How to Learn Spanish the Easy Way

Learning a new language can be a very long, frustrating process. Spanish happens to be world renown for being the easiest language to learn-but that doesn't mean that it is easy to learn spanish. The three basic parts to learn how to speak Spanish include nouns, verbs, and putting sentences together. Adjectives, articles, and other important words will be shown with the other main topics. Remember, patience and study is the key to learning any language.

Intro.

Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Domingo, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Equatorial Guinea are all the countries in the world that Spanish is the national language. As you might have noticed, if you're American, the Spanish language is spreading like a wild fire! Going to the mall, eating out, and at sports game, one can usually run into Spanish speaking situations fairly easily. Hopefully, as you learn more Spanish, you will enhance your understanding of this language and learn to understand what people who speak Spanish are saying and how to communicate with them.

The Noun

As you hopefully remember from English class, nouns are persons, places, and things, (Thoughts and ideas can be added to the list too). Nouns are usually the subject, the whole point of trying to communicate. Learning nouns in Spanish is just like learning new words from a dictionary-a brief study of a word and use of it until the word has committed itself to memory. In Spanish, nouns differ from those in English because all Spanish nouns are either masculine or feminine (they have a gender associated with them). For example, the word dog in Spanish, or perro, is a masculine noun. For most nouns, the gender associated doesn't change even if, for instance, the dog talked about earlier was a female (masculine words are associated with o's while feminine are associated with a's). The word perro would still be correct for the dog, as perra isn't a word in Spanish. For more information on nouns, a Spanish dictionary should be used to learn words in Spanish in order to communicate.

Articles

Mentioned above was a special difference Spanish words have then English, gender association. In English we use the word the for both masculine and feminine nouns, while Spanish uses a different word for each! The masculine word for "the" in Spanish is "El" (plural masculine word for "the" is "los") while the feminine word for "the" in Spanish is la (plural feminine word for "the" is "las") That is a basic, introductory note on Spanish articles.

Verbs

Verbs make life a little complicated when it comes to learning Spanish because Spanish verbs have to be conjugated.  Basically, every root Spanish verb is in the form (or is pronounced as) "to;-then the action.  For instance, "hacer" means "to do" or "to make" and "jugar" means "to play".  More in-depth  information on verbs can be found by clicking on the blue words conjugate or root.

Adjectives

Adjectives are a lot like nouns when it comes to studying the words and remembering what they mean.  An important note to make regarding adjectives are that they are very gender sensitive, meaning that if the noun the adjectives are describing is masculine, the adjectives also have to be used masculine (using an "o" ending), (this also applies to fminine nouns except using "a" endings instead of "o").

I, You, and Other Important Words

In order to properly put a sentence together in Spanish, a few more important words must be learned: "I" which is "Yo",    "You"  which is "Tu' ", and "he/she" which is "El/Ella".  Also to be included can be formal "you" (for addressing those deserving respect) which is "Usted" or "Ud." and finally the plural form of "you" which is "Ustedes" or "Uds.".   Lastly, "we" is "nosotros" in Spanish and "they" is "ellos/ellas" in Spanish.

Putting a Sentence Together

(A Quick Side Note)  In order to put a sentence together in Spanish properly, the verb will be confusing on this site unless conjugation is understood.  Please bear with me on the Spanish verbs if you haven't read about conjugation yet.

Finally, to make a sentence in Spanish, it is much like making one in English.  For instance, the sentence "I am Jack" can be written in Spanish as "Yo soy Jack"  were "Yo" means "I", "Soy" means "am" (soy comes from the verb "ser" which means "to be"-this comes from conjugation).  Another example is "Do you speak Spanish?" which in Spanish is "?Tu' hablas Espanol?"  In the example there should be an upside down question mark (a question mark before and after a sentence that is a question in Spanish is used instead of the traditional English single question mark at only the end).  "Tu' "means "you", "hablas" means "do you speak" and "Espanol" means "Spanish".  Together it reads "Do you speak Spanish?" as translated from.

Conclusion

Hopefully you gained more insight from this site, I can share from personal experiences that being able to speak Spanish has came in very handy over the years.  Remember:  If you're new to learning the language and don't understand it, don't give up!  Feel free to email me with any questions at jovery90@gmail.com .  May you be enlightened on your quest to learn Spanish.  Best of Luck