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se7en:
I heard that watching tv shows like "spanish sesame street" can REALLY REALLY help. 

Angie:
Hi Abednego,

I found Spanish fairly easy because the alphabet is similar to English with only a few exceptions. I love the sound of the Spanish language so to learn it was something I wanted to do so I could communicate with people in Spain where I was living at the time. I currently moved to and live in Bulgaria, which language is from Cyrillic, same as Russian. I find that to learn the alphabet/letter pronunciations first are really helpful, then set a goal of at least 2 new words every day. Roger's suggestion of labels all over items in your home is a great idea for vocabulary building. Don't worry too much about grammar at this stage, learn as many words as you can and soon you will be able to start stringing them into sentences... pidgin Spanish...LOL Spanish can seem difficult at first because the words seem to change depending on who is saying/doing a thing, but all you need is to learn the endings of I, you, he, she, they and we and you be halfway there. As a native English speaker, that approach worked quite good for me tho you can't beat having someone to converse with in the language you trying to learn to help you develop an 'ear' for it. good luck with it and keep us posted on your progress  :)

Abednego:
Thanks everyone for all the input on this.


--- Quote from: Moises G. on January 13, 2014, 12:04:12 AM ---Here is what you need the most and you will do fine:
enough motivation

--- End quote ---

Somehow I figured that was going to come up.  I was hoping not though, that's why I was trying to do the audio cds in the car while I drove.  I have a large project right now that will be consuming my free time for a long time to come.  So as much as I would like to learn it will not make it to the top of my list for some time yet.

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