3 Minute Spanish - Course 1 | Language lessons for beginners
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Hola y bienvenidos 🙂
(Hello and welcome)
There is nothing more thrilling than being able to speak to the locals in their own language when you visit a foreign country. Well, now you can experience that amazing feeling too!
My name is Kieran Ball and I’ve been teaching foreign languages in my hometown for over fifteen years. I love languages, I love learning and I love teaching. I also love chocolate, but this isn’t really the place to discuss my chocoholism!
I created 3 Minute Spanish as a way to make learning Spanish easier than ever before and accessible to anybody, especially people who have tried and failed in the past. My course is perfect for the complete beginner as I break down the Spanish language into tiny chunks that I show you how to build back together again in a logical, simple to understand way. You can go from knowing no Spanish at all to putting together your own sentences in just a few minutes. Watch the free preview lessons below and you’ll see what I mean.
TRY THE FREE PREVIEW LESSONS
I really want everybody to see that they can learn to speak Spanish, so I’ve turned the first fifteen videos of this course into free previews, meaning you can watch them without even signing up. If nothing else, I just want you to see how easy it is to learn Spanish.
HOW DOES 3 MINUTE SPANISH WORK?
As the name suggests, each lesson in this course lasts just three minutes (more or less!). In each lesson, you learn a tiny chunk of Spanish that you can use to build sentences. As you work through the course, you learn more and more little chunks and your sentences will gradually get longer and longer.
The chunks that you learn in the first lessons are carried through to the last lessons. This means you don’t have to worry about trying to remember everything; you will get so much opportunity for practice that you will find the words and phrases just sink into your brain.
The lessons in this course are focused, practical and effective, and you will build language skills that you can use straight away in real-world situations. You will be able to speak Spanish comfortably and with confidence whenever you’re in a Spanish speaking country.
WHY 3 MINUTES?
When you begin learning something new, you tend to start off with lots of excitement and motivation. You might spend a few hours on the first day learning, but then the next day, you can only manage one hour, and then that goes down to half an hour, and then you get bored and you give up. Well, the reason behind the very short lessons is that it helps you to stay motivated and it also enhances the learning process.
By keeping your learning to short chunks, you will find three wonderful things start to happen:
1. You will maintain enthusiasm
If you want to learn anything, you have to maintain enthusiasm or else you won’t continue. If you limit your study time to just three minutes, you’ll keep Spanish fresh and exciting and you’ll be eager to learn. If you spend hours studying, very quickly you’ll get bored with Spanish and it’ll turn into a chore.
2. You will study more consistently
It’s much better to study for just three minutes once a day than to study for three hours once a week. A spare three minutes is relatively easy to find even in the most hectic of schedules. If you make sure you complete at least one three-minute study session every day, it’ll quickly become a habit that you’ll do without thinking. It’s much easier to fit in a daily three-minute habit than a weekly one-hour habit. By doing this, you’ll become a much more consistent learner, and consistency is the key to success.
3. You will remember things better
This is my favourite reason as to why you should limit your study to just three-minute chunks. If you study something for just three minutes every day, you’ll trick your brain into memorising the information more quickly than if it were to see the information for hours each day. It’ll think, “I see this information every day so it must be important, but I don’t see it for very long, so I’d better hold onto it and make it into a memory fast!” You’ll be amazed at how much more easily things tend to stay in your brain if you limit yourself to just three minutes a day.
So, that’s why I keep the lessons to just three minutes.
A METHOD THAT REALLY WORKS
I can’t quite believe it, but over 150,000 people in more than 200 countries have now used 3 Minute Languages to learn to speak a foreign language. It still amazes me when I get an email from somebody on the other side of the world telling me how much they have enjoyed learning Spanish with me. Apart from the thrill it gives me to find out people are listening to my voice in places like Mongolia, Peru and even Fiji, it also confirms to me that the 3 Minute Languages courses work.
So, if you want a course that teaches you to speak Spanish you can use in everyday situations using a simple and fun method, then sign up to 3 Minute Spanish today.
Gracias 🙂
Kieran
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2Spanish lesson 1a | Your first few words in Spanish plus, what is that line?
Here you have your first few words in Spanish that you can use to start building sentences. I'll also show you what an accent on top of a Spanish word means.
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3Spanish lesson 1b | How to make your sentences negative
In this lesson, you'll learn a new word as well as the negative version of "es".
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4Spanish lesson 1c | Let's practise
Now you've got a few Spanish words and phrases under your belt, let's practise building some sentences with them
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5Spanish lesson 1d | Reverse translations
I'm going to say some sentences in Spanish using the words we've been learning, and you have to work out what they mean in English.
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6Spanish lesson 1e | What else?
