Spanish Verbs — Part 2: Watch Them Click Into Place
Spanish verbs don't have to feel overwhelming. Here's how one small shift makes them click into place. You can use this same simple approach to speak Spanish. Express Yourself in Spanish
The Spanish Ear Tune-Up: World Cup Edition
World Cup Spanish Can you understand these five Spanish sentences about the World Cup? Think you can understand even more? 🎧 TRY THE INTERACTIVE EAR TRAINER → ✩ Boost your listening skills and understand Spanish faster!
Spanish Verb Spaghetti — Unraveled
Spanish verbs can seem like a big, tangled plate of spaghetti. Here's how to unravel them in under a minute. Now see if you can understand five real Spanish sentences using the same verb — try the interactive cards here: https://genius.synergyspanish.com/hable-i-spoke2/
Why You Can’t Speak Spanish (Even After Months of Practice)
You’ve probably tried to learn Spanish before. Maybe you downloaded the app. Built the streak. Did the lessons every day without fail. Felt good about the progress you were making. And then someone spoke Spanish to you. And nothing came out. Your mouth opened. Your mind went blank. The words you’d practiced a hundred [...]
How to “Fall Well” on Your Spanish Friends: Mastering “No Me Cae Bien”
Why this confusing Spanish expression is actually your secret weapon for natural conversations The Expression That Had Me Stumped In Spanish, people are constantly "falling well" or "falling badly" on each other. For the longest time, this had me completely confused. I'd hear it everywhere – in conversations with friends, in movies, and especially [...]
Adopt this mindset, speak Spanish faster
Spain has dominated global sports for much of this century. Their soccer teams have been among the world’s best. Rafael Nadal ruled tennis for decades. Now Carlos Alcaraz has taken the torch. And lately, UFC fighter Ilia Topuria has been taking the combat sports world by storm. But what really caught my attention wasn’t [...]
Trapped in an English-Speaking Bubble? Here’s How I Broke Free
I was living in a Spanish-speaking country but stuck not speaking enough Spanish? I was teaching English at the Universidad Ibero Americana, I couldn’t even hold a basic Spanish conversation. It made me feel like a fraud —a language teacher who was monolingual. The lack of Spanish also kept me from connecting with my [...]
Roll the Spanish snowball
20 years ago, I found myself in a Spanish-speaking country without any Spanish. I was recently married and desperately wanted to be able to communicate what was in my heart to my new wife, family, and friends. I wanted to fit in with my neighbors and the people I met in day-to-day life. And [...]
Find Your Spanish Voice
Have you ever felt lost in translation? Perhaps the true meaning of your thoughts got diluted when you tried to express them in another language? Spain’s latest sporting hero, Ilia Tupuria, is a fascinating case study. He is Spain's UFC featherweight champion. Despite his prowess in the ring, expressing his heart in English is [...]
Spanish Fun Travel & Adventures For You
Here’s an Instant Spanish series for you to get you speaking about fun, travel, and adventures, It has you speaking about… The most delicious coffee in the world in Guatemala. The most arid desert in the world in Chile The incredible glaciers and volcanoes of Argentina The biodiversity and nature of Costa Rica. It’s [...]
My name is Edmundo Ortega, I would like more about your offer for “Small Talk”, Is that a complete course or is just the start for being more familiar with the language?
I purchased Synergy Spanish back in 2005-6, before you offered the online options you do now. It got me through my Spanish Class as Top of the Class. I was even able to order breakfast from McDonalds, and after having been in line listening to the Spanish guys working there talk about those of us in-line whom they thought couldn’t understand what they were saying, when I got to the counter, and my Lilly-white self began ordering in Spanish, the workers faces grew pale. They then realized that I knew everything that they had been saying while I waited in line to order my breakfast. LOL, I guess they won’t be talking smack about us white people in the breakfast line anytime soon!
Anyway, I just wanted to say what an awesome system you have here, and I wish everyone taught it like you do. A gain, thanks. SK in VA.