…and Spanish is a romantic language.
I have a special Spanish Valentine’s Day lesson for you today.
Along with Italian, French Portuguese and Romanian, Spanish is a romance language.
Yes, the term romance is about Spanish deriving from the language of the Romans, but it is also a romantic sound.
So, in honor of St Valentine’s Day this year, I have created a special Spanish lesson for February 14.
Many of the sentences structures use the Synergy verb, Brick verb and Mortar Word patterns form Synergy Spanish.
But even if you haven’t done that course, you’ll still be able to get a lot from this lesson.
And if you have done Synergy Spanish, you’ll see just how easy it is to talk about any theme you want with the patterns you already know.
Here’s the first Spanish that you’ll hear from Elena just before you start interacting with the video and speaking Spanish.
El Día de San Valentín es una celebración tradicional en la que los amigos, enamorados, novios o esposos expresan su amor o cariño mutuamente. Se celebra el 14 de febrero. En algunos países se llama Día de los Enamorados y en otros Día del Amor y la Amistad.
Here’s the translation
St Valentine’s Day is a traditional celebration in which the friends, lovers, boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives mutually express their love and affection.
It is celebrated on the 14th of February. In some countries it is called day of the lovers and in others day of the love and the friendship.
…and here’s your video lesson
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Muchas gracias, Marcus, se usted fantastico
Me encanta la leccion!!
Por favor ayudame I want to learn Spanish
Sorry that silly words are written when we try to communicate in Spanish.
Thank you for reminding us of the phrases…es que and por eso.
cooperacion es una cooleboracion no es una confrontacion
Gracias por su coperaciones
Por favor ayudame I want to learn Spanish
Good stuff. Are you going to put these in a form so that they may be downloaded?
Thanks.
Excelente!!!!! Marcos
Muchas gracias
oh muchas gracias Marcus
Gracias por lescion por el dia de San Valentin’.
¡Y muchas gracias, Elena! ¡Es usted fantástica también!
¡Muchas gracias, Marcus! ¡Es usted fantástico!
Muchas gracias Elena y Markus, que ambos son muy amables!!!
Adios
Johan
This was my best valentine present. Thank you!
quite interesting and easy to learn. gracias
Very fine work. It is very clear.
thanks marcus for your nice gift
Excellent, Marcus! Many thanks. Are these lessons available as downloads? It would be great to listen to them in my car while driving.
Very Helpful
Hi Marcus.
I received your St. Valentines lessons #1 & #2. They don’t download individualy like your other
lessons before these. Maybe I just don’t know to down these videos.
Thanks, Frank
very good and topical subject for today, thank you.
Thank you Marcus. It is the se, comos and algunos that are bypassed in my Spanish course here in Spain. My teacher is wonderful but his passion for verbs leaves me high and dry when trying to construct a sentence. I am already enrolled in your longer course which I am saving up for the summer vacation but these freebies are perfect bricks and mortars in the meantime. Leo
Thank you Marcus
Because of this lesson I was able to leave little Spanish Valentines around the house for my Spanish husband.
Fun
Saundra
Muchas Gracias Marcus!
Gracias otra vez Marcus. Gracias a ti puedo hablar mucho mas con mis familiares, que viven en El Peru’, y entiendo lo que me dicen. Que te celebra un buen dia de San Valentine con tu familia.
Many thanks Marcus, have just learnt some new phrases from your St Valentines Day lesson,
and I have been learning Spanish now for 2 years
Jean Girard
Thank you Marcus. It was a beautiful lesson ,I enjoyed it a lot and I learned a lot. You are very generous with your free lessons which are a wonderful addition to my Synergy Spanish I am doing now.
Excellent gracias
Bueno! Gracias
My wife & I were married on St Valentines Day so to be able to impress my wife in speaking about our special anniversary in Spanish went down very well. I do find speaking Sp anish now a lot easier.
Thanks
Brian
No video to listen to
Thank you it will certainly help on this holiday period in Panama
Have a nice day on el dia de San Valentin
gracias Marcus
Louise
Excellent lessons gracias Marcus
Dear Marcus! Thanks a lot!!!
Really nice bonus lesson Marcus. I greatly appreciated it.
Very good. Enjoyed the lessons.
Thank you so much for another excellent audio that once again is propelling me towards a greater understanding of Spanish and how it is spoken by ordinary folk as per the use of ‘por eso’ and es que’. these useful combinations are what is missing in most language courses. Gracias amigo mio.
Muchas gracias por las lecciones.. Están muy beneficiales.
Deseo aprender in English , no español o el idioma Español. hoy trabaje “Greeting in Ingles” deseo aprenderlo a escuchar y pronunciarlo correctamente y lógicamente la organización de las oraciones, con la adecuada conjugación de verbos y buen uso de los pronombres personales.¡Thank You! .
Me agrado:-
1.- Para realizar una tarjeta mañana con mis alumnos sobre ” Happy Valentine·s Day”
What are you going to do on St Valentines day?
The day of St. Valentine.
St. Valentine day.
Excellent lessons re St Valentine’s day. Especially liked the use of ‘es que’ the thing is and ‘por eso’ for that.. Muy bien.
Very well done, I enjoy the short lesson of valentine day in spanish.
Thanks Very much.
Sam.
Estimado Señor,
Gracias mil por los lecciones. Un dia, cuando econtro dinero en el sofå ,voy a compar la bola de los nieves. A poposito…I used to work with a bunch of old campsinos who complained that their achs and pains were a result of ‘la bola de los años’.
gracias otra vez.
Muy bien! Thanks for the boost and just in time to share it with others!
Muchas gracias Marcus. Your lessons are really appreciated.
Hola Marcos
Muchas gracias por las lecciones.
thank you very enjoyable
muchas gracies otra vez.:)
Hi Marcus and Eleana,
Perfect. The accent with the spoken word. The written text. I need both to penetrate this old brain.
Many thanks much appreciated and enjoyed.
I particularly like phrases like “Can’t see the wood for the trees”. Is this expression actually used by the Spanish?
Best wishes.
Dianne
Yes, the expression is used in Spanish also.
Hi Marcus,
Thank you for your e.mails, they are a great help especially with se. Which I am slowly begging to understand how and when to use it. My listening and speaking is improving all the time.
Helen Harris
Muchas Gracias Marcus por los dos videos de Dia de San Valentine.
Como la mayoria de sus estudiantes, estoy encantado aprender español con usted. Eres un fabuloso profesor de español. De hecho, eres lo mejor.
He sido su estudiante desde hace 4 años. Hace algunos meses, empece a escuchar ‘La Radio de las Naciones’ en el Internet, todos los dias. Finalmente, puedo comprender y entender quasi todas las palabras.
Desafortunadamente, yo sé que todavia hablo demasiado lento. Ahora, me gustaria hablar español con alguien o por los menos, escribir con otra persona. Yo creo que la mejor manera de aprender un idioma es: escuchar y hablar. Me gustaria pasar unos meses en España para practicar lo que he aprendido de sus cursos. Tal vez unos dias!
May I use this space to encourage anyone older than 74 (like me) to continue learning this wonderful language. With Marcus as our teacher, we cannot fail. It may takes us a little longer but the rewards are plenty.
Eres maravilloso.
Danielle