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Killing the Myth.

Spanish is not
Difficult

There is a Myth which say that learn Spanish is difficult, I


would like to say that that's not true.
It's true that all language learning is a time consuming activity
when we take it in a non-immersion environment.
However Learn Spanish in a Spanish immersion environment
everything is different, we can find out that we are learning
Spanish without a great theoretical effort.
Besides Spanish is an easy language to pronounce from an
English perspective, most of the sounds of Spanish exist in the
English language.

Spanish is read in the same way that it is written so this will be


a great advantage for our learning.

I would like to say that the best way to study spanish is to live
in Spain or other country
Besides Study Spanish in a immerse Spanish school in Spain in
holidays is a great way to spend your holidays so we
encourage you to do it and to live the Spanish culture.

For example, At this school in Mlaga they are cooking a


typical Spanish paella, which helps to learn the vocabulary of
the Spanish food and cooking in a easy way.
The thing which afraid everybody in the learning of Spanish is
the grammar. Like any other Romance language, Spanish
Language is a verb-based language with many tenses and
subtle differences between them. So to speak Spanish in a
very right way is not easy but to get the capabilities to express
yourself and communicate is very affordable for every level.

If we compare the grammar in English and Spanish we can see


that they are very opposed, because you will have to (you are
going to hate this word) conjugate the verbs in Spanish for
tense, temps, genre and situation of the verbs.

The Grammar Monster


So a basic grammatical knowledge comes in handy when
trying to learn any language.
To Finish I would like to say that Spanish is easier that you can
think. And now I can show you some tricks .

Tricks to increase your Spanish vocabulary


easily.
There are some rules which make Spanish less difficult to
learn. By knowing these rules, we can easily master a lot of
words without even having to memorize them.

Trick n 1: termination -t becomes -te


The first and the easiest tip is that Many words ended with
t in English, in Spanish we will add an e to make it end with
te. For example, restaurant (restaurante), arrogant
(arrogante), urgent (urgente).

Trick n2: termination ty, -dy becomes -dad


Many English words ended with -ty, -dy will change to be -tad,
-dad in Spanish, and those words in Spanish are usually
feminine.
For example, the university (universidad), the faculty
(facultad), difficulty (dificultad), activity (actividad) See? Now
you have your first few Spanish words without even learning
them

Trick n3: termination -tion becomes -cin


There are also many words ended with tion in English, in
Spanish we cognate ending with cin.
These words are feminine too. Easy to remember, right?
For instance, exception (excepcin), solution (solucin),
collection (coleccin), direction (direccin) So now you can
convert some English words that you know to some new
Spanish words!

Trick n4: termination -ce, cy becomes -cin


Words ended with ce, cy in English are changed to cia in
Spanish.
These words are feminine too. For example, difference
(diferencia), residence (residencia), presence (presencia),
frequency (frecuencia), tendency (tendencia)
Trick n5: letters -ph- becomes -fApart from changing the endings of the words, the words
with ph are changed to f in Spanish. Just like photo (foto),
pharmacy (farmacia) (cy to cia), elephant (elefante) (t to
te).

Trick n6: words starting with s are changed to es


In Spanish, there are a lot of words starting with s are
changed to es.They are really easy to remember, just like
special (especial), structure (estructura), station (estacin)(also
from tion to cin) as well.

Trick n7: doubles consonants becomes singles


Except the cc, rr and ll, rarely do we see 2 letters written
together, so in Spanish we simply drop off one letter when
there are two in English.
For instance, mission (misin) intelligent (inteligente), different
(diferente)(another two words from t to te too).
Now with these Tricks you already know a bunch of new
vocabulary without even learning them! It is really fun and
easy, isnt it? The more time you spend on this wonderful
language, the more you will like it. However, only vocabulary is
not enough, come to our school to learn how to use them
well!!

Spanish Resources
Some interesting Spanish Resources:
Spanish Wikipedia
Spanish Dictionaries
Long term Spanish courses
Spanish videos
Spanish courses in Spain

As you can see Spanish is not as


difficult as you think. I hope this
article has helped you to end your
fears about Spanish

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