Over the coming weeks and months I’ll be sharing my ideas on how to learn Spanish. Not that I know much about learning Spanish - in fact I haven’t even started yet. But maybe that’s why it could be interesting.
I have a fair bit of knowledge of several other languages, including French and Italian, so my guess is that Spanish won’t be all that difficult. We’ll see. Either way I hope my experiences are of some help to other newcomers to the Spanish language.
I’ll also continue in my existing role with ChinesePod.
Ken Carroll
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I always think it’s interesting reading about language learning from a person who’s in the same boat as I. I look forward to your experiences with Spanish as I make my first steps into it as well.
I’m also very excited about studying Spanish through SpanishSense. I don’t know how much similarity Spanish actually has with French, but I’m excited to find out! and really learn Spanish this year, of course along with Chinese!
Wow. I’m so excited about learning Spanish through SpanishSense! I don’t know how much similarity Spanish has with French, but I’m looking forward to finding out! and really learning Spanish this year, of course along with Chinese!
Dear Hyunwoo
Spanish and French share similarities as they belong to the same root which is the Latin language. French and Spanish both have feminine and masculine as well as singular and plural for nouns. You might also find that the grammatical structures of Spanish are quite similar to some of French. Just to see this, let´s take the example of I am Colombian… in Spanish it is Yo soy colombiana, in french you say Je suis colombienne. This is what I remember from the time I studied some french. Hope this can help you a bit to solve this inquiry
Hello Hyunwoo,
I think with French you may have mastered the more difficult of the 2 languages in question in terms of oral understanding - at least that is true to my native German ears.
I know French a lot better than Spanish, but still if people talk fast I cannot follow them as everything blurs together… I would understand some of those sentences perfectly had I seen the written text, because I do know all the words. This is better with Swiss French as they generally tend to speak more slowly.
In Spanish either I know a word or I don’t, but if I know I will usually recognize it within speech, unless again at topmost speed.
In Spanish I find the biggest challenge so far that the street’s language is very different from the more formal language, so much that a foreigner often can’t make head or tail of what is being said.