Expanding your vocabulary is one of the pillars of language learning, but not all study techniques are equally effective.

This Spanish learning lesson takes you through how to learn new Spanish vocabulary fast and efficiently.

It shows you how to avoid wasting your time with unproductive learning techniques, how to remember the words you’ve studied, and how to build a solid Spanish vocabulary knowledge that will allow to reach an advanced level quickly.

Below you can hear episode 6 of my podcast Learn Spanish with Maria Fernandez.

I have personally used all the learning techniques I talk about here to learn English and other languages, and they’re the ones I always recommend to my students.

As with all my Spanish lessons, you can get the transcript at www.spanish-bookworld.com

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In this Spanish pronunciation lesson you learn how to master the letter a.

This lesson comes with plenty of useful examples, clear pronunciation rules, speaking exercises and drills, and language learning tips.

You can master the Spanish pronunciation easily, if you follow the tips in my Spanish course. This lesson highlights the pronunciation mistakes you’re likely to make when saying words with the letter ‘a’, and how to avoid them.

Below you can hear episode 5 of my podcast Learn Spanish with Maria Fernandez which contains the pronunciation lesson.

As with all my Spanish lessons, you can get the transcript at www.spanish-bookworld.com

If you have any comments or queries, please post them below.

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In this free Spanish lesson you learn the verb ‘to be’: estar.

Estar is one of the two Spanish verbs that translates as ‘to be’. The other verb is ser, which we will go through in another lesson.

Below you can hear episode 4 of my podcast Learn Spanish with Maria Fernandez which contains the verb ‘estar’ lesson.

This audio lesson is presented by me, Maria Fernandez, a highly experienced native Spanish teacher. In it, I give you many practical examples to master the verb estar, and in the end there’s a speaking drill to practice what you’ve learned in the lesson.

As with all my audio lessons, you can get the transcript at www.spanish-bookworld.com

If you have any comments or queries, please post them below.

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In this audio lesson we learn how to introduce ourselves in Spanish.

In my previous podcast episode we heard a dialog with greetings and the vocabulary audio flashcards. Here we are going to practice asking other people their names and introducing ourselves.

This lesson comes with plenty of practical examples and a speaking drill to practice what you’ve learned.

Below you can hear this audio lesson, and at Spanish Bookworld you can play the interactive multimedia movie with the examples and speaking drill in this lesson at your own pace.

As always, you can get the transcript of this podcast at www.spanish-bookworld.com

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In this Spanish lesson from my Learn Spanish with Maria Fernandez podcast I bring you a dialog with greetings, flashcards to practice the new words and phrases, listening and speaking drills, a role playing exercise and a learning tip.

This short dialog is the perfect introduction to the Spanish language.

Below you can hear the whole lesson, and at Spanish Bookworld you can play the interactive multimedia lessons with the dialog and flashcards at your own pace.

At Spanish Bookworld you can also get the free transcript of this audio lesson as well as links to all my podcast episodes.

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Are you thinking of starting to learn Spanish? Or perhaps you’ve been learning for a while? To help you with the challenges and difficulties you’ll be facing, here are some learning ideas and tips.

After more than fifteen years teaching Spanish, my mother tongue, and after two decades of intense foreign language learning, I have put together a practical guide on How to Learn Spanish.

Below you can listen to a chapter from this guide where I talk about what you will experience when you start learning Spanish, and how to overcome the challenges.

The topics I cover are: remembering and forgetting new words, losing motivation, disliking the Spanish verbs, unpronounceable words, difficult numbers, making slow progress, and more. You can read the full transcript here.

If you have any comments or queries, please post them below.

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Great news! A couple of days ago I launched my new podcast Learn Spanish with Maria Fernandez.

You can listen to it on my site Spanish Bookworld. You can also subscribe to it on iTunes and have all my free lessons sent to your mp3 player automatically as they are released.

My Learn Spanish podcast will bring you every week: Spanish dialogs, vocabulary audio flashcards, grammar lessons with drills, speaking and listening drills, pronunciation practice, role playing exercises, quizzes, language learning tips and more.

Here’s the first Spanish language lesson: a dialog with greetings and vocabulary flashcards. Hope you like it!

Do you have a question, suggestion or feedback? Please leave a message below and I’ll get back to you today!

Did you know that you can get all the Harry Potter movies in Spanish, at great prices, and in both dvd and blu-ray format?

Over a Spanish Bookworld you can find links to the eight movies in both formats.

Finding the Harry Potter movies with a Spanish soundtrack and subtitles isn’t as easy as it may sound. Each movie has at least a dozen different releases, some with a Spanish soundtrack, most of them without.

This Harry Potter movie list contains only those releases that include both a Spanish soundtrack and subtitles.

If you’re also looking for the books, here are all the Harry Potter books in Spanish.

You can watch my free Spanish video lessons on my YouTube channel spanishvideolessons and also on this blog where I will post all my Spanish learning videos.

In this lesson you can learn how to describe masculine nouns. This is the Lesson 6 grammar from my Spanish Online Course.

This free Spanish video lesson includes plenty of examples with their English translation, easy grammar notes, and a speaking drill to review what you’ve learned.

To watch this video at the highest image quality, please change the settings to 1080p on the bottom bar of the video.

If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions, please leave a comment here or on my YouTube channel spanishvideolessons.

You can now get my Spanish language course Learn Spanish At Your Own Pace on Amazon.co.uk:

This is a Spanish course that takes you from a beginners’ to an intermediate level in 24 lessons with: dialogs, vocabulary practice, grammar, pronunciation drills, learning tips, speaking and listening drills, reading and writing exercises, and more.

This course contains a 300-page book and 2 audio cds with more than 2.5 hours of recordings by native Spanish speakers.

At Spanish Bookworld you can find all the information you need: features, lesson plan, cd content, free audio samples, free text samples and about the author.