learn to speak spanish fluently “Finally! An Easy Way to Get By in Spanish – And You Only Need 138 Words“ Click Here 👈 Choose yo...
learn to speak spanish fluently
“Finally! An Easy Way to Get By in Spanish – And You Only Need 138 Words“ Click Here 👈
let's face it learning a language is a big undertaking I mean language is huge right so you're going to need a strategy to do this effectively you can't just sit there on your app and just learning random words and well hope to be fluent believe me I know I'm a native English speaker who learned to speak Spanish fluently on his own out of necessity so in this video I'm going to show you the strategy that enabled me to do that I'm going to share some tips with you all right I hope these tips work for you as well tip number one focus on patterns in the language this is extremely important and is the basis for everything that I teach on this particular Channel you see learning a language is not just about memorizing words it's about recognizing patterns in the language and being able to repeat those patterns when you were very young you learned the patterns of your native language listening to thousands of hours of that language on a continual basis now whenever someone says something doesn't match that pattern that audio pattern you say that sounds wrong well unfortunately developing an ear for a language takes years and as I said thousands of hours of exposure to it but don't worry listening is not the only way to learn these patterns since you already speak at least one language you're already way ahead of the game because you can learn the patterns in Spanish by comparing them to the patterns you know in your own language I'll show you what I mean I'm going to teach you a quick pattern and I'm going to do it in English the vast majority of t n words in English and that's the ones ending in t n can be converted into Spanish by changing the T to a c and adding an accent over the O observation becomes observ it's almost the same but it doesn't sound the same right and that's just because I'm pronouncing the vowels differently but when you look at it I just change that t to a c i put an accent over the O and now we have a Spanish word amazing right it's a pattern but let's take it a step further in our pattern if the word Rec created in Spanish here we have Obion ends in ACI N I can make it a verb and does it yes it does so all I have to do is drop the c and add an r and it becomes observar which means to observe it's not conjugated or anything but it's a verb you just made a verb now you'll have to tweak it there's some spelling changes it doesn't work all the time probably works about 95% of the time but it's a pattern now when I teach this to folks I actually teach it backwards as well when I mean backwards it means if I just said how would you say to observe in Spanish you might be like wow I I don't know how to say observe Paul if I said can you think of a t noun for that verb you think observation that's how you think of it backwards so that's a pattern in Spanish and we linked it to your English now let's see if you can apply it take a look at these English verbs to to participate to cooperate to create to confirm and to verify now if you'd never learned Spanish before and you didn't just learn that pattern and I said hey translate these into Spanish you'd been like I got nothing Paul but these all follow that pattern you look at to participate and the verb would be partip how do we get that because we're like to participate oh participation okay particip does it end in Aion yes drop the par I get it cooperate cooperation right we're like okay let's play it out again we get Co to create creation got it to confirm see we're getting faster at this to verify verification might take a little longer on that one you've got them and you can learn lots of different patterns to just plug your verbs into for example here's one plus the infinitive the unconjugated verb and it means before doing something before participating how would you say before cooperating so focus on patterns in the language there are tons of them and you're going to be able to just kind of pop them together to make sentences and if you're wondering how you're going to learn these patterns well just follow my channel because I talk about them like literally all the time all right let's move on to my second tip in order to reach fluency you're going to have to be willing to leave your comfort zone and practice speaking the language with native speakers yes folks you have to talk to people and I'm going to tell you one way to do that without even leaving home is through a site called lingoda lingoda is an online language school that offers live 1hour classes 24 hours a day you can choose between private classes for one-on-one attention or join small group classes that only have a maximum of five students that means more speaking time for you and personalized feedback each class is arranged by topic and level so whether you're a complete beginner or looking to refine your Advanced skills lingoda has got you covered and here's the best part you can even skip around from different topics and levels as you see fit you don't have to take these in a particular order and if you're looking to push yourself to learn spanish even faster and save money at the same time you should check out Ling's language Sprint challenge it's a two- Monon learning challenge designed to supercharge your progress you can choose the Sprint with 15 classes per month or the Super Sprint with 30 classes per month well there's an incentive to stick to it and complete it because if you do and you follow all the rules you can earn 50% of your money back or even more in class credits that's an incentive that'll keep you on there you know keep you going I have a link to lingoda in the description section of this video and I also pinned it to the top of the comments I suggest you check it out it's pretty awesome all right let's move on to tip number three don't translate whole sentences in your head from English to Spanish prior to speaking I know you're doing it folks because we all do it at some point we can't help it it just doesn't work it just slows the conversation down so much it it's useless now I know some of the folks out there are like well Paul you shouldn't be translating from your own language anyway you should just be well thinking in Spanish really you should that's pretty awesome yeah I'll just do that cuz that's seems so much easier you'll get there in time you know where Spanish just makes more sense to you but that's not going to be immediate it's normal to translate from your language so here's the strategy to help you do that so you can still be translating in your head but still be having a conversation think of your sentence like a train now you don't have to hook on all the cars right away but you need to get the locomotive going you've got to get it out there that's where you say something so the person knows you're going to speak this is where sentence starters will come in this is just getting the conversation going a good one is Bueno they say something you're like Bueno now they know it's coming they're waiting and that gives you you know just a second to kind of pop on other train cars if you need more time you can actually put two of your sentence starters together you can be like Bueno and then you can pop on other you know little fragments or patterns that are also usually groups or chunks of words well okay the best way to do this is to have a plan and I know I kind of drag that one out but I want to show you that you control the speed of the conversation you can slow it down and if you make a mistake you can always back up you could be like no