Back in 2000, when I was 35, I promised myself I would get by in Spanish antes de cumplir 36 años(before turning 36 years old).
After trying classes, textbooks and courses I still wasn’t able to keep that promise to myself.
If only Synergy Spanish was available back then keeping my promise would have been easy.
5 years earlier I made another promise for when I turned fifty.
The future has arrived y tengo que cumplir mi promesa(and I have to keep my promise).
En aquel entonces(back then) this day seemed so far in the future that would never come.
Pero ha llegado, acabo de cumplir 50 años.
But it has arrived. I just turned 50 years old.
FIFTY!
Hay caramba it sure has come around quickly.
I’m excited though.
I’ve got some great plans for the next decade. The first cab off the rank is a doozy.
A trip to Sydney para cumplir mi palabra(in order to keep my word) with my two great friends.
An off the cuff idea 20 years ago has given me and my two mates(that’s the Aussie for amigos) an opportunity for a wonderful life experience.
Just before my 30th birthday we made a pact that between the first and last of our 50th birthdays, wherever we were in the world, we would get together for a reunion.
Not only are we getting together I’ve come up with a killer idea for me y los muchachos(and the boys).
In my next email I’ll tell you about it. I reckon it’ll get your juices flowing the way it does mine.
Plus, I’ll tie it to an easy Spanish sentence starter any English speaker can use right away to speak more conversationally.
I promise!
And I am definitely in the mood to cumplir mis promesas.
Yes, cumplir is my word of the moment.
I am keeping a promise and turning 50, and in Spanish the verb cumplir is used for to keep a promise and to have a birthday.
Acabo de cumplir 50 años.
I just turned 50 years old.
Tengo que cumplir mi promesa.
I have to keep my promise.
The subtleties of Spanish with words like cumplir has inspired me to create a new concept called “Synergy Spanish Conversation Connections.”
The first episode makes it easy to use cumplir just like a native Spanish speaker.
And the next video, which I’ll send you en unos pocos días(in a few days), you’ll use an easy language pattern that lets you…
Tell your amigos what you are about to do.
This Spanish language pattern is so natural for English speakers to use you’ll be able to speak with it instantly.
Even if you are a raw beginner the speak-to-learn video system has you saying it all in flowing sentences.
I’ll send it shortly
Hasta entonces(until then)
I am greatful everyday for having found you. The first year or so I had no money and you kept me involved with neewsletters and free videos. Bless you .I am doing a little better and am able to pay for some thing. Good lluck on the Sydney Bridge y feliz compleanous
I have taken several Spanish classes and I would probably be considered an intermediate learner, if applied to my reading and writing skills, however, my listening skills fall far below that and my speaking skills are somewhere in between.
What do you recommend?
Thank you
Vikki
Take a look at Spanish Ear Training:
http://www.spanisheartraining.com/
Excellent teaching method! Wanted to learn speaking the language approximately 40 years ago and since listening to you I have improved and am enjoying the method used. Keep up the good work.
Great, thank you,
Saudis,
Maree
Great! Hope I can receive more of these. Thanks
Enjoying the lessons Marcus! Keep them coming!
Very good, Marcus – nice and easy. thank you.
This looks like a great idea.
Hi Marcus,
When I get these extra lessons, I make a little sticker note for the frige of the main points to learn and make sure I know it well by the end of the day. A good trick that helps! 🙂
Great course Marcus, thank you.
Opened it to take a look and couldn´t stop!
You make me believe it can be easy.
What a gift.
Hello Marcus: I’ve taken just about all of your Spanish courses, including Bola de Nieve, which I am working on right now. I am very thankful that you have these lessons as I am learning Spanish by leaps and bounds. I have retired in Costa Rica and have been living here for almost two years now. To be honest, Costa Ricans have many of their own expressions, totally different from Mexican Spanish. For example, they call a car “carro” here, not “coche”. Another, eyeglasses, are anteojos here while you use “gafas”. Fortunately, I am a native French speaker, so I have a huge advantage in that many French words can easily be transformed into Spanish words without much effort. Nevertheless, your Spanish lessons are invaluable. I just wanted to thank you.
Thanks again dear teacher
Marcus,
Voy a cumplir sesenta y seis anos en Junio. Hay solamente diesiseis dias desde comienzo synergyspanishsystems.com. Ahora, ya puedo empezar a cumplir mi sueno: hablar con mis muchos latinos amigos. Felicitaciones! Sus lecciones son las mejores.
Muchas Gracias,
Su estudiante,
Reynald
PS Por favor perdoname los accentes!
Thank you very much
Hi Marcus it is so nice to have spoken Spanish to learn. I do struggle a bit but many words my Spanish friends do understand.
