Learning Spanish: How to Understand and Speak a New Language

Looking at elements such as grammar and vocabulary; how to study, practise and learn the language most effectively; identifying Spanish words that are similar to their English equivalents; the five Spanish vowel sounds; basic greetings and responses.

Learning the gender of Spanish nouns by practising each new noun with its masculine or feminine definite article; how the suffixes of nouns can help identify their gender; making nouns plural; Spanish consonants; the letters of the Spanish alphabet.

The five singular subject pronouns and the seven plural subject pronouns; their use in Spanish-speaking regions; affixing the verb ser in the present tense; simple sentences; Spanish adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and gender.

Learning Spanish verbs whose infinitives end in ar; conjugating regular ar verbs in the present tense by identifying the verb's stem and adding the correct endings; Spanish adjectives and their placement; pronuncing consonants; cognate adjectives.

Grasping the Spanish indefinite articles; observing how indefinite articles are used in Spanish; counting to 100; practising simple math problems; completing work with Spanish consonants; making important distinctions in pronouncing b, v, g, d and x.

The verb estar is the second Spanish verb for to be; the uses of estar, as contrasted with ser; affixing estar in the present tense and using it with adjectives describing emotions and locations; counting to 1,000; a note about Spanish pronunciation.