Spanish is a “romance language”, coming from the common or “street” Latin spoken in the Roman Empire. Latin has had a great influence on English. Latin was once the “official” language of England; the Magna Carta was written in Latin, which was the official language of England at the time. For this reason English and Spanish have common roots, which makes Spanish easy for English-speakers to learn.
The best way to learn to speak Spanish is to take an interactive audio course. Good ones are available that you can buy and download from the Internet immediately. Once on your hard disk in mp3 format, you can offload copies to your iPod or other portable listening device. Or you could burn the lessons into CD’s and play them back on any CD player anywhere.
Arguably the best interactive-audio course available to help you learn Spanish is the Rocket Spanish Course. You might want to have a look at the review of Rocket Spanish you will find here, at Rocket Spanish review.
So how to learn Spanish? The best way is conversationally. You learn some basic vocabulary, a few words. Then you practice using these in spoken conversation. You ask and answer questions. You communicate. Doing that impresses the words on your mind and lets you assimilate them as tools useful for communication. You learn by using the language, not by memorizing vocabulary and conjugating verbs. Think about it. How old were you when you first learned what the word “conjugation” meant? I’ll bet you could already speak pretty good, effective English then!
For more information on Rocket Spanish, check out this Rocket Spanish review.
By – Richard Perez