What is the easiest way to learn Spanish?

Question

I'm a begginer at trying to know spanish and seems pretty hard.

• what i think is first you start out with the basic alphabet on spanish dict and practice study it about a week or 2 then go to a regular conversation about a week then numbers and then colors and animails and then just challenge yourself to other lessons - savannahelze 25 de Ago, 2009
• Watch Spanish soaps on Telemundo or Univision with the English subtitles on. - Hatz 31 de Ago, 2011

Answer 1

Welcome !

You can start with the lessons here on SpanishDict.

Learn Spanish

¡Buena suerte!

Answer 2

I'm also a beginner and find this "SpanishDict" to be an incredible tool. It would also help if you have a friend who is learning too, as I do. We e-mail a short message to each other in Spanish every day and try to unravel it which is how we found SD in the first place.. Good Luck

Answer 3

What is the easiest way to learn Spanish?

Correct Attitude, if you ask me, followed by resources and chances. If you are obsessed with the language, and you are trying to memorize words or say sentences while you wait for the bus or any other non-productive activity, you'll improve much faster. If you are keen to have a chance, even alone, to try your newly acquired skills and words to make lots of sentences, non stop, just for fun, and you can't wait to listen to a native to imitate them... then you'll be speaking Spanish within months.

Now, most people (including myself) are not like this, so if you are not doing that, it is going to take a lot longer, and how much longer, no one knows.

Answer 4

Prepping for a trip to Guatemala last year (with only high school Spanish many years before), I invested in the Rosetta Stone. Great investment. You learn by seeing and hearing the words paired with pictures. As you progress, you need to be a bit intuitive at times. The best is the voice recognition software - it worked really well for me. I really felt that by the time I finished, I at least had my pronunciations down pretty well.

Since then, it's been a lot of Spanishdict.com, watching movies from HBO Latino (free month of service a while back that I recorded), and reading simple stories in Spanish. I alsl have been listening to Spanish radio stations, though it has really not been that helpful yet, since I have no reference to what they are talking about, and so far can only pick out the occasional words I know.

What I most lack is the opportunity to speak with someone. I'll try Lazarus' idea of just speaking aloud and putting sentences together.

Good luck!

• I'm doing the same things you are doing. I took Spanish in high school, but I really didn't retain a lot. I invested in Rosetta Stone and just found SpanishDict.com. I just bought some children's books that are in spanish to read. - debdelafuent 26 de Ago, 2009

Answer 5

It's tempting to say that the easiest way to learn español is to be born en la España a los padres su hablar español solamente. (Or something like that.) Excepting this probably isn't true. Newborn children take quite a while to get a working vocabulary of a couple of hundred words.

Por el contrario, trabajando en mi español una o dos horas al dia por un mes, tengo palabras suficientes para hacer frases y expresar pensamientos completos.

Grammar and syntactic consistency, proper conjugations, spelling, and an awareness of idioms and colloquial meanings will (hopefully) come about as time passes.

I'm finding SpanishDict.com a joy to use - certainly my preferred study site/tool. I also have a CD based (25 CD set) spanish study course. I purchased this 'home study course' at Costco several years ago. I had good intentions and all that, but they ended up on a shelf until a month ago. These have a 'traditional' approach in that they are focused on tourist-centric words and phrases. Lots of dialogue regarding hotels, taxis, trains, buses, planes. Unless you have imminent travel plans that include a spanish speaking country - the level of boredom generated is palpable.

A combination of the two distinctly different approaches plus watching an occasional spanish TV station and trying to listen to a spanish radio station has me believing that (maybe) I CAN DO THIS!

So my final answer is - the easiest way to learn spanish is to take that word easy and shove it out of your mind. It's not easy, won't be easy, it's a grind until you get the basics out of the way but it can be done. If you get suckered into thinking this is something you can do in a few days or a couple weeks - you will be disappointed. If you can accept the idea that this is a long and winding road you have embarked upon, then you can relax and enjoy the rewards along the way. Like many other ventures and endeavors, the journey may turn out to be a more important and rewarding experience than 'getting there'.

Answer 6

um well i have a spanish teacher and i am useing spanish dict.com and it would very helpul if u rate up

• What does "rate up" mean? - --Mariana-- 25 de Ago, 2009
• I think she means vote for her answer. Allison, if you post thoughtful questions and answers, people will vote for you -- but specifically asking people to vote for you seems a little disreputable (no pun intended). Reputation isn't all that important.... - Toph 26 de Ago, 2009

Answer 7

I have found many different ways to help my learning process. I check out bilingual and Spanish children's books at my library. My library also has "learn Spanish" books on CD. I live in Miami but I am sure most libraries have these tools. I have Rosetta Stone but I learn the most just by watching the videos here. I also have many Spanish channels available but like CNN en Español the most. My husband and I text back and forth in Spanish all day to practice. I bought a bilingual bible and I printed up flash cards and taped them to items in my house. I can't use anything without saying the word first. I am trying to make my world Spanish.

I don't think there is any one easy way. I think you will get out of it what you put into it.

• Try the DVD cartoons Muzzy Spanish level I and level II .Some libraries have the set in many languages.The vocabulary builder DVD is excellent, because you can select the language yourself, between Spanish, English,German,French,Italian, etc. - Hatz 31 de Ago, 2011

Answer 8

start with the colors then alphabet then numbers conversation then challenge yourself to any other lesson you like

Answer 9

Well... Spanishdict is the bestfreespanish learning website.

But if you thinkof getting more invloved and advanced.

The best well known language learning centre isRosetta Stone. It costs alot of money, but it is supposed to be the best way to learn spanish in the quickest time.

google search it.

and go on their official website. Hope this helped. Please consider this option.

• I have Rosetta Stone and it isn't all it's made up to be. - Yeser007 26 de Ago, 2009

Answer 10

is to go on to flashcards it is easy for me to learn that way for spanish

Answer 11

the best way i have found is to practice and dont jump in the deep end, learn easy stuff first then it comes to you after awhile, e.g. write simple sentences, practice verb forms. ie start with the present tense. when i first started i had no idea what was going on. now its like, i can't believe i didn't know that!

Answer 12

to really make a commitment to yourself and this languge if at times you think it gets boring you need to stick with it it will really help you in the future

Answer 13

I'm doing alot of the things mentioned above, what I don't have is someone to speak Spanish with. So, if anyone wants to practice via email with me, feel free to send me a message. I'd say I'm an intermediate beginner. I know the numbers, colors, days of week, quite a few common phrases. I'm looking for a partner that is at about the same level.

Answer 14

It seems as if this won't be too helpful to you anytime in the near future but in reality the best way to learn Spanish is to go somewhere where the language is spoken and immerse yourself in it. I'm studying in Mexico right now with a group of students from my college for a whole semester. It has only been like 5 days since I got here and already my Spanish has gone from intermediate to AT LEAST advanced. When you have no choice but to listen and speak in Spanish todo el tiempo, you learn more things everyday than you would in months of classes in the states or anywhere else.