Travel with Angela Lansbury: A quick and easy way to learn Spanish

I rediscovered a quick and easy way to learn Spanish. You search for a member of a Toastmasters International club in Spain, South America or Mexico. Read that person's posts. The posters which have been inserted as pictures cannot be translated, although I remember recently reading that some system is developing the ability to read texts on pdfs. (A pdf is a picture.) However, where the member has written text, or commented on a picture, the word translate is after the message on Facebook. You can click on it and compare. I try to read the Spanish first. When I reach a word which I am unsure about, I check with the English translation.

You can also read the English translation first. Then go to the Spanish and see if it all makes sense to you.

I joined Odyssey, a system which matches, Toastmasters with others. I have been paired with two others. The third and latest is in Mexico.

This means a slightly different Spanish from the Spanish in South America and Spain. Never mind. Anything is better than nothing.

I have listed in my notebook all the words I instantly recognize, as well as those mystery words I needed to check. I have rearranged them alphabetically here for you - and for myself to come back to later as revision.

An autocorrect keeps changing my spelling sometimes from a Spanish word to a totally different English word. So I have inserted spaces.

Spanish - English

Spanish - English - Spanish

WORDS EXACTLY THE SAME

club - club

e r a - e r a

SIMILAR TO ENGLISH OR OTHER LANGUAGES

A g o s t o - August

de - of (same as the French word)

hay - have (the two first letters are the same and v and y look similar)

la - the (same as the French)

M u n d i a l - global, worldwide

no - no / is not

n u e v a - new

p o r - for

positivo - positive

un - an (the same as French)

sempre - always

tema - time (the consonants t and m are the same, and tempo from music starts with three of the same letters, also the English word temporal, even the word temporary, meaning a short time)

WORDS I NEEDED TO LOOK UP

aburridas - bored (initial a like the English word awake from wake, then Burridas letters b -r-d as i bored with as plural, we are all bored)

conocer - know (like cognoscenti, meaning those in the know)

Corea - Korea (the C sounds like K, as in the English word cake)

hacen - made (like hatched)

ilntentale - try (think of I will - maybe not - have the intention or tentatively)

p r e g u n t a - question

prueba - proof (now that you know the translation, you can remember that pru sounds look the start of proof, probably but we need(ed) to probe the proof, we probed and here is the proof)

pruebas - tests (like proofs or probes)