Learning a foreign language is a great asset to anyone’s skill set. Whether you learn for your career or just for your own personal reasons, learning Spanish can add enrichment and a feeling of satisfaction to your life. You can take formal classes, play online games, and even buy software that will help you learn Spanish in a timely and efficient manner. However, one simple way to learn Spanish that many people don’t consider is to simply read Spanish articles, books, and other resources. This method is less intensive than a formal class or learning program, but will offer you a more hands on approach to learning than that of other methods.
If you spend 20 minutes each day reading Spanish articles, newspapers, or books, you can increase your vocabulary and gain a much better understanding of the Spanish language through immersion. For example, if you hop on the internet and look up a newspaper from Mexico or Spain , you can read about world events that may already be familiar to you, so the translation and understanding will come naturally. At first, you might want to keep a dictionary handy to help you understand what you’re reading, but in time you will be able to read all sorts of documents in Spanish simply by understanding the context of the words which will inherently teach you the meanings of them.
Traditional Spanish education focuses a lot on vocabulary exercises and memorization, but these methods are very time-consuming and mundane. Rather than memorizing vocabulary and learning words one at a time, reading Spanish for 20 minutes a day will help you to better understand the language as a whole, and how it fits together in one piece. When children are young, they learn words first by association, and then by being read to. Eventually, children learn to read, and only then are they taught vocabulary and spelling classes to help them grow their knowledge of their primary language. This is why learning by association and immersing yourself in the Spanish language is easier to do than memorizing words and their meanings. The brain is already pre-wired to learn this way.
By reading Spanish 20 minutes a day, you will gain a better understanding of the language and how words are used. You can even find articles that are written in Spanish and another language, so that you can assimilate the two to see what the Spanish article is saying. Taking classes or using software to learn Spanish are great tools, but why spend the time and money when you can ready for 20 minutes each day, for free, and learn the same amount, if not more? There are many different ways to learn Spanish, but if you’re a more “hands-on” learner, total immersion through reading 20 minutes a day is often a much faster, more efficient way to learn the things you want to know. You’ll learn to understand an article or a book as a whole concept, and can then dissect the meaning of the specific words on your own.
Learning a second language is a great tool to add to your personal or professional skills; if you could do it in 20 minutes a day, wouldn’t you?
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