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No kidding, I learned more from this lesson than I have in 1033 days in a row of Duo Lingo! Learning the why instead of purely trying to memorize has flipped a switch for me! Thank you and keep up the great videos!

This is possibly the best video I have ever seen to teach Spanish.

OMG, as someone who has studied Spanish for 5 years (through apps, websites, KZfaq), I think I've learned more core basics in this 36 minutes! Thank you so much!

Having “studied” Spanish off and on since I was in third grade, ( a hundred years ago, lol ), your lessons have taught me more than 360 days straight of Duolingo and as I’m getting ready for my 3rd trip to Ecuador soon, there are proving to be priceless…also, as a former Deputy Sheriff myself, Thankyou also for your service!

You should be very proud of what you’ve created here. I’m sure our brains are all wired differently and receive information differently but this is the single-most effective instruction to Spanish learning I’ve ever seen. Really excited to dive into more.

WOW! I am age 73 and your lesson have help me by improving my Spanish by 80% within 36 minutes! Thank you for your very informative and enlightening video! Gracias a ti. ASE!

This is the absolute best!!! Why don’t they start out teaching this everywhere!

Despite having a number of years of Spanish I picked up on a few tidbits. The bigger picture you present is to look for commonalities and patterns. I love learning Spanish because for me it's like a puzzle. I enjoy the challenge of figuring out how the sentence fits together in context. I believe there is a certain amount of memorizing and learning proper grammar required (typical language teachers focus on this aspect). I've never been taught Spanish by a native english speaker. The fact that you have on the ground experience is a huge benefit. Thanks for your efforts.

I love how your mind thinks and how you explain this! It’s MAGIC! Thank you

So far, this is the most underrated course on any topic on the internet! Thank you so much; this cleared up a lot of things for me! ¡Muchas gracias!

Hola, Am just learning Spanish for the first time in my life, am happy isaw this video first because it has built my interests. Muchas gracias 🙏

I keep coming back to this series after being state side for very long because I my opportunities to speak Spanish with anyone over here are minimal and I feel clumsy trying.. Just want to say I appreciate you leaving this series up as it's great!! Gracias!

Thanks thanks thanks! Please do not discontinue the lessons, they are awesome.

This chap is the best I’ve had a few Spanish lesson but his method is the best.

As a spaniard May I say that the soft "c" only sounds "s" in latin america and the south of spain. The neutral castillian pronounciation is "z" . So, depends in wich country you are. Magnificent lesson. I have serious dificulty with english "r" and vowels 😂

OMG, I can't believe how fast I picked this up. Wow! This man has some serious teaching skills. Thank you so much, I can't wait to learn more.

Excellent! I love the way you have organized things and explain them. You give us English speakers what we need to know. Thank you!

You are really a wonderful teacher - understanding extremely well how to teach adults. Your breakdown of Spanish - English makes learning the language quite fun for quick success.

Amazing amount of material, and at the perfect level for someone who is coming back to this language after many stops and starts over the years. Your approach to becoming conversational is so smart. I really like the way that you don't waste any time, and everything you introduce is so clearly thought out. Thank you so much! Keep up the great work!

After living for 7 years in Central and South America, I was finally learning Spanish from your first 2 videos. Can't wait to finish the rest. And I hope by that time, you have come to your senses and published Episode 8!

First I have to say you are doing a great job to help English speakers to learn Spanish, sometimes it is an advantage to come from own experience as a learner than from university with an academic approach to teach people. At the age of 65 I started to learn Spanish just for fun. One of the first things I discovered were the many similarities between English and Spanish. Even for a German native, it makes absolute sense to learn Spanish from English instead of learning from German. Only when it comes to pronunciation it is an advantage to be a German native speaker, we use a lot of similar sounds like the Spanish and even the pronunciation rules are often similar, even when the writings are different. Beside the similarities for the endings .. al and the change from ..tion to ..ción I discovered another one, the change form ..ty to ..dad for many words like society->sociedad, university->universidad and another good thing is, the ..dad endings like the ..ción endings are always female, "La conversación en la universidad era muy formal."

