Spanish for Beginners: Learn the Basics of Spanish in 7 Days
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Spanish is the most widely spoken Romance language, with more than 400 million native speakers all over the world. It is the official language in 21 countries including Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Argentina, and Equatorial Guinea. It is the most popular second language in the United States and Europe. The large population of Spanish speakers around the world in four continents and beyond makes it a smart choice for a second language.
The fast and steady growth of the Spanish speaking population has made Spanish a necessity in business. Learning Spanish will empower you to communicate in the most productive way with Spanish speaking co-workers, employees, or customers. Hispanic consumers are the most dynamic market segment in North America.
Knowing Spanish is particularly advantageous if you're in the healthcare or education sector. The globalization trend has made it possible to tap this vast and fast growing market segment. Health practitioners and professionals who want to provide the best services to their Spanish-speaking clients will want to speak and understand their language to ensure that there are no barriers to excellent service.
If you're looking for job opportunities worldwide, having Spanish in your résumé will certainly confer definite advantages over those who are monolingual.
If you have plans of travelling to Spanish-speaking regions, the ability to understand and speak the language will make your trip a truly enriching experience.
If this is your first time to learn a Romance language, you can use this knowledge to easily learn other related languages.
The book "Spanish for Beginners" is designed to help you learn Spanish and bridge the communication gap in as fast as one week. It is written with the self-learner in mind and organized to help its readers understand and speak the language confidently within a short span of time.
This learning material will prove that by identifying the most important features of a language and by applying proven techniques and strategies to language learning, anyone can master the basics of the language and use this knowledge base to start speaking confidently and properly in Spanish in as little as seven days.
Learning a language permanently requires mastery of its fundamentals. This book highlights the important features of the Spanish language in the areas of grammar, pronunciation, syllabication, sentence formation, and communication.
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Spanish for Beginners - Sergio Rodriguez
Spanish for Beginners
Learn the Basics of Spanish in 7 Days
By Sergio Rodriguez
Copyright 2018 - All Rights Reserved – Sergio Rodriguez
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form whatsoever, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any informational storage or retrieval system without express written, dated and signed permission from the author.
Table of Contents
Introduction: 6
Chapter 1: Learning Strategies 10
How to Learn Spanish Quickly and Easily 10
How to Use this Book to Learn Spanish 11
Chapter 2: The Fundamentals Of Spanish 14
The Spanish Alphabet 14
Pronunciation 15
Syllabication 18
Stress And Accent Mark 21
Chapter 3: Numbers, Colors, Time, And Date 24
Cardinal Numbers 24
Ordinal Numbers 27
Fractions (Fracciones) 31
Decimals And Percentages 31
Colors 32
Days Of The Week 33
Months Of The Year 34
Seasons Of The Year 35
Telling Time And Date 35
Chapter 4: Nouns And Articles 40
Articles 40
Gender Of Nouns 43
Forming Plural Nouns 48
Pluralia Tantum 51
Singularia Tantum 52
Chapter 5: Pronouns 54
Subject Pronouns 54
Direct Object Pronouns 55
Indirect Object Pronouns 56
Possessive Pronouns 57
Interrogative Pronouns 58
Indefinite Pronouns 61
Chapter 6: Verbs 64
The Indicative Mood 64
Conjugating Regular Verbs 65
The Present Tense 66
Stem-Changing Verbs 67
Ser And Estar 76
Simple Past Tenses 80
The Future Tense 84
The Perfect Tenses 87
Reflexive Verbs 93
Chapter 7: Adjectives 96
Placement Of Adjectives 99
Most Commonly Used Adjectives 104
Demonstrative Adjectives 109
Chapter 8: Prepositions, Adverbs, And Conjunctions 111
Prepositions 111
Adverbs 113
Conjunctions 120
Chapter 9: Forming Sentences 123
Sentence Patterns 123
Declarative Sentences 125
Interrogative Sentences 126
Negative Sentences 127
Chapter 10: The Subjunctive & Imperative Mood 128
The Subjunctive Mood 128
The Imperative Mood 130
Chapter 11: Making Comparisons 136
Comparisons of Equality 136
Comparisons of Inequality 137
Irregular Comparison 138
CHAPTER 12: CONVERSATIONAL PHRASES 140
Talking About Yourself 140
Introductions 140
The Family 143
Parts Of The House 145
Talking about the Weather (El Tiempo) 146
Greetings And Common Expressions 149
Conclusion 151
Did you enjoy this book? 152
Introduction
Spanish is the most widely spoken Romance language, with more than 400 million native speakers all over the world. It is the official language in 21 countries including Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Argentina, and Equatorial Guinea. It is the most popular second language in the United States and Europe. The large population of Spanish speakers around the world in four continents and beyond makes it a smart choice for a second language.
