Learn Spanish Avoid 100 Plus Gringo Mistakes
This ebook was written by Patrick Jackson, a local New Yorker who has lived in Colombia since 2007.
He has traveled to a number of Spanish-speaking nations to study Spanish, together with Panama, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Spain.
For essentially the most half, he’s a self-taught pupil of the Spanish language.
In his efforts to study Spanish and converse Spanish, he observed that native Spanish audio system have been reluctant to right his errors.
Not solely in Colombia, but in addition in New York Metropolis, the place he had many native Spanish talking pals from the Dominican Republic.
As native English audio system, we do the identical.
Except the native Spanish speaker is a toddler, we hardly ever right native Spanish audio system once they commit errors when talking English.
Whether or not the unwillingness to right others is from a sense of indifference or a concern of offending somebody, we hardly ever, if ever, right them even when they’re shut pals.
Consequently, the overseas language learner continues to make the identical errors again and again. Sadly, while you commit errors when talking a overseas language, some individuals could make assumptions about your intelligence or stage of training.
And if dwelling overseas, some individuals could make assumptions in regards to the diploma of respect that you’ve got for the host nation’s language and tradition due to your written and spoken blunders.
In 2001 whereas nonetheless dwelling in New York Metropolis, Patrick began writing notes in a pocket book each time a Spanish teacher would right his Spanish.
On the meet-ups that he attended or different Spanish language trade conferences that he attended, there have been at all times a few Spanish instructors who have been keen to right his blunders.
It did not take lengthy earlier than I had a pocket book stuffed with my errors.
When he moved to Colombia in 2007, I continued the observe of taking notes each time a Spanish professor corrected his Spanish.
However by that point, his Spanish had improved sufficient the place he may simply spot the speaking-Spanish errors of different People and foreigners in Colombia.
He made it a behavior to by no means go away house with no pen and a notepad to guarantee that he was prepared at any time when he heard a mistake spoken in Spanish by a non-native Spanish speaker.
With the appearance of the smartphone, he transitioned from a pen and notepad to taking both voice notes or written notes together with his smartphone.
This ebook is an accumulation of notes of speaking-Spanish errors that he both personally made or heard others make over a span of greater than 15 years.
His motivation for penning this ebook is to offer you a useful resource that can assist you keep away from over 100 of the commonest errors and pitfalls that native English audio system make when talking and writing Spanish.
A local Spanish-speaking professor who teaches the Spanish language may have additionally written such a ebook.
Nevertheless, solely a local English speaker may really clarify to you ‘why’ we make these errors.
By offering you with a greater understanding of ‘why’ we make these errors, he hopes this elevated understanding will stop you from making the identical errors again and again.
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Date: 2016
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