Spanish 101 - Common Words & Phrases - Level One

Hey,

      I have found a great Spanish learning video serie. It's just the basics but I am sure that this will be pretty useful for most of you. You can find videos about dining, greetings, shopping, etc. All of these videos have 3 parts, level one, level two and the last is level three and of course a short Spanish Introduction video.

I think i will post these videos and summerize them so if you don't want to watch it again, just check those words and phrases below

Spanish 101 - Common Words & Phrases - Level One:

So, let's sum it up:

• I am (nationality) - Soy (nacionalidad), check your nationality in Spanish here
• I don't speak Spanish - No hablo Español
• Do you speak English - ¿Habla Inglés?
• I don't understand - No entiendo
• Excuse me - Perdón
• Please repeat - Repita por favor
• Where are you from - ¿De dónde es usted
• I am from (country) - Soy de (country)
• I speak a little Spanish - Yo hablo un poco  Español
• Yes - Sí, No - No
• Mrs - Señora, Miss - Señorita, Mister - Señor
• I'm sorry - Lo siento
• It's not necessary - No es necesario
• Of course - Claro
• Today - Hoy, Tomorrow - Mañana, Yesterday - Ayer
• Why? ¿Por que?
• Same here - Igualmente
• Maybe - Quiza
• How do you say in Spanish - ¿Cómo se dice en Español?
• Slower please - Mas despacio por favor

That's all for now, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Please feel free to comment and share your thoughts.

Mentality of learning

Now I am going to write a bit about the mentality that you need to create. Mentality in language learning is way more important than you might think. First of all, if you just want to learn a language at any cost but you hate it, you will simply struggle and you simply can't learn that language because you totally believe that it is impossible and you don't enjoy it at all. If you are here that it means you would like to learn Spanish and what is more important that you are interested in learning Spanish.

Furthermore, you have to find reasons why you need this language and it's even better if you write it down and read it recently. By the way, you should create an excel file about your goals like I will learn 100-500 words in March or I will learn grammar. It is ought to be detailed what you want to achieve and if you achieved just tick it. Just imagine it, if you can check your progress and you can see a lot of achieved goals then you will be proud of yourself and it will motivate you and the learning will be even easier.

Be positive! Just stop saying that you can't learn this or that language! Say that you can learn it and believe it that you can learn it!

 And finally a really truthful quote from Thomas Edison:
"Genius was 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."

I wish you enjoyed reading this and please feel free to comment!

Improving Spanish by doing your daily routine

Hi,
In this blog post you won't find any Spanish word or Spanish grammar, I promise.

If you want to learn a new language you have to contact with it as much as you can.

Where?

1. news(papers)
2. TV
3. radio
4. Internet
5. movies
6. games
7. music
8. anything... Really, if you can find something in your native language then you can find it in Spanish almost always.

If you want to read  news in Spanish, you find some sites here or if you simply surf on the Internet just try to select Spanish language instead of English, French, German or whatever you use daily. Furthermore, if you want to watch a movie then watch it with Spanish subtitles or audio. Music? Yes. All people love music, and I bet you can find a  band who sings in Spanish that you will like. Well, if you like rock music then I think you will enjoy Ill Niño.If you hate rock music just try this song. Last but not least, games. If you play computer games then try to play it in Spanish. Most of the time you can understand a lot of things without understanding the language itself. Uh, that sentence was a bit odd but it's true.