Last year, I was invited to speak about learning languages through Conversation Based Chunking™ at Langfest, the biggest language conference in North America.I had a great time, and the people at Langfest were so kind to record the talk and put it on YouTube!I cover the whole Conversation Based Chunking Method, give plenty of examples in …
A while ago, I met up with my friend Jan Van der Aa, co-founder of Language Boost. He read my book “Effortless Conversations” and liked the concept of “Conversation Based Chunking™” to learn Spanish and other languages, so we decided to make a super quick video for his channel explaining the basics of this approach to …
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Nowadays, one of the best (and free) resources to learn Spanish is YouTube. There are plenty of amazing YouTube Channels for Spanish students that cover grammar, conversation, different accents. The fun part: the teachers in the different channels all have their own teaching style. Moreover, the video format allows their character to shine through (some …
You’re starting to learn Spanish! ¡Felicidades! (Yes, that’s how you say congratulations 🙂 ) In this article, you’ll find a step-by-step guide that shows you exactly how to learn Spanish when you’re a beginner. You’ll discover which steps you should take when starting out so you can say your first sentences as quickly as possible. …
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One of the best ways to improve your Spanish is listening to Spanish audio a lot. The more, the better! In the past, you might’ve found it difficult to find enough Spanish listening resources, but in the past years, there’s been a huge surge in Spanish podcasts, both for language learners as for native speakers. …
If you’ve recently started learning Spanish, you might have asked yourself the question: So how long will it take me to become fluent in Spanish? This is a normal question to ask, but in reality, it’s so vague that the answers you’ll get are usually all over the place. “It’ll take years of relentless studying …
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Ask 100 language learners what they struggle with most, and many of them will say ‘speaking with a native speaker’. I say: this is misleading! Because if you dig a bit deeper, you’ll often hear that the speaking bit is only part of the problem. The bigger problem is “I can’t UNDERSTAND anyone during these …
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There are two types of language learners: people who love reading in their target language and people who loathe it. No matter which category you fall in, reading in your target language poses several problems. Many people get overwhelmed by all the words they don’t know, the weird grammatical structures they’ve never seen before, and …
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Writing is one of the most underrated AND underused exercise to improve your language skills. Understandably so: writing in your target language is not easy! When you write, there’s nowhere to hide: every mistake you make, every word you don’t know, is painfully visible on the page. That is, if you don’t suffer from writer’s …
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So you’re learning Spanish? Excellent choice! It’s one of the most useful languages in the world. Now, as you might have noticed already, learning Spanish (or learning any language for that matter) isn’t always a walk in the park… So if you’ve thought about using traditional language courses or taking classes, or maybe you’ve used …
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