Many people consider learning Spanish vocabulary to be one of the most tedious and time consuming parts of being able to communicate effectively in the language and I have to say that I used to be someone that would agree with them.
Thinking back to what I used to do it was a pretty awful task trying to remember 1000's of words using basic rote memorization but what's even worse is that I often I'd forget up to 80% of the Spanish words I thought I had thoroughly learned. This meant that not only was I hating the task of having to learn vocabulary but I wasn't even being rewarded all that well for the work I was putting into it.
This all changed one day when I came across a new and more modern approach to learning words in Spanish. This new approach was drastically different from anything I had used before and it completely changed the way I approaching my Spanish lessons from that point forward.
It basically works like this - between many languages there's actually a lot of common ground when it comes to vocabulary. This is because these languages share the same origins and roots. These include Spanish, French and Italian, commonly known as the Romance Languages. Now, when you look into it you'll discover that there are 1000's of words that are very similar between in both spelling, meaning and pronunciation between English and Spanish and that they can by in large be conveniently categorized into groups.
Once you learn these groups or categories of words all it takes is one simple conversion rule to convert them instantly from English into Spanish. Best of all, there's no memorizing, no writing down, no drilling and no 'trying' to remember. Just instant vocabulary you can speak with confidence when it really matters. All too often it's easy to completely choke up in front of native Spanish speakers when you are trying to communicate what you want to say. This happens to all of us.
The most important thing is that lose the fear of making mistakes and the best way of doing this is to increase the level of confidence you have in your ability to express yourself in a foreign language. This kind of closely related Spanish vocabulary is the perfect way to add a few thousand words to what you already know. When you first try it out you'll probably find it a little strange but believe me, it'll change the way you learn vocabulary forever.
There's nothing like trying something out for yourself and this demo video of how to get some instant Spanish vocabulary is the perfect opportunity to try what I've been talking about in this article.
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