Any tips in learning spanish?
Hi, just out of curiousity, I wonder if you have any tips in learning spanish quickly or easily for any beginners like me? For a start, the accent marks. When to use the accent marks or how important are these in writing? Is it okay if I don't use the accent marks in writing? Anyway, it's just that one thing. I hope you could provide any tips to simplify the grammar or anything in spanish, so that I could learn it easily and in a more fun way.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you 
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Get as much input as you can before you start to make your own sentences, or you are likely to produce rubbish sentences full of unacceptable mistakes, and once they stick into your head, you'll find it much harder to learn the correct ones. You can't make proper sentences before you are familiar with the natives' sentences and expressions. Do not invent the language.
Listen to a lot of Spanish from natives, try to read as much as you can, as often as you can (3 hours a week studying only one day is a waste of time. 1/2 an hour each day, 6 days a week will also give you 6 hours, but you'll remember a lot more). Imitate native speakers as closely as you can until it doesn't feel strange. Then, when you are comfortable with the language and you are familiar with thousands of sentences, try to speak.
Do not learn words in isolation: always in context and in sentences.
Avoid translating word by word if you understand more or less what sentences mean.
And above everything: try to enjoy, or you'll learn much much slower.
Accent marks do matter, but they're pretty easy once you know a couple of simple rules. They're 100% logical. All Spanish words the end wih A, O, S, or N are stressed on the next-to-the last syllable. All other words are stressed on the last syllable. Unless there is an accent mark. Then they are stressed on that syllable.
The other time when accent marks are used is to disitinguish between words that are spelled the same but have different meanings: Tú (you) and tu (your), for example. Those you'll just have to learn.
Other than that, it's just a matter of practice. When you see an object, try to think of the name in Spanish. Talk to yourself in Spanish. Read Spanish out loud. Listen to Spanish language radio and TV, even if you don't understand it all. It will help attune your ear.
Good luck.
Once you start and get frustrated or bored with it, don't give up! You will be tempted to, but don't!
Learn the basic's first..write the words down.....study the same words over and over again
