Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 10039245)

Agree, there is no easy way, it takes a lot of time and a lot of effort. Forget the adverts, "Learn Spanish in 3 months" etc. it ain't going to happen.;) It also depends on what level you want to take your Spanish to, if you're content to just be able to order a beer, you won't need all the grammar, if you want to have a decent level, you will. And learning all the various verb tenses, irregulars, subjunctive especially, is not easy. Anyone that tells you it is easy is either an incredibly gifted linguist, or more likely, has a very poor command of the language.

Originally Posted by Chiclanagir (Post 10039956)

Now I just talk in present, most of it comes out as rubbish but I seem to get understood or else everybody is very polite to me.

Originally Posted by Chiclanagir (Post 10039956)

This is where I gave up. Just could not get my head around past tense, future etc. Now I just talk in present, most of it comes out as rubbish but I seem to get understood or else everybody is very polite to me. What I don´t like is when an English person then talks down to me and sneers. There is nothing that stops someone trying as this.

Originally Posted by pixieve (Post 10040109)

The future tense is easy! You just add an "e" on the end of the full verb...eg. comprar"e" (i will buy), tener"e" (i will have), andar"e" (i will walk), hablar"e" (i will talk)...works for the majority of verbs! I prefer talking in future tense than anything else :rofl: It's the past tense that I hate....so I don't talk about my past alot :P

Originally Posted by lynnxa (Post 10040168)

it is isn't it?


except that I went around for about a year saying teneré until a kind Spanish friend told me that it was irregular......... tendré ;)


even easier is voy a hablar I'm going to talk :)

Originally Posted by steviedeluxe (Post 10040173)

The easiest way of all is to use the present tense! (obviously not in all situations)
Te lo pago mañana..

Originally Posted by lynnxa (Post 10040168)

it is isn't it?


except that I went around for about a year saying teneré until a kind Spanish friend told me that it was irregular......... tendré ;)


even easier is voy a hablar I'm going to talk :)

Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 10039861)

Not "pulled up", it was meant in the nicest possible way, as Kenny Everett would say, but hopefully you will remember, otherwise you'd always be writing it with 2 P's. Two of us have a weekly get together with a Spanish lady, and we've had grammar until it's coming out our ears in the past, so we've asked for just conversation, but she still tells us when me make a mistake, after all that's what we are paying her for.;)

Originally Posted by pixieve (Post 10040109)

The future tense is easy! You just add an "e" on the end of the full verb...eg. comprar"e" (i will buy), tener"e" (i will have), andar"e" (i will walk), hablar"e" (i will talk)...works for the majority of verbs! I prefer talking in future tense than anything else :rofl: It's the past tense that I hate....so I don't talk about my past alot :P

Originally Posted by DENISE WALTERS (Post 10040383)

Yes fui and era estaba can get very confusing this is what im trying to absorb at the moment:eek:

Originally Posted by DENISE WALTERS (Post 10040426)

The use of era has just fallen into place gee thanks:D its ser. another hurdle YESSSSSS

Originally Posted by DENISE WALTERS (Post 10042895)

Yes i have thought of this but its a confidence thing. Im afraid Id be tongue tied put on a spot.But I should try and not be worried about feeling stupid :eek::eek: