Friday 30 April 2010

Beginners Spanish Lessons - Tips

Beginners Spanish Lessons are available in many places from your local college, your bookstore, for spanish language books, private Spanish language tutors and online Spanish courses.

Deciding which route to take when beginning spanish lessons is a personal choice which has to fit in with your own lifestyle. Not only that, if you decided to go down the route of studying Spanish with others, who are also starting beginners spanish lessons you will have to remember that you should be prepared to make allowance for the other students who may have even less knowledge of the basics than you have.

This means, you will have to have patience, just as they will have to have patience with your level of beginners Spanish.

Many people start the lessons with the basics of numbers, days of the week, months and general greetings. However, if these are self taught, they may also not be coherent due to the wrong pronouncations.

The Spanish people have a lot of pleasure in seeing our struggle with coping with their language but overall, they enjoy helping as they know it is just as difficult for them to able able to learn the English language with all its quirks, in the form of grammatical rules.

This article has just reminded me of an incident many years ago.   I had an Italian friend, who one day asked me where the scissors were. I asked why he wanted the scissors ... to which he replied ... "To sweep the floor". I loved it! So charming.  And to think that now, I am making similar mistakes, in my own beginners spanish lessons.

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