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Aprende español en 5 minutos... and stop being a beginner!Short podcasts for Spanish beginner students. You will find short grammar explanations, tips to learn Spanish from the beginning, advice to pass DELE exam and other recommendations and useful information to stop being a beginner just in 5 minutes every monday and thursday. Visit my webpage (https://learnspanishbeginner.com) to know more about me as a Spanish teacher, blogger and podcaster and, of course, to improve your Spanish!
Episódios
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27. Problematic Spanish sounds and letter (VI): "C" and "Z" (Spanish version)
27/05/2019 Duração: 03minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! As I told you in the previous podcast, we discovered a new problematic sound in Spanish that comes from the letter "C". Remember that C+A+O+U sounds as CAT (casa, correr, culebra), but when it meets with E or I it sounds like thing in the north Spanish variation (CENAR, CIEN) or with S sound in the American and south Spanish variation (SENAR, SIEN). And also, remember that if you want pronounce the vowels E or I as Cat, you must change the C letter for the QU sound: QUIEN, QUERER. However, to the sound C+E+I we must add a new one: the sound of the letter "Z".
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26. Problematic Spanish sounds and letters (V): Why "C" doesn't get well with "E" or "I"
23/05/2019 Duração: 03minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! In this podcast, we are going to face with a new problematic sound in Spanish. And, again, it happens because of this two troublemaker vowels "E" and "I". As you listened to in the podcast 23 with the consonant "G", the consonant "C" also doesn't get well with these two vowels.
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25. Problematic Spanish sounds and letters (IV): Velarization and aspiration
20/05/2019 Duração: 02minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! In the previous podcast, you heard one of the most difficult sounds in Spanish: the velarization sound /X/ that you must pronounced everytime that you find a word written with "J" (jota, like, for example: JAMÓN, EJEMPLO, JIRAFA, JOTA, JUGAR) or with G+E or plus +I, for example GITANO (gipsy) or GENERAL (general). But, there is other similar sound called "aspiration" and its pronunced in some areas of south of Spain and America....
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24. Problematic Spanish sounds and letters (III): "G" and "J"
16/05/2019 Duração: 02minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! In the previous podcast, I told you what happen when "G" meets with E and I. I told you that you must pronounce this sonud as velarization /X/ and not as an English /G/ because this is the sound that you will find with the rest of the vowels. Besides, I told you that you can also find the combination GU+E or GU+I, that sounds the same as English as well. But, in this podcast, you will listen that it is not so easy at it seems...
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23. Problematic Spanish sounds and letters (II): Why "G" does not get well with "E/I"
13/05/2019 Duração: 03minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! In this third podcast about orthography and pronunciation problematic letters, we are going to see how vowels "E" and "I" can make pronunciation troubles when combines with some consonants. In the next podcasts I will tell you which consonants are problematic when they meet with E and I vowels. But, in this one, we are going to listen to the first of this consonants: "G".
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22. Problematic Spanish sounds and letters (I): "B" and "V"
09/05/2019 Duração: 02minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! We are going to begin with a serie of podcasts about varieties and particularities between pronunciation and ortography in Spanish. And we are going to begin, with an easy one: vamos a empezar con una fácil: the distinction between two letters but the same sound: B and V.
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21. ¿Is Spanish pronounced in the same way as is it written?
06/05/2019 Duração: 03minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com Is it said that Español is written in the same way as it is pronounced, so, es decir, that if you know the basic pronunciation rules of Spanish, you will be able to read perfectly any text. However, eso NO es del todo verdad (it's not absolutely true). I explain you why in this podcast
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20. Three important questions for your Spanish teacher
02/05/2019 Duração: 02minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/3-important-questions-for-your-spanish-teacher/ This month of Abril, I've been helping you with your first encuentro with your new Spanish teacher. · I gave you some advice about how to find the best teacher, · how to be polite when you contact with him · or about the importance about negotiate your short and long term objective with him · as well as if you want to focused on fluency or accuracy, depending on your needs but also on your teacher ones. In this podcast, I will become student. I will think what three questions I would need to ask to my teacher the first time during my first lesson, and will be this ones.
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19. Fluency vs. Accuracy
29/04/2019 Duração: 02minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com Bienvenida o bienvenida my dear beginner... Whats better, being able to talk with extremately fluency despite making mistakes word after word or having an extremly accuracy in your Spanish but needing making pauses after 3 o 4 words? In this podcast we are going to talk about fluency and accuracy, two aspects that you need to take into account in your learning process. As a teacher, I prepare lessons that are focused on accuracy, for example formal exercises in which we focused on the structure of any grammar exponent, and focused on fluency, for example exersises in which you are inmersed in any role-play situation and you must acomplish some communicative goals. Also, in my first trial lesson I talk about corrections. I ask to my student if he prefers to be corrected constanly, how he wants to be corrected, when and what. I also explain him that there will be momen
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18. Short and long term objectives to learn Spanish
25/04/2019 Duração: 03minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com These month I'm talking about how you can begin to learn Spanish choosing the best Spanish teacher online. Some consecuenques of this succeed, came from when you are aware of where you are right now and where you want to begin to walk to. TRANSCRITPION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/set-long-and-short-term-goals-in-spanish/
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17. The more polite you are, the more you will learn
22/04/2019 Duração: 02minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com Bienvenido o bienvenida my dear beginner... TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/the-more-polite-you-are-the-more-you-will-learn-ep-17/
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16. Tips to choose a good online Spanish teacher
18/04/2019 Duração: 04minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/tips-choose-online-spanish-teacher/ BIenvenido o bienvenida my dear beginner... Are you learning Spanish throout Skype or Zoom? Have you decided to this language with a Spanish teacher? Do not have anyone yet but you are considering to begin with online lessons? In this podcast I am not going to recommend you why you need a qualifed teacher in your Spanish leaning process, especialmente when you are a beginner; if not listen podcast number 2 and you will understand why is so important to have qualified guidance during your first steps learning a new language.
