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Seriously, if all teachers were like this we would ALL be learning any subject so much better... The BEST teacher i've ever listened to or been taught by

You need to write a short book about learning Spanish Paul. Put me on the pre order list ! 👍

I've been sturdying Spanish for several years, but the way you teach it has boosted my Spanish exponentially. Thank you

We are so lucky to have such an extraordinary Spanish teacher, whose goal is to get us speaking Spanish like a native speaker. These short videos are to relevant, practical and useful. Additionally eposing us to these educational sites to help us continue improving our Spanish grammar and language leaning is invaluable! Thank you so much Paul. You are awesome!!!

These videos are great. Thank you qroo Paul. If any ones cares to hear my two cents. I would recommend reading books as well. Starting at children's books and working up to advanced books. It gets pretty easy to get to a medium level of Spanish but to talk like a real native person you will need to understand how to utilize the verbs correctly. It's unbelievably easy to feel like you are talking in spanish and just rattling off great spanish until you find out you don't make any sense and then feel dumb for a while. Lol. But once you get past that it really feels great speaking spanish. Seeing peoples faces like 😵😵😵😵 because they didn't expect someone to speak to them is always priceless. I think that reading gives you a lot of context and when you are talking to someone your mind is already trying to guess what they are saying to make it make sense. Anyway. Thank you qroo Paul for helping us. I have my pasaporte and can't wait to travel to México once I save up some money.

In the maze of videos, tutorials, blogs, etc. teaching Spanish, you are a breath of fresh air! I"m hooked. Thank you! Love your approach, especially your emphasis on the subjunctive. Why do they wait so long to teach it?

Thanks for the reminder about all Word Reference has to offer, in terms of sayings, the forum, etc. I can lose myself in WR, as one word leads to another phrase leads to another saying. I’ve been using the phrases “sacar de quicio” (drive someone crazy) and “fuera de quicio” (out of one’s mind) for years, without ever realizing “quicio” means doorframe or door jamb. A related phrase is “estar cuerdo” (or for me as a female, “estar cuerda”) “to be in one’s right mind”. And “cuerda” (which means rope, cord or string, as well as a musical “chord”) led me to its colloquial uses and I found a new phrase, which I hadn’t heard before: “mentar la cuerda en casa del ahorcado” or “nombrar la soga en casa del ahorcado” which means to bring up a sensitive subject or say the wrong thing, but literally means “to mention the noose in the house of the man who was hanged”. And then I looked up “mentar”, which I have only occasionally heard and kind of wondered about. It actually means “to mention” (as opposed to “mentir” - to lie). Where I’ve actually heard “mentar” is the phrase “mentar la madre” (“mention the mother”) which means to insult someone. I always thought I must be hearing wrong, and they were saying, “meter la madre” (to bring the mother into something). Now I know. It’s a rabbit hole, Paul, a delightful, interesting rabbit hole for those who love Spanish - but one which I have to pull myself out of and get ready for work! 😂

I'm binge watching your videos. Great insights. God bless you

Great tips ! Thank you!!!

This was awesome! Can you also talk about how you used your list? Like did you review it daily or use it to quiz yourself?

Thanks! I just ordered it. Word reference is now on my favorite bookmarked list and the locuciones tip is really valuable.

Love the concepts you have found to help you and now you are teaching others…¡Qué padre!

I’m very happy you decided to restart the cero to…series lessons Paul. It prompted me to go back & watch the earlier lessons. Although my Spanish is at a relatively high level, this review was priceless. I realized that I’ve been stuck due to over-complicating & trying to be perfect. Thanks for reviving this series. Keith Briscoe

So many good videos lately. Love these short, tip-filled videos & useful phrase videos you’ve been doing lately. Gracias!

Dude, you are the best. Thanks so much for what you do. Desde Medellin 🇨🇴.

What do you recommend for making wordlists? I have tried the anki app and it works well. Given your experience, I wonder if you have another suggestion that may be better? Thanks!

Thanks for the references, very helpful!

Excellent tips Paul thanks for sharing this with us.

Would agree with the rest of the comments Paul. Great teacher.

Awesome , simple, free, easy to obtain!!!

Great video! Thanks for the resources!

Estoy de acuerdo contigo. Una lista de vocabulario es algo personal.🎯

Where have you been all my life?!😂 It's crazy how much I learn from you on a daily basis, I couldn't be happier about that. I am now a follower for life. Thank you Paul.

