The most important part of spoken Spanish is the pronunciation of the vowels. It is this one aspect of Spanish that separates the tourist from the native. If you pronounce the language correctly, it will encourage you to speak it confidently.
This rule applies to those words in English with two or more syllables that end with the letters
...TION
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...CIÓN
This rule applies to those words in English with two or more syllables that end with the letters
...ATE
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...AR
This rule applies to those words in English that end with the letters ...IZE
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...IZAR
This rule applies to those words in English with two or more syllables that end with the letters
...AL
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...AL
This rule applies to those words in English that end with the letters ...IC To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...ICO
This rule applies to those words in English with more than two syllables that end with the letters
...ITY
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...IDAD
This rule applies to those words in English that end with the letters
...ISM (or ...SYSM)
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...ISMO
This rule applies to those words in English that end with the letters ...SION
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...SIÓN
This rule applies to those words in English that end with the letters ...OUS
(except those preceded by "ti")
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...OSO
This rule applies to those words in English with two or more syllables that end with the letters
...ENT (except "...ment")
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...ENTE
This rule applies to those words in English that end with the letters ...ALLY
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the last two letters of the ending with
...MENTE
This rule applies to those words in English that end with the letters ...ARY / ORY To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...ARIO / ORIO
This is a very interesting rule, you're going to love it! ...BLE
Words in English that have this ending are exactly the same in Spanish.
This rule applies to those words in English with two or more syllables that end with the letters
...IVE
To translate them into Spanish, we will substitute the ending with ...IVO
Now that we have covered the Major Rules and you have learned many thousands of words in Spanish, we will celebrate the occasion by looking at the Minor Rules (and learning a few more thousand words).
In Spanish, as in most other languages, there are masculine and feminine-gendered words. This applies only to nouns and their adjectives (modifiers). Don't panic! It isn't really that complicated.
The verb in Spanish changes when it is conjugated. In English, the verb remains substantially the same. Because of this, English is a relatively simple language to learn to speak, albeit in a primitive sort of way.
The verb "to be" in Spanish must have been thought up by a brilliantly tangled mind, both fool and genius, and is one of the stumbling blocks in Spanish. It isn't much better in English, either, with "to be" , "am", "is" and "are" all jockeying for position!
Of course there is a lot more to Spanish than we have covered in this website. But just think for a moment: when you began reading this website, you probably didn't know any Spanish at all!
"Matching Words" should dissipate any remaining fears that you might have about learning Spanish. You are not expected, of course, to memorize each of these translations, but the sheer number of similar English-spanish words...
We have here a few colors, shades, textures, shapes and parts of the body.
Common phrases that you will find useful on your trip to a Spanish language country.
Here, you will find a few words such as animals, edibles, clothes, toiletries, shops, leisure time and their Spanish translation.
Do we really need to say it?
Here are some additional Spanish verbs that have not been covered by the rules and which you might find useful. You have already learned how to conjugate these verbs in chapter eighteen.