Spanish Speaking Secret #1
Everyday frequently used words vs. uncommon, rare and wasteful words.
When I started Spanish I learned words like plughole, dish drainer and rasp.
I never used those words in a decade of living in a Spanish-speaking country.
Instead, I should have spent my time on the words that come up in almost every conversation.
Think about something you want to say and see how long you can go without using words like “and,” “in” or “have.”
These are words that are used all the time.
In fact, the top 100 words make up 50 percent of the language.
In other words, 50 percent of everything we say uses the 100 most common words over and over again.
Don’t waste your time and energy on words that you’ll rarely use (e.g., plughole, dish drainer and rasp).
It’s a hundred times more effective if you start speaking the most common words first, and the best place to start is the 100 words that make up 50 percent of spoken language.
The 100 most common Spanish words are part of Shortcut to Spanish.
It has you speaking and understand these words without a second thought.
I missed years of fun, conversations and friendships because I focused on the wrong words. Don’t make my mistake. Start with the Spanish words you use every day.
Here’s a step by step path to Speak Spanish at any age
It has you speaking from the very first lesson. Even better, it’s Spanish you can use in daily life.
There’s no wasting time on the language you’ll never use. Instead, it has you chatting with real-life Spanish to speak with your amigos today.
Spanish Speaking Secret #2
Memorize Spanish words in under a minute.
This is a fun memory-boosting tool.
It gave me a powerful Spanish vocabulary fast.
This memory tool makes Spanish words stick in your mind like superglue.
Here’s how it works.
The Spanish word for swimming pool is piscina.
Imagine one of those rotten boys who piss in a pool.
Really picture the kid in the pool making the water change color.
Gross!
Discúlpeme! (Pardon me!) for doing that to you. But the more vivid, the better this works.
I’ll bet you now know what the Spanish word piscina means.
Pool.
Shortcut to Spanish gives you 100 mnemonics that make it easy to memorize 100 commonly used Spanish words.
No te preocupes (Don’t worry), none are as gross as this one.
What does piscina mean again?
Did you say pool?
That’s right!
It’s embedded in your memory forever now.
Shortcut to Spanish gives you 100 mnemonics to memorize the 100 most common Spanish words… and a lot more.
Click here to find out how to use these ideas to speak flowing Spanish sentences.
Frustration-Busting Spanish Speaking Secret #3
Easy Patterns for speaking in Spanish sentences. (As an English speaker you’ll use this right away.)
Let’s face it. Some Spanish language patterns are tricky to use when you are a beginner at Spanish.
Unfortunately, those tricky ones are usually the first ones in the textbooks.
Textbooks start with the hardest sentences. And they have done it for so long that nobody thinks to question it.
That’s a disaster, because it leaves most people feeling lost, confused and frustrated with trying to learn a language.
Afortunadamente (Fortunately), there are patterns in Spanish that make it easy to speak immediately.
Here is an example:
In Spanish, to say you just did something you say “acabo de” plus a verb. For example:
Acabo de comer.
I just ate.
Acabo de ver al niño famoso en la piscina.
I just saw the famous kid in the pool.
Acabo de salir de la piscina.
I just got out of the pool.
Once you know the pattern, you can use it with any verb you know. See if you can work these out.
1) Acabo de visitar España.
2) Acabo de preparar un café.
3) Acabo de celebrar el día de la independencia.
By the way, Shortcut to Spanish gives you 100 mnemonics to memorize the 100 common Spanish words…
And 15 power verbs like the one above to speak in authentic Spanish sentences immediately.
Click here to find out how to use these ideas to speak flowing Spanish sentences.
Here are the answers to the quiz above.
1) I just visited Spain.
2) I just prepared a coffee.
3) I just celebrated Independence Day.
By starting with easily acquired speaking patterns like these, anyone can become conversational in Spanish.
Spanish Speaking Secret #4
Speak to learn instead of learning to Speak.
There are three ways of using Spanish audio lessons.
