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• Read out loud.
• Listen to songs from the country you will be visiting and try to pick
out a few words.
• Try to associate ideas to better understand the words and linguistics. In Spanish, for example, try to keep in mind that a word ending with
an o almost always designates a masculine noun, while words ending with
an a are usually reserved to feminine nouns. Here’s a trick: the name "Julio" (Julio Iglesias) is masculine, while "Gloria" (Gloria Estefan) is feminine.
• Make links between English and Spanish. For example, "last" is translated as
último in Spanish, which sounds like "ultimate" in English. Another example is "excuse me" and "pardon," which are translated in Spanish as
excúseme or perdone.
• Try to associate certain common words on your own, such as teléfono and
teatro for "telephone" and "theatre." This way, you will quickly expand your vocabulary.
Here are a few Ulysses phrasebooks... to help you travel better and enjoy
more.
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