Learn Spanish Phrases
2010
Learning Spanish Is Easy If You Know How
Everyone who is starting on Spanish looks for some easy Spanish to try and get to grips with it. Often they are amazed to discover that learning Spanish is a lot easier that they thought it was. Spanish and English have common roots with Latin in particular, and to a lesser extent, Greek as well. The implications are that many of the words merely require a different suffix from English to become Spanish – and they will mean exactly the same thing too! Doesn’t that sound like easy Spanish? It does and it is.
Take “plastic,” for an instance. That word becomes “plastico” in Spanish. Well, you wanted easy Spanish, and it surely couldn’t get any easier than this. When English-speaking people think about learning Spanish, they start to perceive it as one big problem. “No hay problema”, and if you can’t figure out what that Spanish phrase means, then you do have a problem. The best way to learn Spanish quickly is to learn all the easy words first. The grammar is kind of different, but it isn’t really that big of a deal. Take for instance the phrase mentioned above: “no hay problema.” It literally means, “not there is problem.” It won’t take long for someone to adjust to this way of thinking and make that, “there’s no problem,” its English equivalent.”
However, let’s work with the easy Spanish words first. It’s the suffixes that change for many instances, and it appears to be a regular thing too. As in the case of “plastic” becoming “plastico,” many other words ending in “ic” change to “ico” in Spanish. Clásico, cómico, histérico, metódico, técnico are all examples that you should have no difficulty in guessing what the English equivalent terms are. It’s not just the “ic” ending words either. Easy Spanish is even easier when you bring in all the other groups, such as “abundant” becoming “abundante” in Spanish, “monument” becomes “monumento,” “pianist” becomes “pianista,” “indication” becomes “indicación,” “patent” becomes “patente,” “religious” becomes “religioso.”
Easy Spanish can be pretty easy at times. How do you spell, “central”? You spell it quite simply as, “central.” The pronunciation is different from the English (you emphasize the “a” and not the “n”), but it’s delightfully similar and definitely a good instance of easy Spanish. There are others too. Examples are words suchas, “animal,” “noble,” “admirable,” and “director.” Most of the times, these kind of words have the same meaning as their English counterparts, but in some instances they are somewhat different. For example, the English word, “conductor” when applied to a person usually conjures up a picture of someone leading an orchestra. However, in Spanish, it means the driver of a car.
Sometimes, easy Spanish needs some form of lateral thinking. A car is “coche” in Spanish. You may think initially that it’s nothing like the English language, but think back to the days of highwaymen roaming the English countryside looking to hold up a coach. Coaches were the cars of those days, and the Spanish word, “coche” is just the contemporary counterpart.
There certainly are Spanish words that bear no resemblance to their English equivelents, but that is to be expected; or else Spanish and English would end up as one language. Easy Spanish certainly exists, and it’s easy to pick it up too. You truely can learn Spanish easy, fast, and systematicly by looking up the similarities between English and Spanish words.
Learning basic Spanish words and phrases
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