Want to thank me? Buy me a coffee www.buymeacoffee.com/qroo The Book That Propelled my Spanish amzn.to/3yOpO95 How I Became Fluent in Spanish kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r6ilpJCCq7qXj2w.html

She's great!! You want to stick around? Ummm NO! I love the honesty, come back anytime...

23 years married to a Native Spanish Speaker... So now we know why you really speak such good Spanish 😂😂😂

I love how she casually said no. You have such a sweet and lovely partner. It's really adorable how you two speak to each other with such patience

"Do you wanna hang around while I tell them? "No." 🤣🤣🤣

Listening to music and reading the lyrics of Spanish (or any language) songs will help you become familiar with the subjunctive form of the verb. Sing along with the lyrics and you will be able to exercise the muscles of your mouth, but you must sing aloud.

I was wondering if your wife would be willing to talk more about her experience of learning English as a child? My kids are 8 and 10 and they have just started attending school in Spain a few weeks ago with very little knowledge of Spanish. I'd be really interested to hear her insights if she were up for talking about it in a video.

My friend.. you are one of the best spanish teachers online ive come across and ive come across so many

I don't know why...but "I don't have my glasses on" was the funniest😂

Gracias por compartir tu método eficaz de aprender español.👍 Unos ejemplos para practicar: PONGÁMONOS = Let's put on ... LLOVER = to rain Pongámonos nuestros impermeables por si (acaso) llueve. Pongámonos nuestros impermeables en caso de que llueva.

Paul teaches for what is, to me, the correct reason. Teaching clarifies and validates what he knows. Beautiful stuff.

This is so helpful! I’m also married to a Colombian and he always says I don’t know why we use that specific word it just feels right.

Thanks for the videos,I always learn a lot!

Great to see Linda again. Great lesson as always.

Love your videos keep up the great work!

Your videos are always so helpful. Thank you for sharing!

Another great vid with excellent advice. Thanks!

This makes SO much sense, Paul! I’m hooked on your vids and method. Keep up the good work!

nos encantan los videos con linda

Developing an ear for the language. What a wonderful thing, when it happens. And when it happens, you may not know WHY you know you must put a particular word in a particular place, you just know you should do it because it sounds right.

Thanks Paul once again - and greetings from this side of the pond (Derbyshire England) too

Your strategy makes sense.

Hi Linda. Nice to see you. Thanks for the help.

It all comes in levels. I found that as i listen to more and more people its like the words magically started making sense. What used to sound like jibberish became distinct words and sounds with actual syllables. Lol. My last name might be latino or even brasilian but i didnt grow up speaking spanish. For anyone at the lower levels of learning it is really a difficult task to learn a whole new language but its so worth it and when you talk to people in their own language you automatically disolve any cultural barriers. Usually i should say. Not everyone wants to talk to you. I always compare it to starting a new job. You have to learn everyones name but after a while you just have to learn the new hires. Especially the music. The family of spanish speaking people across the world have some amazing music.

I'm glad that you have kept going! Hi Miss Linda! My Leasing Agent is second generation Hispanic/ American citizen. She is very intelligent and is super fluent in her bilingualism.

Thank you. Qroo Paul. I think that would be an amazing compliment to receive.

Gracias Paul !

Just wanted to THANK YOU so much for your instruction! Your videos are a blessing!

up and her “it’s just normal” really make me look Jr your videos all the more!!

Omg, I love her! And as always, killing it with these lesson! Thanks. 🙏🏻

Great comments and observations of sentence construction!!!!

When I commented that a certain video was in my top twenty, I meant the top twenty of all YOUR videos. You know what English native speakers need to learn. Thank you!

You are the man qroo Thanks for the way you are teaching

I am paying you in gratitude. Thank you for your big heart in sharing.

Thanks for doing these videos.

Otra vídeo muy genial, muchísimas gracias!

I appreciate these videos

I just found your videos a couple of days ago and they're reinvigorated my desire to improve my (very rusty) Spanish.

No podría haberlo dicho. Que buen consejo.

Love your content man, purchased that book that you recommended and am enjoying going through it to help with my trouble spots. Verb tenses mainly. Keep up the strong work!

This sounds like the method on Spring Spanish channel, where they recommend learning Spanish in "chunks." This is my favorite technique and I did it in German as well. Thanks for the advice, Paul. Greetings from Evergreen, Montana USA.

