Synergy Spanish Systems Blog

You can start with those.

Most Spanish courses grind you into the ground with 14 tenses and thousands of verb conjugations.

Yet with the right patterns you can make 88,000 phrases from just 138 words.

It’s time to make Spanish simple and uncomplicated.

Let’s strip away the complexity. Speaking Spanish can be FUN for any age…when you concentrate on these essentials first.

Let’s throw away the intimidating grammar labels. And quit focusing on the minor rules that don’t give you the power to say anything.

All they do is terrify you of making a mistake.

Everyone makes mistakes.

Good teaching allows you to succeed, enjoy yourself, and communicate even through your faults.

What if instead of obsessing over rules we looked for patterns of speaking that allowed you to speak as soon as possible?

You see, language is made up of patterns and everything is held together by words.

If you start with the most useful words and patterns you can go a long way quite quickly.

As mentioned above, you can create 88,000 phrases from just 138 words.

I build all my courses on the simple idea that words and patterns make up language. If you learn the most powerful words and patterns first you can make your Spanish take off like a rocket ship.

That’s why I have a two-pronged foundation for beginners.

Shortcut to Spanish focuses on words. The 100 most frequently used words are built into the course. Plus, it shows you 3145 Spanish words you can learn instantly.

Synergy Spanish on the other hand focuses on patterns. Speaking patterns you can use right away to combine words to make 88,000 phrases from just 138 words.

If you are done with the complication, complexity and convolution this special offer will get you speaking Spanish.

http://www.how-to-speak.com/synergyshortcut.html

If you have been learning Spanish for a while but can’t yet put it together in sentences this two-pronged foundation may be just what you need. It helps you make sense of everything you have learned and put it into use speaking Spanish.

And there’s always a check dance. It’s goes something like this:

pago yo
I’ll pay

No, no, no no, no, pago yo. Yo te invito.
No, no, no, no, no, (saying no 5 times has a good Latin rhythm) I’ll pay. It’s on me

No, me toca a mi
It’s my turn

There are a couple of phrases from that exchange you’ll find handy.

Me toca a mi is a very common colloquial way to say it’s my turn,

Yo te invito, literally means “I invite you”, but it’s understood as “it’s on me”

So, if you invite someone to eat be careful how you say it, otherwise you’ll be expected to pay. And if you don’t pay after inviting someone to eat, well in Mexico you’d be an elbow.

Yes, in Mexico codo (elbow) means tightfisted.

I have no idea why, if you know why it’s elbow email me and let me know.

Everywhere else and also in Mexico the word you’ll hear is tacaño.

It means miser.

You know, I picked up a lot of colloquial Spanish like this from day one of my Spanish adventure by reading a comic strip called Condorito.

One of the Characters in Condorito is Máximo Tacaño (Maximum Miser). As you’ll see below he is characteristically tightfisted.

Here’s a translation of “Regalo”.

First Frame:
Máximo: Tocaño: Is it true that today is your girlfriend Yayita’s birthday Condorito?
Condorito: Yes, Don Maximo

Second frame:
Máximo: Tocaño: Take, (this) and take it to her it’s a cake (as a) present!
Condorito: But… this isn’t a cake.

Last frame:
Máximo: Tocaño: No, but it is the recipe.

Ja ja ja ja (ha ha ha ha)

By the way, the further you go with me on your Spanish path the more colloquial language I’ll teach you. That way, as you Spanish advances and you start to use it on the streets, in the markets and at the fiestas the more you’ll fit in with everyday normal Spanish life.

When was the last time you heard a mother tell her four year old, “You should have used the indirect object pronoun instead of the
direct object pronoun.”

When you were that 4-year-old kid, you had no trouble learning your first language without being a grammarian.

You can do it again in your new language.

You probably won’t pick it up quite as quickly as a child will, but that’s even more reason to keep it simple.

The way many Spanish textbooks and instructors teach, you have to learn all the rules of a grammarian.

I’m sorry…but that’s boring, a waste of your time, and slow to accomplish your goals.

I don’t know about you, but my first goal in learning Spanish was to simply be understood during a basic conversation.

No one sat me down during a casual conversation and scolded me for mistakes I might have made with the pluperfect, indirect
object pronouns or definite articles.

You don’t need to learn Grammarian to speak Spanish.

But flip open most textbooks and you’re hit between the eyes by these intimidating labels.

If you remember from school what a pronoun is, that’s not enough

No way Jose!

They assault you with relative pronouns, demonstrative pronouns and reflexive pronouns.

Hay caramba!

Can you learn Spanish without being a grammarian?

I know you can.

You can go from zero Spanish to getting by in the language without any intimidating grammar terminology. In fact, a simple 3-step
system can lead you to making as many as 88,000 phrases from just 138 words,

See for yourself how easy it is on with the lessons on this page:

http://www.synergyspanish.com/nogrammarian.html

By the way, just for the record, on that page you’ll USE conjugated verbs, infinitives, direct object pronouns, adjectives, adverbs,
nouns and even the pluperfect

You’ll use all that stuff. But instead of all the fuss over labels, you’ll just get on with it and speak a bunch of Spanish.

http://www.synergyspanish.com/nogrammarian.html