The fast and steady growth of the Spanish speaking population has made Spanish a necessity in business. Learning Spanish will empower you to communicate in the most productive way with Spanish speaking co-workers, employees, or customers. Hispanic consumers are the most dynamic market segment in North America.
Knowing Spanish is particularly advantageous if you’re in the healthcare or education sector. The globalization trend has made it possible to tap this vast and fast growing market segment. Health practitioners and professionals who want to provide the best services to their Spanish-speaking clients will want to speak and understand their language to ensure that there are no barriers to excellent service.
If you’re looking for job opportunities worldwide, having Spanish in your résumé will certainly confer definite advantages over those who are monolingual.
If you have plans of travelling to Spanish-speaking regions, the ability to understand and speak the language will make your trip a truly enriching experience.
If this is your first time learning a Romance language, you can use this knowledge to easily learn other related languages.
The book Spanish for Beginners
is designed to help you learn Spanish and bridge the communication gap in as fast as one week. It is written with the self-learner in mind and organized to help its readers understand and speak the language confidently within a short span of time.
This learning material will prove that by identifying the most important features of a language and by applying proven techniques and strategies to language learning. Anyone can master the basics of the language and use this knowledge base to start speaking confidently and properly in Spanish in as little as seven days.
Most English speakers will find Spanish a relatively easy language to learn. For one, like English, it uses the same Latin or Roman alphabet. Except for the letter Ňň, the rest of the alphabet will look familiar. There are no special characters to learn. In addition, the vowels have the same sound wherever you find them. As both English and Spanish have Latin roots, there are thousands of cognates between them that will make vocabulary building an easier task.
While they share the same roots, English and Spanish have vastly distinct grammar and pronunciation rules. An area that always poses a challenge to an English-speaker is the extensive application of gender in Spanish. Gender, along with the number of nouns, influences the way modifiers like adjectives and articles are formed. This book provides the techniques you need to overcome difficulties with gender and noun identification.
Learning a language permanently requires mastery of its fundamentals. This book highlights the important features of the Spanish language in the areas of grammar, pronunciation, syllabication, sentence formation, and communication. It provides the strategies you need to understand the Spanish numeric system easily and be able to count in Spanish in less than thirty minutes.
By learning the core of the language, you will be able to build other important skills such as telling time, forming your own sentences, introducing yourself to people, reading literary works, and taking part in daily conversations in Spanish. This learning material will provide the steps and strategies you need to give yourself a solid foundation in Spanish.
The book ‘Spanish for Beginners’ is a complete training course for beginners who want to learn Spanish quickly, easily, and permanently. It is developed for self-learners who are looking for a well-organized and comprehensive yet concise and straightforward approach to language learning.
This learning material will help you overcome the apprehensions and frustrations language learners face when using conventional methods. By helping you achieve learning milestones in a short amount of time, you will be able to build the confidence and skills you need to level up, speak confidently, and hold conversations with native speakers in no time at all.
While the lessons in this book are organized with the beginner in mind, the lessons can also be used by anyone with or without a background in Spanish. You can work at your own pace but to