Here are some tips to show you what you can do in between lessons to keep the learning process going
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7Spanish lesson 2a | A new word that looks English
You've probably noticed that a lot of Spanish words look very similar to English. Here's another one to add to your collection
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8Spanish lesson 2b | Some more adjectives
Here are two more adjectives, plus I will explain to two different ways you might hear the letter C pronounced in "delicioso"
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9Spanish lesson 2c | A useful phrase with two meanings
In this lesson, I'll show you the two meanings of the very useful phrase "para mí"
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10Spanish lesson 2d | Let's practise
It's time now to practise what we've been learning in lesson 2. How do you say these sentences in Spanish?
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11Spanish lesson 2e | Reverse translations
I'm going to say some sentences in Spanish using the words we've been learning, and you have to work out what they mean in English.
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12Spanish lesson 2f | Recap translations
Let's do some translations that incorporate words and phrases we learnt in lesson 1.
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13Spanish lesson 2g | Reverse recap translations
We'll start with some Spanish to English recap translations, and then we'll have a full vocabulary recap.
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14PDF version of "Let's Practise" | Lesson 2
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15Spanish lesson 3a | Let's start being polite in Spanish
We'll learn how to be a bit more polite in Spanish and we'll also look at a useful joining word.
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16Spanish lesson 3b | Always a perfect adjective
We'll learn another adjective (a descriptive word) and an adverb.
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17Spanish lesson 3c | How do you say "that"?
We'll look at how to say "that" and "that is" in Spanish.
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18Spanish lesson 3d | Let's practise
It's time now to practise what we've been learning in lesson 3. How do you say these sentences in Spanish?
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19Spanish lesson 3e | Reverse translations
I'm going to say some sentences in Spanish using the words we've been learning, and you have to work out what they mean in English.
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20Spanish lesson 3f |Recap translations
Let's do some translations that incorporate words and phrases we learnt in lessons 1 and 2.
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21Spanish lesson 3g | Reverse recap translations
We'll start with some Spanish to English recap translations, and then we'll have a full vocabulary recap.
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22PDF version of "Let's Practise" | Lesson 3
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23Spanish lesson 4a | Pronouncing the double L
In this lesson, we'll look at the pronunciation of LL in Spanish.
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24Spanish lesson 4b | The opposite of sí and bueno
We'll add two new Spanish words in this lesson.
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25Spanish lesson 4c | Your first Spanish noun
Let's add your first noun in this lesson, and look at how to use it with "es" and "no es".
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26Spanish lesson 4d | Another useful adverb
We'll learn a new adverb in this lesson, giving us plenty of new sentences to build.
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27Spanish lesson 4e | Let's practise
It's time now to practise what we've been learning in lesson 4. How do you say these sentences in Spanish?
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28Spanish lesson 4f | Reverse translations
I'm going to say some sentences in Spanish using the words we've been learning, and you have to work out what they mean in English.
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29Spanish lesson 4g | Recap translations
Let's do some translations that incorporate words and phrases we learnt in lessons 1, 2 and 3.
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30Spanish lesson 4h | Reverse recap translations
Now let's do some Spanish to English recap translations.
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31Spanish lesson 4i | Vocabulary recap
We'll have a full recap of all the words and phrases that we've learnt so far in this course.
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32PDF version of "Let's Practise" | Lesson 4
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33Spanish lesson 5a | More nouns
We'll look at two more Spanish food-related nouns.
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34Spanish lesson 5b | How to say "the" in Spanish
We've now seen two different ways to say "the" in Spanish, but what's the difference?
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35Spanish lesson 5c | What is a noun?
Let's look at a quick definition of what a noun is and how Spanish adjectives change depending on whether the noun they're describing is masculine or feminine.
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36Spanish lesson 5d | What's an adjective?
Let's look at a quick definition of what an adjective is in English and in Spanish.
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37Spanish lesson 5e | Masculine and feminine adjectives
We'll have a quick look at the masculine and feminine versions of the adjectives we've learnt so far.
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38Spanish lesson 5f | A terrible adjective
We'll learn a new adjective in this lesson, one which doesn't have a different feminine version.
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39Spanish lesson 5g | Vocabulary Expansion Sheet: Food
I'll let you know about your first Vocabulary Expansion Sheet and how it will boost your Spanish.
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40Spanish lesson 5h | Let's practise
It's time now to practise what we've been learning in lesson 5. How do you say these sentences in Spanish?
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41Spanish lesson 5i | Reverse translations
I'm going to say some sentences in Spanish using the words we've been learning, and you have to work out what they mean in English.
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42Spanish lesson 5j | Recap translations
Let's do some translations that incorporate words and phrases we learnt in previous lessons.
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43Spanish lesson 5k | Reverse recap translations
Now let's do some Spanish to English recap translations.
