Using English to learn Spanish

killjoy wrote on Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:48pm:

Nice, but there are also traps, some of them significant. One is the Spanish adjectiv eventual/eventualmente literrally translated to eventual/eventually. The meaning, however, can lead you to a complete mess. In Spain it's a polite way to say "forget it" and understand it this way from a British...

 

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... counterpart. The Spanish language is perhaps the only one where you can talk and talk for hours without having having said anything at the end. So, tke it easy- nohting is what it appears to be at first sight..

Zafar wrote on Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:31pm:

Hi Michael

I am extremely interested and keen to learn using your method.

 

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mrocharde wrote on Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:01am:

Does speaking Spanish intimidate you? Are you trying to learn but making very slow progress? What's holding you back?

I'm relatively new to Spain and the Spanish language but I'm on my way to fluency and I expect to be totally fluent before the end of 2021. I'm not just learning vocabulary; I'm learning how to build sentences without gettig bogged down in the grammar and you can learn that way too. There are num...

 

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...erous shortcuts that you can easily learn that take your knowledge of English and convert that into Spanish. If you can string several words together in English, you can do it in Spanish. It's easy and it's fun.

Here are two examples of a 'shortcut'

Many English words that end in ENCE end in ENCIA in Spanish.

violence becomes violencia which is pronouced vee-oh-len-see-ya
experience becomes experiencia which is pronounced ex-peer-ee-en-see-ya
evidence becomes evidencia which is pronounced ev-ee-den-see-ya

Many English words that end in MENT are the same in Spanish. All you do is add an O

moment becomes momento whch is pronounced mo-men-tow
cement becomes cemento whch is pronounced see-men-tow
compliment becomes complimento whch is pronounced com-plea-men-tow

If this sounds interesting to you, I'm putting together a course of bite-sized video lessons that will be held on Zoom and also published. There's no charge for this. Teaching others what I know will help me to get better and I'll get a lot of satisfaction in doing it. (This course is also part of a VLOG (video blog) that I've started to document my progress and I'll make an announcement about that when it is ready.

If you'd like to take part, simply reply to this message.

Michael Rocharde

martin1 wrote on Sat Apr 24, 2021 2:02pm:

I would like to take part in the course

mrocharde wrote on Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:01am:

Does speaking Spanish intimidate you? Are you trying to learn but making very slow progress? What's holding you back?

I'm relatively new to Spain and the Spanish language but I'm on my way to fluency and I expect to be totally fluent before the end of 2021. I'm not just learning vocabulary; I'm learning how to build sentences without gettig bogged down in the grammar and you can learn that way too. There are num...

 

Read more...

...erous shortcuts that you can easily learn that take your knowledge of English and convert that into Spanish. If you can string several words together in English, you can do it in Spanish. It's easy and it's fun.

Here are two examples of a 'shortcut'

Many English words that end in ENCE end in ENCIA in Spanish.

violence becomes violencia which is pronouced vee-oh-len-see-ya
experience becomes experiencia which is pronounced ex-peer-ee-en-see-ya
evidence becomes evidencia which is pronounced ev-ee-den-see-ya

Many English words that end in MENT are the same in Spanish. All you do is add an O

moment becomes momento whch is pronounced mo-men-tow
cement becomes cemento whch is pronounced see-men-tow
compliment becomes complimento whch is pronounced com-plea-men-tow

If this sounds interesting to you, I'm putting together a course of bite-sized video lessons that will be held on Zoom and also published. There's no charge for this. Teaching others what I know will help me to get better and I'll get a lot of satisfaction in doing it. (This course is also part of a VLOG (video blog) that I've started to document my progress and I'll make an announcement about that when it is ready.

If you'd like to take part, simply reply to this message.

Michael Rocharde