How to speak Spanish

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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!