Spanish Words
How Many Countrys Speak This Language ? Also What Is A Good Way To Keep Spanish Words In Your Head Without Forgetting Them ?
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The best way to remember Spanish words is to use them in your daily routine. Learn the names of the common items that you use every day and when you pick it up or put it on or whatever, say the word. When you know enough grammar, use the words in sentences.
If you just can't keep it straight, go through your room and put little post-its on your stuff with the Spanish word for it. You can ditch the labels when you learn the words (or when your friends come over.) Add new lables once you get the first set down. Keep each set to about 20 items at a time if you want.
The resources here on SpanishDict are excellent for vocabulary building. At the end of each video lesson there are 20 flashcards that relate to that lesson. There are also flashcard sets assembled by Forum members that address a particular theme. You can do a quick set whenever you have a spare minute, then come back to it a few hours later to see what stuck. You can stuff back in whatever leaked out. Then, when you see that object, say the Spanish word.
When you learn a noun, be sure to learn the gender. The easiest way to do that is to pronounce it as a single unit. For example, for la cama (the bed), learn it as "lacama", for el libro, "ellibro". For verbs, make sure that you put each one in your mind's -ar, -er and -ir file because the ending of the infinitive is vital if you have any hope of speaking correctly.
Good luck, and hope to see you around on the Forum.
There are 20 countries where Spanish is spoken. Nearly 400 million native speakers (more than English). There are probably a few hundred words with the same spelling as in English, and over thirty thousand words that look practically the same (with some occasional difference in meaning). A person is reasonably fluent (but not highly proficient) with 5-6 thousand words in most languages, and Spanish and English share over 30 thousand words.
So why is it so hard? Some speakers rarely use more than 100 words a day, and a lot of them do not normally use more than a few hundred ones. The core vocabulary of Spanish and English reflect their origins: in English they are mostly Germanic and in Spanish they are mostly Latin. In relaxed conversational speech they look rather different. Beyond those basic words, the number of coincidences increases rapidly, and in areas like biology, physics, philosophy or maths the overlap could easily be over 80% of the vocabulary.
Some people learn how to read and understand Spanish pronunciation quickly (as quick as 10 minutes in some cases), and they take advantage of the enormous vocabulary overlap and their ability to change words to be able to deliver complex speeches without even knowing much grammar. There are over 200 words ending in -sion which in Spanish end in -sión, over 2500 words ending in -tion that become -sión in Spanish, about 1000 words ending in -ist which become -ista, many words in -ary that are -ario in Spanish, over 100 words in -ity with are -idad or -ez in Spanish, and nearly 3000 ending in -ic that are -ico in Spanish. This gives you about 10,000 words just by making tiny regular changes... if you are capable of re-pronouncing the endings of the words (and the words themselves). Some people realize this, and within a week they go from not knowing any Spanish to being able to talk almost non-stop... and make sense even if their grammar is non-existent. The problem with most Americans is that they stick to their way of pronouncing words and they never feel comfortable with the Spanish way of reading words. Making that mental leap can give you a tremendously rich thesaurus of words to use in Spanish.
Having said that, even though my English is far from good and I'm still learning some basics. In many formal circumstances I can tell English speaking natives what do their words mean all the time because these words are very close to the Spanish ones... and my Spanish is reasonably good in terms of vocabulary. Some people fear me because they see me as a foreigner who speaks their language better than they do, not realising that it is not about languages, but about how good your vocabulary is in your own language, and many advanced words in English happen to be daily words in Spanish.
Spanish is accepted as an official language in 20 countries but there are people speaking Spanish in about 70 counties overall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language You can find extra information on this link
I always find a connection with an another thing, usually in my native language. I repeat them myself and tell my close friends or to my family members, like
Look I've learned an interesting word today, they listen to me desperately whether they find it interesting or not 
I love learning a new language, words are like a game to me
But the universal way is writing them to a notebook again and again
I have a friend who is about the same level of spanish as me and we just talk to each other in spanish as much as possible, I find that it's really helpful. If we don't know how to say something then we ask each other (in spanish) so we learn lots of new words off each other. I find that incorperating spanish into your everyday life is a good place to start, try and learn all the words for everything in your bathroom cabinet/pantry, name everything you're wearing, or try naming everything you do in a day, I once went out for breakfast and challenged myself to name everything on my plate, even greeting your friends with a friendly "hola!" just to get used to speaking it out loud
hope this helps
I agree with the advice already given - and would simply add that you need to figure out what your natural learning style is and find a way to plug your vocabulary learning into that style. If you like music, make up songs with the vocabulary, or find simple Spanish songs that have words you need to learn. If you are more of a visual learner, doodle a diagram relating vocabulary words by subject or by related roots. If you learn verbally, write things down, over and over. Whenever I make a mistake in a written exercise I write the corrected version at least five times in a row to help me remember it.
The flashcards here are really great, and I urge you to make your own sets. That way you go through the process of looking up the words you are compiling, and that will help you remember.
Finally - keep trying! Don't let yourself get discouraged because you don't remember it all after seeing it only once or twice or even ten times. There are some very simple Spanish words I still have to think about, but I don't let it discourage me.
To keep them? Use them.
Thanks too all , it was hard to pick my top , but they were all great the one i picked top was because it helped me mostley , but all helped and im greateful , and thanks to all the ones who said the speaking one too , wow there is a lot ! 70 overall ?
