Learning words anywhere and everywhere

Hi,

In this blogpost I will write about learning words whereever you want! As you could read the title, I said: "anywhere and everywhere".
Yeah, this is true, you can. How? With a mobile phone. The best thing is you don't need a top notch mobile phone for this, for example that has an Android or Symbian operating system. You just have to download this software to your mobile phone and use it whenever you want to learn new words. To tell the truth, I have an old Sony Ericsson K510i mobile phone and I can run the English-Spanish translator software without any problems.

It can happen that is simply a bit frightening to sit down and learn words, because you can think that "oh, this will be boring" or you don't have just a few minutes.

Why to use a mobile translator?

1. The mobile phone is small and you can take it anywhere.
2. If you have to wait then you don't waste that time.
3. If you just started to learn Spanish, than you don't have to buy a dictionary(I have never had an English-Hungarian dictionary like Oxford or any bilingual ones, just free online and dictionaries for mobile phones).
4. Despite you can't use a computer or a dictionary because of something, you can search the words with ease.
5. Anytime you find a Spanish word that you do not understand, you can grab your phone and check its meaning or you can translate an English word too.

Probably there are more reasons to do this and if you will try this out,  I am sure that you will find those. :)

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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!

Spanish 101 - Safety - Level One

Hi,

The new Spanish 101 video has arrived and now this is about safety - seguridad. In this lesson you will learn some helpful words and phrases for safety like "doctor", "Where is the hospital?", etc. These words are a must if you go on a holiday or simply travel to a place where the majority speaks Spanish because you can't know when do you have to use these Spanish words or phrases (of course I hope you won't have to but prevention is better than cure). Furthermore, the pronunciation is way more important now, because they have to understand what you say immediately. So if you  want to travel to Spain or to Latin America, you should watch this video and memorize it. Have fun! :)

Spanish 101 - Safety - Level One

Spanish words and phrases in this episode of Spanish 101:

• Doctor - El médico
• Where is the doctor - ¿Dónde está el doctor?
• Where is the hospital? - ¿Dónde es el hospital?
• Where is the police station? - ¿Dónde está la oficina de policía?
• I am sick - Estoy enfermo(M)/Estoy enferma(F)
• Help - ¡Ayuda!

 Not that much but still important :) and don't forget, you can leave comments and mention other Spanish words and phrases, which might help others! Thank you!

Have a nice day!