If you are planning to take a trip to the Caribbean, Mexico or another Spanish speaking country there is no doubt that you want to learn some Spanish phrases you can use when you are there. You may want to just learn some phrases to help you greet others, to help you find directions, to assist you in bartering at the market or you might want to learn some romantic phrases. You don't have to buy phrase books or attend classes in Spanish because everything you need is available online and for free.



There are many Internet sites that you can use to find commonly used phrases, but they may only give you the printed words. What you really need is a site that will teach you the phrases you need in Spanish where you can see the words and hear how they are pronounced by a native Spanish speaker. While you can learn the phrases just be reading and memorizing them you may not be learning to say them properly. When you learn any new language it is important to learn how to pronounce the words correctly.

Some of the common phrases you should know when speaking to a Spanish person are:

- Si = yes

- No = no

- Por favour = please

- Hola = hello

- Gracias = thank you

- Buenos dias = good morning

- Buenos tardes = good afternoon

- Buenos noches = good night

- Como estas = How are you?

- Como te llama? = What is your name?

- Me llamo... = My name is....

In Spanish the words donde esta mean where is. Once you know this all you have to learn is the specific vocabulary for specific places that you want to find, such as playa (beach), hotel (hotel), banco(bank), or bar mas cecano ( bar). Once you start learning phrases in Spanish you will quickly realize that you do need to learn more than just specific phrases and that it would be better for you to learn all facets of the language.

There are many sites online that offer full courses in Spanish that won't cost you nay money and which you can take at home. Through these courses, you will learn the Spanish alphabet and the sounds of the letters as well as how to conjugate verbs to make grammatically correct sentences. The language is easy to learn and some of the vocabulary is quite similar to English words.

Once you start learning Spanish and have some knowledge of the language, when you spend some time in a Spanish speaking country or in the company of native Spanish speakers, you will easily pick up the language. Immersing yourself in the culture and the language is one of the easiest ways to learn any second language, no matter how old you are. As you hear others around you using the language, you will start to pick out words that you know and you will learn how they should be pronounced if you are not doing so correctly.

You do have to determine how you learn best. Maybe you are a person that likes to have images with which you can associate words and phrases. You may be a person that likes to read the words as you hear them spoken. These ways are all possible when you take an online course in Spanish.