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Fastbreak Spanish: We cause you to speak Spanish!
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Fastbreak Spanish: We cause you to speak Spanish!

After taking this training, you will be surprised about how quickly you can build your own basic sentences in Spanish.
Last updated 10/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • This course is not about grammar. Our main objective is for you to be fluent speaking and able to understand conversational Spanish. Use our guided imitation method to learn Spanish pronunciation with real native speakers.

Course content

3 sections19 lectures3h 31m total length
  • The Spanish Alphabet11:44

    Train your ears first!

    The main objective of this course is to develop your communication skills, namely your conversational skills, and pronunciation is the basis of all real fluency. You can understand anything that you can meaningfully say. Remember that pronunciation is the basis for comprehension.

    This lecture will present you with a basic introduction to Spanish phonetics. You will learn the Spanish alphabet, including how the letters are pronounced. Some words with each letter are then provided. Remember that repetition is the key word. Try to repeat all the sounds in the most accurate manner.

  • Spanish vowels & diphthongs8:21

    This lecture covers the Spanish vowels and diphthongs. We introduce you to the pronunciation of Spanish vowels and the rules for pronouncing vowel combinations, or two consecutive vowels, in Spanish. Many examples are provided for you to practice the correct pronunciation of the Spanish vowels and diphthongs.

  • Spanish consonants: difficult sounds6:21

    This lecture completes the first section on Spanish pronunciation by presenting some guidelines about how to pronounce the consonants of Spanish that are quite different from their English counterparts.

  • Noun - adjective agreement3:45

    Noun-adjective agreement in Spanish is an important element of learning the language, and there are some important rules to master. In this lecture you will learn more about noun-adjective agreement in Spanish and the use of possessive adjectives. Repetition drills are presented by a native speaker to improve your pronunciation skills.

  • Personal pronouns, present tense and regular verbs4:18

    This lecture presents an introduction to the Spanish personal pronouns and to the present tense conjugation of the regular verbs. You will learn how to use the personal pronouns as subject and the rules to conjugate the Spanish regular verbs in the present tense.

  • Conjugation model of regular verbs ending in 'ar' - 'trabajar' and 'hablar'11:08

    This lecture presents the conjugation model of the Spanish regular verbs ending in 'ar' with some examples.

  • Conjugation model of regular verbs ending in 'er' - 'comer' and 'beber'9:24

    This lecture presents the conjugation model of the Spanish regular verbs ending in 'er' with some examples.

  • Conjugation model of regular verbs ending in 'ir' - 'vivir' and 'escribir"9:03

    This lecture presents the conjugation model of the Spanish regular verbs ending in 'ir' with some examples.

  • Understanding irregular verbs: 'ser and 'estar'4:15

    This lecture provides an introduction to the Spanish irregular verbs. The focus is on the verbs 'ser and 'estar' (to be). You will learn how to conjugate and use these verbs. Examples are given to practice your pronunciation and to start picking up sentence structure patterns.

  • Conjugation of the verb 'ser' and 'estar' with examples8:18

    This lecture will teach you how to conjugate the verb 'ser' and 'estar'. Examples are provided to practice the pronunciation.

  • Conjugation of the irregula verbs 'ir' - 'haber' and 'tener' with examples13:22

    This lecture will teach you how to conjugate the verb 'ir', 'haber' and 'tener'. Examples are provided to practice the pronunciation.

Requirements

  • No previuos knowledge is required.

Description

Learning a second language is a highly complex, time consuming and costly process, mainly due to three factors: 

    1 - the broad range of communicative situations the learner is exposed to. 

    2 - the many separate, but interrelated factors that the speaker must be aware of, to produce a speech, i.e. phonetic, grammar, semantic, context, goals, strategies, body language and so on. 

    3 - the language vagueness, i.e. and by vagueness we mean the different meanings a phrase can have depending on the context it has been used in. 

    Frustration, dropout without completion, low self-esteem, longer timelines and higher costs are among the consequences of taking the wrong approach to learn a foreign language. The good news is there is another way to quickly and effectively learn a second language. 

    You usually hear people saying that they can understand a lot more than they can speak. Do you know why? Well, language is a skill and not information. The only way you can develop a skill is by practicing and in this case that means repetition. You can be presented with information in form of grammar or explanations of sentence patterns and you can learn it, but that  is only awareness, now you can recognize phrases or pattern or word sequences, but you cannot produce. The only way to develop your conversational skills is overlearning, i.e., repeating patterns until they are embedded into your subconscious mind.  Repetition is the key to become fluent in a second language and that is what this course is about: to make you a fluent Spanish speaker 

    We keep the grammar at the lowest level and focus on over-learning. We will teach you how to become fluent in Spanish in no time. 

    Remember that to speak like a native doesn’t mean to sound like a native but to think like a native. A native doesn’t need to think about what they need to say, they think about how to achieve their communication goals and they don’t need to think about which words to use, that is subconscious. That is the main objective of the course, to make you think like a native Spanish speaker. 

    This one is the first part of a series of courses that we will release in the near future. 

    The course is divided into 5 sections: 

    1.Spanish pronunciation 

    2.Basic grammar 

    3.Spanish irregular verbs 

    4.Basic sentences and useful phrases 

    5.Basic dialog with repetition-, substitution- and response drills. 

  If you are in any of the following situations, then this course is definitely for you: 

  - You need to learn to communicate in Spanish in no time to boost your professional career. 

  - You are learning Spanish but you don’t make progress with your communication skills. 

  - You are about to give up your Spanish course, you are frustrated 

  - You are about to move to a Spanish-speaking country and want to quickly learn to communicate in Spanish. 

  - You have learnt Spanish at a certain level but now you are in a Spanish-speaking country and don’t survive conversations. 

  - You just want to learn to communicate in Spanish to have fun and enhance your culture and horizons. 

  - You need an effective roadmap to learn to communicate in Spanish. 

    If you decide to take this course you will receive more than 25 years of experience learning and teaching foreign languages (Spanish, English, Dutch, German, Italian, Russian), surviving in multicultural environments and using the language skills to boost my professional career. Of course you also will have the advantage of combining my Spanish native skills with my professional education as a Linguist and expert in teaching a second language. 

    There is much to learn from every section here, so work through them all in turn and make sure you extract the most benefit from them. The course is designed to be dipped into quite easily as well, so you can always refer back to it……. 

     

     

   

   

   

   

   

   

Who this course is for:

  • The course is intended for any person willing to learn to speak Spanish fluently in a quickly and effective way. No previous knowledge is required.