Thursday, June 16, 2011

Learning hundreds of Spanish words fast - part 1

Hi,

It seems that learning Linguistics at the university can be useful, haha:). The basic idea is that lots of English words is similar to Spanish words and the difference is always the same. I have found a rule while I have learnt Spanish(I'm sure that I'm not the first in finding this rule) and then I have did a research and couldn't really find irregularities. Okay... I could but then with anothe rule, I answered, why the irregularity exists in those words.

So let's begin:
  • As I learnt, I have found something interesting
  • Translating word after word the rule still existed
  • I Found some irregularities but then I found the answer to my question
  • Learnt lots of words without actually wanted to! ;)
The method:
  1. Find an English word that ends with "tion" for example "option"
  2. Change the "tion" ending to "ción" - option => opción
  3. If you can add an "al" to the English word, if you can't, then it can be an irregularity It's like 100% that you can translate to Spanish with this method, check some words here: Google Translate
  4. If you have found an irregularity, please post it here and help the Spanish learning community, thank you!
I hope this is helpful to you and don't forget, we appreciate your comments.

Have a nice day!