355 episodes
LearnCraft Spanish Timothy Moser
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4.9 • 445 Ratings
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Learn Spanish, step by step! LearnCraft Spanish is a proven system that will teach you how to learn Spanish fluently, from the ground up. Starting with a foundation of core Spanish grammar and the most common Spanish vocabulary, Timothy will guide you through the essential steps to speaking and understanding fluent Spanish like a native speaker. If you're a serious Spanish learner and you want to make deep, personal connections with the native Spanish speakers in your life, the LearnCraft Spanish podcast is for you. Join us on a rigorous, fulfilling journey to Spanish fluency.
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1: How To Learn Spanish Fluently
Learn Spanish, step by step! Welcome to LearnCraft Spanish, a proven system that will teach you how to learn Spanish fluently. Starting with a foundation of core Spanish grammar and the most common Spanish vocabulary, Timothy will guide you through the essential steps to speaking and understanding fluent Spanish like a native speaker. If you're a serious Spanish learner and you want to make deep, personal connections with the native Spanish speakers in your life, the LearnCraft Spanish podcast is for you. Join us on a rigorous, fulfilling journey to Spanish fluency.
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2: Core Spanish Grammar for Fluency
What’s the key to speaking Spanish fluently, spontaneously, and effortlessly? Mastering core Spanish grammar.
To learn how to speak Spanish fluently, we need to start by mastering the structures and elements that make Spanish different from English. Today we’ll learn some essential Spanish grammar and do some spoken grammar exercises to make it stick.
After this foundational work, Spanish grammar will get easier and easier — and Spanish fluency will be all downhill! -
3: The Words That Will Make You Fluent in Spanish
To become fluent in Spanish, you have to learn connecting words!
Today we’re talking about conjunctions, particularly the words que and y, and how they help hold the whole Spanish language together and create fluent flow.
We’ll also learn why conjunctions are even more important in Spanish than in English, based on a special rule about Spanish verbs.
After this episode, you’ll know how to use the most common word in the Spanish language, getting you one step closer to thinking in Spanish.
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4: Learn These 3 Spanish Words To Start Thinking in Spanish
Some Spanish words are more important than others! Today we’ll talk about how you can start *thinking* in Spanish by choosing the right words to work on. We will focus on some of the highest-leverage words in the language — three words that comprise 8% of the Spanish language by themselves.
After we practice with these words, you’ll soon be able to start forming sentences like a native Spanish speaker.
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5: Spanish Quizzing and the Testing Effect
Time to practice your Spanish out loud!
Today we’ll learn about the number one way to solidify a new language in your brain — and we’ll get to put it into practice right away. If you follow this one tip, you’ll be fluent in Spanish faster than you ever thought possible.
Let’s put everything we’ve learned so far into Spanish practice, out loud.
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6: Spanish Pronunciation Tips
To learn fluent Spanish, you can’t just memorize words — you also have to master Spanish pronunciation.
Today I present my top tips for pronouncing Spanish sounds authentically. Here’s the first tip: To develop your own “Spanish voice”, make sure to do the pronunciation exercises, out loud, throughout this episode!
Customer Reviews
Great structure and process to learn Spanish
I’ve been trying to learn Spanish for years and nothing seem to resonate with me. I would try to pick up words and sentences but not be able to converse clearly. I love how Timothy in this podcast is teaching us grammar and filler words first. It makes so much sense! I’m excited to dive deeper and see how fast fluency come to me learning in a way that makes sense.
Unique and effective learning approach
After listening to the first three episodes, several things stuck out to me as unique about LearnCraft Spanish's approach to learning Spanish. First of all, the "food" test/"eat" or "ate" test is very unique and even sounds weird or laughable at first. But I like it--it's something you wouldn't necessarily be taught in school, but simplifies it so much. The second thing that stood out to me is that Timothy discourages learners from starting with vocabulary that won't necessarily be used right off the bat. Instead he encourages students to learn words like "que" and "eso" that are the most common words in the language rather than starting with basic conversation topics as you normally would when learning Spanish in school as a kid, like how to order at a restaurant or get by in an airport in a Spanish-speaking country...but only with memorized sentences and vocabulary, not with the ability to make sentences from scratch if the conversation naturally took a turn! I also really like how LearnCraft forces learners to tackle the most difficult parts of Spanish first, to avoid feeling intimidated later on. It's kind of a tough love approach, which really appeals to me because feeling discouraged or even "dumb" has been my downfall--as Timothy said, the best way to conquer that is to face it head-on, early on. Finally, I appreciate how this podcast emphasized the importance of establishing what makes Spanish and English different, rather than focusing on similarities. In school we often concentrated on the sentence structures that were easiest for us to learn because they were similar to English sentence structures, or took special note of cognates. But this isn't necessarily helpful and again, sometimes leads to learners feeling dense or dumb because Spanish suddenly seems much more difficult. Even if I don't win the contest I'm interested in exploring these methods so I can make some real progress in feeling more confident speaking Spanish.
Unlike any other language course I’ve seen and I love it!
“Timothy’s use of memory practices is something I have never come across in a language course and it works wonders! It’s helping me in other areas outside of Spanish as well. And the approach of learning the most used words and sentence structure first is also new to me and makes so much sense!! The short lessons are jam packed but not overwhelming and makes me look forward to doing them. Highly recommend!”
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