In just 12 minutes and 36 seconds, a beginner can use this simple three-chord pattern to speak future tense Spanish.
The free audio lesson below this article shows you how:
Thousands of great songs have just three chords. These are songs we all know and love, such as:
Twist and Shout
Johnny B. Goode
Sweet Home Alabama
Free Falling
Amazing Grace
I could list three-chord songs all day long.
In Spanish there is a similar three-step pattern that you can use to make thousands of phrases.
The best part of this three-step system is it uses language patterns that are common in English. You’ve been using them since you were a kid. They are totally ingrained. These patterns make speaking Spanish feel natural… like you were born to do it.
End Spanish intimidation and frustration. Feel more in control of the language.
There’s no easier way to get started in Spanish.
¡A propósito! (By the way!) These patterns are 100 percent authentic and grammatically correct Spanish. Using them keeps the grammar police happy. More importantly, it’s the same Spanish your amigos use all day, every day.
If you want to put Spanish you already know into flowing phrases, this is the best place to start.
It busts through all the roadblocks English speakers experience with learning Spanish.
This is your launch pad to a new life as a Spanish speaker.
Would you like to make Spanish a part of your life? Take a step into your new future as a Spanish speaker by clicking the play button below:
Excellent teaching methods – I wish that schools would teach in a similar style.
This is a really great lesson. Thank you for making it possible for me.
i love seth
No puedo Esperar por la proxima leccion
Muchas Gracias Marcus!
I am so grateful for your time and talent in putting this course together. I think God sent you specially for me.
I am not sure which course to purchase first I find it all so perfect, can you guide me, is the Synergy used in combination with the other courses or should I just start with one course.
Thank you!
Thanks for your nice comments.
I would recommend you start with one course. You can’t go wrong starting with Synergy Spanish:
https://synergyspanish.com/cb/synergy-spanish/
I love your Spanish lessons. I took Spanish for 4 years in high school & college & learned very little. I had been struggling to learn & speak Spanish ever since. I am 61 years old. With your course, I am now doing quite well with my Spanish & I’m loving it. My only problem is I cannot roll my Rs (Trill). Years ago, my Spanish instructor told me, “If all the 2 yr olds in Mexico can roll their Rs, you can too.” The problem is, I can’t. I have followed ALL the suggestions on the internet and, I try everyday to get rolling with my Rs….with no luck! Any suggestions for me…Por favor y gracias??
I’m Australian. We eat the letter R. My name becomes MaHcus in Australia. So, If I can make myself understood with the Spanish R sound, you can too. Perhaps, a more empowering question for you is, can Spanish speakers understand me, even if I don’t trill the Rs the way they do?
The best and most excellent way to learn Spanish, by far !!!!
Maravilloso!
Very exciting. Your teaching gives all of us beginners such hope. It is very encouraging to be able to speak full sentences. You teach so clearly and you give us enough time to repeat what Yamil has said. I am ever so grateful to you for all your hard work and all the free lessons you send to all of us. Many many thanks.
I have lived in Spain for 20years & know a lot of words but only now since taking your course can I string sentences together. By the way I am 82 years old. Thank Marcus. Keep up the good work.
The lessons are very helpful, and has improve my ability to communicate in espanol with my friends more effectively. muchas gracias!!
The lessons are easy to follow. Thanks
Easy to follow and understand?
Mucho Gracias Marcus para este ejercicio.
This revision helps a great deal to my ageing memory.
Hasta Pronto
very interesting but not seeing how a word or phrase is spelled makes it difficult to remember, I cant remember a sound. But I can visualize how it is spelled. Robert
Loved it,
Fantastic, the most effective approach at learning Spanish; I wish I had done this years ago.
Hello Marcus,
I am from Belgium, and found here a very easy way to speak Spanish. Very helpful.
Marcus,
Very helpful, easy to follow.
The lessons are great. It’s clear and simply done, it makes sense and being able to form sentences is so encouraging. I tried formal lessons when we first moved to Panama. I quit after a week as it was so boring and I felt I was learning nothing. This system is really working, I feel like I’m actually making progress.
If you have a Mac, downloading is less than wonderful. I finally got the lessons onto my machine with help, but they are all out of order, mislabeled and generally in a mess. It’s OK, I find it doesn’t make much difference if I listen in order or not. The lessons still work. It makes it more of a surprise when I don’t know what will come up next. While it’s still workable, it would be nice if someone could make getting the program onto a Mac easier and cleaner.
Thanks for the feedback. We’ll upgrade the download system for Mac.
Hola Marcus, ive just gone though this 3 chord lesson, and I must say how easy it is to undertand, I’m so excited about learning more spanish using this method. Thank you so much for inspiring me to carry on.
Hasta luego. Yvonne
Great. Spanish made simple. Very clear and precise and at just the right pace.
This was a great lesson
However, in English we usually use the past tense following “I just … Saw …went etc.
So in Spanish are you saying you use the infinitive “A cabo de aprender.”
Just so it is clear in my head?
Many thanks
PS. I particularly appreciate short common Spaish phrases that you use and kindly translate. Bien hecho!
Yes, the formula is acabo de + the infinitive, so “acabo de aprender” = “I just learned”.
