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All Spanish Quickies
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Cognate Pattern #2: ATE to AR Verbs
This Spanish Quickie covers another cognate group. Which means more free words! Remember, cognates are free words because they’re basically the same in both English and Spanish. Just knowing these words exist, really is way more than half the battle. They’re a good investment of your time, is my point. Watch the video. Peruse the Word List. Then get out there… and speak some Spanish!
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Cognate Pattern #3: IC to ICO Adjectives & Nouns
If you spend just 15 minutes watching this video and perusing the Word List, you’ll know 50 words you didn’t know before. Fifty good, usable words! There are way more than 50 words that follow this pattern. I just picked out 50 of the most common ones. Watch the video. Use the words. It’s that simple.
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Turn Adjectives into Nouns in Spanish
In this video, you’ll see how to make a noun from any adjective you already know, enabling you to say two different phrases in Spanish–without learning (or even saying) any more words!
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Fun with Cognates: Último to Simple
In this video, not only will you learn new words and see how they work in real life. But you’ll be practicing a very important skill that’ll help you understand Spanish better and faster!
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Fun with Cognates: Comercial to Alarma
In this video, I answer the question, “Do you teach Spanish from Spain or Latin America?” PLUS you’ll learn some Spanish words even better than most native Spanish-speakers!
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The Puzzle Strategy
The Puzzle Strategy is the best strategy I’ve got for improving your Spanish fast. Not only will your learn new words and grammar, but you’ll identify specifically what you need to work on.
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How Prepositions Work
In this video, you’ll get 22 of the most common prepositions that’ll enable you to understand 80-90% of the prepositions you encounter.
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Por Vs. Para, An Introduction
In this video, you’ll get the basic ideas behind “por” and “para”. The first step to understanding this difficult subject.
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Prepositions with Verbs
Two videos ago, I showed you how prepositions work the same in Spanish as they do in English. Well, in this video… I show you how they’re different.
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How to Learn Spanish, Part #1
In this video, you’ll learn everything I personally did to learn Spanish PLUS what’s worked best for my students the last four years.