When the Romans settled in different parts of Europe, and stayed there, the way they spoke in the different areas gradually got more and more different until you had Italian in Italy, French in France, Spanish in Spain, etc. The Latin language, as you may know, was the language of the ancient Romans. This has nothing to do with anything romantic it just means that Spanish, along with other Romance languages such as French, Italian, and Portuguese, comes from LATIN.
Spanish is a so-called “Romance” language it is in the family of Romance languages. Do we say, “Thus saith?” No, our language has changed, and that’s just over hundreds of years. It was written in English, but it’s a different English than we know today. 
You can see that as well in the King James Bible. And the English used in England changed over time. Did they develop a different type of English from the “original” English of England? Yes, we use some different vocabulary and speak with a different accent. Think of how many Americans came from England. Over time their languages developed and changed, and new languages evolved from those languages. Then, groups of people speaking the same language stayed together, travelling together, and ended up in different places around the world.
Not only do languages borrow words from each other, but it’s also important to know that languages come in “families.” The families probably began at the Tower of Babel (see Genesis 11 in the Bible to read this story about how different languages started). Word that look and sound similar and have a similar meaning in two different languages are called “cognates.”. Can you guess the meanings of these Spanish words? Accidente, Animal, Color, Director, Distancia, Error, Familia, Grupo, Hotel, Idea, Mapa, Piano, Restaurante Spanish has borrowed words from English as well. It’s not only English that borrows words from other languages. You are allowed to move at your own pace (this is homeschooling), but it’s intended you complete one lesson a day. This is the end of your work for this course for your first day. When you encounter new words, you will use your powers of observation to make connections like that to uncover their meanings and remember them more easily. Now, I don’t think the words avion and airplane are related, but I think avion and the English word aviation are related. Let me give you an example of how English borrowed from the French: Avion in French means airplane. First, we’re going to practice looking for related (borrowed) words between languages. English has borrowed a lot of words from Latin, Greek, and French. This week, we are going to learn about how languages borrow words from each other, and how this can help our learning of Spanish. This will help you when we start focusing on learning Spanish. Before you start actually studying Spanish, we’re going to spend some time developing our language-learning skills. If you didn’t get here through My EP Assignments, I suggest you go there and create an account. Just stay focused on your lesson and then close that window and you should be right back here for the next lesson. DO NOT click on anything that takes you to a different website. DO NOT click on any advertisements or games. When you go to the different internet pages for your lessons, please DO NOT click on anything else on that page except what the directions tell you to. Many of your lessons below have an internet link for you to click on. Welcome to your first day of school! I wanted to give you one important reminder before you begin. Spiral notebook or lined paper in a separate section of a binder for foreign language, to write down vocabulary and to copy sentences. Topics covered include: greetings, the body, clothing, numbers to 100, colors, shapes, family, weather, the calendar, and food. Listening, speaking, reading and writing skills will be developed. The focus of the Spanish course will be on learning vocabulary and practicing pronunciation. Students then spend 20 lessons practicing these skills with an exclusive focus on Spanish before moving into the main beginners’ course in Spanish. The course begins with a 55-lesson introduction to language families and cognates (with special emphasis on Latin and the Romance languages), with exercises to help train students’ eyes and ears to see relationships between words and become more skilled language learners. Students will learn to listen and to read with awareness in order to discover word meanings and relations. Course Description: This course is an introduction to learning Spanish for middle-school aged students.
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