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.

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

Want to see what my Spanish online course looks and sounds like? Here’s an insight into the course:

Apps have revolutionized the way you learn Spanish. You no longer need to wait until you have some free time to sit in front of a book or a computer, and make painfully slow progress. If you have an iPhone, an iPod or an iPad, you can access your Spanish lessons wherever you are, at any time. That means fast progress.

It means, too, the ability of learning the Spanish language while you do other tasks, from traveling to work to relaxing in the tub.

Learning the Spanish language with apps is entertaining, with the good ones at least. Good apps encourage you to learn further, and help you master speaking and understanding.

So what makes a Spanish learning app good? Which features should it contain?

Good Spanish apps are put together by professional language teachers. They include a substantial number of audio files, all of which must be recorded by native speakers. Whether you purchase an app with a Spanish conversation course, a grammar guide, kids’ lessons, games, quizzes or exam help, it must contain audio files. Without them, your listening and speaking skills will not benefit, only your reading skills will.

Other essential features in an app are: Spanish transcripts of all the recorded material, and English translations so you don’t have to consult a dictionary. It should also be content-rich, easy to navigate and visually attractive.

With so many Spanish language courses to choose from, access to free samples before you purchase the app is of great assistance. Unfortunately, many app creators do not offer you the chance to play with the content before you part with your money, but the best do.

On top of all these features, a good Spanish app will give you a link to the course producer, the chance to email your technical questions, and will offer you periodic upgrades.

I have created for you my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners App with these and many other components: new mp3s or videos on a weekly basis; Spanish transcripts of all the content including dialogs, vocabulary glossaries, grammar lessons, and exercises with their solutions; on and offline playing, and more.

Spanish vocabulary audio flashcards from Maria Fernandez’s course

Forgetting the gender of the Spanish nouns you’re supposed to know well is both frustrating and demotivating. Today I’m going to walk you through the reason why those mistakes are made, and I’m going to give you an easy solution.

My fifteen years teaching Spanish have shown me that learning and reviewing vocabulary the wrong way is what leads to those mistakes.

You may be wondering, then, if there is a way of learning new Spanish nouns that will allow you to get the gender always right. The answer, without any doubt, is ‘yes’. Here are the two steps you need to follow:

1. Every time you come across a new Spanish noun, make sure you learn it with ‘el’ or ‘la’. When you’re reviewing vocabulary, do so with ‘el’ or ‘la’ in front of all the nouns.

2. Use recordings by native Spanish speakers to learn new vocabulary, in particular audio flashcards.

In all my Spanish courses this is the method I use. It’s fast, efficient and a great time-saver.

Learning nouns with their article the first time you come across them takes the same effort as learning them on their own, and it will save you a lot of time and frustration later on. So, for instance, instead of learning that:

the word ‘flor’ means ‘flower’

Always learn that:

‘la flor’ means ‘the flower’

Doing so will ensure that you associate ‘flor’ with ‘la’ in a natural way, just like Spanish native speakers do.

My second vocabulary tip is to use audio flashcards. The advantage of those is that you can hear the new Spanish words and their English translation, as well as practice and review them.

The task of learning new Spanish vocabulary becomes significantly easier with audio flashcards. They are an essential tool for acquiring a good Spanish accent, and a powerful resource for reviewing efficiently. Throughout my Spanish courses I have created audio flashcards to make your vocabulary learning experience smooth and enjoyable. I’ve included them in my online course, my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners, kids’ course, videos and my iTunes apps.

Briefly, learning new vocabulary following the two steps I’ve described in this article is not only more efficient in the short, medium and long term, but also much more enjoyable.

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Do you want to learn Spanish? Don’t have time? Welcome to my Spanish language course app!

This Spanish language learning app brings you mp3s, videos and pdfs directly to your iPhone, iPod and iPad without having to connect to your computer.

This easy-to-navigate and content-rich app costs only $1.99 from iTunes. It gives you a new episode every week, and access to the back catalog of dialogs, vocabulary flashcards, grammar, pronunciation and numbers from my Spanish course.

Every Spanish learning mp3 and video in this app comes with a pdf transcript. You can download all the mp3s, videos and pdfs, play them on and offline, keep them forever and go back to them as often as you want.

You can access this app wherever you are, whenever you want. It allows you to learn Spanish in your car, on the train, the bus, while waiting, exercising, bathing or cooking.

There are many other features to make this app a must for Spanish language learners: you can contact the show with one click, request new features, resume playing if you’re interrupted by a call, play the mp3s in the background, highlight your favorite mp3s and videos, and get special offers.

If you have any queries, please contact me.

FREE APP SAMPLES

At Spanish Bookworld you can listen to the free mp3s, watch a video and download a pdf from this app.

SPANISH APP SCREEN SHOTS

Here are some screen shots from my Spanish course app:

At Spanish Bookworld you can see more screen shots and find out more details.

This is what the Spanish language learning videos in my course look like on your iPod and iPhone:

On my Spanish Bookworld website you can download a free video sample from my Spanish course and put it on your iPod and iPhone, and you can also watch a free video sample online.

You can download the videos and mp3s in my Spanish course when you subscribe. Subscriptions cost $19.99 per month and come with a 60-day money-back guarantee.

My Spanish course contains 45 lessons with 5 videos and 5 mp3s each, plus online lessons, kids’ lessons, articles, an ebook and a members-only forum where you can post me all your Spanish language questions.

If you want to listen to my Lesson 8 podcast mp3s, at Spanish Bookworld you can find the dialog, flashcard, grammar, pronunciation and number podcasts in this lesson.

There you can download the free samples, or listen to them online, and you can also download the videocast samples.

All my podcasts have been recorded by me and other native Spanish speakers, with clear explanations and prompts in English.

To show you what my podcasts sound like, here’s the Lesson 8 dialog podcast sample:

This is the Lesson 1 dialog videocast from my Spanish for Beginners course.

In this short dialog you can hear two native Spanish speakers greeting each other. Lesson 1 also includes a flashcard videocast where you can hear and practice all the new words that come up in the dialog, as well as a pronunciation and a numbers videocast. I’ve also created a podcast version of the four videocasts, and interactive multimedia movies.

In previous posts you can see and hear the Lesson 1 dialog movie and the Lesson 1 dialog podcast.

You can download all the podcasts and videocasts in my Spanish for Beginners course when you subscribe.

Here’s the Lesson 1 dialog podcast from my Spanish for Beginners course.

I’m the author and host of this 4-minute podcast. All the Spanish in this podcast has been recorded by native speakers, including myself.

You can see the transcript of the dialog and its translation in this other post and at Spanish Bookworld. There you can also download all my other podcasts in this series.