I make flash cards on anki and went from single words to ‘words + prepositions’ , phrases , expressions and other ‘chunks’ from the books I read. I realize how much of speaking in English is made out of set phrases that I don’t really think about. They exist in Spanish and the more I learn the less I chew up the language in an attempt to make phrases that don’t exist .

Very helpful, thank you Paul.

Excellent, as always. Thanks.

You make spanish easier for people who want shortcuts in learning a language .Thank you!

Great info-very helpful-all the sources will be utilized!!!

Fantastic! Just what I need right now. Thanks!

All your lessons are very helpful.

This was really resourceful thank you so much!

This was very helpful!! Thank you

great content as usual. thank you SO much.

Me encantan estas lecciones 😊

Excelente!

This video blew me away -- just not what I expected to hear at all, but, as usual, very helpful. Thanks!!

Another great video!

thanks for valuable resource pointers

I have experimented with my learning methods. Methods came from others ideas, some that came up just from experience as to what worked for me and also research new technology. Paul imagine you have your word / phrase/ grammar lists in front of you. If like me you ended up with 20 notebooks full of words/phrases/grammar/expressions etc. The question I have is how did YOU review these lists. I use Anki because it has built in spaced repetition reviews and it’s searchable. I also save most in Google Drive in the cloud so I can do advanced searches to find a word or phrase or grammar concept. But you haven’t told us HOW you review the lists, how often or is it based on a secondary encounter with a word or phrase and as you learn more about a word phrase or grammar point do you edit your list. How searchable are/were your lists? Having 20 notebooks make finding anything time consuming. When I started out I saved all my handwritten notes, highlighted new words (green), new phrases (yellow) new grammar (orange), expressions (blue) and not clear to me (pink). Then I started saving in Anki. I had to do this because otherwise I rarely went back to my handwritten notes to review but handwriting was a key factor as I’m a visual learner. So eventually I took handwritten notes and put them into Google Docs still using my highlighting method plus putting docs into file folders based on topic or source while still putting them in Anki. I would find other examples online at any number of sites and save them. As well I would download articles from sites like Avanzado Español, Ejemplos etc. into Google Docs as well. Now maybe you have really good recall and you don’t need to review so much. I still review even some basic concepts because I forget. I think it’s important to note this is only the input side of learning; I still need output methods but I won’t get into that here. Two things that definitely didn’t work for me. I would write out sentences and stories using what I had learned. I would then record what I had written. Problem to me was I didn’t know what I had written was correct or had I said it with good pronunciation so I gave that up. I think this is where AI will help or you hire a teacher. Second was music. That I didn’t enjoy because I can’t make out the lyrics are even in English. Some people love learning a language through music, I found it frustrating even though there are some great sites. I’m interested in knowing more about your steps from A to Z.

Hi Paul, another great video. I'm looking foward to the next one!

I LOVE your videos and I've watched them all. I'm glad to see them coming with so much regularity nowadays! I appreciate how you break things down. Clear, concise, and simple. Now it's just up to us to do the work.. I always recommend you and your channel to people asking about learning Spanish!👍🏻

Súper informativo y práctico para los que quieren de verdad mejorar y profundizar su español. Una de mis locuciones preferidas para motivar a alguien (que siempre dice mi esposo): ¡Échale ganas! (Essentially “Give it your best!”)

Otro gran video, gracias por las recomendaciones. Hasta luego

Thanks!

¡Super útil este video! Muchas gracias.

Thanks for another useful video. I have a question raised by another recent video. You explained that all reflexive verbs are pronominal but that not all pronominal verbs are reflexive. I get that, thanks in large part to your examples of lavarse (both) and quejarse (just pronominal). Your third example, dormirse has me scratching mi cabeza. To fall asleep...are you doing that to yourself? I'd like to hear your thoughts about dormirse and similar pronominal verbs. I only discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago, so I have a lot of videos to watch! Thanks again. Rod

Thank you for taking the time to create these videos. I saw this question, but didn’t see a response. How do you use your word lists, once you create them, or add to them? Do you have a learning process for that?

I'm struggling to understand what a "word list" physically is, like a notebook? What do you write in it? Is the left side English and the right side Spanish? How do you use it to practice?

Loved this video - I’m going to start putting a word list together - just one question - is that just getting a notebook and writing everything down? How did you study your word list?

