How to Teach yourself to Read and Write in Spanish

Learning Spanish can be easy if you put your mind to it. There are plenty of ways to teach yourself!

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Time and patience
• Reading materials
• Materials like pens and paper

1. Buy a Spanish-English dictionary to look up new words and work on your vocabulary later.

2. Buy a book in Spanish, a Spanish magazine, or a newspaper in Spanish from your bookstore or from your neighborhood if possible.

3. Use your dictionary to carefully translate a short article in the paper or a page from the magazine or book.

4. Pay attention to variations of words. For example: I read and he reads are "leo" and "lee" respectively.

5. Record the variations in verbs to learn how to conjugate. Books are best for this, as you will only learn third person and third person plural from news media.

6. Buy and use a Spanish textbook if you need additional help with the grammar. This is highly recommended.

7. Continue to add to your vocabulary by reading more in Spanish and studying new words as you encounter them.

8. Read lots of media in Spanish once you have learned it to get practice and to learn more new words.

Tips & Warnings

• Begin with children's books if you are new to the language entirely - that will help you learn the grammar.
• Look for Spanish chat rooms or message boards online to discuss topics that interest you and to ask for help with phrasing and conversational language.
• Do not take things too literally all the time - if it doesn't make sense, it could be a cultural idiom. Talk to Hispanic people to find out.

Resources

• A collection of Spanish resources

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[BeautifulBea]

on 1/9/2008 Thanks for the advice - sounds like fun to try.