Lingo learning2/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Learn who, why, where, when, how, how much/how many, there is/there are, the days of the week, the months of the year, the alphabet, numbers and a few essential verbs, especially the verbs “to be” and “to have”. This is something you build up slowly, although there are some basic words you must learn as a beginner. Forget too about vocabulary word by word. Grammar should be a means of explaining the whys, and little more. Study it, if you must, as reference, or if you happen to be the kind of person who must always know why something is so. Time now to get down to brass tacks, and the big question is: where to begin? What part of the Spanish language should you learn? Well, forget about grammar. That’s why regular and constant listening to YouTube videos is essential. A bucket, for example, is “ la cosa para el agua”, the thing for water (+ hand description).Īs far as understanding what’s being said is concerned, you must remember that you always have time to formulate a question in your head before asking it, while the answer will probably be just a blur of sound to your ears. It took all my own communication skills to convince the owner that we should not be barred. Hand movement is very important in second-language learning, and no advice is offered here on this: you either got it or you don’t, although you might be well advised not to jab your finger at your head during a barely intelligible conversation, as my father once did in a bar in Marbella. Not necessarily to understand much – that comes later – but to gain enough knowledge of basic Spanish to have other people understand you, or at least, to make the connections between your hand movements and the words you utter. In our case, the language is Spanish, and if you have the marbles to have read thus far without having to trace out each word with your forefinger, you will very likely be capable of learning enough Spanish to make yourself understood at basic level. Then, as time passes and you get better at it through usage, you may eventually pick up enough to call yourself mildly fluent. ![]() ![]() The trick is to learn part of a second language, even a very small part, but just enough to get by. And sadly, mere desire does not qualify as such. Any honest language teacher will assure you that, once in adulthood, only absolute necessity will enable you to learn a second language successfully. So you think you can learn a second language in middle age? Think again, delusional reader. ![]()
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