Excellent! I know I am doing okay because halfway through I realized I have been researching info this way and thought, ´Keep doing what you´re doing because you are on the right track´. You did give me some new links and ideas (I loathe the word ´hacks´). Thanks for the link to ´Tipos de locuciones adverbiales´. I will use that often, as well as the WordReference site. I also send the links to your videos to friends. Thanks again for the great videos!

Got that book through your link . Hope you gain the benefits 👍

Write a book - even an online one - I did buy ( and return ) the book you show - waaaaaay too involved - I love your videos!

Hey paul, i would love a video where you give tips to people that are learning spanish while not being native English speakers. Because so many educational information online is in English.

Thank you

Thanks Paul, really appreciate your content. Was your word list on a spreadsheet?

How did you organize your word lists? Were you including a phrase with that word in each conjugation? I started with pen & paper then switched to using a cloud-based note app (iCloud notes) so I would always have it handy on my phone when I had a few moments to study.

Maravilloso video. Your video makes me realize how little I know about Spanish after studying it for 4 or 5 years. No me desterres, por favor, pero……. Say, please, “That’s where I am,” and not that’s where I”m AT. And say, please, “…where are you going to get these phrases,” and not where are you going to get these phrases FROM? Cómo tu esposa dice, suena correcta.

If I could give this two or three thumbs up, I would! 👍👍👍

Wow that’s a great tool- not just a list of words.

Wow wordrefernce looks excellent! Ill have to investigate to see if I can get the book to Uk

May be a silly question... What are you doing with this list once you build it? Are you reviewing it daily? How big do you want this list? I did this with flash cards and I think I added too many words at once because I was having a hard time remembering them! Granted I may just be exceptionally thick skulled when it comes to learning spanish!! I will be joining your Skool soon!!

Debo usar algo como google sheets por mi listo? Y que te perece anki?

Great video, thanks. I'm thinking index cards or an app for word lists or "flash cards" would be most flexible. About the book you recommend, I bought it, but it's huge, thick, very small print and overwhelming. How about a video on how best to use it? Thanks in advance.

Even advanced learners can remember phrases that changed their use of the language.

Hi paul If llevar is to carry, why is it used for 'weve been' ? Thanks

How do you know what tense to use? Is it somthing that is just repetition or should I be learning one tense at a time? I find it challenging because in english I dont know the grammar rules to compare them against. I just use them automatically like how your wife does in spanish.

I have an extensive word list. I have offended wondered if it is of any real valve. Your suggestions here are most welcome and will be a challenge, I hope I am up to it. Thank you for your help.

ESO!!!

ChatGPT is a useful buddy that never tires of stupid questions about anything.

Knew I’d find you here. Qroo, tell Linda she interrupted my happy home the other day. You mentioned she prefers Habaneros. On instinct I bit a jalapeño and disgustedly threw it down, put on a bra and went to buy some real heat. I bought Serranos and I have been happy as a clam! Muy contenta. Much obliged, mi hermana, Linda.

dont see any reason to memorize the dictionary when i probably dont even use 5% of it.and i get along just fine i speak pert near perfect English LOL

I'm now convinced that you're spying on me. I haven't watched the video yet. But I'm in the process of creating a Spanish Word List (really), wondering how best to organise it and not making a lot of progress. I'll let you know whether or not your advice was helpful. 🤔

Awesome website. However, the book you recommend is way too involved for people speaking at this level in my opinion. I do believe though that when you get to a more advanced level, it would be very useful . Thanks Paul. 💛

I've almost filled a notebook, it's my notes, I doubt it would be helpful to anyone else.

Got some "Tico" expressions from a little phrase book I have Dame sólo un chancecito y te ayudo. Just give me a moment and I’ll help you. Hoy tengo que ir a Chepe en lata. Today I’ve got to go to San José on the bus. ¿Cómo estás?--¡Pura vida! ¿Y vos? How ya doin’?? It’s all good! How ‘bout you? [I’ve heard pura vida and likely you’ll hear it a lot[ I’ll be curious what you pick up while in Costa Rica.

🤦🏾‍♀️ I’ve been learning in alphabetical order . Now I’ll just pick the important words from the list .

English tip: “where I am” instead of “where I’m at”

Paul , do you have a Paypal account where i can donate a small amount to you by way of a thank you for your help? I see you have a system via google on here but i am not keen on that