First things first. In Spanish, every noun has a masculine or feminine article. In most cases a article must proceed a noun. It is interesting that Spanish has so many different articles compared to English but it is still outdone by German. The reason there are so different is because Spanish has both masculine and feminine nouns. As a rule, feminine words in Spanish generally end in an "a" and masculine words generally end in an "o." There are, however, exceptions to this rule. These are the definite and indefinite and their English counterparts:

	Definite Article	Indefinite Article	Plural Definite Article	Plural Indefinite Article
English	the	a/an	the	some
Masculine	el	un	los	unos
Feminine	la	una	las	unas

The next important step in Spanish grammar is verb conjugation. Spanish verbs end in -ar, -er, and -ir. Let's start with nadar (to swim), a regular -ar verb.

Yo	nado	Nosotros	nadamos
Tú	nadas	Vosotros	nadaís
Él, Ella, Usted	nada	Ellos, Ellas, Ustedes	nadan

Next in our journey through the Spanish language is sentence formation. Unlike English, an adjective comes after the noun in Spanish. Where one would say "the pretty girl" in English, one would say "la chica bonita" in Spanish. This is a very obvious difference between the two languages.

¿Te gusta aprender español? (Would you like to learn Spanish?) This is an example of a reflexive verb. The reflexive pronouns are:

Yo	me	Nosotros	nos
Tú	te	Vosotros	os
Él, Ella, Ud.	se	Ellos, Ellas, Uds.	se

When we put this into context, we find people doing things for themselves. Don't believe me? Take a look, here is a conjugation of mirarse; to look at oneself.

Yo	Me miro.	I look at myself.	Nosotros	Nos miramos.	We look at ourselves.
Tú	Te miras.	You look at yourself.	Vosotros	Os miráis.	You all look at yourselves.
Él, Ella, Ud.	Se mira.	He looks at himself.	Ellos, Ellas, Uds.	Se miran.	They look at themselves.