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Spanish Lessons - Short Guide to Spanish Grammar
This article will give you a few Spanish lessons on simple vocabulary. Spanish is a beautiful language and is very similar to that of English. However, grammar rules in Spanish are very different from that of English. For example, let us consider a basic grammar rule in English. While describing a noun, we use the article first followed by the adjective and then the noun.
English: a deep river - article+adjective+noun. The same phrase in Spanish is shown below.
Spanish: un rio profundo - article+noun+adjective. Thus you can see that in Spanish, unlike in English, the article is followed by the noun and then the adjective.
Another important point to note about Spanish is that the article changes depending on the gender of the object. It also changes on the basis of whether the noun is singular or plural. There is no neutral gender in Spanish like in English. Similarly, the word ending of the adjective also changes depending on the gender or the noun. The adjective for masculine gender ends with "ico" and for feminine gender ends with "ica".
The seasons of the year in Spanish are as follows:
- Summer: el verano
- Winter: el invierno
- Autumn: el otono
- Spring: la primavera
If you observe carefully, all the seasons are preceded with an article. The seasons summer, winter and autumn are considered to fall under masculine gender and hence are preceded by the article "el" which denotes this gender. The season spring falls under feminine gender and hence is preceded by the article "la" which denotes this gender.
All the days of the week are also considered to fall under the masculine gender and are as follows:
- Monday: Lunes
- Tuesday: Martes
- Wednesday: Miercoles
- Thursday: Jueves
- Friday: Viernes
- Saturday: Sabado
- Sunday: Domingo
If you want to say "I don't work on Sundays", in Spanish it is "no trabajo los domigoes" where "los" is the article for the masculine gender in plural. If you want to say "I won't dance on Saturday", in Spanish it is "no bailo el sabado".
There are various ways for you to take up Spanish lessons. You can attend classroom training and study the lessons taught there. Or you can get yourself some good self help books that are recommended for learning this language. You also have the option of using various audio visual aids available in the market too. If not anything, you can always fall back on the internet where you can find some interesting Spanish lessons too.
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