Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish
I'm thinking of taking a beginners Spanish course at university. Is it a hard language to learn? Do people tend to pick up the basics quickly?
I can only speak English. Although, I did a little bit of German a while back.
Can you share your experience of learning Spanish?
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It’s not difficult. You just have to be consistent and be patient, and you can learn.
Practice helps, it helps loads. Talk to everyone you meet in Spanish who will talk to you.
Language acquisition depends on interaction, the more you converse, the easier it is.
I wouldn’t say so like i learnt french and some things in those two languages are quite similar i only got slightly confused but i wouldn’t say it was.
it can be a bit frustrating but overall its pretty easy after you get all of the pronunciation down.
No, no, no!
Spanish is a very easy language to learn, just as the other Latin languages (French, Italian, Portuguese etc.)! Of those, Italian is far the easiest, but you should have absolutely NO problem with Spanish either!
Hope I helped and convinced you to start learning this beautiful language! ;D
I have studied French since I was young so I must admit that there are many similarities. It’s hard to say which is harder because I used to think that French has more rules then I studied Spanish when I moved to a South American country and they are challenging too. But the good news is, even when I moved here my family could learn fast so I’m guessing, if they can, you can too!
Bottom line, it’s not hard. Trust me, woth just the basics, you can go far. It’s when you want to speak and write in perfect Spanish, It’s not hard, it’s just challenging
Good luck!
As far as natural languages go, Spanish is the easiest there is (unnatural being man-made languages like Esperanto), but "easy" for a language is still challenging. My advice to you, don’t take a language in a school or university if you actually want to learn to speak it; you’ll just get disapointed if that’s what you’re looking for. What I did to learn spanish was go to http://www.fsilanguagecourses.org, and I took the whole Spanish course there (all 50 hours worth!). That would be a good start, but I warn you, you’re going to need perseverance!
If you apply yourself, you can learn anything.
If you are lazy, you won’t.
I learned Spanish and didn’t find it difficult. I’m not as fluent as a native speaker but I can converse in Spanish relatively well. I used Rocket Spanish and Think Spanish magazine.
No, Spanish is relatively easy (only 5 vowels, some words have the same root as the English ones), as much as French, but if you only speak English it will require some effort. I learnt it when I was 5, so I can’t remember if it was difficult or not, but I was living in a Spanish-speaker town, so I spoke Spanish with everyone except my family.
the hardest thing in Spanish to learn is all the conjugation and gender basis.. Overall the format of language between the English and Spanish is the same. there is also a lot of words that sound similar in the English language in the Spanish language, making words easier to remember. I am about 40% fluent so far…..I know it is not much… But there is a lot to learn…..
The pronunciation can be a bit tricky (some sounds not found in English), the structure is more complex than English, and there are more inflections/grammatical cases than English. There are many words similar to English. Once you get the hang of Spanish though, it shouldn’t be too difficult to learn.
Not any harder than any other.
The differences have to do with your interest, and your time/effort. Sometimes with what you already know.
Some people like Spanish because it is easy to read/pronounce/spell, but it has some difficulty in the irregulars, whereas other languages have more regularity in the grammar, but more difficult spelling/pronunciation.
It’s a tradeoff.
Spanish is one of the easiest languages to learn, once you let go of your anglocentric viewpoint.
I wonder how many of the answerers here who say it is easy actually speak it very fluently? Or, learned it as a first language? I learned Spanish, and I speak it almost as natively as I speak English, as a second language. While Spanish is easy to read and write, the grammar structure and verb tenses are quite complex and are quite different from anything we have in English. While we utilize some 5-6 conjugations in English, Spanish has a whopping 17 (and more) conjugations that are used. Spanish is not an easy language to learn to speak very well. It takes a lot of work and time..like any language. I will tell you that after I mastered Spanish, I studied Chinese. Minus the writing, I found spoken Chinese to be EASIER than Spanish. The grammar and word order is much simpler than the Spanish syntax.