How to Learn Spanish Quickly

2.- Reading a Book in Spanish

Another very effective way to help your child learn Spanish quickly is by reading to them using bilingual books.

These books are designed to be fun, engaging and entertaining and to accelerate language comprehension. They have lots of colorful illustrations and will have both the Spanish and English together on the same page, or the Spanish on one page and the English on the other. One of the best ways to bond with children is to have a regular “reading schedule”, so not only are you bonding with your kids on a regular basis, but you’re also helping them to learn new things in the process. Continuity is a very, very important factor to language learning success, even if it is just 10 minutes a day. Keeping a tradition of reading every night is a wonderful way to help your child’s language learning comprehension.

There are a couple of online marketplaces to buy bilingual books (both physical and digital) that we love, including: Bilingual Marketplace, and Booklingual. Our past blog post “5 Fantastic Bilingual Books in Spanish for Kids”

3.- Change the Settings of Your Devices from English to Spanish

New research by global tech care company Asurion, says that Americans check their phones on average 96 times a day. Furthermore this same company’s research suggests that Americans have increased their phone usage by 20% over the past two years. Furthermore children ages 4-12 are spending on average 4 hours a day on their devices like phones and tablets. With all of this time being spent on screens, why not use this time to improve those Spanish language skills.

By changing the settings on your devices and your kids’ devices from English to Spanish you will instantly place yourself in an immersive experience by consistently surrounding yourself with Spanish. Having an immersive experience is of course the very best way to learn a language. You will be surprised at how intuitive the experience is because you are already very familiar with how your phone works, and in most cases, will already know how to operate your devices regardless of what the words placed next to the buttons say.

While at first it may seem intimidating to take this step, we’re confident that within a very short period of time you will not even realize your phone is in another language. Examples of some words that you will learn are “contactos,” (contacts), “ajustes,” (settings), “mensajes,” (messages), “enviar” (send), “llamar” (call). We added a link here that gives instructions about how to change the settings from English to Spanish on iphone and android and another link about how to change those settings on an iPad.