Did you know that more than 470 million people speak Spanish as their native tongue? That ranks it second behind Mandarin Chinese. To top that off, more than half a billion speak it and by 2050, they predict that the United States could have more Spanish speakers than anywhere in the world.
So yeah, it’s pretty prevalent.
I have been learning it for roughly a year now (with some randomly dispersed weeks scattered over the past two years), but this year was the first year I undertook it in a structured setting. I.e. In the classroom.
I have found this is a much better approach to learning it as opposed to just playing games like Duolingo, as it has taught me to understand the foundation alongside the structure of a language. In fact, it has actually helped me learn and understand English better.
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I have found this is a much better approach to learning it as opposed to just playing games like Duolingo, as it has taught me to understand the foundation alongside the structure of a language. In fact, it has actually helped me learn and understand English better.
To prove that, how many of you know what preterite means? What about a double object pronoun? What about just giving me a simple definition of a gerund?
These words are simple English words, but it’s amazing how we are never taught them and how they work when we communicate or write.