns into use and you can make as many as 88, 000 phrases from just 138 words.
Here’s a package that gives you everything to take full advantage of these commonalties between Spanish and English.
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You can stop the textbook trauma and get on the road to finally speaking the language. This package gives you 3145 Spanish words and the power patterns to speak as many as 88, 000 Spanish phrases from just 138 words.
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