The Best Way to Understand Everyday Spanish - Beginners Guide

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• Publié par: tutorgirl95
• Publié le: 10 mars 2015
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• Langue: English

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understanding common spanish basic In this post we aim to provide you with a simple and easy to follow guide on the basics of the Spanish language, concentrating on the differences between Spanish and the English language sentence structure. Sentence Structure If you want to understand basic Spanish you need to understand that the main difference between English and Spanish is in the way that phrases are constructed. Firstly let's analyze a typical Spanish sentence. "Me gusta el vino espanol". Which translates to: "I like Spanish wine". Did you notice that in English "wine" comes after "Spanish", but in Spanish "vino" comes before "espanol"? It's because in the Spanish language the adjective (in this example we have used

"espanol", which means Spanish), always comes after the noun (a noun is basically another name for a thing, in this instance "vino" which means wine). So if I wanted to say, "I like white wine", in Spanish I would say "Me gusta el vino blanco". "Blanco" means white in Spanish. This rule is applicable regardless of whether we're talking about a drink or a person. The English sentence "A Spanish man". Means "Un senor espanol". Have you noticed another difference between the English and Spanish phrases? In the previous example we can see that "espanol" is written with a small "e", but in English when saying "Spanish" we use a capital "S", it's because any reference to a country in the English language should have a capital letter at the beginning of the word, but in Spanish you would only use a capital letter when using the countries name directly. If we say "Soy de Espana" This translates as, " I'm from Spain" Given that we used "Espana" which is the name of the country it gets a capital letter. This is why if I say,"Soy américano"(I am an American man). In Spanish we have a small "a", instead of; "Soy de América"(I'm from America). Because we use the word "America" (which referred to as a proper noun) we use an "A". How To Recognize Questions in the Spanish language In the English Language we can change a statement into a question by adding the word "DO" and a question mark (?). For instance the affirmation "you have a pencil" could be something I say as I hand over a pencil . But if I say "do you have a pencil?", it is obviously that I'm asking a question. There isn't a Spanish word for "DO" therefore we have to have another way of knowing that the sentence we have just started is in fact a question. To do this the Spanish language uses 2 question marks "¿?", the upside-down one at the start of the sentence and the conventional one at the end. As a result:"Tiene un lapiz", ("tiene" means "you have" and "lapiz" is "pencil") This sentence turns into a question when we add the two question marks "¿ and ?".

"¿Tiene un lapiz?" so if you see the question mark at the beginning of a sentence you know that you must change the tone of your voice to make it questioning. We hope that these few tips make understanding basic Spanish a little bit easier for you, and hopefully got you anxious about learning more!The Best Way to Learn Spanish