Sunday, May 4, 2008

Easy Guide to Follow Basic Spanish Language

In this article we want to help you with an easy to follow guide to the basics of the Spanish language, focusing on the differences between Spanish and English sentence structure.

Sentence

If you want to understand basic Spanish you need to know that the main difference between English and Spanish is in such a way that the sentences are constructed. First, we look in a typical Spanish sentence.
"Me gusta el vino Espa? Oil".
This phrase means;
"I like Spanish wine."
Do you find that in the English version of "wine" comes to "Spanish", but in the Spanish phrase "vino" comes before "Espa? Oil"? This is because in Spanish the adjective (as an adjective is word is used to describe something, in this case we have "Espa? Oil, which means Spanish), always after the noun (a noun is basically another name for a thing, in this case "vino", so wine).
So, if I wanted to say, I like white wine, in Spanish, I would say, "Me gusta vino blanco". Blanco means white in Spanish.
The rule applies regardless of whether we are on a drink or a person.
The English phrase "A Spanish man".
Dignity in Spanish for "Un se? Or Espa? Oil"

Have you noticed Another difference between the English and Spanish rates? In the example we have, we can see that "Espa? Oil" begins with a lowercase letters, or small "e" in English but say that if "Spanish" We use a big "S", this is because any reference to a country in the English language should be a large letters at the beginning of the word, but in Spanish would only with a capital letter, if the name directly countries.
When we say "Soy de Espa?"
This translated,
"I'm from Spain"
Because we used "Espa?" If the name of the country, there will be a capital letter. Therefore, when I say;
"I am américano" (I am an American man). In Spanish we have a small "a" as opposed to;
"Soy de América" (I'm from America). Because we use the word for the Americas (that is a proper name), we use an "A".

How to identify issues

In English, we can change a statement to a question by adding the word DO and a question mark (?). As an example, the statement "You have a pencil" I could say something, as I hand over a pencil or merely a fact. But if I say, "Do you have a pencil?" There is no doubt that I am asking a question.

There is no word to do, Spanish, we need a different way of knowing that the sentence we have only just begun, is a question. To do this, the Spanish language uses two question marks "¿?", of an inverted at the beginning of the sentence and the standard quality to an end. Therefore:
"Tiene un lapiz," ( "tiene" may mean "you" and "lapiz" is "pencil")
This statement becomes a question of if we add, and ¿?.
"¿Tiene un lapiz?" If the question mark at the beginning of a sentence you know that you have to change the tone of your voice to make it into question.

We hope that these few tips lead to understanding basic Spanish a little easier for you, and hopefully you'd be happy about learning more!

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