Paul, any chance you'd be willing to share your list of sentence fragments, so we can focus on them, and study from that list? Thanks in advance... Kalon

This kind of exercise is SO instructive.

Hey Qroo Paul. I have been working on Spanish as a retirement project for a number of years now. Even though I already know most of the stuff I see in your videos, you present things in a way that allows me to incorporate what I already know into how I speak. You always give practical, totally on point advice. I feel I would have gotten to where I am faster if I had found your channel sooner. So, I wholeheartedly endorse your approach. You deserve many more subscribers, and a coffee, which is on its way.

Fun! gracias.

Great lesson Paul. Your method of learning Spanish works better for me . Using building blocks and just pluging them in makes Spanish a lot easier. Linda's input is also great as it's very important to learn what the native speakers say especially when it differs from Google translate .thanks much guys and cheers.

You are the BEST teacher!! You really could develop a Spanish course product...

Un fuerte abrazo para Linda, and great video!

My learning has improved 100%

Couldn’t find pongamonos in the conjugations of poner… i just went with poneremos and got en caso de que but missed the vayamos and wrongly put vamos…still the spanish i seem to be able to go with these days is far better since watching senor Pauls great videos…Gracias!

I’m doing Duolingo and soon will have a private Tudor on SpanishVIP, but in the meantime tell us how you identified the phases to learn and plug in. I’m definitely somewhere in the A1 level and am finding this process rather more daunting as the enormity of it starts to dawn on me.

excellent video

Good stuff! Do you usually write these out and store in a notebook then review often or do you type this phases out and store on an electronic device(phone, tablet, etc..or simply a computer ? My problem is going back and forth between handwritten notes and electronic notes.

My approach to languages is similar to yours, no wonder I am enjoying your videos so much! And while you certainly deserve to be compensated for your content, I appreciate you doing these videos for free. But for now I am happy to buy you a cup of coffee as a thank-you ☕ 🙂

Love your content and especially loved this video, other than it being super cute you are literally showing the reality of how we can become fluent in Spanish which is something I wanna conquer soon haha. Keep it up 🙏. Also can we have your list of verbs please ? (can pay for it of course)

¡Muy bien!

Great tips! I created notes with all your phrases from your other videos that have been useful. This style of learning works for me. Now I’m off to see why “ Let’s put on…is pongámonos” 🤦🏼‍♀️

Awesome video. I love your wife's frankness about staying 😂. I definitely need to up my word list game; I have the book (and workbook) you recommended - do you recommend a source for Spanish phrases rather than the "top N Spanish word lists" that are all over the internet?

Paul, you're the best Spanish tutor -- ever! Your last few lessons have been the best I've encountered in 2+ years self-learning the language. Bravo! You're absolutely right about the ear thing. Surprisingly, it's not that much different with music and inspiring musicians. When you start out, you just have to practice playing what's written on the page for some time before you develop and 'ear' for the music. Fluency in music comes with much practice. Same with Spanish. In languages, that's about speaking the language with others. Developing an ear for both is a function of time and practice. The more time practicing, and more importantly listening, the better your ear. However, growing up around it does help a bit to develop an ear faster. Fortunately, I have native Spanish speakers in my family, de Colombia también, and got to hear the language as a child, and have a bit more of an ear for the pronunciation of the language, but unfortunately NOT the grammar. (I wasn't taught Spanish as a child, and just started learning fairly recently, well into mid-life). Although I'm getting a feel for what sounds right, probably faster than others, I still need these rules to make the correct grammatic constructions. And like with most everything, the more you practice, the more you internalize it so that you just know when something is right or sounds right. Fortunately for me, I also grew up around music and musicians, so I got an ear for that language very early on as well! But after 40 years learning and practicing the language of music, I DO speak it fluently. Will play for tequila!

Learning the culture will help tremendously. I am a spanish native speaker. Learning English was difficult, because the order of the words still trips me up. (Even after 11 years in the US) Things like English phrasal verbs still boggle my mind. - Spanish is a very rich language.

Thank you Linda Gracias los dos o ambos

Oh Linda's back looking pretty. Que linda! We love when you're here.

I'm still struggling a lot with the past tense especially with the verb to be because this will have four different words in Spanish. It's not so easy to have example sentences that can work as a model sentence all the time and I wonder how you dealt with this in your first two years of learning Spanish. Great video thanks for the upload.

