Plus, the basic alphabet is an almost perfect match to the English one and those of other western European languages. Many new learners also find that Spanish has an easily understood pronunciation system, as well as very few irregularities in word pronunciation. That’s why you’ll often find English terms like the word “nose” that sound remarkably similar in French (nez), Italian (naso), and Spanish (naris). Italian and French are historically related to Spanish in the same “romance language”/Latin family––while English uses many French and Italian/Latin words that we call cognates (lingual cousins of one another). They’re even easier if you already speak related languages like Italian or French. They follow a pattern, just like in English. If you want to say the word for “5” in Spanish, you would say, “cinco.” It’s part of the 1-10 sequence you may already know: uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez.
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