Although I've been learning Spanish for over five years, and have been living in Mexico for almost four, this video was an excellent refresher, thanks Paul - Anne

Thank you for your very clear and confidence-building way to learn Spanish - it's great. FYI...re your comment about the double consonants in English, for example in 'recommendation', there is, in fact, a grammar rule called the 'double the consonant' rule, which ties in with a rule called the 'vowel-consonant-vowel' rule. This states that if you have a word like 'tap' (with a short 'a' sound) and you want to make it continuous, you have to double the consonant to make it 'tapping'... otherwise it would become 'taping'. .. and tape is a vowel/consonant/vowel word (with a long vowel sound). Therefore, as the letter 'o' in the word 'recommendation' is a short vowel, it's necessary to double the 'm' after it to keep it sounding short. I hope that's clear...and yes, I am an English Teacher...! 😀

I cannot believe they were not popular, they are so very well done. We are enjoying them as a predecessor to a mission trip to Maneadero, Baja.

Hi Paul. I paid for a course that convinced me to ' acquire' the language through story reading. I have done a lot of that, reading the story, listening to the story, reading and listening at the same time. It has its benefits, developing an ear for the language. However, I just thought there was something missing. They focus little on the grammar. Discovering you on youtube was the missing link I have been looking for! Thanks. You are a heck of a guy.

El algoritmo es amable porque por fin estas recibiendo el reconocimiento que mereces. De verdad es uno de los mejores maestros que he encontrado en KZfaq.

I am so grateful to have found your channel! I have tried to learn Spanish so many times, but the grammar drills and memorization with no context... well, has not worked out so well! And I just moved to Ecuador on a tight budget (tutor unlikely!), your "tricks" and way of teaching are such a relief for me. Muchas gracias!

FYI, this course was recommended in a book called 'The Move To Mexico Bible'.

Great to see this video back on ! Thanks

This course an incredible easy course. It surprises me how fast I felt good and progresive in learning Spanish. So grateful I found you.

Perfect! You're not giving me the fish but teaching greatly how to catch myself. Love it! Gracias

Thank you so much for your easy to follow way of teaching. I’ve learned so much in this 30+min session! Thank you!

I have been speaking and learning Spanish since I was a teenager...I am now 60 and I truly appreciate the way you introduce the sounds!

Thank you for sharing these teachings. It's my first time speaking Spanish and this first lesson already has built my confidence.

This is absolute best video i've found thus far to learn Spanish, my only request it that you slow it down just a bit. That's all. other than that, I find this video excellent guide to learn how to speak Spanish. ❤❤It.

Thanks a lot! Your video is really helpful! You are simply the best!

Well done, Paul. Thank you so much. You are a very talented hombre !

I think you need to continue teaching. This is the best course around. Maybe it just took time to take off? Keep making the courses!! Good job.

Wow. This video has given me real confidence that I can learn Spanish to some degree. I'll have to spend all day rolling my r's

This was very helpful. Thank you!

Thank you so much, you are an amazing teacher. Ive just found your channel and your lessons are brilliant. Thank you so much for taking the time to post these. They are super helpful. Love and all the best from Scotland ❤️🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This was extremely helpful. You made this seem so easy and it definitely was. I will be reviewing this lesson and looking forward to many more. Thanks Paul 😊

This is a great video Paul, spot on, and easy to understand.

Thank you so much for this lesson series! This is EXACTLY what my brain needed to make Spanish make sense! I will be working my way through this material for weeks

Love your approach!! I'm excited to learn because I've finally found a good teacher! Great stuff!

Sir, you are a wonderful Spanish language instructor because you teach English speakers to grasp the heart of the Spanish language learning experience intuitively from an English perspective, which creates a manageable mental transition in accepting the learning process instead of the botched language trauma in the school system. Thank you so very much!!!!

Great video and explanation! I just subscribed and will definitely be a regular viewer. Thank you for your content!

I'm from Mexico and I was checking this lessons because my wife wants to learn, and is a great kick start, really helps to understand that you already have an immense vocabulary that you only need to transform a little, i wish i had that when i was learning english, now i understand enough italian portugese french catalan to understend conversations and it's because all this languages are very similar

As a beginner, I find your method of teaching very effective and relaxing. Gracias.

yipee, more lessons, very helpful, after watching a lot of your lessons this past year I really have greatly improved with my Spanish. Thanks!

This was so well done

This guy has a GREAT system, with built-in learning!!! Good job, Bro. I've been living in Mexico almost a year & this is very helpful.