1) Listen and listen.
You listen and try and make sense of the Spanish you hear.
2) Listen and repeat.
You listen and repeat what you are told to say.
3) Speak to learn.
The difference is subtle. When you listen and repeat, you’re just parroting the speaker. It’s boring, it’s ineffective and it doesn’t allow you to process the language.
When you speak to learn, you creatively partner with me in conversation.
This is hard to describe until you have experienced the thrill of creating Spanish sentences for yourself, but this subtle difference transforms the way you learn and speak the language…especially if you have struggled to speak Spanish in the past.
You are gently guided to speak Spanish in flowing sentences.
It’s exciting and rewarding.
As you practice in the comfort of your own home or car, you feel your ability to verbalize your ideas in Spanish growing with each session.
Speak-to-learn is a great confidence-builder, because you are speaking real, authentic Spanish that you can use right away.
Shortcut to Spanish has 31 interactive Speak-to-Learn Spanish lessons.
Plus you also get 100 mnemonics to embed those 100 essential Spanish words into your vocabulary…
And you’ll also pick up 15 power verbs that you can use to speak in authentic Spanish sentences immediately.
Click here to find out how to use these ideas to speak flowing Spanish sentences.
Frustration-Busting Spanish Speaking Secret #5
Instant Spanish words – get an instant vocabulary of 3,145 Spanish words.
There are thousands of Spanish words you can create with small changes to English words.
Most English words that end in ATE can be made into Spanish verbs by changing ATE to AR.
Dominate | Dominar |
Celebrate | Celebrar |
Decorate | Decorar |
Donate | Donar |
Renovate/renew | Renovar |
Terminate/finish | Terminar |
Remember the Instant Spanish pattern we covered earlier.
– In Spanish, you can use “acabo de” plus a verb to say, “I just – did something.”
Let’s combine that pattern with some Instant Spanish Words. Can you understand these sentences?
Acabo de celebrar el día de la independencia.
Acabo de renovar mi pasaporte y visa.
Acabo de terminar el proyecto.
Answers below.
Included in the Shortcut to Spanish package, I’ll show you the 31 patterns that give you a 3145-word vocabulario del español.
Plus you also receive 31 interactive Speak-to-Learn Spanish lessons.
Plus you also get 100 mnemonics to embed those essential 100 Spanish words into your working vocabulary…
And 15 power verbs that you can put to use to speak in authentic Spanish sentences immediately.
Click here to find out how to use these ideas to speak flowing Spanish sentences.
Here are the answers to the quiz.
Acabo de celebrar el día de la independencia.
I just celebrated Independence Day.
Acabo de renovar mi pasaporte y visa.
I just (renovated) renewed my passport and visa.
Acabo de terminar el proyecto.
I just (terminated) finished the project
Let’s make Spanish easy for you.
You’ll receive 31 interactive Speak-to-Learn Spanish lessons.
You’ll pick up a 3145-word vocabulary with just 31 patterns.
You’ll receive 100 mnemonics to imprint the most essential 100 Spanish words into your vocabulary.
And you’ll start speaking authentic Spanish sentences immediately with the 15 power verbs.
Click here to find out how to use these ideas to speak flowing Spanish sentences.
I slipped off the wagon. Need restart. Pls advise
You can access all your lessons in your member’s area:
http://www.synergyspanishsystems.com/amember/member
Hi sir, I am parimala from India. I want to speak Spanish fluently. This is my dream. But how can I believe about your course. I don’t know anything Bout this course. So I am asking. I am waiting for your kind reply.
You could try these lesson:
https://synergyspanish.com/ben.html
Thanks very much
I wanna speak spanish.so plz provide lot of materials to help me spoken espaniol.
For.my grandaugter 10 years
Spanish is definitely on my radar after I learn Brazilian Portuguese ( Currently living in Brazil. ) You don’t have a Portuguese version?
I live in panama and have no mail address. Can i download your cd and paper maierials and burn my own cds and print the docs? I have the tools for that.
