Elementary phrases

• Yes | Se
• No | No
• Hello | Hola
• Good morning | Buenos dias
• Good afternoon | Buenas tardes
• Good evening | Buenas noches
• See you later | Hasta luego
• Goodbye | Adios
• Excuse me | Con permiso
• Sorry | Disculpe
• Please | Por Favor
• Thank you very much | Muchas gracias
• You’re welcome | De nada
• Could you please help me? | Podria ayudarme?
• Do you speak English | Habla usted ingles?
• I speak a little Spanish | Hablo un poco español
• Where is… | Donde estas?
• What time is it? | Que hora es?
• Please repeat | Repita usted, por favor
• I don’t understand | No entiendo
• How do you say______ in Spanish? | Cómo se dice _____ en español?

Numbers

• 0 | cero
• 1 | uno
• 2 | dos
• 3 | tres
• 4 | cuatro
• 5 | cinco
• 6 | seis
• 7 | siete
• 8 | ocho
• 9 | nueve

• 10 | diez
• 20 | veinte
• 30 | treinta
• 40 | cuarenta
• 50 | cincuenta
• 60 | sesenta
• 70 | setenta
• 80 | ochenta
• 90 | noventa
• 100 | cien
• 200 | doscientos
• 300 | trescientos
• 400 | cuartocientos
• 500 | quinientos
• 600 | seiscientos
• 700 | setecientos
• 800 | ochocientos
• 900 | nuevecientos
• 1000 | mil
• 1,000,000 | un millón

Days of the Week

• Monday | lunes
• Tuesday | martes
• Wednesday | miercoles
• Thursday | jueves
• Friday | viernes
• Saturday | sabado
• Sunday | domingo
• Today | hoy
• Tomorrow | manana

Arriving

• My name is _____ | Me llamo _____
• I’m staying at _____ | Estoy en _____
• Here’s my passport | Aqui tiene mi pasaporte
• I’m on vacation | Estoy de vacaciones
• These are my bags | Estas son mis maletas

Transport & Hotel

• Where can I get a taxi? | Dónde puedo encontar un taxi?
• Where’s the bus stop? | Dónde está la parada de autobuses?
• I’d like to go to the hotel _____ | Quisiera ir al hotel _____
• I’d like a room for tonight | Quisiera una cuarto para esta noche
• Does it have air-conditioning, a television? | Tiene aire acondicionado|televisión?
• I don’t have a reservation | No tengo reserve
• I’d like the bill please | La cuenta, por favor

Food & Shopping

• Breakfast | el desayuno
• Lunch | el almuerzo
• Dinner | la comida
• Supper | la cena
• water | agua
• milk | leche
• wine | vino
• beer | la cerveza
• bread | el pan
• eggs | huevos
• meat | la carne
• fish | el pescado
• fruit | la fruta
• vegetables | las legumbres
• sugar | el azúcar
• salt | la sal
• coffee | café
• tea | té
• supermarket | supermercado

Restaurants

• Waiter! | Camarero!
• The menu please | La carta, por favor
• What do you recommend? | Qué recomienda usted?
• I’d like _____ . | Quisiera _____
• I’d like the bill please | La cuenta, por favor

Money

• Where can I change money? | Dónde puedo cambiar dinero?
• Where is there a bank? | Dónde hay un banco?
• Where is there a money exchange? | Dónde hay un banco de cambio?
• What is the current exchange rate? | A cómo está el cambio hoy?
• Do you except credit cards? | Acepta usted tarjetas de credito?

I just list most popular Spanish phrases, which help you learn basic Spanish language, you should print them out to memorize them. Try to speak these basic words as much as possible to help you memorize them.

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First of all, you should study Spanish background. The good news for you is that Spanish grammar is quite similar to English grammar. This way makes you much easier when you learn Spanish. For example, you just need to learn Spanish phrases and combine them to create a full sentence. So, let’s begin by studying some popular Spanish phrases.

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There is a formula for learning any foreign language fast: read, watch, and speak. If you can follow them exactly, you must to have best performance in learning conversational Spanish. However, many people don’t like to follow all of them. Many actually just want to learn conversational Spanish. In some cases, it’s not easy for you to find out Spanish spoken environment to practice speaking Spanish. You should try to create it by yourself. Watching TV Spanish news channel is one of the best ways. You shouldn’t start by watching Spanish videos. They are much more difficult to understand than news channel. So, start by watching news channel to build up your vocabulary. Travel to Spanish-spoken countries is also a favorite way.
Spanish podcast audio is a great way to learn conversational Spanish. Get some, copy to your iPod, and listen to them as much as possible. Taking a real conversational Spanish class is a valuable option.

Especially, there are some software just for learning basic conversational Spanish. These kinds of software are actually one of the best ways to learn conversational Spanish. I strongly recommend Rocket Spanish as the powerful software to help you learn conversational Spanish really fast.

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First of all, you need to make clear what is the Spanish language level you want to reach in the future or what is the goal of learning Spanish language. For example, if you are going to travel to Spain and you want to study Spanish just to say hello, ask way, or some sentences are used in very popular case. However, in other cases, you may need to reach high level Spanish level. For example, if you are a US student majoring in Spain or you will work in Spanish for a long time, in those cases, you need to reach a Spanish level as high as possible. If you just need to learn Spanish quick and speak Spanish at low level, just the content in this article is enough for you. If you want to reach a very high level, you should integrate carefully the information in the article I mentioned above with this article for best performance.

Firstly, you need to have some Spanish background training about basic Spanish grammar, basic Spanish words or phrases, and basic pronunciation. Please learn the background as careful as possible, they are much more important than you can figure out. If you want to study Spanish at home, I strongly recommend you study from a Spanish learning software. Spanish learning software usually has full background Spanish teaching section. They are usually very good in this part, even it can be better than study in a Spanish offline class.

