Easy Strategies for Learning to Speak Spanish

Spanish is truly one of the easiest languages to learn, yet everywhere I go it's quite common for someone to say, "you speak beautifully... I wish I could." You can speak Spanish, it doesn't take years to learn Spanish just a little will power and patience with yourself, that's all. I'm gonna tell you how I learned Spanish, I wasn't born speaking Spanish and I didn't hear people speaking Spanish around me, I had to learn.

I admit, I wasn't even interested in speaking Spanish until I was about nineteen years old. I bought a couple of used textbooks at yard sales and glanced at them a few times, I never really got into it though. As the years passed by, as I began to see the need for translators all over the place, my interest was still peaked and one day I just decided I was going to learn one way or another. Once I made up my mind, it was over!

I pulled those old books out and I gave myself homework. I know how I learn, personally association works really well for me and that's what I did. I picked out the words in Spanish that were really similar to the words in English. Here's list of words that I started out with, you can clearly see the similarities and some are spelled the same, only pronounced slightly different.

emergency-emergencia
ambulance-ambulancia
hospital-hospital
adventure-adventura
accident-accidente
alcohol-alcohol
tourist-turista
tourism-turismo
train-tren
tragedy-tragedia

Virtually anyone who uses those ten words as a part of their vocabulary, can learn those same ten Spanish words in a week or less. Move along at your own pace, don't overload yourself with more than you can handle but make sure that you are learning everyday. The more you expose yourself to Spanish, reading it, writing it, listening to it and verbally saying the words, the easier it will be for you to be able to speak it.