Hi Paul. I love your videos, thanks. I'm an Australian living in Spain. I remember hearing from ski instructors that the best 'skiers' are never the best ski instructors because they learn it so young that it's just intuitive. The best instructors are those who learn to ski as adults because they are aware of, and remember, the learning process, and so can transmit that to their students. It's the same with learning a language. My advice to any native English speaker who wants to learn Spanish; get your explanations from those who've already done it, and then go and practice with the natives for fluency and immersion.

Have you made a video on the several words for “to become” in Spanish? Might be a good video idea

Thanks again Paul for another great video sharing your amazing tips and secrets to unlocking the Spanish language for non-native speakers. Just wanted to touch on something you mentioned recently in another video as to why it is important to explain things in English. Case and point. Although I live in Colombia with my Colombian wife and speak Spanish all day every day, I am continually learning and remembering new things the way Paul explains them in English. For example the way Paul explains what triggers the subjunctive is just one small example. When I speak with my wife or other natives here and have a grammar question no one would ever explain this to me as such, it would just be summed up by, " well that's the way it" is or that's the right way to do it, which prolongs the learning process by years. Once again thanks so much for all your invaluable knowledge you share, look forward to the next video! Mucha suerte a todos, saludos desde Colombia!! ;)

Gracias Linda

Before Paus videos, I would have considered myself about as fluent as a 5 year old, but after putting into practice some of these suggestions I'd say that's been bumped up to 8 or 9. As someone who is also studying Thai, I wish I could find a Qroo Paul for Thai.

Thank you Paul, another great educational video! If you don't mind to share, what did you do to memorize these phrases and rules?

I am amazed at myself becoming more proficient after just a few weeks of listening to Paul’s tips and shortcuts. It was kind of all there I just needed to cook the ingredients to get to the meal. Thank you Señor Qroo.

U seem to be a very logical learner.. I too get very overwhelmed in immersion environment and feel like an ape. lol.. Baby steps of logical understanding work better for me. and then I can immerse in a light video where I understand like 30% word to word but like 90% from context. or the SuperBeginner content where I reinforce and learn the basic words where I understand 90% of words. But I am delaying output exercise until I get a handle on the grammar (I'm learning for last 42 days). And thanks to you !! I will get there sooner than I thought.

Yeah I'm at B level, which is really just one pattern after another. Yesterday I was changing sentences from "como" to "como si". Ejemplo: Ella actua como su madre => Ella actua como si fuera su madre.

I've fallen into doing something like you describe in this video, though it tends to happen by chance as I work my way through various materials on Spanish and I get into Spanish Dict. Do you have any suggestions for how to come by these bits and pieces, phrases, that are helpful, in addition to your videos, which are terrific?

I don't know if you ever read my comments before, but I actually appreciate in this video that you take a more nuanced pros and cons approach to your method vs immersion learning. Because they both have different learning curves and different uses. I developed my ear for the language after only 2-3 years of full immersion learning(I often say something guessing if it's right or wrong just based on "feeling"), but I'm getting to the point where not also understanding the underlying grammar rules is becoming a barrier to me speaking in my own voice; hence why I'm watching your videos :)

Coming across these videos had to have been inspired by God. Your videos are the only ones that have been enabling for me. My next thought was, how do I get it right for Colombia? Now I learn in the video that she is from Colombia, where I'm going. What is the best way to put this together while learning? Starting with Lesson 1, I was already able assemble phrases because you illustrated how to leverage what I already know. Then you demonstrate leveraging standard language elements to get where you need to go, which provides value for learning them. With a realistic expectation of being able to use any words I learn, learning words now has value, and with that the ability to easily remember them. Your videos cause to intersect what I need to learn Spanish. It sounds like the learning requirements for our minds are similar. I didn't care what was what in the English language structure before because I had no use for it, thus I did poorly in English classes. Spanish classes, a U.S. Ambassador School in Colombia and being stuck with a family instructed not to speak English to me, listening to courses in my sleep, did nothing to make me conversational. However, I have always had addictions to learning, creativity, and helping others. When they intersect, people are stunned by how rapidly I learn and able to competently devise and implement strategies and solutions in areas I've never worked in before. As soon as these elements no longer intersect I will put off and won't do even what I know how to do. I'm a great pioneer and teacher, and a poor settler.

when I read some of the comments I say to myself that a lot of you make certain parts a of learning more difficult than needed. here is an example. if I tell you to go up 3 streets and make a right, you do not have to know the name of the street. there is never going to be a road block or construction. just go up 3 streets and make a right and the store is there. unless you cannot count you will never be wrong. por si en caso de que is the same way as going up 3 streets and making a right. por si is not subj always...en caso de que is subj always. plan and simple! I am used to using en caso de que subj...no need to be fancy...now I will use por si no subj. the spanish rule says 1 is not subj and the other is subj... use what you are naturally comfortable with. plan and simple! Good stuff!

