Learning any new language is a new challenge that will open up your mind and help you to connect people across the world of different cultures and languages.
The Spanish language is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages of the Indo-European language family, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent city of the Kingdom of Castile, in the 13th century. Modern Spanish was then taken to the viceroyalties of the Spanish Empire beginning in 1492, most notably to the Americas, as well as territories in Africa and the Philippines.
As a Romance language, Spanish is a descendant of Latin and has one of the smaller degrees of difference from it (about 20%) alongside Sardinian and Italian. Around 75% of modern Spanish vocabulary is derived from Latin, including Latin borrowings from Ancient Greek. Its vocabulary has also been influenced by Arabic, having developed during the Al-Andalus era in the Iberian Peninsula, with around 8% of its vocabulary having Arabic lexical roots.
Ways to learn Spanish without going to classes.
- Be curious
Being curious about a language will instill a passion for learning it. The curiosity of the world will ignite you to travel. Travel will make you curious about the culture and history of a country. Culture and history will make you curious about the language.
Devour every Spanish word spoken your way, and when you come across something that you don’t understand, be curious enough to open your dictionary.
- Music
Music is also the best tool for learning a language.
Music offers many advantages for learning languages. Scientists have shown that listening to a song and humming along can help with language learning! When singing, we try to reproduce sounds and tone, so our accent is less pronounced than when we speak
Get out there, learn about these different genres and find some songs that you love. Once you find a song you cannot stop singing,and by singing it you will improve your pronunciation and vocabulary.
- Making friends who know Spanish
Traveling will open your soul to learning a new language, its people, and its culture. However, it shouldn’t stop there.
It is incredibly beneficial to make friends who speak your target language like Arabic where you live as well. By making friends you will be able to learn Spanish soon. you will talk with your friends on a daily basis and also they will correct you if you make any mistakes while speaking Spanish.
- Read Spanish books.
Reading is so beneficial for language learning.
You must dislike reading materials in the Spanish language or also you think it is hard to read Spanish. However, once I started choosing reading material on my own, it became a fun way of learning the language.
When you come across words in several different contexts through reading, you start to understand and comprehend vocabulary in a more meaningful way. You can learn much more about language and culture than you could ever discover by reading a language-learning book through reading material written in that language.
- Immerse yourself in Spanish language culture
One of the best, easiest, and most enjoyable ways to learn Spanish is to totally immerse yourself in Spanish music, movies, and children’s books (and, when you progress further, novels or other, more difficult, types of reading material). This type of immersion, while not as intensive and beneficial for your language learning as staying in a Spanish-speaking region for a considerable amount of time, is still essential for maintaining and improving your fluency. Consistent immersion of this type will habituate your brain to the sounds of the language and its particular turns of phrase; one recommendation is to make a note of at least one new word or phrase every day that you hear in a song or a film or read in a book, look it up later and try to remember its meaning with the use of flashcards or some type of mnemonic device, whatever works for you.
Conclusion
So, classes are not only the source to learn Spanish, you can learn Spanish on your own by following these above steps.
All the best!!