Start talking right away, you can get bad habits from reading only. Ask for help, Spanish speakers are delighted to assist you with your goals. – Tomĭon’t quit, keep learning everyday consistently. – Bridgetįocus on the 500 most commonly used words. Nothing has been more helpful for me than watching telenovelas. Verb conjugation and pronouns might both seem overwhelming if try to memorize them out of a book, but if you just jump into listening and talking, it starts to feel natural. Here are our favorites:ĭon’t trip yourself up with focusing too much grammar (especially at the beginning) just relax, accept the differences, go with the flow and do a lot of listening and you will notice how quickly you progress! – Adhamĭon’t be discouraged by grammar. Our community had a wealth of tips for new learners of Spanish. Tips for people who want to learn Spanish When you learn a new language, it opens up a whole new world of books, movies, songs, blogs – everything that you consume in your native language you can now do in a whole new language. Learning the language not only helps you understand the culture better, but it also allows you to gain a broader insight into the country and its people. Getting a better insight into the culture… which opens up more doors for learnersĬulture was mentioned in nearly every response we got back from Spanish. Over 12% of respondents said they felt like they were able to express themselves in a different way in Spanish compared to their native language, saying it was “more emotional”, “more romantic” and sometimes even “cooler sounding” than their mother tongue.ģ. Spanish has words and phrases that other languages don’t. “Some things in Spanish just make more sense” “It’s the third most spoken language in the world… I can go and talk to anyone!”Ĭonnecting with people was the top benefit cited for learning Spanish: being able to communicate with a wide community of Spanish speakers (580 million, remember!)Ģ. What Are The Best Things About Learning Spanish?ĭespite finding learning to be hard in Spanish, you guys had a lot of wonderful things to say about the benefits of learning Spanish.ġ. Those coming from English or Mandarin as their first language found vocabulary slightly harder, because there is less crossover with English and almost none between Mandarin and Spanish. The fact that a lot of the words are derived from a Latin foundation (same as Italian, French, Portuguese and Romanian) is the biggest reason for this, especially when people speak one of these languages natively. Over 63% of people said the vocabulary was the easiest part to pick up (as well as idiomatic expressions) … But also came top of the list of things Spanish learners found the easiest. Memorizing vocabulary came fifth in what people found the hardest… In fact, over 80% of people mentioned the subjunctive tense specifically. Grammar rules and grammatical structure came fourth. The mystical uvular trill, or, in non-phonetic speech – being able to roll your R’s. You also told us you struggle to understand different Spanish accents, with over 24% of you mentioning dialects as being one of the things you’ve found the hardest.Ĭan You Guess Which Language Accent Came Third? When you compare this to the much slower languages of English (6.19 syllables) and Mandarin (5.18 syllables) it’s easy to see how learners of Spanish can struggle to keep up. Japanese beats it to take the title of Fastest Spoken Language (just) with 7.84 syllables per second.
Spanish is the second fastest language, with a native speaker saying nearly 7.82 syllables per second. This is actually supported by research conducted by TIME Magazine. The top reason for this was the speed: over 40% of respondents to our survey said that they struggled to understand native speakers in conversation because they were perceived to speak too quickly. Speaking with locals seems to be hard in Spanish compared to the other languages. (For example, did you know over 8% of Spanish vocabulary is Arabic? Cool huh?) It also borrows words from other languages, such as French, Italian and Sardinian.īut it’s not the vocabulary people seem to find the hardest.Īccording to our survey, understanding native speakers was the number one challenge for Spanish students. Over 480 million of these are native Spanish speakers and Spanish is the official language or official co-language of over 20 countries, including Argentina, El Salvador, Venezuela and, of course: Spain.Īs a language, Spanish takes around 75% of its history from Latin, but also maintains influences from Ancient Greek and also Arabic. Spanish is spoken by over 570 million people across the world.
Spanish is the hardest language to learn. According to the hundreds of people that took our survey… Spanish isn’t just hard to learn.
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