@2:17 - Vayamos - es en el subjuntivo porque no es cierto que ustedes van a ir a la playa. Vayamos - is the subjunctive form of the verb because it is not certain that you all will go to the beach. The subjunctive form of the verb is used in English. Consider, for example, the US Constitution: “Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States;” Why - before it become - and not - before it becomes? Because it is not certain that the law will pass. This is a rare example of the subjunctive in Englsih.

Im a 47 yr old electrician whos been working with the same group of Mexican guys, absolutely great 👍 human beings, of the 5 only 2 speak english, but 2 of the non-english speaking guys still try to communicate Spanish to me and im lost but for a hand full of spanish words and that barrier just frustrates the hell out of me so i have to try to learn somehow

Your wife hahahaha she's like nah, I'm out, BYE!

I just love Linda! She's one of those women you wanna get drunk with and practice Spanish! She has the best personality ever jajajajajaja

I noticed that there is no "s" in the reflexive imperative 1st plural. Are we always gonna drop that?

Linda es bellísima.

My first hurdle was conjugation. I studied and studied, and I picked up phrases here and there, but I always had to think about it. I was talking to my friend, frustrated, about all these hours, but I couldn't remember conjugations! My friend spoke. "You just have to remember the Rule: O, As, A, Amos, An." Picture a cave with treasure chests, all of them locked. He said that, my friend, and all those chests in that cave unlocked and opened. Before he spoke, I could not speak Spanish. After that, I could. Often my Spanish was broken and ugly, but I spoke it, instead of an idiom that at best was high Spanglish, with a few cogent moments of Spanish. Rest in peace, Lin Schuetz. My second treasure was and is the phrase, "¿Comó se dice?" Paul, your emphasis of the subjuntivo is a thing for which I am very grateful. I am still trying to make the Rule for the other tenses, but I am often complimented on my Spanish.

Speaking of infomercials, if you made a well-organized list of useful phrases, I bet you’d could sell a ton of them as a downloadable pdf.

Native speaker here. I would say: Hay que llevar ropa de baño por si vamos a la playa. Se puede decir : Llevemos ropa de baño por si vamos a la playa, pero usar llevemos suena muy formal. Normalmente, los hablantes nativos usan la forma “hay que + verbo”

Nostalgic for rediscovering the nosnos monos rule.

The same exists in English with using in, at or on. Hispanohablantes have a hard time using them correctly. I don’t as a native speaker, but ask me why I used one and not the other and I am stumped. I just know what sounds right. Let’s sit on the beach. It is hot out, let’s sit in the house or we could sit on the patio in the garden under the umbrella. 😂

