What makes Spanish such an easy language to learn?

Question

I have my own opinion, but it's been hard to find people open minded enough to give me a reason. Usually if they don't already know Spanish, they haven't a clue.

Answer 1

SPANISH IS NOT EASY.... or at least it depends on who you ask. Me, being my first language Spanish, had trouble learning english because the pronunciation was to tough for me to understand especially since my type of spanish was rural because i lived deep into the villages in Mexico where everyone kind of created their own version of how spanish should be. Every spanish speaking country has its own way of manipulating words into shorter ways of pronouncing them making it tougher to know the "real" spanish. I , growing up had to suffer trough ESL classes to get rid of what my english speaking teachers said was my harsh spanish "accent." Eventhough I eventually got the hang of it and perfected it where I could talk and write it unfallibly, I noticed as my kids grew older that they had trouble speaking spanish where now they had grown up in the american society had installed the value of english in my kids. Their black, asian, and white friends could not understand why my kids would talk spanish to me when i could perfectly talk english. I held true to my value, knowing that my kids would have it better if they were bilingual. But to answer your question, spanish is hard to learn for people who are not familiar with Romance languages(latin,french, italian, etc.) which are closely associated to spanish. English is different having different origins(german, russian, old english,etc.) where the tongue has a tough time rolling as spanish often uses. Spanish is softer to learn compared to german or chinese that require familiarity in that department(not saying it has to but it will help) Well, hope that answered your question. ;)

Answer 2

I would say it's easy to begin learning, but difficult to perfect. As the answerer above mentioned, conjugations and other grammatical things are very difficult for learners of Spanish. I'll focus on what about it is easy, though. For an English speaker, it's easy because it's a very phonetical language (words are pronounced how they're spelt). Another advantage is that it is closely related to English in so many ways. English may not be a Romance language, but its words are often derived from Latin. If one notices the roots of words and their meanings, it becomes a lot easier to learn Spanish. Also, Spanish-speaking countries and English-speaking countries have become very interdependent upon one another, often borrowing each other's words (i.e. internet, closet, siesta).

Answer 3

I know a lot of persons from other countries (Japan, USA, France) and they can say everything about spanish, except that it is an easy language to learn.

The verbs conjugations are a lot different according to the tense and the pronouns, the use of adjectives and adverbs has a lot of rules, too.

Just because you speak to a Mexican (or another native spanish speaker) and he can understand you, it doesn't mean that you speak good spanish.

When an American tourist come here, maybe he will be able to communicate in spanish, but thats becouse we understand that he won't know all the conjugations forms of a verb, and most of the times he will use the infinitive form of it.

Speak proper Spanish is completely different.

Answer 4

Pronunciation helps a lot. For the most part, a Spanish word is spelled exactly as it sounds. The only real silent letter is hache. There are no slient Es, and you don't have to worry if "que" is pronounced "kay" or "key." If you know the pronunciation rules of Spanish, you can spell anything you hear.

Also, the conjugation is pretty nice. There are some irregular conjugates, but for the most part, it's pretty straightforward. You can often drop the subject, and the listener understands who you mean.

The only issue I may see is whether a noun is masculine of feminine. I've always had an issue with it, and while there are some common sense nouns, it can still end up being a lot of memorization. That is the only real memorization I had to suffer. That, and irregular conjugates. Compared to other languages, Spanish is pretty easy, as most of it comes intuitively.

Answer 5

I think largely it's the fact that the vowels are all pronounced the same way every time, so for the most part you know how the words all sound, even if you don't know what they mean. Pronunciation is the easy part. Things follow paterns. I mean, every language takes time to learn, but I think Spanish is one of the easier ones.

Answer 6

Spanish is now a part of our culture and is the most used language next to English

Answer 7

Spanish is easier because there aren't words that mean two things like in English. Such as saw(I saw the softball) and saw(I need a saw to cut the log.). Then there are things like to, too, and two.

Answer 8

Spanish is an easy language to learn because the rules of the tongue have among the fewest exceptions. I can only think of 12 irregular verbs of all the language. English has tons. Learn the conjugations and it generally remains the same for any word you use. yo hablo yo compro. Yo pregunto, Usted responde.

Answer 9

Because it is such a common language in USA, people are surrounded with it all their lives, so when you go to study, you are already familiar with pronunciation.

Answer 10

It's much easier if you speak a Latin based language already, like French, Italian or Portugais (sorry, I forget how to say the last one in English).