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For many people, the idea of speaking and
understanding a foreign language becomes a dream. When one learns to speak a
second language, lots of new opportunities are opened, for example, you can
meet new people, travel, start a business or if you already have a business,
you can make it grow.
The dream of speaking a foreign language is,
actually, a door to new and big opportunities. In this case, Spanish is a
language which is spoken in a lot of countries in the world; a good example is South
America where most countries have Spanish as national language.
Many people make to learn to speak Spanish a
goal, to accomplish many different things in life; however, the truth is that
this dream becomes frustrated by the bad results that schools and institutes
give when teaching this language.
If people don’t see nice results when
studying Spanish as a second language, they can think: “I’m terrible for
languages”, “Spanish is just not for me”, or perhaps they just give up and
forget about the dream of speaking Spanish.
Usually the only result that people get when
they study Spanish in a school or institute is a bunch of information about
tenses, verbs, nouns and an endless grammar rules package which the only thing
that this stuff will do to you, the student, is to avoid you to become
fluent when speaking Spanish.
The best way to learn to speak Spanish or any
other foreign language is to do exactly what children do when they start to
learn their mother language, and that is, LISTENING. That’s it, LISTENING is
the key to learn to speak Spanish fluently, language must get into the brain in
a natural way. I will be talking about this issue in future articles, but for
now I just want to give you my first piece of advice to learn to speak Spanish,
and this is to focus on listening to Spanish. Forget about all the grammar rules
that you have learned in the past, forget about tenses, conjugations,
conditionals, forget everything that made seem Spanish a complicated thing to
learn.
The main purpose of this blog is to promote Spanish
learning in a natural, effective and automatic way and to start off you can
download the audio of this text in Spanish on the following link.
Keep checking this blog out, I will give many
tips and suggestions to learn to speak Spanish powerfully.
REMEMBER: To learn to speak Spanish fluently,
focus your learning on LISTENING!