Thank you
Felicidades Marcus – y muchísimas gracias por su cursos maravillosos. When I lived in Sydney, my two little sisters games to stay from the UK. We were looking at Sydney HB from my balcony and Josy said – do you go over the bridge? I said yes, a little surprised. You’re very brave, she replied. And we then discovered that she thought everyone drove up and down the humps!!
When they were building the bridge a lady wrote a letter of complaint to the newspaper saying that her horse couldn’t possibly make it over that arch.
Happy birthday and thank you for giving me the presents !
Muchas gracias Senor Marcus
Hola Marcus,
He estado estudiando español cerca ocho semanas con tu leccions libre. Ellos son muy buenos y estoy muy feliz con mí progreso.
Muchas Gracias,
Felipe Koch
Congratulations, Marcus, and best wishes for your next 5 decades (at least) and many thanks for the Spanish lessons! I believe that your 50’th birthday was unforgettable. Still I hope, that every of the coming birthdays will be equally worth of remembering, and I also hope that they will be on number of tens.
Thank You Marcus for what you are doing for all of us that dream to speak Spanish one day.Happy Belated Birthday Day and God Bless.
Happy Birthday and enjoy Sydney!
Thank you Marcus,
I do appreciate your emails very much. My dream is to speak spanish, so I must keep at it.
Regards. Have a wonderful birthday and year!
Feliz cumpleaños, Marcus, y lo deseo el mejor en los 50 años a venir !!!
Gracias por su amabilidad y las proximas lecciones. Son los mejores.
¡Feliz cumpleaños! Practico español todos los días ahora. Gracias por su curso.
Nikki
Hasta luego muy amable
I hope you enjoy your trip in Sydney and gracias for all you do for us,
Louise
I live in La Serena, Chile and want to improve my spanish
I love these videos and look forward to the next series
I am slow to learn Spanish at 65 years but I have learned a lot in a year from your
synergy spanish course.
Muchas gracias
Hasta lluego
Salud
Wow, You turned 50 and are going to climb the Sydney Bridge. Happy Birthday! Be careful! One’s body is not as supple as it used to be.
I turned 68 in March.
My iPad will not type Spanish so I must write this in English.
siempre es bueno a practicar mi español porque voy frecuente a méxico.
Dear Marcus I was very glad to hear from you. in the meantim I finished the coures “short cut to spanish” and I andvens in studying the corses “Sinergy Spanish” until than I am very thankful to you. HASTA LUEGO
Really enjoy these. Keep them coming. Hasta luego.
keep going !! its working.
I like this way to learn English AND Spanish, both same time!
I am learning and never giving up.
Good stuff. Thank for all the little hints
Thanks
Your announcements using interspersed
English and Spanish are exceptional in painting the enticing picture of what this eager student awaits. What a wordy way to say – thanks for all your good work.
Thank you for your easy to learn and practical phrases. I replay your video several times and then I confidently express myself in public. Your teaching style matches perfectly with my 61-year-old learning style.
Garcia
Thank you this helps me even though I have been teaching myself Spanish for 6 p años.I am trying to stop reading so much and build the confianzar Yo need. Smile
Happy Birthday, Marcus!
You have done a great job helping many people with their Spanish. It’s a breakthrough..
~Good luck with the BIG ADVENTURE!!~
~Keep safe~
El clima aqui en Inglaterra es muy bonito hoy. Gracias a ti, puedo decir eso.
Me gustaria ayudar a mi pareja y mis amigas y amigos de Bolivia como a aprender Ingles. Tengo la esperanza de encontrar un sistema similar a su Inglés a español. ¿Podría usted optar por hacer un poco asi un dia? ¿Le gustaría que yo trabajara en eso para usted? Me gusta la idea de hacer el mismo pero enfrente en los dos idiomas.
Is this of any interest to you? I think your system is unique and excellent. I have told many about it. Thank you.
Might you know of a similar course for Spanish speakers to learn English? Maybe you are offering such a course already? May I ask if you will be doing such an Spanish to English course? I hope so! THANK YOU. !!!!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
Susan
Creo que la expresión es ´´Ay, caramba´´ en lugar de ´´Hay, caramba´´.
Disfruto mucho de sus lecciones.
Un saludo.
Hno. Matias
I’ll give it a go
Your approach has been helpful as I learn conversation in Spanish. I appreciate the hints and shortcuts that you have taught
It’s funny how you listen now words seem to pop out at you which I take as being an initial step to it starting to come together. How exciting!
Hola Liz aqui,
Muchas gracias por el videos gratis. Bueno Marcus.
Salud Liz.
I live in Costa Rica every other month. I learned a lot from your emails. It is amazing how your sentence structure is right on point. Keep them coming and thank you very much.
Feeling inspired after this lesson not least that it was a highly relevant subject matter! Really want to have the confidence to converse and understand the language I love to hear others speak and understand so more please 🙂
I am enjoying your course immensely and find myself thinking of sentences in Spanish.