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Spanish For Dummies is one of the books in the successful "For Dummies…" series. It obviously is about the Spanish language and the book is designed to help you learn Spanish quick in a simple and interesting.

Spanish For Dummies has been written by those who know the language best at the Berlitz language school. The book features common expressions and phrases that you will find useful when on vacation, and tries to get you up and running with the language.

The Spanish For Dummies book describes itself as being, "…the ultimate guide for speaking Spanish quick and easy." The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM, which allows you to hear the language spoken by native speakers.

In a way, you can say that any starter Spanish learning course as being Spanish for dummies , in a general sense that is. The idea is that it can take a beginner who has no knowledge about Spanish, from knowing absolutely nothing to being able to speak a couple of common expressions of Spanish.

There are quite a number of courses like that in the market nowadays. These days, language courses have started concentrating on the fun aspect of language learning, paying less attention to the need for grammar, syntax and cultural nuance, and replacing it with shortcuts, tricks and tips to actually speaking the language with other native speakers.

Grammar certainly has its place. Spanish grammar is quite different from English grammar. That is why they will describe a new car as "un coche nuevo," literally, "a car new." There's not a lot you can do about that other than simply learning it.

Translating directly from English to Spanish is a not a good thing to do. That would come out as, in our example, "un nuevo coche," and would sound every bit as wrong to a Spanish person as "a car new" sounds to you! As a rough rule of thumb, put the adjective, the describing word, after the noun, the thing being described. This is the opposite of the normal rules in English.

The Spanish for dummies type of courses tend rather to concentrate on the easier side of things. There are many Spanish terms, for example, that are very similar to their English equivalents. Usually, they change only with the suffixs. Words in English suffix in "ant" often get translated to words ending in "ante" in Spanish. Por ejemple (that's Spanish and I'll bet you are able to guess what it means), "important" becomes "importante."

But that's not all…

Many of the "ent" ending English words become "ente" in Spanish, such as "evidente." A fair number of the "ible" and "able" ending words stay the same in both languages: comparable, combustible. A number of Spanish words merely drop English endings, such as the "ate" ending words where "participate" becomes "participa" and "terminate" becomes "termina."

How many English words can you think of that ending in "ary"? There are dozens and you've just learned as whole lot more Spanish words, because you can adapt the English to Spanish by changing the "ary" ending to an "ario" ending.

Spanish for dummies can be the title of a best selling language book, or it can simply be a way to describe a good Spanish course designed to help Spanish learners learn Spanish fast without the hassle of learning complex Spanish grammar.