Yes, all our courses are available as downloads.
Marcus I think you are a wonderful person, you never give up trying to teach us Spanish your way.
My computer has lots of lessons from you and all for free. I cannot delete them because I always think one day I will really start with Marcus Spanish lessons.
I live in Marbella Spain for over 25 years and I still don’t speak it fluently mainly because here is a very international community. Here you have to speak at least English, German, French, Spanish of course and I am Dutch myself otherwise you can be quite lonely.
I must continue with your lessons therefore I thank you very much for all the effort you put into me. It becomes like an obligation towards you.
Thanks again and who knows one day I will write you a thank you note in Spanish.
Kind regards, Renee
Dear Marcus, I purchased your course over a year ago . I only down loaded about 8 of the lessons to my computer from your e mail .My internet is very slow and it took all night to do this . my problem is that now I can no?t locate the rest of the lessons to put on my computer so i can pull them up to use them . Not very good with computers , but my son who helped me download the few that i did download can not find the files you sent me either . is it possible you can send them to me again ?This would be great if you can . anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated ! George John Roy ,III
Yes, I’ll get Ava to contact you directly and help you get restarted.
Buenos dias Marcos,
Acabo de terminar mi primera leccion.
Muchos gracias por ayudarme.
Voy a Mexico en tres semanas y voy a practicar mis nuevo palabras con mis amigos.
Esta es mi tercera viaje a Mexico y necesito hablar con mis amigos. Mis amigos no habla ingles.
Ted
if only we could form a group,for those like me who want to use Marcus Santamaria lessons to be good español speakers(whatsapp).if willing email me at [email protected]. gracias.
Hola Marcus,muchas gracias for your lessio y grateful. I can speak and even write some Spanish,the problem is finding someone to probably chat with the same language. a Dios bless you.
gracias.
This is FANTASTIC!
Thanks so much!!
No other course/lesson or class can beat this!!! (-:
Muchas gracias. Acabo de leer todas las palabras
Hi Marcus,
I do read your emails when have time and find them quite good. I do not have the time at moment but am going to Costa Rica on Nov 15th for several months and will have time if not lazy.
Can one have the download on both my IPad and IPhone 6 as a will take both with me.
Joe
Yes, you can get the app, there’s a link in the member’s area, and download the course to both devices.
Hello Marcus,
I always read your material and practice the lessons you send us. Unfortunately I don’t live in a surrounding where Spanish is spoken so I don’t have the opportunity to practice it. When I watch spanish films, I pick up a few words but I still have a hard time understanding sentences. With the information provided in your lessons I feel confident that I could express my self properly and be understood. I think your strategy is very good and makes learning Spanish more fun and more efficient,
Gracias Marcus,
Louise
your the best marketer on the Webb…you always make me read your emails because I know
there will be some real take always
ever thought of a teachers course maybe like Ramsay has done with personnel finances?
keep up good work
Me parece muy interesante
I have Synergy Spanish, which I love. Does this overlap?
The best follow up to Synergy Spanish is Bola de Nieve.
http://www.synergyspanishsystems.com/sidewaysfluency.html
Love the simplicity
love the simplicity of it all
Me interesa mucho aprender Inglés. Su método parece efectivo
Quiero aprender Inglés
Dear Mr. Marcus
Thanks for yur noble service.. I have already purchased SHORTCUT TO SPANISH LEVEL I and
SYNERGY SPANISH Level I. I live in Peru… I am facing lot of problems in speaking/not understanding the pronounciations… Ofcourse, I am little better after going through the two books SHORTCUT and SYNERGY… But, I need to speak,,, How to proceed further..
can you any more guidance or any other material I have to buy –just to speak..
thank you and awaiting for yur response..
The next step is Bola de Nieve:
http://www.synergyspanishsystems.com/sidewaysfluency.html
Hi Marcus,
Can I download your lessons onto my iPhone 5?
How do these downloads work?
We have an app for iPhone.