English and Spanish are two related languages English is considered a Germanic language but it's it's kind of half Latin we have a huge amount of Latin vocabulary in English and this Latin vocabulary we can convert it over to Spanish really easily because Spanish is practically modern Latin whoever said Latin is a dead language light H just in the same way that Greek is a modern version of ancient Greek Spanish is like a modern version of Latin it's actually a street Latin that became Spanish so we can identify Latin words in English and we can with just some rule or other convert them over to Spanish and this will give us around 3,000 words I didn't count them but they are around 3,000 words so for example one of these rules is that words ending in a tend to come from Latin so we can make them Spanish so to give you an example normal in Spanish is normal normal normal good what do you notice different between normal and normal well the accent what do you mean by the accent well the well whether sound is stressed which vowel it stressed where is it stressed in English on the o good at the beginning right normal normal and in Spanish we're stressing the end right normal normal yeah um so if we assume the same happens with other words how do you think you would say uh metal metal metal to get a perfect accent in Spanish we just need to pronounce all of the vowels exactly as they are written so a e i o u in Spanish is a e e o where in English The Vow it can have many different sounds like if you look at the a sound in apple or in May it's very different sound but a and Spanish is always going to be a e is always going to be e so if we pronounce the vowels as they're written not this kind of you know this English fows that we get then we get a perfect Spanish accent normal metal perfect so we can begin to make sentences with this already the word for is in Spanish is s e s s s and this also means it is she is he is or even you are talking to somebody formally so now we can say he is normal she is normal s normal yeah s normal and you pronounced an S which is excellent English speaker should bew that maybe they feel themselves pronouncing a zed because many times we have an s in English like in the word is and we pronounce a z so you might find slipping out as but this is incorrect you should be careful to pronounce an s s normal good how would you say legal legal legal yeah legal so how would you say it is legal is legal legal illegal illegal illegal good so here in English like we have an i and an e producing the same sound IL illegal I is producing the same sound so this is really confusing if you want to learn English but in Spanish you're not going to have these problems the I is like an ink and the E is like an elephant illegal illegal so it is illegal s illegal good s illegal what if you wanted to say he is liberal you don't need the word for he if you know who you're talking about you can just use S S liberal yeah s liberal now Spanish is much more Phanatic than English what that means means is that the letters are going to represent the same sound where English has a a million rules and a million exceptions to those rules and I mean it's really hard even for native English speakers often to understand how to pronounce a new word when they see it written but you're not going to have that problem in Spanish so you know natural and you don't just want to change the accent and say natural this is not Spanish you want to think how is it written and pronounce the letters as they are so how do you think you would say natural in Spanish natural natural good that's a t so you pronounce a t a is like a u is like U natural very good and the accent on the end as well it's natural is natural is natural if you want to say it isn't or it's not the word for not or don't is the same as the word for no and the word for no in Spanish is the same as the word for no in English but you pronounce it like in Spanish so how do you think you say no in Spanish no no good and you put this before is if you want to say it is not he is not she is not you form are not so how would that sound it is not no s no good so now we can say things like it's not normal no is normal no is normal how would you say ideal so really think about how it's spelled and try and pronounce each of those vowels as they are written I like ink e Like Elephant a like apple ideal good ideal how would you say it's ideal s ideal s ideal it's not ideal no good no perfect how would you say fatal fatal fatal good Nal natal natal good Colonial Colonial Colonial cultural Cal so think about how it's written cural yes and perfect Spanish accent H cultural very nice Ann an anel and you cut this Y sound that comes in English an annual this Y sound comes from nowhere in English and you cut it out cuz you focus on how it's written an very nice Dent Dental to in Spanish is D so this is coming from D so if you look up to in the dictionary and you find D rather than treating it as like a random piece of vocabulary that you have to memorize you can relate it back to dental oh okay like Dental it comes from there and this is useful for for memory a couple more Festival Festival personal personal personal good total total total good veral verbal verbal so if we wanted to say verb we might not have a rule to convert that word over but if we know verbal is verbal we can guess that verb is probably going to be the same in Spanish and most of the time words are the same that we don't have a rule maybe we need to stick an o or an e or an A on the end so we can make a guess how do you think you say verb in Spanish ver yeah that's right so with structure with the building when we're going to be making sentences with these words we don't ever want to guess we want to take our time and think it through but with vocabulary we can happily guess and try imagine we said verba for example and they would look at us funny and they would go ah verbo and when that person says Ah ver then we learn oh okay this is the right word and it's the best way to learn quickly and