The following information is based on a proposed article, an idea which comes from the book, Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish. In the book, the author shows the reader how to quickly convert English words into Spanish. The same goes for converting Spanish words into English.
Note: This doesn't work for all words, though it can work for many.
As an example, let's say you want to convert the Spanish word, "usualmente," into English. All you do is remove "mente," and you have the English word, "usual."
Another simple example is the word, "dentista." Remove the "a" and you have the word, "dentist."
There are more examples, some more complicated than others? If this is of interest to you, let me know.
I have been traveling around Mexico since 2004. Since then, I have been to over 20 cities all over the country. I have extensive knowledge of the country and what it's like to live here.
From a language perspective, in 2007, I returned to Canada and I wanted to improve my Spanish. I didn't find anything locally so I went online and found Meetup.com. I joined, and a short time later, I created The Victoria Spanish group. Over the course of 4 years, I built the group from zero to hundreds of members.
The group made a huge difference to the quality of my Spanish and I made a few friends. One thing that helped me enormously was getting my hands on the book, Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish. It showed me many ways of converting English words to Spanish. This helped because I was able to convert English words to Spanish on the fly, a process I still use today.
Here's an example. To change the word, "university" to Spanish, you remove the "ty" and add "dad". So it reads like this, "universidad." It's that easy. Want to know more? Write to me.