This post has a video version so you can follow the text as well:
http://www.synergyspanishsystems.com/blog/no-fear-spanish/
It is a pleasure to learn Spanish with your method of teaching. I do however have a dreaded fear of Spanish Past Tense, both recent past and a long time ago in the past. How can I overcome this fear. It is stopping the fluency of my improving Spanish and makes me quite nervous.
My approach to past tense verbs is the same as present tense.
Have you see this article and audio lesson?
http://www.synergyspanishsystems.com/blog/why-spanish-verb-charts-cause-failure/
Marcus, you are helping me so much – thank you!
Gracia Marcus! What a treat!
This is brilliant! simple,clear,
gracais marcus me gusta su lexions fred
gracais marcus
Dear Marcus,
Thank you so much for the way you make learning seems such fun. I am in my seventies and still hope to be able to speak this wonderful language with confidence soon. If only I´ve known about Marcus Santamaria Spanish lessons some 10 years ago when I first moved to Spain !!!. The Synergy Spanish is brillant after the Shortcut to Spanish course.You are such a wonderful teacher. Thank you for the freebies too. Very much appreciated. Thank you again for being such a dedicated teacher.
Marie
Hola Marcus,
About a week ago, I purchased Synergy Spanish, and I am delighted with your teaching method. Over the course of about 50 years, I have taken four semesters of college-level Spanish (received all A’s), tried various audio methods (boring), but I have never been able to form sentences because of a lack of confidence in putting them together aloud. Of course, without practice, one loses what was once learned. Within this one week of practicing with your lessons, I can say many, many things by using your unique sentence construction method, and I am recalling much that I thought was long forgotten.
Thank you for being such an outstanding teacher.
Sherri
Thank you again Marcus. Terrific as usual.
This is so easy it makes it magical! I love your approach.
Voya aprender mas espanol con mi amigo Marcus. Acabo de aprender algo de mas espanol con sus facil lecciones.
I am sending this correos electronico to my cousin John.
Amo sus lecciones,
Saludos y Gracias,
Carole Harper, Southport.
Hola, I am doing well for a short time,but I do like the Email .When I see an Email from you it is a lot of encouragement.
this is very beauriful thank you
likeme is moch interesting thank you very mach
hola thanks so so much for your dedication & continued support you are the best thing that happened in my life since i started learning spanish.wanted to ask if by any chance you know the musician who sang the song when Rojelio &Ana Paula always get together in the soap opera La Que No Podia Amar please if you know can you send me the details.So long.
Sorry, I don’t know it. I haven’t watched a soap opera for about 4 years now.
Hola Marcus,
Just loved this. First time round listening I rediscovered the ehhhh, errrr, etc beloved of English/Spanish speakers on the Costa Blanca but after recording your lessons I’m really learning Spanish. Trouble is going to be when they’re speaking to me. Out to the Costa Blanca in two weeks. The “Proof of the Pudding….” -is there a Spanish translation of that phrase?
Loving your Course.
Ian Royle
Hi Ian
This expression conveys the same idea, ‘Viendo el payaso y soltando la risa’. (See the clown and burst out laughing.)
A great practice lesson simple to follow in bit size so easy to remember
Hi Marcus,
I am taking Spanish classes and still cannot speak the idoma. Gracias por el leccion. You take away a lot of the frustration we experience trying to learn all the various rules and verbs. I have oral exams soon and hope the few lessons I have had with you help me to pass 🙂
Gracias
Shelly
Marcus,
I’m just up to lecion cuatro in Synergy Spanish so this exercise was very pleasant because it was so easy. Thanks very much for making each step a “baby step” that builds my confidence by leaps and bounds. I’m in Mexico for two months and expect to finally learn to speak Spanish without thinking about how to decline a verb.
Sincerely,
Steven Cohen
This is so cool and your method works so well. Tengo sus lecciones y me gustan mucho. Mil gracias Marcus!
This male translator was easier for me to understand than the female Elena on other lessons. I would consider investing in lessons with this translator if I knew which ones he was on. I wouldn’t want to invest in lessons I couldn’t understand. Could you let me know which lessons he is used in? Thanks. I have a difficult time remembering long sentences. How does one over come that?
The male voice is by Yamil. He is on the advanced program called Advanced Concepts Intensive.
Simple simple simple Lovely Jubley.
When I press the play button It would,t play.I’m disappointed
With a background in teaching, I really appreciate the way you teach Spanish in such an easy, step by step way. Thank you.
Enjoyed the lesson this morning. Thank you. Acabo de desfrutar la leccion de es spanol. Gracias Dee
La proposito!
I bought your course four years ago’ we often have it playing in the background for hours. But we are still struggling to remember! We are both doing a beginners course @nightschool, and I use the verbling site. And after 20 years. We cannot string a sentence together. Wish I new the secret. But I guess we just have to keep trying . cords may be the secret-i hope.
It won’t work if you play it in the background. It’s not a passive course, you have to interact by speaking Spanish along with the audio. The beginner courses also have Action Guides, if you do the exercises in them you’ll accelerate your progress even further. So, try those two things, complete all the Action Guide exercises and interact with the audio. If you do that you’ll get a taste of the success that so many of my students enjoy.
When I click the play button the link immediately disappears. I can hear nothing.
Thankyou Marcus, I am in my 70s and hopefully I can learn to speak spanish one day.John.