Brilliant! This first lesson contained far more informacion* about Spanish than my first 10 Babbel lessons. The organización* is clear and well thought out and the presenter’s outline ingeniously anticipates the PRACTICAL needs of an English-speaking beginner trying to learn Spanish. ThisQroo Paul fella is an excellent communicator as well as an inspired teacher and has given me back my expat sparkle for attempting to learn a new language. One tip (or perhaps, warning). If this single video were a meal, it would be considered a large feast. Albeit only about a half hour long, it is VERY calorie dense - linguistically. So you may need to take small bites, pause, and chew on what you have learned at various points. And you may not be able to finish it all in one sitting. I myself plan to return to the lesson as I would a favorite restaurant. It’s that good. *I learn this “ación” trick of converting English words to Spanish in this first lesson!

This is excellent Paul, thank you so much! You break it down very easily making it super easy to learn. Love it!

I found your channel today and I honestly can't thank you enough! This video in particular was a great recap for me of so many things I have learnt over my first few months of studying Spanish, but I had several lightbulb moments throughout. I can't wait to explore the rest of your videos. SO helpful! :)

Thank you for bring this back and doing new version. So helpful to spanish beginner like me ❤

Great lesson! I learned much more in 36 minutes than in a comparable amount of time on any of the language apps. I'm looking forward to more lessons!

Hello Paul, my profession is teaching language and from this one lesson I am looking forward to taking your whole course! This is great. My Spanish is intermediate level, but it has been a while since I've really used it very much, so I am starting at the beginning for a review. I am so grateful I found you for both the information about Mexico and for this course. Thank you!

Simply wow. Nearly 200 consecutive days on Duolingo blown away by less than 37 minutes of Qroo Paul KZfaq video. Thanks ! I'm hooked.

Muchas gracias por tus lecciones!

I am finding this very helpful. I will be moving to Mexico later this year and I have tried learning different ways , but I find your instruction very helpful especially with pronunciation.

This a huge step for me in learning Spanish ❤🎉 I'm getting better in Spanish ❤🥳

Fabuloso….muchas gracias…will be continuing with all your videos. So glad I found you!!

Paul, you are a gifted teacher. Learning conversational Spanish has been something I've been interested in for years, but each attempt left me feeling overwhelmed until I found your excellent videos. Your approach is so logical and "approachable." Thank you!

Que padre, Paul! Me gusta mucho esta hack para aprender español! Usualmente, yo uso Duolingo para gramatica, y otros KZfaq videos y películas para comprehensible input y escuchando. Este es uno más tool en mi toolbelt! (Ahora necesito buscar estas palabras no lo sé...) Muchas gracias! 👍

Ty! Hopefully I can go from zero to conversational with the help of you!

i think that if you can speek french it's even easier and thanks for the video i now have more motivation to study spanish

This guy is legit! Thank you. Having a blast learning it!

Just started my Spanish journey with you and I'm loving it. So clear and structured. I feel so motivated, thank you :) Jonny

I've learned so much in this lesson and I can't wait to learn more progressively. You're gifted, please, never stop teaching.

Love love love this lesson. Thank you so much! I learned more in this hour that I have in several hours of writing out conjugations, etc.

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You have a new subscriber! Wow, I can’t believe how simple you made learning Spanish. I have struggled with memorizing vocabulary and forming sentences for months. This video made learning Spanish a bit easier for me.

Thanks so much went through some tutors but couldn’t keep a schedule or their patience this first video has me excited !

I live in Colombia, took Spanish in high school and my story was similar to yours, and your course is helping me I look forward to watching all your videos multiple times.

