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May 24, 2007 on 4:57 pm | In About | | Email This Post

Well, I just decided. The next language I spend a significant time learning is going to be Spanish!

- Harvey

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    You will face the curious delights of “SER” and “ESTAR” verbs difference!! ha ha ha!

    Soooooooo… Buena Suerte!

    Comment by nyuudo — May 24, 2007 #

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    What the heck?? Why????

    Comment by Grace — May 24, 2007 #

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    So will this become SpainNewbie blog, or what?

    Comment by Tadashi — May 24, 2007 #

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    Why? Why?? Flamenco! South America! South Spain! http://www.kirainet.com!

    If I get the chance to move to Spain, I would make some kinda Spain blog I bet. However, I don’t think that will happen for a while. I’ll just start studying Spanish via spanishsense.com starting in July, when the Japanese program is done.

    I think I would like the のり of Spain, Mexico, and South America!

    Comment by harvey — May 24, 2007 #

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    Nice choice ;)

    It would be great to see what you could write about my country (spain).

    But right now… good luck with our verbs ;)

    Comment by Tsuki no Hime — May 24, 2007 #

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    Yikes. Are the verbs so hard?! You’re scaring me!

    Comment by harvey — May 24, 2007 #

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    Don’t give up! it’s just that… all my “english-speaker’s friends” got headaches confusing their idea of the useful english verb “TO BE” and the complexity of spanish “SER” and “ESTAR”…

    Comment by nyuudo — May 25, 2007 #

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    Spanish is incredibly easy for an English speaker. After you’ve studied Japanese, you realize that English and Spanish are practically the same language. :)
    That means proficiency comes a lot faster in Spanish for the same amount of information learned in a significantly different language, since you can apply most of the same structures and concepts directly, just with different vocabulary.

    Verbs in Spanish aren’t hard. They’re just not as easy as Japanese. Heck of a lot easier than English, though!

    Spanish and Japanese are my two study-points right now, as well. I’m headed to Japan and Guatemala next year to study in a proper language school. THANK YOU for the spanishsense.com reference. I now have something to compliment japanesepod101.com

    Comment by Mac — May 25, 2007 #

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    Another note:
    I found the Pimsleur Speak & Read Spanish series (three levels of 30 half-hour lessons each) to be very, very good, especially complimented with a formal grammar study. They are the only audio lesson course I can give that praise to. You might enjoy them. They’re expensive, but used copies in combination with businesses that buy back Pimsleur products make that easier. Others just pirate them off of newsgroups.

    Comment by Mac — May 25, 2007 #

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    As a Spanish native speaker, I can assure you, after managing Japanese, Spanish will be like a pick-nick.
    As very well says Mac, you will realize Spanish and English belong to the same family of languages, so do most European languages.
    Any way, I will stand by, just in case I can give you any help with Spanish.

    Just to have a try:
    Como hablante nativo de español, te puedo asegurar, que despues de hacerte con el japonés, el español será como un pick-nick.
    Como muy bien dice Mac, te darás cuenta de que el español y el inglés pertenecen a la misma familia de lenguajes, así como la mayoría de idiomas europeos.
    En cualquier caso, estaré por aquí, en caso de que te pueda ser de ayuda con el español.

    It is the translation to Spanish of what I have previously written in English.

    good luck! ;)

    Comment by isshou — May 25, 2007 #

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    Sounds fun, Harvey! And you may even find that studying Spanish helps your Japanese, or vice versa. Guess you’ll have to find a Remembering the Spanish Verbs to go along with Remembering the Kanji! ^_^

    Comment by Michael — May 25, 2007 #

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    Don’t waste your time with Spanish… learn French, or German, or Catalan or Italian.
    Forget about Spanish…

    Comment by スロ — May 25, 2007 #

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    Muy bien…
    Gracias…
    No mames wey…

    Comment by Matthieu — May 25, 2007 #

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    It´s good to hear that. Spanish is a very complete language, it´s a really good option. About 380 million people in the world speak Spanish, man.
    Ganbattene!.

    One of my students is a native English speaker and he is improving his Spanish quite faster than the rest of the students, Japanese people.

    I found funny the comment of スロ…

    Comment by Javi — May 25, 2007 #

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    Oh motomachicake, javi’s blog is also in Spanish! Great! I’m going to learn Spanish so I can read that as well! By the way, I love your photography! It really has a unique consistent style.

    Maybe around this time next year I’ll be able to read your blog in Spanish!

    Comment by harvey — May 25, 2007 #

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    Wow this is great. I appreciate all the encouragement guys! I love internet people!

    Comment by harvey — May 25, 2007 #

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    Great!!

    After learning japanese, spanish will be as ‘piece of cake’ …

    write me if U need some help …

    Comment by Merodeador — May 25, 2007 #

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    I think this an excellent idea. Spanish is a very nice language, which as mentioned is widely spoken (thanks to the Latin Americans in US, I would say). Learning it will give you a strong foothold in other Romance languages (for example Italian, Portuguese and French). In that package you have covered probably almost all American and Western European continent!
    I am currently learning French, after Spanish. I plan on moving to Portuguese soon, since I found, after visiting it, that I want to spend a couple of years in Brazil.

    Comment by Vince — May 26, 2007 #

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    Suerte con el español :)

    Comment by Klian — June 6, 2007 #

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