They fastest way to study a foreign language is to live in the country which speak that language. So you have to try to the environment in which you can hear, or speak Spanish as much as possible. You can engage in Spanish media. You can learn tons of things, such as new words and listening ability, from watching news TV channel in Spanish, or from reading Spanish newspaper, magazine, and websites.

Listen to Spanish every time and every where, if you can. You can use Spanish audio CD or tapes for this kind of practice. You can listen to Spanish when you are driving, cooking, gardening, sleeping, or bathing. Instead of English songs, you can hear Spanish songs.

Finally, you need to practice speaking skill. Try to make some Spanish friends. This method is extremely effective. If you can speak Spanish every time, you will remember many Spanish words over time. This is the best way to improve your vocabulary and to understand the exact use of words in specific cases.

The methods are just that. I just write out them for 1 hour. However, do it take some time. If you follow my way, you will learn Spanish really fast. Try your best, and you can master Spanish in someday.

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According to me, with the technology advances, Spanish learning software is the best way to learn Spanish. They can do whatever you need to make best learning performance for you. The best current learn-to-speak Spanish software is incorporated with speech recognition. This technology advance is very important in education, especially in teaching foreign language. With speech recognition incorporation, learn to speak Spanish software help you check if your pronunciation is correct. One more important feature which is created by this technology is to simulate live conversations. This feature is extremely important, let’s you practice speaking very effectively.

Learn-to-speak Spanish software is built with fundamentals for learning Spanish, such as vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, reading, writing, pronunciation, culture. These features save you tons of time. You don’t have to take your time to look around looking for the information. The software is always much easier to browse than books.

Learn to speak Spanish software also provides great function to study vocabulary. Vocabulary function is sight through images, or sometimes video clips. If you learned a foreign language before, you know that this way is the best to remember words or phrases. One more benefit I want to show you is record and playback voice. This function is to let you relisten your voice to adjust your pronunciation properly.

I recommend you learn to speak Spanish software with these great features: Rosseta Spanish, Socket Spanish, …

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There are many ways to learn a foreign language. You can take a Spanish teaching class, buy a book and study from it, enroll in an online course, or learn Spanish home. Which are the benefits of learning Spanish at home? The most benefit is that you can fully control your time. For many people, because of a certain reason, such as they are so busy, they cannot take a real Spanish class, they have to learn Spanish home. In this article, we want to guide you how to learn to speak Spanish at home as effective as you take a real class.

First of all you need to learn carefully Spanish language background, such as pronunciation, popular phrases, basic grammar. There are some effective ways to study backgrounds. You can buy a good book and learn from it. I recommend “Spanish for dummies”. However, the books are usually very good in teaching grammar background but not good in teaching pronunciation skill. Another better method is getting a Spanish learning software. Spanish learning software usually is very good for learning pronunciation, a very important skill for beginners. Spanish learning software is also with very user-friendly and exciting interface, make you more enjoyed when you learn Spanish from home.

Along with learning Spanish background, you have to practice as much as possible. Watching Spanish TV news channel is the most popular way that many people use very successfully. Listen to Spanish audio tapes as much as possible. To improve your vocabulary, you have to read Spanish as much as possible: Spanish websites or Spanish books. The most powerful method is to talk to Spanish people. Talking action is the action that makes you memorize everything very effective.

The above methods are very powerful methods used for learning to speak any foreign languages at home. Follow these methods, I’m sure you can master Spanish within the shortest period as you can do best. Remember that hard working is not enough, you have to work hard, work smart and work in a systematic way to make a best performance.

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For the beginners, learn how to speak Spanish language in systematic ways is critical. The first step? It’s about pronunciation. The first step is to try to pronounce as exactly as possible Spanish. Try to learn pronounce the basic pronunciation that is different from English. Remember, just practice pronouncing very basic pronunciation. It’s not much. You just need to use learning Spanish software and imitate exactly the same as its Spanish pronunciation. The pronunciation is very important. If you speak, and Spanish people don’t understand you, that way makes you less confident. So over time, it slows down your development in learn speaking Spanish.

Secondly, you should memorize the Spanish phrases in popular scenarios. Why popular phrases are necessary? Many people don’t understand why. They just learn like crazy what teachers teach them. So you cannot optimize their learning and practice. Here’s a reason. Popular phrases are spoken regularly. So in a certain popular scenario, you just need to understand some phrases, and predict the meaning of all sentences. Through that, you can learn many other words. Because you understand the meaning of all sentences, you can guess the meaning of remaining words in those sentences. This way, over time, improves your Spanish vocabulary. It’s much more important than what I can say.

I don’t want to stretch this article so long. Many guys write so much when they teach someone about how speak Spanish fluently. However, they don’t focus on most critical factor. Because they teach so many things, they make learners look like lose their way in forest. The next critical step I want to teach you is about practicing. Remember this idiom: you read and you forget, you listen and you remember, you do and you understand. So, listening and doing action improve your memory extremely effective. Too many people don’t know this, so they cannot use it. Yes, you have to practice. Try to look for Spanish people and practice with them, speak as much as possible.

Is this article useful for you? Believe in me, above learn-to-speak-Spanish essentials are so important that you cannot imagine how important they are. All best foreign learners follow them in conscious or unconscious ways. Follow my best ways, I’m sure you can learn to speak Spanish language very well in the shortest period as you can. Even for learners have learned Spanish for a long time but cannot speak fluent English, if they resystemize and follow my way, these steps also as method to learn to speak Spanish fluently.

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