This glues your Spanish together making it flow naturally and easily.
In the Sideways Spanish lesson # 3, also known as the world’s strangest Spanish lesson, I showed you that you can say a lot even with just one verb. The secret is adding some mortar to tie it all together.
The mortar words are simple, and very easy to learn. Yet, they give your Spanish a flow and an authentic flavor.
Here are all the mortar words used in the Sideways Spanish lesson 3.
Here’s a transcript of Sideways Spanish # 3.
And if you missed it here’s the original audio lesson.
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Hi,
Very informative, thank you.
Question: I have Synergy Spanish x8 and use your android app to access it. However it is not complete and stops at lesson 13b. I have spoken to one of your representatives some time ago but I’m still waiting for the missing section.
Is it available?
Roy
Yes, you should be able to get the complete course on the app. I’ll have Ava contact you to get it sorted out for you.
Thank you for the two courses i have competed and enabled me to communicate with spanish people . I now have many friends in Majorca and i also speak with seven people by Skype every week to maintain and improve my language ability.
This was very helpful. I always marvel on how to translate “to get” into Spanish.
Unfortunately, they don’t have a simple word for so many things like we do
in English. Vera
Thank for all of your help with my Spanish it has helped a lot
Estoy muy contenta de progresar con sus lecciones.
Muchísimas gracias por su ayuda y que vaya bien.
I wish the Sideways #3 lesson was a video that showed how the words were spelled.
Love every new step, they are interesting, rewarding and bring us one step further in a fun way!!!
Gracias
Very helpful. Claro, Conciso, Y bien expresado as usual. Gracias
Saludos
Saleem Khwaja
Awesome!
Gracias otra vez
I love your lessons, and have learnt a lot, over the last few weeks really have´nt had much time but will get organized in the new year. Thanks so much for your different way of teaching.
Thanks Marcus for the Sideways Spanish lessons. Please keep them coming.
I am also enjoying the Bola de Nieve course. Its great value for the price.
I would highly recommend it.
I have a Doctorate in Education, specializing in Adult Education at College Level.
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I’m note sure if I understand the comment but it sounds like a compliment, so, muchas gracias!
I find sideways spanish amazingly helpful as I move into southern Patagonia. It definitely
makes opening the mind to another language fun rather than an ordeal. Keep doing this and
you will be rewarded in ways you haven’t even imagined. I’m a writer with a book in progress
to be published in both Spanish and English thanks to my Bolivian translator and my ability to
communicate with her with a lot of help from sideways Spanish.
Thanks for the newsletters and i really enjoy your approach to learning Spanish.I speak Irish
and English. Al momento trato de aprender el Espanol y disfruto su metodo.
Nos vemos luego Sean o Maonaigh
Thank you Marcus, its going very well for me
i love it thank you
we will practice our spanish in equador next mounth
Thanks again Marcus Great
Thank you very much for letting me try your course. It is very helpful to find out what it is all about before purchasing.
Joyce
Hola marcus,
muchas gracias por lecciones. Pero tengo una problema – i cannot download the audio lesson for sideways spanish 3.. Please advise how i can do this.
Muchas gracias y un saludos !
Shahid
hi its me shamielia Simpson what is my next step
Hi,Marcus.It’s always been my dream to travel to spain and live there;when I came across your website two years ago,i was thrilled.and since then i’ve been learning so much in preparation for my journey to spain…i’m interested in your spanish ear training lessons that goes for $29.75 per month,but i’m having a bit of a challenge on how to pay.i’ve tried using paypal but it doesnt seem to work.pls help me out…how can I pay from here in Nigeria
Hola Marcus muchas gracias para todas las cosas que has hecho para la mucha gente.
He hecho unos cursos de espanol in Argel porque vivo in Argelia pero con su cursos he podido aprender muchas and muchas cosas.
una otra vez muchas gracias
Thank you so very much.
Marcus, I want to speak Spanish to be able to converse with my friends. Your lessons are helping me a lot. I took Spanish in high school so I remember a lot of words but need help putting them together. I have found the best way is just talking to my Spanish friends and with your help I can do this.
Thanks Linda
Querido Marcus, he aprendido mucho espanol con sus courses. Peudo hablar mucho mas espanol, pero todavia no entiendo mucho cuando la gente me habla. Todo hablan demasiado rapido. Thank you for all the extra lessons and help you give outside the actual course materials. Me encanta escribir en espanol aunque hay muchos errores. Creo que ayuda mi espanol, verdad? De todos modos, muchas gracias por su ayuda. Aundria
I am delighted with the lessons and am halfway through Synergy Spanish, having done Shortcut to Spanish 1. I also enjoy your emails and support which is something you don’t get with some lessons. I have to admit that if I hadn’t had some grammar training over the past years I would have struggled a bit, probably taken much longer. When I have finished the current course I am thinking of doing the Bola de Nieve, presumably that will cover different tenses. I can already hear that my pronunciation has improved.
Good work and continue your support.
Sylvia
I love the Spanish language and am trying to learn on my own. I always find it interesting how all languages are connected. I think if you have a good grasp of your mother tongue you will find other languages easy to learn.
I like the mortar words. Really enjoy this lesson.
I’m going to start an ESL crse next week in hopes of going to another country to teach English and I”m hoping it will be a place where they speak Spanish.
Cheers
thanks you very much for all the spanish!
Hola Marcus,
I have bought some of your programs but up till now haven,t started them because I have been studying Spanish with The Open University in Great Britain.I finish this course on September 27th.Then I shall start my course I bought from you and will be working hard on your course for four months.I think I will learn more in four months than I have in a year with the “OU”.My spoken Spanish is very poor I need more fluency and intonation.So I shall be looking forward to the next four months.
Hasta luego
Jeff
i enjoyed listening…educational in easy way…
Hi Marcus,
I have downloaded all your Spanish lessons, I love it, please keep them coming you are making the differance for me. I have lived in Spain for ten years and it is only because of your audios that has given me the confidence to speak the language. I have studied it for years, I understand a lot but speaking by repeating the audios is what I needed.
hi marcus i just love your way of teaching very easy even the voices makes me feel good i just cant wait to be abel to talk to all my spanish friends i just need more practice on all the little link words to the best teacher in the world your student dave byrne
The transcrpt of the mortar words does not load.
The audio tips for the Bola de Neive Modulo 11 lessions 3 & 4 not yet available.
The sideways 3 does not download.
Otherwise the best Spanish lessions around.
Hola marcus,
I am sorry but I can not open th efile called:
Here are all the mortar words used in the Sideways Spanish lesson 3.
The audio and the transcript is OK. Is something wrong with my computadora or …?
Me gustaria tenerlo.
Saludos
Elisabeth
Hola Marcus
Was it a deliberate error to see who was awake?
In Sideways Spanish 3 Transcript you have “I get out at five” as “salgo a las cuartro”
Otherwise very enjoyable.
Regards,
Carole
Thank you for your Sideway lesson.
It is very useful to make sentance and talking using one verb.
And also very easy and take short time to learn Spanish.
Muchas Gracias profesor Santamaria, sus lecciones ‘sideways y glue’ estuvieron tan util. Tambien su sitio web es muy amistoso. Me gusta mucha.
saludas Justin.
nice work