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 Tijuana, Mexico to Punta Arenas, Southern Chile and only need/can use Spanish. And that’s a distance of over 6,000 miles!
What’s more, Spanish is arguably the third most-spoken language in the world (after Chinese and English). Do you know which country has the 5th largest number of Spanish speakers? It’s the U.S.A.! So people in the U.S. and Canada now must learn conversational Spanish in order to talk to their Spanish-speaking neighbors.
Also, Spanish is widely spoken in Western Europe. You can do very well there if you speak both English and Spanish.
O.K., O.K. So maybe it’s 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 directly descended from Latin. Thus there are many common words, like actor and tranquil for example. Same meaning and spelling just different pronunciations. In Spanish: ac-TOR, tran-KEEL.
Moreover there are hundreds of words that quickly become understandable because of their similarities. English utility is the same as Spanish utilidad. 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. Don’t think in terms of the old slow ways for language learning. You can forget your dull high-school language class way of learning – 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. Then you gradually expand, adding more words, dealing with more complex ideas and just keep on expanding your knowledge and ability to communicate.
And you don’t need a classroom. Download an interactive-audio learning course and you can learn Spanish perfectly well. 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 at the gym, while running or walking. 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!
With a North American mother and a Latino father, Jorge Chavez grew up with his mother’s family in the U.S., learning only English. It was not until after he was thirty that he began to learn Spanish. Now he has friends, relatives, business associates and clients who speak only Spanish and others who only speak English.
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