Your Daily Spanish Coach

Have you ever sat down to study Spanish, but then spent the first ten minutes deciding what to work on? Planning and studying are two different jobs, so let's separate them. Here's a routine that will only take about ten minutes per month, freeing you up to just focus on the Spanish work every single day.

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If only you could just "immerse" yourself in Spanish, that would fix everything! …Right? Maybe not. Hundreds of our students have tried this. But it turns out that being surrounded by Spanish teaches you about as much Spanish as being surrounded by water teaches you to swim. Here's what actually moves your Spanish forward instead.

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You've learned new Spanish words, you've reviewed them, but they don't want to flow in conversation? Here's a fun way to turn a simple creative writing project into Spanish practice that expands your expressive abilities, one word at a time.

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Copying a Spanish speaker you know is a good way to build an accent, but you might sometimes feel like a parrot. Here are some techniques for developing your own Spanish voice, even while you model it on the Spanish voices around you.

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If you're using memory tricks to remember Spanish words, you might wonder whether they're getting in the way of a real conversation. Mnemonics are meant to work as scaffolding, not as a long-term solution you'll constantly rely on. Here's what it looks like when a memory trick has finished its job.

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Serious Spanish learners have a way of spending most of their time working on their weakest areas. That's generally a good approach… but don't burn yourself out! Here's an argument for doing something fun and easy in Spanish for a change.

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You know the Spanish word perfectly… until the moment you need to say it out loud? It's one thing to "know" a word because you can recognize it on a test. It's another thing to come up with it from scratch, in a real conversation. Here's a way to practice coming up with the right words so you can say what you mean when you actually need that vocabulary.

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Which Spanish words should you learn next? Probably not what you think! Here's why your gut feeling will probably tell you to learn the wrong words, and the data-driven method Timothy recommends for choosing what you should learn next.

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Some Spanish sentences just sound like a bunch of garbled sounds. Here's how you can turn the tables by making sense of Spanish phrases, giving them meaning, and reprogramming your brain to *think* the way Spanish speakers do.

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Some Spanish words refuse to stick in your memory, and you have to keep looking them up. That doesn't mean there's something wrong with your memory! Here's a trick you can use to take advantage of the way your brain actually likes to remember Spanish words.

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