Learn Spanish 18 Day Challenge: For Intermediate Includes Conversation, Exercises, Grammar Rules, And Dialogues: Learn Spanish, #5

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In this edition you'll find:

• PRONOUNS
• REPASO DE LA GRAMÁTICA:  DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS (LOS PRONOMBRES DEMOSTRATIVOS)
• REPASO DE LA GRAMÁTICA: POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS (LOS PRONOMBRES POSESIVOS)
• REPASO DE LA GRAMÁTICA: DIRECT OBJECT PRONOUNS (LOS PRONOMBRES DE OBJETOS DIRECTOS)
• REPASO DE LA GRAMÁTICA: INDIRECT OBJECT PRONOUNS (LOS PRONOMBRES DE OBJETOS INDIRECTOS)
• NOUNS
• ADJECTIVES
• BASIC VOCABULARY
• ASKING QUESTIONS
• YES-OR-NO QUESTIONS
• IMPERSONAL/ INDIRECT SPEECH
• ANIMALS
• VOCABULARY
• ACCOMMODATIONS
• MUSIC
• SPORTS
• DIALOGUES
• PIDIENDO UNA PIZZA-ORDERING A PIZZA
• CENTRO COMERCIAL - SHOPPING MALL
• PIDIENDO UN CAFÉ - ORDERING A COFFEE
• PERSONAL INFORMATION CONVERSATIONS
• PRESENTARSE A ALGUIEN- INTRODUCING TO SOMEONE
• FECHA DE NACIMIENTO—BIRTHDATE
• PRESENTANDO A LA FAMILIA-INTRODUCING THE FAMILY
• DAY TO DAY CONVERSATIONS
• and Much More!

• Language: English
• Publisher: APOLLO S.
• Release date: Jun 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201159313

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Introduction

Over the last few years , globally, a great interest in the Spanish language has been aroused. As is well known, English continues to be the most widely used language at a international level and has more weight when it comes to wanting to communicate effectively both at the government and tourism levels. Spanish has not been globalized to such a level of being a language considered crucial in the education for people worldwide, it is still far from it, but without a doubt the demand for this language and its use has grown incredibly.

The interest in learning Spanish as a foreign language has meant that there is much more demand and many more specialized academies and professors are needed . Even in countries where  the interest in Spanish was almost nil before, there is now a more or less high demand for the language:  Asia and Africa continents serves us as an example. This emergence has created new professional and economic possibilities for people who have Spanish as their mother language, without realizing the natives have a gold mine in their daily language. But why does this interest exist?. Some people consider tt seems strange and others cannot believe that there are so many people looking for Spanish, but the truth is that, out of all the Romance languages, ​​this is the most popular today.

The growth of Spanish is not as rare nor fortuitous as it seems to be, and many will not surprise as others may be. Spanish exceeds English in terms of number of native speakers, while English has approximately 360 million native speakers, Spanish has 420 million. Spanish is the second most spoken native language only surpassed by Chinese. In the United States alone, whose mother language is English, there are more than 40 million native Spanish speakers, approximately 13% of the US population. From this enormous number of speakers it can be understood that within this English-speaking country almost 50% of high school students choose Spanish as a foreign language class. This, little by little, has been happening not so massively in other parts of the world.

But it is not only the migratory expansion of native Spanish speakers that has led this language to attract worldwide attention, there are more factors that influence this process. The uninterrupted growth that Latin and Spanish-speaking music has had in general since the beginning of the century has been a crucial factor.  It is well known worldwide the status of  Latin music and the viral it can be turned at parties and common meetings in almost any part of the world. This music has aroused a lot of interest in the language in people who, perhaps, would have never considered it in another way. But music is not the only artistic or cultural medium by which Spanish has achieved its extension and success abroad.

The literature and the wide variety of it written in Spanish has also made this language known and interested in internationally, and this does not come from now but has been present for several centuries ago. Most of the works written in Spain during the Golden Age are a classic precedent of world literature and these works have been written primarily in Spanish. The growth of current authors of this language has also greatly influenced their reading and interest. In the forties and fifties of the last century there was also a very strong boom around Latin American literature, literature written clearly in Spanish. The internationality achieved by these various authors were gradually drawing more attention to this language. These authors are, even today, international reference.

But there is a factor that is not so directly related to the language and that has nevertheless broken borders and aroused interests abysmally, something unprecedented and humanity had never considered before: globalization and the arrival of the internet.

With the massive arrival of the internet there is no doubt that the borders between countries and even continents are abysmally shortened, society became global and in a few years all people could communicate in some way or the other with someone on the other side of the world. It is good to remember here what we have mentioned before: native speakers of Spanish have the second largest population in the world. This added to a globalization and digital expansion is not uncommon to consider that non-Spanish-speaking people have crossed by this language at some time or another while surfing the internet. And why doesn't the same thing happen with Chinese, if this is the language with more natives? The cultural differences and beliefs of each culture can become a limitation for this phenomenon to occur, it is also important to capture the interests and facilities or comforts that Spanish speakers may have in contrast to Chinese speakers. While Chinese, or rather, standard Mandarin, exists as a native language in China, instead Spanish is the native language of at least twenty countries.

For most folks, learning a new language is one of the most challenging things they will ever do in their lives. The reason for this is that languages don’t come easy. They take time and dedication for the learner to achieve a certain level of proficiency.

It takes several years of study and development before we can be reasonably proficient in a language. It is around the age of 7 or 8 when a child is able to communicate fairly well. Nevertheless, it takes a few more years of schooling and training before an individual truly masters a language. Even then, some folks are unable to go beyond a certain level of mastery.

The Advantage of Learning as an Adult

The big difference between learning a language as a child and learning a language as an adult lies in the fact that many of the cognitive processes, which children need to develop, have already been developed.

What does that mean?

IT MEANS THAT YOU DON’T need to go back and re-learn the alphabet or work on phonics. You can begin to reasonably decode a new language with some helpful pointers. Also, this means that you don’t have to learn the mechanics of reading and writing. These are skills that you have already gotten a handle on in your native language.

So, what happens when you learn a new language is that you are transferring the skills you have already developed in your native language to the new language that you are learning. While that sounds rather straightforward, there are some bumps along the way.

First of all, language systems tend to vary significantly.

WHEN WE ARE LOOKING forward to learn a new language, especially when we are getting older or when we are young adults, we are used to be afraid of not being able to learn well and quick enough, or not to dominate and being completely fluent because we are getting older. Many people believe in this myth and allege to the mental capability, their learning capability and cognitive power: You are too old to change the way you understand communication! But, are this statement really based on scientific evidence? Is it proven? Being 25,30 or even 45 years old prevents you from learning a new language?

This can be due to the existence of a growing period and cognitive development that lasts till puberty, taking into account that if one or several languages evolve at the same time with this cognitive development, there is more possibilities that the person internalize one or several languages as if they were a native speaker. Suddenly a biological theory about linguistic functions comes up in the 70’s. This theory holds that the linguistic functions start stunting in the brain as you get older, so in the infancy these functions are working at their full capacity and this