Learn to Speak Spanish? What For?

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Why should you consider learning conversational Spanish? English-speaking North Americans point out that they can go from Florida to Alaska (about 4000 miles) and get by just fine with only English.

That’s true. But you can go from Tijuanna, Mexico to Punta Arenas, Southern Chile and only need/can use Spanish. And that is a distance of more than 6,000 miles!

Moreover, after Chinese and English, Spanish is the third most-spoken world language. Now the world’s 5th largest national concentration of native Spanish speakers in in the U.S.A.! And so, these days people in the U.S. and Canada need to learn conversational Spanish just to be able to communicate with their neighbors.

Also, Spanish is widely spoken in Western Europe. You can get along fine in Europe if you speak Spanish and English.

O.K., O.K. So I concede the point. Maybe it COULD be useful. Is it hard to learn?

No, not if you are a native English speaker. There are many Latin roots and influences in English. Spanish is one of the “Romance Languages”, descended directly from Latin. So many Spanish words are the same as English words, like doctor, actor and tranquil, for instance. Same meaning and spelling just different pronunciations. In Spanish the are pronounced ac-TOR, tran-KEEL.

Moreover there are hundreds of words that quickly become understandable because of their similarities. English tranquility is the same as Spanish tranquilidad. Responsibility = responsibilidad. Activity = actividad and so on.

But who’s got time to learn another language?

There is less problem with the time needed than you might think. Forget the old ways to learn languages. Forget traditional classroom drudgery - conjugating verbs, learning vocabulary.

Today’s fastest way to learn Spanish is to first learn conversational Spanish (which is the same way you learned English). You once learned See Spot. See Spot run! Now learn Vea Espot, Vea Espot corre!

When you learn conversational Spanish, you start with a few basic words, you learn by using them. You gradually increase your vocabulary, adding more and more words. You progress, dealing with more complicated ideas. From there you just keep on expanding your knowledge and your ability to communicate.

And you don’t need a classroom. You can learn conversational Spanish just fine by downloading an interactive-audio learning course. Good ones are available for less than $100.

Download the mp3 files to your hard disk, then offload to your iPod or burn your lessons to CD’s. With that, your learn Spanish download becomes portable and mobile. And you are getting the pronunciation right, from native Spanish speakers!

You can learn anytime, anywhere, and you teach yourself Spanish! You can learn while exercising, while driving long distances. You can learn in the morning, at night, on weekends. You learn whenever and wherever you want to. And you are getting the pronunciation right, from native Spanish speakers!

So download yourself a good Spanish-learning course and teach yourself Spanish. You can even be learning it on the plane next time you go to Cancun!

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