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Is it said that Español is written in the same way as it is pronounced, so, es decir, that if you know the basic pronunciation rules of Spanish, you will be able to read perfectly any text. However, eso NO es del todo verdad (it's not absolutely true).

I explain you why in this podcast

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TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/3-important-questions-for-your-spanish-teacher/

This month of Abril, I've been helping you with your first encuentro with your new Spanish teacher.

· I gave you some advice about how to find the best teacher,

· how to be polite when you contact with him

· or about the importance about negotiate your short and long term objective with him

· as well as if you want to focused on fluency or accuracy, depending on your needs but also on your teacher ones.

In this podcast, I will become student. I will think what three questions I would need to ask to my teacher the first time during my first lesson, and will be this ones.

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Bienvenida o bienvenida my dear beginner...

Whats better, being able to talk with extremately fluency despite making mistakes word after word or having an extremly accuracy in your Spanish but needing making pauses after 3 o 4 words?

In this podcast we are going to talk about fluency and accuracy, two aspects that you need to take into account in your learning process.

As a teacher, I prepare lessons that are focused on accuracy, for example formal exercises in which we focused on the structure of any grammar exponent, and focused on fluency, for example exersises in which you are inmersed in any role-play situation and you must acomplish some communicative goals.

Also, in my first trial lesson I talk about corrections. I ask to my student if he prefers to be corrected constanly, how he wants to be corrected, when and what. I also explain him that there will be moments in which we will just focused on accuracy and I will need to correct hims constanly and there will be other moments in which we will focused on fluency and I will write down his mistakes but I will not interreput him during his production.

Of couse than the mistakes that he makes will be corrected later, when he finishes his exercice.

So, my dear beginner, if your Spanish teacher forgot to ask you how you want to be corrected, explain your objectives and how you want to do it. I'm pretty surte that he will explain you that during his lessons, he will need to focused sometimes in fluency or in accuracy.

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These month I'm talking about how you can begin to learn Spanish choosing the best Spanish teacher online. Some consecuenques of this succeed, came from when you are aware of where you are right now and where you want to begin to walk to.

TRANSCRITPION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/set-long-and-short-term-goals-in-spanish/

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Bienvenido o bienvenida my dear beginner...

TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/the-more-polite-you-are-the-more-you-will-learn-ep-17/

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TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/spanish-infinitive-verbs/

You must know that in Spanish we have, from the grammar aspect, three kind of verbs that ends in three different ways. So, if you learn these endings right now, you will be able to conjugate cualquier (any) verb whatever tense is it.

Escucha con atención.

1. There are verbs that ends in -AR (jugar-to play, cantar - to sing, hablar - to speak, andar - to walk). This is the most common conjugation in Spanish. So, the most of verbs that you find in Spanish end in -AR.

2. The second group are verbs that ends in -ER (comer-to eat, leer-to read, ser- to be).

3. And finally, there is a last group of verbs that ends in -IR (vivir, to live domir - to sleep or, simplir -ir to go).

En resumen, three verbs in Spanish, three endings, three kinds of infinitive verbs. If you can recognize from now, every time that you read or listen to a verb in Spanish, which ending is it.... habrás aprendido lo necesario para empezar a conjugar verbos (You will have learnt the basics to begin to conjugate verbs in any Spanish tense.

But, we will see this in other podcast.

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This month, Abril, I have prepared you a few podcasts related to verbs. Don't worry (No te preocupes) because we are going to begin from the beginning, my dear beginner.

TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/spanish-personal-pronouns/

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TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/el-seseo-ep-8/

Sssssss.....ssssssss....sabesssss... que es.... el ssseeeseeoo??

Do you know what's seseo?

Phonologic variation in Spanish in which the sound C sounds S. This is something that happen in some parts of Spain, such in some areas of Andalucías or Canary Islands, and of couse, is something generalized in America.

Instead of saying CANCION (song)... seseo speakers say CANSION. Instead of saying CAZAR (to hunt) they sey CASAR (something that sounds like to get married).

You will say that it's easy to be a seseante speaker. But the "s" of seseante spekar and the "s" of not seseante speaker are different. The S of a not seseante speaker is called apicoalveolar and it's pronunced with the top of your tongue close to your teeth. By the contraste, the seseantes speakers and the "predorsal" s that it's pronunced with the back of the tongue.

Escucha el ejemplo

For example, YES SIR, if you are not seseante, it would be:

And if you ar seseante, it would be

And now, la pregunta clave (the key question): which one is better. Both. To be or not to be seseant is not a phonologic mistake, just a phonologic variation. My only recommendation is, my dear beginner, that you choose from which of this two variations you want to begin to learn Spanish, but, once, you have decided... don't mix them!

¡No las mezcles!

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TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/tools-to-use-spanish-from-the-beginning-ep-7/

If I could convice you about the importance of “using” a language, in this podcast I will help you to use the language wherever you are from the beginning. Solo necesitas una conexión a Internet and to find the proper Spanish native (better if he/she is a teacher!)

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TRANSCRIPTION: https://learnspanishbeginner.com/telenovela-effect-ep-6/

Do you know what happen when you just try to learn Spanish watching films like telenovelas (soup operas)? I tell you a real case that I live every day here, in Sarajevo, with my students.