According to studies at the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab (CLAL), teaching children another language would not create language confusion, language delay or even cognitive deficit. Learning Spanish may be the best idea for you and also your kids. Why Spanish? According to the recent census of the United States government (census. Similarly, take good note of the sentence structure. To get the best out of this activity, play any Spanish CD or movie or tune in to a Spanish radio station for 10 to 20 minutes and practice speaking whatever you learned. 2. Have a brief but frequent study time. This is much better than having a long but infrequent time for study, a research says. The following should also be practiced even by those who are attending language classes. Watching television programs, news programs in Spanish. Even watching telenovelas or dramas would be able to help you with your comprehension skills. There are also free video streaming sites where you could watch some Spanish videos. In Spanish, depending on which element is emphasized, ordinary statements can start with any of the three: subject, verb and object. In both languages, emphasis is also done by way of intonation. In questions, the subject almost always comes after the verb. Question: How do you practice your Spanish? (NAFTA was cited as one reason why American businessmen chose Spanish as their second language.) According to Businessweek, MBA students around the world choose to become trilingual, the choices being English, French and Spanish. It also helps that the two of the top ten MBA schools outside the US is located in Spain. Remember that when learning to speak Spanish, genders should be one of your focal lessons since mastering genders will enable you to determine which article to use. It is also equally important to find out the words exempted from the gender rule, which by the way are quite numerous. 6. Speak monotonously.