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Spanish language is one of the most beautiful languages in the world and learning it opens the wide way into the fantastic reach culture. Spanish is the native language ofmore than 500 million people in the world. In addition to Spain, Spanish is the official language of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In addition, it is widely spoken in several other nations, including Canada, Morocco, the Philippines, and the United States. The history of the Spanish language and the origin of the dialects of Spain begin with the linguistic evolution of Vulgar Latin. It’s one of the Romance languages in the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European language family, then if you know French or Italian which are also belonging to Roman languages group you have all chances to learn speak Spanish perfectly.

Pronouncing in Spanish you do not need to be expressed since the verb itself will identify the subject, In Spanish, a pronoun is only needed when referring to a third person (singular or plural) for proper identification purposes since it can be a “she”, a “he” or even a formal second person singular. In the plural, the verb ending could be referring to a “they” (masculine or feminine) or to “ustedes”, a form of the second person plural used by everyone in all the Hispanic countries, except in Spain, where “vosotros” is preferred.

In Spanish, you can say who is speaking or whom somebody is speaking about by the form of the conjugated verb. This is different from English where most all the forms of most verbs are the same: I eat, you eat, we eat, they eat,etc. So in English we have to use the subject pronouns all of the time. But in Spanish, since each form is unique and reveals the subject, we don’t have to use the subject pronouns. you may use a subject pronoun or even a name so it is clear whom you are speaking about.

I yo
you (familiar) tъ
you (formal) usted
he йl
she ella
we nosotros (men and/or women)
you people (familiar) vosotros (men and/or women)
them (men and/or women) ellos
them (women) ellas
you people (formal) ustedes (men and/or women

Written by Rachel

October 13, 2009 at 11:29 pm

Posted in Spanish

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