Discover Spanish with Maria Fernandez

The 8 Habits Of Highly Successful Spanish Language Learners

The method you choose to follow your Spanish course, whether it’s a book, software, app or online material, is going to determine how successfully you learn. Today I’m going to give you 8 tips that will make your Spanish language learning smooth and fruitful. How to learn Spanish fast 1. When you start a new [...]

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How to learn Spanish vocabulary and remember it

This post on how to learn Spanish vocabulary is an extract from my book and ebook How To Learn Spanish: You can learn Spanish vocabulary fast, and remember it easily, if you use the right learning technique. One of the biggest frustrations we all face when studying a foreign language is failing to remember the [...]

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Spanish Courses – The Most Popular Spanish Learning Products

In my long experience as a Spanish language teacher and course author I’ve come across dozens of Spanish courses, good and bad, student-friendly and dry as a bone. This is a great time for learning foreign languages. The quality of the learning material has improved quite dramatically over the years, prices are generally very reasonable, [...]

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An insight into how to speed up your Spanish learning

There are no miracles when it comes to learning a foreign language, but there are ways of going through your study material that can greatly speed up the learning process. Here are three exercises I’ve often done myself as a student of English and other languages, and which I always recommend to my students. These [...]

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How to speak & understand Spanish with only the basics

To get by in Spanish, and to get the information or things you need, you don’t have to be fluent. Even if you know just a couple of hundred words, there’s a lot you can say, and a lot you can understand. Here are seven tips on how to put your message across successfully, and [...]

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How to master the art of teaching yourself Spanish

The way in which you go through your Spanish course is going to be a main factor in how well and how fast you learn the language. Here are 8 tips to help you develop your listening and speaking skills successfully, and get a good Spanish accent. . 1. When you start a new dialog, [...]

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Learning Spanish Vocabulary – Is It ‘El’ or ‘La’?

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 [...]

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Irregular Spanish verbs: estar (to be) – The present tense

Knowing the six forms of the irregular Spanish verb estar in the present tense will allow you to build and understand essential sentences, questions and answers. You can listen to the six forms, together with all the Spanish examples in this post, and play the interactive drill, in the Lesson 4 – Grammar of my [...]

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3 fatal Spanish learning mistakes & how to avoid them

In my experience as a Spanish language teacher, here are three mistakes that can make you waste precious time, ruin your confidence and eventually give up. As you will see, they are easy to avoid: 1. Rushing through your first Spanish lessons Having a sound knowledge of the basics will determine how fast, and how [...]

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What’s an adjective? – Easy Spanish grammar lessons

To help you learn Spanish better and faster, I’ll be posting on this blog the definition of the main grammatical terms together with practical examples. You can also find them in the free Lesson 1 from my Spanish Online Course. Today’s post is about: ADJECTIVES Adjectives are words used to describe or modify nouns and [...]

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