Rápidamente me senté en la única silla de la Sala. Para asegurarme de que mi nuevo amigo no pudiera refugiarse en esa silla. Estaba parado en el lugar en el que necesitaba estar. Ese lugar entre las rocas fuera de la puerta y un lugar blando dentro de la puerta. El podría salir por la puerta por la que entramos. O podría sentarse en la cama suave y perfumada junto a una bella latina. Yo había entrado en la puerta en la traducción. Traduje para él a ella y para ella a él. Ella dijo "tu amigo está tan guapo. El tiene muchas chicas. El no necesita nada de mi". Él dijo a mi: "Wow, man, she is beautiful. ¿Cómo diablos voy a hablar con ella? ¿Ella habla inglés?" Como, él decía que ella me preguntó en el mismo momento: "¿tu amigo no puede hablar español?" Yo les dije a los dos en ese mismo momento: "Ella es joven y está bonita. "She is young and pretty". He Is young and handsome. El es joven y está guapo. You and she...Tú y ella tenéis tiempo para aprender el uno del otro. Empieza ahora mismo." Ella sabía que necesitaba inglés y un hombre guapo que estuviera dispuesto a proporcionarla. Entonces, ella sonrió y se acercó a él. Pero, èl se levantó. Él quería salir. Sintió que las necesidades de ella no eran las suyas. Yo vi que el no quería para más español. ¿Incluso si él la deseaba? ¡Me di cuenta de que quería algo menos! Dije ok. Vamos a ver a Mónica. Le dijo a la bella joven : "yo voy come back later.". Nosotros fuimos. Mientras caminábamos hacia Mônica, le dije: "¡Tienes suficiente español para conocerla bien amigo. Solo tienes que usarlo! Y otra vez está más fácil a aprender un idioma en la cama. Grabaciones, libros de frases, canciones, películas y KZfaq et más no sirven para nada si se usan solos. Todos deben usarse en compañía de alguien que nos ama. En aislamiento es la más peor manera de aprender cualquier cosa. Robinson Cureso necesita Viernes y Viernes necesita Cureso. Aprendemos a caminar cuando alguien nos levanta del gateo. Una amante nos toma de la mano y hace los primeros pasitos con nosotros. Aprendemos a hablar hablando con los que nos importan y a su vez se preocupan por nosotros. Nuestras pocas palabritas inconexas mágicamente convertirse en muchas palabras grandes unidas. El lenguaje no es una condición sintética controlada y generada por À.I. Es un a priori para todas las formas de vida simples y complejas. El lenguaje debe usarse para ser lenguaje". Yo recuerdo cada día. Había un libro en francés que tenía que leer antes de morir. Y porque todas las vidas son demasiado cortas. Estaba fuera de tiempo. El libro Gemminal de Zola es que libro. No pude leerlo. No había hablantes de francés alrededor. Conduje hasta un colegio para encontrar uno. Pasé lentamente por cada clase de inglés como segundo idioma. Entonces la vi y escuché su acento francés-inglés de ella. Cuando termino la clase le pregunte cuanto te puedo pagar la hora por leerme Germinal de Zola? Ella estaba sorprendida. ¿Conoces a Zola? Ella accedió a leerme. Mientras leía durante las semanas que leyó, me enamoré de ella. Ella no se enamoró de mí. Pero la muerte final por asfixia de uno de los dos amantes en las minas de ese infernal páramo industrial nos hizo repartir lágrimas. ¿Qué pasó con Mónica y mi nuevo amigo? Ella se emborrachó. El se emborrachó más. El inglés de 50 palabras de ella ( en su mayoría hablado junto con su pronombre universal "baby" repetido una y otra vez) fueron, como siempre, nuevamente congelados por la taquilla que bailaba como el diablo sobre la lengua abajo la garganta. El español de 20 palabras de mi amigo fue todo lo que le quedó con el después de una eyaculación y un "adiós Mónica". ¿Y la joven belleza? No la he visto en una semana. Ambos estamos en un estado de vergüenza por què pensamos en nuestras esperanzas para ella que ja no están ja realidades. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNuGZKdqrpjJYX0.html

Hi Paul. I use al sorts of ways to learn Spanish. I tried Babbel, lots of U tube stuff, along with All your videos. I’m using Duolingo now, and have reached the stage where present, past, flute and present subjunctive are all interspersed in the exercises. Your subjunctive videos made this so much easier, it suddenly clicked. Thank you so much, and thanks to Linda too. It’s a very interesting way of presenting a language, seeing both sides, both from a native speaker and one who has reached a fluency level in a second language. Keep up the videos please 😊ps bought some coffees but forgot to leave message x

Paul, why was the "s" dropped from pongámoSnos? I've seen this before.

My gf is originally from Mexico and obviously a native speaker. I've learned not to ask her why certain things are said the way they are because she can't explain either. I have the same issue when on the rare occasion I have to help her with her English. I know more about Spanish grammar than I do about English, I always hated English class in school.

My Panamanian wife does the same thing. I ask why you say something a certain way and she just says that’s the way we say it.

i think its because when you added "que" after "en caso de" the "que" triggers the subjunctive

Where does pongamonos come from?

What terms do you use to find sentence fragments?

It seems that structures which require 'que' use the subjunctive in general? Also it seems that use of 'que' and 'para' as conjunctions are mandatory in Spanish whereas in English their equivalents can be omitted. Anyway I was thinking (that) the 'mood' one is trying to convey is contained in other parts of speech in English which is why it confuses us so much. On a tangentially related note I was watching this and thinking how much we take for granted when speaking our own language: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9KSetd2zJycqGg.html

What language do you speak together. Spanish or English?

Are you living in Mexico again? If so where?

Buenas los dos ¿qué pasa? (It's more informal way of saying Como estás )

En argentino sería, pongámonos las mallas por si vamos a la playa