Common Mistakes in Learning Spanish

-How to avoid them
What brings you to this article? You may be an aspiring Spanish teacher, or just an intelligent person trying to look for common mistakes in learning Spanish before ever trying to learn it, right? I think you're the latter. So here it is Spanish is a very challenging language to study and to master if you're an English native speaker, and it is not that strange to make common mistakes in Spanish. Why? English and Spanish revolves in very different styles and ways to read and speak each language. That alone can determine the outcome of how you read and speak the language. Let's get started.


Pronunciation:
The most important aspect in learning a language either your Spanish or learning to speak like a Native American, pronunciation is the key to master any language. As most modern language derived from Latin, most words are just or almost alike. But! That doesn't mean they are pronounced exactly the same.
Spanish "R" and the English "R"
Pronouncing the "R" in Spanish is way wrong if you're studying English pronunciation. Spanish "R" is one of the common mistakes in learning Spanish. The Spanish "R" is pronounced properly by placing your tongue behind your front teeth to make that vibrating "R" sound. It's quite the opposite with the English "R", you want your tongue away from your teeth to avoid making that vibrating sound you make while pronouncing, exactly different right? This is one of the common mistakes in learning Spanish, you need to practice vibrating your tongue behind your teeth it might help you a lot in pronunciation of the Spanish "R".

Placing an Adjective before a noun:
This is one of the common mistakes in Spanish learning is really a common and a stupid mistake made usually by new Spanish students, forget about the English rules of constructing a sentence, We are learning Spanish here! Common mistakes with this are listed below.
In English we say "hot water"
In Spanish it's exactly the opposite! You say "agua caliente"
For as if you translate "hot water" literally would get you in trouble and sound funny!
Another one is,
"Wash in hot Water" that's in English, if you want to say that in Spanish you don't say it
"Lavar con caliente agua". The correct way to say it is. "Lavar con agua caliente"
You see how English and Spanish go the other way around? Try not to mess this up and maybe you can go up the "Beginner" mode a little bit.

Correct use of Words:
The most mindless thing to do when learning a new language is to expect the same meaning of that certain word for an English word. You don't want to make your Spanish audience laugh at your speech all day would you? Try buying a Spanish dictionary so to educate you in these commonly mistaken Spanish words. But to make it less tedious for you, here's a list of commonly mistaken used words. This would be one of many common mistakes in Spanish learning. For this words are used wrongly by Spanish students around the world.
Mejor - Most commonly mistaken for the English word Major which is exactly absurd. This word means "better" in Spanish.
Alegre - You might think this is the Spanish word for Alligator! You my friend is wrong. This word means "cheerful"
Cerrar- Commonly mistaken word for Carrier, yes this would end your carrier if you used it in your speech. The word means "close" in Spanish.
Nubes- Oh! Maybe you think now this is where the slang "Noobies" came from right? Wrong! This word means "clouds" in Spanish
Universidad - Pretty much obvious for other people, you would think this word means Universe right? It means "college" my dear reader.
Tallar - Sounds like "teller" or "tailor" right? Wrong! This word means, "carve" in Spanish.
Not a long list of commonly mistaken Spanish words, but this could help you a bit.

Practice:
Last and not the least, the most important think in learning a new language. This may be well obvious at this time for you guys learning to speak a new language. Practice is the key in learning a new language either it could be Spanish or English or even something like Latin. Practice makes perfect as they all say it. Yes indeed. Just try to remember that the pronunciation for the Spanish "R" is very different from the English "R" way more different. One thing too, the proper use of words. You need to practice on that too, as you might use your Spanish one day and speak to a Spanish crowd, once again you don't want to be laughed at do you? And of course! The best way to practice Spanish is to find a Spanish friend of yours, much better if he or she is a native Spanish speaker for you guys can have lots and lots of fun times learning Spanish together. Speaking in front of your mirror might help, but it would be pointless if you were speaking to yourself right? You wouldn't know if you're speaking correctly or pronouncing it correctly right? This is the most important thing of all. PRACTICE!

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