Wade Said:

I can read and write spanish great but I can't understand it. How can I fix this?

We Answered:

Hi,
This happens with most languages.
At first you struggle with the grammar and comprehension. Once you get to read and write, you face the worst issue: communicating with Native speakers.
The best way to deal with it, is to start watching Spanish Shows, Soap Operas (yes, exactly, soap operas) and Movies in Spanish that will enable you to get used to the pronunciation. As they speak fast enough, you'll be forced to pay attention until you get what they're saying.
On the other hand, try meeting Spanish speakers, try to hang out with them and spend time enough to chat and share experiences. That will make you more confident after a while.
Mary is right, when you move to a country, you don't have any options but to understand and communicate. This move is not always possible, so deal with what you have until you are able to spend time in a foreign Spanish speaking country.

Suerte y ojala entiendas pronto lo que decimos!! :-))

Kathy Said:

how long does it take to learn spanish?

We Answered:

In middle school (back when i was) the fastest learners that started in 7th grade finished by 10th grade. if you continue to study during the summer, my best guess would be around 1.5 years to sound fluent.

Kathleen Said:

How do you write Spanish accents on my t mobile dash cell and how to write the "n" in bano in Spanish

We Answered:

I'm not sure how to do it, but I can tell you one thing. As long as your Spanish makes sense (i.e. you're near fluent, it doesn't take a bilingual person to read it, look confused, then understand what you were TRYING to say), a native Spanish speaker will fully understand you without accents. In fact, I talk to a lot of Spanish speakers online (they love the effort, and I love the practice) and to this day NONE of them have used proper accent marks.

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As far as typing the special characters on a keyboard, there are shortcuts in MS Word and an Alt + ### code for nearly every special character imaginable. To cite a few:

Alt + 164 = ñ
Alt + 130 = é
Alt + 160 = á
Alt + 162 = ó
Alt + 163 = ú

Lisa Said:

How do I get Microsoft Word to stop spell checking in spanish?

We Answered:

Ok if you have Microsoft Word 2007 here is how you do it...
-Open Word
-Click on the REVIEW menu up at the top of the screen
-In the far left box you should see Spelling and Grammar check along with Thesaurus and other items
-In the bottom right corner of this left box there should be a place that says language select
-Click on language select and scroll the the English that works for you whether it is British, United States, or Australian
I hope I have been a help.

Eugene Said:

how do you write Spanish accents on the keyboard and how to write the "n" in bano in Spanish?

We Answered:

There's a way by going into the control panel, wait, I think I can find someone's web page that has all the instructions.

OK, can't find his web page. First, here is what the Spanish keyboard looks like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KB_Sp…

This is where the keys will be on your keyboard when you get done with this procedure:

First, go into your control panel, and find where it asks for "change keyboards", click there.

You will see a window that says something like "Regional and language options," mine has four tabs, click the one that says "Keyboards and other Languages" there's a button that says "change Keyboards" click there.

This opens a window called "text services and Input languages". it has three tabs, the first is General. open it, and you will see "default languages" with a drop-down button. If you click on it, you get a list of languages that are installed, and there's another square that's called "installed services". Click the add button. There will be a window with every language known to man, I think. Find your language. I use Spanish from Spain. Highlight and click, then click ok button. It takes you back to the text services window, click ok, and you're done. You can toggle back and forth between your normal English and the Spanish keyboards, On my computer it's done, either with the mousepad or alt+shift keys.

It may be a bit different, depending on your OS, but you'll be able to translate the commands. as they are simliar. Just mentally know that in order to get the ñ, you need to hit the colon key. It has taken me a while to get used to where the question marks and exclamation points are, etc, but the ease of getting diacriticals on my spanish typing makes it worth the work.

*edit* sorry, didn't realise I hadn't clicked the copy function correctly I fixed it. The wikipedia page is the keyboard.

Kelly Said:

How can I improve my written/spoken Spanish?

We Answered:

talk to yourself or a pet in spanish lol. try livemocha and chat with a spanish speaker since you dont personally know anyone. watch spanish tv

Shawn Said:

How do you write Spanish accects in Microsoft Word?

We Answered:

Go to Insert and click Symbols. You have to select it from there. Or you could go to google and type "keyboard shortcuts" and learn the shortcut for the accent marks. I'm not sure if those work on Microsoft Word though.