I liked this one again! I guess my old like got wiped out when you reposted. My Qroo Paul Word list has 104 words on it now! These are a list of all the words used in the first two episodes of your new series. Like I said last time I was really surprised how few of the cognates were on the "1000 basic words" list. This number does not count all the definite and indefinite articles you introduced. On the TV Spanish News program I watched last night has the word "invitar" but I checked and "invasion" in English, which I learned is spelled with a "s" and not a "t" is "invasión" in Spanish. These videos look fantastic production wise. One thing is that I noticed that for much of the time your hands are below the frame and we can't see them. You have to take a year of language to get a degree here at Sacramento State. I took a crash summer school class in ASL, (American Sign Language) which is the hand sign language used by deaf people. I also took some classes in railroad operations where I learned a little about the railroad hand signals that rail road folks use. My point is that your hand movements and facial expression carry meaning. But if your hands are out of the frame we can't see them. I thought that it might be from your years of police work that you keep your hand gestures close to your belt line just in case you need to use your service weapons. You are so perfectly framed in these shots that I don't want to suggest pulling the camera back and making you smaller. Maybe if you thought about it you could make your hand gestures higher. It is cool that even now you raise your hands up into the frame to emphasize an important point. My guess is that just me making you aware of how your viewers see or don't see your hands will help you to keep your hands in the shot frame when you want them there. Here is a quick question. At the taco stand that I frequent on weekends I get a burrito and a Spanish lesson every night. They are trying to teach me how to say mild as in not spicy. I was hearing "Pesoso" but I checked and this isn't a Spanish word. I am starting to think they were saying "picoso" as in "un poco picoso". The other theory I had at first was that I was hearing "soso" which is on my basic word list as "bland". Well anyway any incite you can give me on what I was hearing would be great. These videos are great Paul, keep up the good work.

You are absolutely the best spanish teacher out there. You have helped me so much. Thanks!

Thank you for your help, I already started my lesson.

This is amazing. As said ad nauseam, your explanation is fantastic. Duolingo learner here (nearly done with the 2nd level) but you have simplified the process significantly. On another note, as someone who is already fully bilingual (English and Afrikaans) I fortunately don't have a problem with the rolling "rr" as you roll the "r" in Afrikaans. The phonetic pronunciation of Spanish words is also easy as it follows the pronunciation of letters in the alphabet in Afrikaans (when pronounced as individual letters). Thank you, dankie, gracias! From Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦

Excellent! You are an amazing teacher. Thank you!

Game changer! You rock thank you so much

Great content looking forward to learning more from you

Hola Paul, Linda. I want to express my thanks for your Spanish class series. Tengo ochenta y cuatro años and learning Spanish has been hard ... even while living here for much of the last 4 years. I´ve done everything regarding learning Spanish and my wife is very good. having years of Spanish in college but I just have a very hard time. I know lots of palabras, numbers, and touristy stuff but it was your course and the subjunctive videos that have really helped me begin to speak Spanish. I strongly support your work, look forward to even more help videos from you. Todo lo mejor! Leo

Excellent. I am blown away by what I have learned in just one lesson.

Wow this has been a revelation 🎉muchas gracias!

As a French language speaker, learning Spanish is even much more easier due to many grammatic and phonetic resemblance. Big thank to you for your strategic methods in teaching Spanish and making it more accessible and appealing for the English speakers.

This was by far the best youtube video that I have found which breaks down everything easily and helps to understand the logic behind the language and sentence structure. Thanks so much!!!

Thank you. Much love you have a gift of teaching

Watching on my Lunch break at work. I’ll have to watch again a home and do the exercises out loud. I’m thrilled to of found your channel! You have made the most sense so far out of every program I’ve tried.

Great 1st lesson. You make it fun and easy to follow.I have Spanish relatives, whom I'm sure to impress with what I have learned thus far. Looking foward to next lesson. Awesome!!!

You are heaven sent sir! Gracias!

I've been learning through Rocket Spanish and getting quite lost and after seeing this one lesson, I feel much less "dazed and confused". A friend of mine, who is fluent in Spanish, said that the pronunciation here is flawless. I just know that this suits me way more than all the other courses I've tried. I'm considering joining the Qroo Crew. ;) Thank you!

I took Spanish for a semester in high school and have tried to learn it through idk how many books plus have been practicing on Duo Lingo for over a year. I have learned more in the first 2 videos of this series than all of those put together

Day 1 !! Loving it. I have 2 months ... I hope am able to converse by then.

Excelente - I love your videos - they help compliment my other learning methods perfectly - you rock Mr Paul!

So appreciate your generosity! Muchas Gracias Paul!

Awesome! I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot and faster. gracias😊🇺🇸😁

Love am learning, i love spanish

Woah!! This is what I've been searching for. A clear understanding of how the Spanish language works. Absolutely Brilliant, thank you for sharing with us. I feel totally inspired.