| Learning Spanish isn't as difficult as you probably | | | | change at the end where -tion becomes |
| think. Like many people, I did poorly in Spanish | | | | -ción. So attention becomes |
| class. As I grew older and increased my | | | | atención, liberation becomes |
| knowledge of learning languages in general and | | | | liberación, etc. Thus, vocabulary will |
| Spanish in particular, I realized the main reason I | | | | probably be fairly easy for you to learn. On the |
| never managed to learn Spanish in class wasn't | | | | other hand, learning Spanish grammar will likely |
| because I was bad at it or learning Spanish is a | | | | prove to be more difficult. Many Spanish |
| particularly difficult feat, but that learning a | | | | grammatical concepts, such as the subjective and |
| language in a classroom is a poor method in | | | | having to choose between two different past |
| general. Studying on your own with the right | | | | tenses, will be difficult to grasp in the beginning. |
| materials and methods, learning Spanish is much | | | | Luckily, Spanish grammar is extremely logical and |
| less difficult than it has the reputation for being. | | | | regular, so you should be able to master even |
| Learning any language can be pretty hard if | | | | these difficult and foreign concepts with a little |
| you've never done it before and don't know what | | | | practice. |
| works and what doesn't. That said, Spanish is one | | | | Learning to understand the spoken language will |
| of the easier languages for a native | | | | definitely take some real-world practice: you won't |
| English-speaker to learn because there are a very | | | | learn that from a book. Speaking will likewise be |
| large number of cognates (words that are | | | | difficult at first, but learning Spanish is mostly a |
| substantially similar in both languages). For | | | | question of time and effort rather than difficulty. |
| example, most English words ending in -tion are | | | | If you are dedicated and practice daily, it's only a |
| almost identical in Spanish except for a slight | | | | matter of time. |