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44Spanish lesson 5l | Vocabulary recap
We'll have a full recap of all the words and phrases that we've learnt so far in this course.
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45PDF version of "Let's Practise" | Lesson 5
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46Spanish lesson 6a | "My" and the letter h
In this lesson, we'll look at how to say "my" and also the pronunciation of the letter H.
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47Spanish lesson 6b | Everybody is nice
We'll learn two new useful Spanish words in this lesson; the words for "everybody" and "nice".
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48Spanish lesson 6c | Some practice sentences
We'll use this lesson to build some sentences with the new words we've been learning.
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49Spanish lesson 6d | Let's practise
It's time now to practise what we've been learning in lesson 6. How do you say these sentences in Spanish?
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50Spanish lesson 6e | Reverse translations
I'm going to say some sentences in Spanish using the words we've been learning, and you have to work out what they mean in English.
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51Spanish lesson 6f | Recap translations
Let's do some translations that incorporate words and phrases we learnt in previous lessons.
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52Spanish lesson 6g | Reverse recap translations
Now let's do some Spanish to English recap translations.
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53Spanish lesson 6h | Vocabulary recap
We'll have a full recap of all the words and phrases that we've learnt so far in this course.
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54PDF version of "Let's Practise" | Lesson 6
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55Spanish lesson 7a | "A" in Spanish
We've seen how to say "the" and "my", so now let's look at the two ways to say "a" in Spanish.
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56Spanish lesson 7b | A tea and a coffee, please
We learnt "coffee" in the last lesson, but what about "tea"? And we'll also add another word to make us sound more polite.
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57Spanish lesson 7c | I would like…
We'll look at a very useful phrase in Spanish in this lesson.
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58Spanish lesson 7d | A table for two
In this lesson, we'll look at two new nouns, one of them in the plural.
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59Spanish lesson 7e | Vocabulary Expansion Sheet: Numbers
I'll let you know about your second Vocabulary Expansion Sheet; this one is all about numbers in Spanish.
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60Spanish lesson 7f | Let's practise
It's time now to practise what we've been learning in lesson 7. How do you say these sentences in Spanish?
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61Spanish lesson 7g | Reverse translations
I'm going to say some sentences in Spanish using the words we've been learning, and you have to work out what they mean in English.
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62Spanish lesson 7h | Recap translations
Let's do some translations that incorporate words and phrases we learnt in previous lessons.
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63Spanish lesson 7i | Reverse recap translations
Now let's do some Spanish to English recap translations.
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64Spanish lesson 7j | Vocabulary recap
We'll have a full recap of all the words and phrases that we've learnt so far in this course.
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65PDF version of "Let's Practise" | Lesson 7
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66Spanish lesson 8a | …and the food?
Let's learn a very handy linking word and add another noun to our collection.
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67Spanish lesson 8b | Two more words
Let's add two more words in this lesson; an adverb and a verb.
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68Spanish lesson 8c | Plural nouns
In this lesson, we'll look at how to make nouns plural in Spanish, and we'll add two more ways to say "the".
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69Spanish lesson 8d | Practising plurals: Part 1
See if you can work out how to turn these singular nouns into plural nouns - be careful with the word for "the".
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70Spanish lesson 8e | Practising plurals: Part 2
See if you can work out how to turn these singular nouns into plural nouns - be careful with the word for "the".
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71Spanish lesson 8f | Plural adjectives
We've already seen that adjectives in Spanish change when describing feminine nouns, but they also change when the noun is plural.
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72Spanish lesson 8g | Four forms for each adjective
Every adjective in Spanish has four versions, so let's look at the adjectives we've learnt so far in the masculine, feminine, singular and plural.
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73Spanish lesson 8h | Some more nouns
Let's add a random feminine noun and a random masculine noun to our collection, and we can use them to make the singular-plural rules clearer.
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74Spanish lesson 8i | Plural "my"
It will probably not surprise you that there is a plural way to say "me" in Spanish.
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75Spanish lesson 8j | Don't lose sleep!
Let me share with you a little bit of advice about all these language rules we've been learning in this lesson.
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76Spanish lesson 8k | Let's practise
It's time now to practise what we've been learning in lesson 8. How do you say these sentences in Spanish?
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77Spanish lesson 8l | Reverse translations
I'm going to say some sentences in Spanish using the words we've been learning, and you have to work out what they mean in English.
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78Spanish lesson 8m | Recap translations
Let's do some translations that incorporate words and phrases we learnt in previous lessons.
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79Spanish lesson 8n | Reverse recap translations
Now let's do some Spanish to English recap translations.
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80Spanish lesson 8o | Vocabulary recap
We'll have a full recap of all the words and phrases that we've learnt so far in this course.
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81PDF version of "Let's Practise" | Lesson 8