this is going to take some practice but it's going to get easier in time I promise you this is a big one this is really a big one and if you you been sitting at that intermediate level and you're just having trouble you know having conversations that might just snap you out of it that brings us to tip number four learn vocabulary in chunks so what am I talking about um sentence starters are a good example another great sentence starter that I teach folks right out of the shoot is enant a which means regarding or in reference to well in reference to what you said yesterday see I'm popping these things together and that's another one the Lo that's one and we say you know what somebody said a lot so the Lo the he that even becomes another pattern you'll be using all the time tons of patterns folks just binge watch my videos and learn all these patterns I want to mention under this particular tip that it's really important to learn verbs with their appropriate preposition especially if that preposition doesn't match the English equivalent I'll show you what I mean in English we dream of people in Spanish you dream with people it's a different preposition so if you'd only learned son meant to dream chances are you'd be using the wrong preposition when you actually made a sentence so in Spanish we want to learn it as to dream with someone or something last night Maria dreamt of her grandfather but literally dreamt with her grandfather another example of that is in Spanish um we don't fall in love with people we get enamored of them I say muchos many years ago I fell in love with my wife but literally I became enamored of my wife I have a few videos on my channel where I talk about certain verbs and prepositions so you can learn them you can just do a little search I'm sure you'll find that that brings us to tip number five read in Spanish reading is super important it's going to expose you to new vocabul and grammar in context and the way I would recommend people read is to really take your time with it don't try to skim and just get it out of context pay attention to the constructions also if you're going to look up something online look it up in Spanish you know try to read it that way it'll help you let's look at tip number six practice with yourself people always tell me Paul I don't have anybody to practice with so you know I I I just didn't do anything today you're always with you right narrate your day think about it you wake up in the morning and you're like may I woke up then you get up May and then you're like I'm drinking a coffee that's how you're going to find gaps in your vocabulary that's how you're going to practice your pronunciation you could do it in your head but I think you should do it out loud that brings us to tip number seven set realistic study goals and stick with them and when I say you know realistic um what am I talking about well I meet people who are just starting out learning Spanish and I'm like how much time are you going to put into studying each day and they're like hours Paul like 3 or 4 hours are you going to stick with that really chances are you're not so what I recommend is set realistic goals something that you're going to do every day at least a minimum you're going to put into this language now sometimes you're going to feel like studying more do it but never do less than this you know viewers often ask me what type of a study schedule I recommend or what did I use um I use this one back in the day 20 minutes in the morning 15 minutes at lunch and 20 minutes just before I went to sleep and this was my minimum I mean some days I would do more but this is my minimum every day I don't care if I was sick tired I'm doing it that 20 minutes in the morning was usually over breakfast I would review vocabulary from the day before might do some reading pick out some new patterns or vocabulary you know that I would focus on that day and then I'd just start my day at lunch I would normally review the vocabulary that I was you know learned at breakfast or was trying to learn but I will tell you that the most important study session of the whole day was that one just before I went to sleep my retention was always highest whatever I covered then I was more likely to remember I don't know if it just kind of M over in my head in my dreams whatever don't skip that one all right that one is super important tip number eight don't be afraid of grammar you're going to hear people out there and they'll be like you don't have to learn grammar to learn language in fact just ignore the grammar that's some of the dumbest advice I have ever heard ever what have I been preaching in this video in all my videos learn patterns right little Snippets of the language well grammar is a blueprint of the language someone has already figured out these patterns for you and they put it all in a little book and called it grammar so you don't have to figure them out it just makes it so much easier to learn the language the thing that seems to intimidate viewers most um is actually the English grammatical terms when I start saying saying things like indicative and subjunctive and verbs and nouns they go ah Paul I I haven't thought of those terms in forever I do I have to learn those yes you do because it's going to make it so much easier for you to learn Spanish for example when I'm trying to teach you a pattern and I say the adjective will follow the noun in these types of sentences if you don't know what an adjective or a noun are that's not going to help you I can't just say there's going to be a word and that word's going to follow another word but I don't want to you know call them anything so you work it out that doesn't work so just embrace the grammar and make your life much easier and it will also help your English cuz one day when somebody talks about an adverb or something you'll know what they're talking about and that brings me to my last tip tip number nine and I know some folks are like well I tip nine Paul shouldn't you just gone to 10 yeah I could have but I'm stopping at 9 focus on the Spanish spoken in one particular country each Spanish-speaking country is going to have their own terminology and colloquialisms and accent that's a big one accent one of the more difficult aspects of learning a language is training your ear to understanding the spoken language well if you're constantly listening to people from different Spanish-speaking countries that just becomes more difficult compare it to English different you know English accents you hear around the world have you ever had difficulty understanding one of them I know I have I've spoken English my whole life I'll watch things on the BBC and maybe somebody's from land or something I put the subtitles on because I'm missing things so make your life easier focus on one particular country and I know that advice is going to frustrate some folks watching because you're like I just want to travel everywhere I just want to understand General Spanish okay you can do that um it's just going to be a little more challenging for you in terms of well the accent's going to be a thing colloquialisms are going to be a thing and even what vocabulary you choose is going to be a thing for example example what are you going to call a car coach or Caro what are you going to call the sidewalk baneta Acera what are you going to call the trunk of a car Cela that's in Mexico B maleto vocabulary changes so make your life easier choose a country well there you have it those are my tips to develop your strategy to learn Spanish quickly and reach fluency if you enjoyed the video just do me a favor and give it a thumbs up and thank you very much for watching ...
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