Best Useful Tips For Learning Spanish – Reading

Students sometimes complain about the speed of their progress in reading Spanish. Often students fails to follow a systematic approach for learning, if you are able to develop this as a habit then you will be able to clear the objective easily.
The main impediment that students seem to have in improving their reading skills when learning Spanish is the following. They insist on knowing every single word before they try to understand a sentence. These same students - if they've had any experience in real life conversation - have come to understand that it is impossible to understand every word that is said to them, and they have come to rely on grasping the key elements (known as 'key words' below) in a sentence.

For example, if you are standing next to your car which you haven't washed for several months and it happens to be covered in mud and dirt with small plants beginning to sprout, and a kindly-looking gentleman appears and says:
You should attempt the following steps to develop the language learning skills and these are found to be working for many people from the beginning itself.

When you are reading you should try to learn the complete contents without trying the refer to a dicitionary, you may not be able the understand the meaning completely so the temptation the lookup may be high, just ignore it and continue. If you have been assigned twenty pages, then do this one page or one paragraph at a time.

Read it again, this time using the dictionary to look up the key words and only the key words. By 'key words' I mean the word or words which will help you get the general meaning of the sentence even if you don't understand every word in it. This is similar to the situation presented for the car wash situation. In most cases the verbs in a sentence will be the key word.

However, if you understand the verb and are still missing the meaning, some other word will be the key word, or one of them.
It is not possible to tell the key word in a sentence exactly, you will be able to develop the skill to understand the key word after a bit of practice, developing the skill to identify the key word is actually a part of language learning process.


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