Spanish vs English Differences and Similarities
                     Spanish vs English: Differences and Similarities
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Spanish is a roman language and is a part of Indo- European 
language family. It is related closely to Portuguese and Italy 
and forms a major language with 400 million speakers in 
Spain, USA and Latin America. Fortunately for people who are 
learning Spanish and can speak English has added benefits 
because they both share similarities among making it easy 
for English speaking people.
•The primary thing is that they both use roman alphabet 
where that knowledge helps to build phonological and 
phonemic foundation.
•Secondly, 40% of the words in English are related to words 
in Spanish with similar appearance, sound and meaning.
•Both languages even share a similar structure for sentences 
and also learning to write and read makes use of same basic 
processes such as decoding, fluency, writing mechanics, 
phonemic awareness and comprehension.
How Spanish is different from English
In case of Spanish, one identifies gender article, singular , plural and adjective 
but this is not done in English.
Spanish have more heavily varied language than English about verb.
Latin derived words in English tends to be formal than in English.
The accent of Spanish gives different meaning of the words used in sentences 
and the meaning of words depends on the position of their usage.
English vowels and dipthong’s are 5 in each. Where as in Spanish vowels are 
12 in number and dipthong’s are eight.
The vowels take an acute accent with an additional letter.
The Spanish phonological system is different from English in the aspects of 
sentence stress and vowel sounds.
Similarities between Spanish and English
Both languages have a similar grammar structure based on the tense
Though the basic structure of the sentences are same the other functions 
change the positions as do the adjectives.
Vocabulary has some similarities where both share Latin influence.
Also they share few words in common.
Spanish has strong comparability between the spelling and sound of the word 
in English. The irregularity of English in this respect causes problems in 
predictability when Spanish learners write their first word. Spanish has only 3 
double letter combinations while English has 5 times as many.
By keeping these differences and similarities in mind Spanish learning English 
speaking language learners to pay close attention to the spoken and written 
errors. Once English speaking learners understand these patterns they begin 
to apply them to on their own to situations.
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