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>At least with Spanish you can spit out words in pretty much the same order as English

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Not true!!!! (Although I wish it was) :o)

which is why Spanish was a pain for me. Russian, however, was much easier to learn because I didn't have to change English rules in my head (it's easier to just assume it's like a new programming syntax with everything not the same as English starting with the 33 letters :o). For me, Spanish was always just close enough but different enough to be difficult speaking.... (reading is pretty easy)


Examples:

A blouse blue Janet was wearing. --Spanish order
Janet was wearing a blue blouse. --English order

I called her in the morning. Said that was not feeling well.. --Spanish (repeating the subject not necessary)
I called her in the morning. She said that she was not feeling well.. --English (our verbs are not specific enough - we need the 2nd subject)

Drove me crazy !!! :o)

Common differences:

Spanish questions -- the subject almost always comes after the verb (and in most cases of regular sentences it can be omitted)
Spanish statements -- sometimes the object can come before the subject and verb and the verb before the subject