Lesson 1: Spanish Pronunciation & Basic Translation

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[heatherb]

No kidding, I learned more from this lesson than I have in 1033 days in a row of Duo Lingo! Learning the why instead of purely trying to memorize has flipped a switch for me! Thank you and keep up the great videos!

[victoriafry]

This is possibly the best video I have ever seen to teach Spanish.

[Goldman_Bernstein]

OMG, as someone who has studied Spanish for 5 years (through apps, websites, YouTube), I think I've learned more core basics in this 36 minutes! Thank you so much!

[tunazzinamehjabin]

2 years of Duolingo could not teach me what he taught me in 1 hour. 😮

[CHI-TOWN-CHICAGO]

WOW! I am age 73 and your lesson have help me by improving my Spanish by 80% within 36 minutes! Thank you for your very informative and enlightening video! Gracias a ti. ASE!

[phillipbelloff]

You should be very proud of what you’ve created here. I’m sure our brains are all wired differently and receive information differently but this is the single-most effective instruction to Spanish learning I’ve ever seen. Really excited to dive into more.

[astiasti]

This is the absolute best!!! Why don’t they start out teaching this everywhere!

[rsmrymcgwn]

Despite having a number of years of Spanish I picked up on a few tidbits. The bigger picture you present is to look for commonalities and patterns. I love learning Spanish because for me it's like a puzzle. I enjoy the challenge of figuring out how the sentence fits together in context. I believe there is a certain amount of memorizing and learning proper grammar required (typical language teachers focus on this aspect). I've never been taught Spanish by a native english speaker. The fact that you have on the ground experience is a huge benefit. Thanks for your efforts.

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[ljxocai]

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[schumannator]

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[benjamingregory]

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[rickzelle]

Excellent! I love the way you have organized things and explain them. You give us English speakers what we need to know. Thank you!

[roji]

First I have to say you are doing a great job to help English speakers to learn Spanish, sometimes it is an advantage to come from own experience as a learner than from university with an academic approach to teach people.


At the age of 65 I started to learn Spanish just for fun. One of the first things I discovered were the many similarities between English and Spanish. Even for a German native, it makes absolute sense to learn Spanish from English instead of learning from German. Only when it comes to pronunciation it is an advantage to be a German native speaker, we use a lot of similar sounds like the Spanish and even the pronunciation rules are often similar, even when the writings are different.
Beside the similarities for the endings .. al and the change from ..tion to ..ción I discovered another one, the change form ..ty to ..dad for many words like society->sociedad, university->universidad and another good thing is, the ..dad endings like the ..ción endings are always female, "La conversación en la universidad era muy formal."

[michelegill]

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[NoaNoir]

El algoritmo es amable porque por fin estas recibiendo el reconocimiento que mereces. De verdad es uno de los mejores maestros que he encontrado en YouTube.