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15. Spanish verbs (Basics V): Presente -ER/-IR verbs
15/04/2019 Duração: 04minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/spanish-verbs-basics-v-presente-de-indicativo-er-ir-verbs/ Bienvenido o bienvenida my dear beginner In the previous podcast, I explained you a basic and easy method to create your first verb in Spanish: CANTAR or to sing. That was the most common infinitive verb that you will find in SPANISH, I mean, verbs that end in -AR (ei ar) But, what happen with the other endings? Well, today we will continue with COMER (to eat), ending -ER (i ar). So, follow the same method as the last time and write again the Spanish pronouns and delete -ER this time. You will have a new word: COM (ci ou em). Write it next to your pronouns again. Escucha con atención Yo comO (the same as canto, add -O) Tú comes (add - E) Él or ella come Nosotros or nosotras comemos Vosotros or vosotras coméis Ellos or ellas comen As you can notice, is t
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14. Spanish verbs (Basics IV): Presente -AR verbs
11/04/2019 Duração: 03minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/presente-spanish-verbs-ar/ Do you remember which three endings we can find in Spanish verbs? Do you remember which three kind of "infiinitivos" we can find in Spanish? If not escucha again (otra vez) the previous podcast because we need this information to be able to create our first spanish verbs in presente. ¿Ready? Pues empecemos. 1. Take a pice of paper or use your telephone, tablet... anyway, whatever you can write something on and write our well-known personal pronouns: from YO until ELLAS or ELLOS. You can forget USTED or USTEDES this time. You can pause this podcast while you write them; I will wait here (esperaré). 2. We are goint to take el verbo CANTAR (to sing). Which Ending is it?... exactly... -AR. So, we are going to take this verb and we are going to delete -AR. Which word there is now? CANT. Write CANT
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13. Spanish verbs (Basics III): Three endings, three infinitives
08/04/2019 Duração: 02minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/spanish-infinitive-verbs/ You must know that in Spanish we have, from the grammar aspect, three kind of verbs that ends in three different ways. So, if you learn these endings right now, you will be able to conjugate cualquier (any) verb whatever tense is it. Escucha con atención. 1. There are verbs that ends in -AR (jugar-to play, cantar - to sing, hablar - to speak, andar - to walk). This is the most common conjugation in Spanish. So, the most of verbs that you find in Spanish end in -AR. 2. The second group are verbs that ends in -ER (comer-to eat, leer-to read, ser- to be). 3. And finally, there is a last group of verbs that ends in -IR (vivir, to live domir - to sleep or, simplir -ir to go). En resumen, three verbs in Spanish, three endings, three kinds of infinitive verbs. If you can recognize from now, every
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12. Spanish verbs (Basics II): Usted y ustedes
04/04/2019 Duração: 04minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/usted-ustedes/ In the last podcast I explain you the 10 personal pronouns that we have in Spanish or, at least, in the northen Spanish variation that I speak and that I teach to my students. But, we must add two more: USTED and USTEDES. If you are used to listen American Spanish, you probabily hearded this two pronouns many times in different communicative situations. TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/usted-ustedes/
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11. Spanish verbs (Basics I): personal pronouns
01/04/2019 Duração: 04minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com This month, Abril, I have prepared you a few podcasts related to verbs. Don't worry (No te preocupes) because we are going to begin from the beginning, my dear beginner. TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/spanish-personal-pronouns/
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10 Tú, vosotros, usted, ustedes y vos
28/03/2019 Duração: 04minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/spanish-pronouns-tu-vosotros-usted-ustedes-vos/ Wait, wait... are you saying that in Spanish there are so many pronouns to refer to someone? What happens in America? Which one do I have to choose to talk with my Spanish friends?
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09 Connect and review your Spanish
25/03/2019 Duração: 03minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/connect-and-review-spanish-ep-9/ Your Spanish learning process consists in 3 steps: introduce new content, practise it first in a formal way and then in communicative situations and, finally, review it again and again. Learning is not a insolated process, but a process that connect new elements with others that you had learned before.
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08 El seseo
21/03/2019 Duração: 03minWebpage: https://learnspanishbeginner.com My lessons: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/lessons-prices/ Email: info@learnspanishbeginner.com TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/el-seseo-ep-8/ Sssssss.....ssssssss....sabesssss... que es.... el ssseeeseeoo?? Do you know what's seseo? Phonologic variation in Spanish in which the sound C sounds S. This is something that happen in some parts of Spain, such in some areas of Andalucías or Canary Islands, and of couse, is something generalized in America. Instead of saying CANCION (song)... seseo speakers say CANSION. Instead of saying CAZAR (to hunt) they sey CASAR (something that sounds like to get married). You will say that it's easy to be a seseante speaker. But the "s" of seseante spekar and the "s" of not seseante speaker are different. The S of a not seseante speaker is called apicoalveolar and it's pronunced with the top of your tongue close to your teeth. By the contraste, the seseantes speakers and the "predorsal" s that it's pronunced