Learn Spanish： Keep Using this 10-Word Frame Until Fluent

If your aim is to get conversationally fluent in Spanish, then you're going to experience with this frame just how fast you can do that, and it also includes the five minute automaticity or fluency phase, which really speeds up your ability to process language before speaking. I know that not all of you are beginners, so there is a non-beginner part to this video, which you can jump forward to. The time frame is about to come up now, or you can stay with us for the extra practice. Welcome to Pro Spanish. OK, so look at the first word that we have here. I, which means there is or there are. I, the H isn't pronounced. And especially if this is your first Spanish lesson, I is probably one of the most useful words we can start with. If you're visiting a Spanish speaking country or talking to Spanish speaking friends, you're going to get a lot of mileage out of this word. So what do you think it means if I say I pizza, I pizza, there's pizza, there's pizza. We might say there's some pizza or there's pizza. Or perhaps you might think I bino is more your thing. I bino, bino is wine. And notice the V is pronounced like a B, bino. So I bino means there's wine. What about I un problema? What do you think that is? I un problema. Yeah, that's right. There's a problem, hopefully not with the wine or the pizza. I un problema. There's a problem. Now, if you want to ask a question, is there pizza? Is there wine? Is there a problem? It's exactly the same. You don't have to learn anything new. So there's a problem is I un problema. The question, is there a problem? I un problema. Same words, just a slight change in the tone of voice. I un problema. Is there a problem? How would you say, how would you ask, is there pizza? Now, in English, we might say, is there any pizza? But in Spanish, they don't tend to use that any or some in the same way. So how would you say, is there any pizza? Hay pizza. And how would you ask, is there any wine? Hay vino. And the answer might come back as si, hay vino. Yes, there's some wine. What would it mean if the answer came back as no hay vino? Yeah, no hay vino. There's no wine or there isn't any wine. So we just put no at the beginning and you've got the negative. No hay vino. There's no wine. How would you say, there's no paella? Which would be a shame, but how would you say, there's no paella? No hay paella. So have a look at the next one, more or less. Mas o menos. More or less. And the great thing about teaching something like this, mas o menos, is that it sticks. It's really easy to remember because of how it sounds. Mas o menos. More or less. And you get to learn three words for the price of one in a very easy to remember phrase and this way of incorporating devices to make language stick and introducing language in a way that builds up your conversational framework without overloading you is a key feature of the Levels 1 to 6 Pro Spanish course. So looking at mas o menos, let's use the word more, which is mas. So how would you say, there's more pizza? So it might be there's more pizza in the kitchen or whatever. How would you say, there's more pizza? Hay mas pizza. And how would you say, there's no more wine? There's no more wine. So there isn't more wine. What would that be? No hay mas vino. And how about a question? Is there more Coca-Cola? And remember, in English we might say, is there any more Coca-Cola or Coke? But in Spanish, we don't need that any. So how would you say, is there more Coca-Cola? Hay mas Coca-Cola. And let's use the word or from the phrase more or less. Mas o menos. How would you say, there's pizza or there's tapas? What would that be? Hay pizza o hay tapas. Now about the whole phrase more or less, mas o menos. How would you say, there are more or less eight? So it could be eight people coming, eight cars, whatever it might be. There are more or less eight. And ocho is eight, in case you didn't know that. Hay mas o menos ocho. And we'll just take a quick pause here while I mention my very popular Levels 1 to 6 course. This takes the complete beginner or near beginner right up to a conversational level of Spanish in a series of very easy to follow steps. Now, all the lessons on this YouTube channel are supplementary, whereas the core Levels 1 to 6 is very much a step by step programme delivered by me, the same teacher, as all the other videos on this channel. And while the style is very similar to what you'll be used to from these videos on the channel, the key difference is that every lesson carefully builds on the previous lessons so you can really feel that progress of going from little or no Spanish up to a level where you can confidently hold a conversation in Spanish. And that course download is available exclusively from ProSpanish.co.uk. Next, have a look at I need. So I need is necesito, necesito. And that's the pronunciation in Latin America. The C is pronounced like an S, necesito. And in European Spanish, it's pronounced more like a TH, necesito. So necesito or necesito. Both are perfectly correct, equally correct, just different accents. And I use both throughout so you can get used to hearing them both. How would you say I need, and let's use eight again, ocho. How would you say I need eight more? What would that be? I need eight more. Necesito ocho más. And how about I need, well let's go for it, I need more wine. What would that be? I need more wine. Necesito más vino. And we've learned how to say I, and we've learned how to say no hay, there isn't, the negative. How would you say I don't need? How would we make that into a negative? I don't need. No necesito, no necesito. And so how do we say I don't need more? Let's say I don't need more problems or I don't need any more problems. What would that be? No necesito más problemas. The point about the frame is that each of these elements in this part of the framework we can layer on, we can build on with other words that fit. So, for example, instead of I need, we could have I want. So I want more, whatever it might be. Or I don't want, we could have tengo. Tengo ocho más. I've got eight more or tengo más vino, got more wine. Or it could be you or it could be in the past and we just layer up on that element. And again, this building up feature is the hallmark of my Pro Spanish course. So right now we're condensing quite a lot into one video, whereas my levels one to six course is much more evenly paced so that you learn everything as you go about having to memorise it. OK, so let's look at the next two. So we've got to go to the bank and to buy. Ir al banco, to go to the bank. Ir al banco. Comprar, to buy is comprar. And incidentally, there's another example here of how we can change the element in the frame. So instead of ir al banco, we could have ir al supermercado. What do you think that means? Ir al supermercado, to go to the supermarket. And from there we could say ir al mercado, ir al mercado, to go to the market. Let's stick with ir al banco for a moment. How would you say I need to go to the bank? Necesito ir al banco. And of course, I don't need to go to the bank would be no, necesito ir al banco. And now using comprar, to buy, how would we say I need to buy more? Let's say coffee, coffee, café. How would you say I need to buy more coffee? Necesito comprar más café. O necesito comprar más café. And how about in the unlikely scenario? You might say I need to buy less wine. I need to buy less wine. What would that be? Necesito comprar menos vino. And again, looking at one element of the frame comprar, to buy, we can see how quick and easy it would be to layer on more verbs. So we've got comprar, but it could be encontrar, to find. I need to find. Necesito encontrar, for example, mi teléfono. Necesito encontrar mi teléfono. I need to find my phone. And phone could be mi pasaporte, my passport. Or it could be to see or to speak. I need to see somebody. I need to speak to somebody. Once we establish the frame, it's very easy to build on it. And so on to the next one. No olvides, no olvides. I notice just like with vino, that the V is pronounced more like a B than a V. So no olvides, don't forget, no olvides. How would you say don't forget the, we can't say wine again, so let's say don't forget the pizza. What would that be? Don't forget the pizza. No olvides la pizza. How about don't forget to go to the bank? What would that be? No olvides ir al banco. And we could say now a phrase similar to a previous one. There's no pasta. So no hay pasta. There's no pasta. How would we say there's no pasta. Don't forget to buy some more. What would that be? No hay pasta. No olvides comprar más. No hay pasta. No olvides comprar más. So you can see we're already deep into proper everyday conversational Spanish. OK, pedir, to order, pedir. Very useful. It also means to ask for. So to order or to ask for, pedir, obviously order and ask for are very similar. How would you say to ask for some more pasta? To ask for some more pasta. What would that be? Just three words. Pedir más pizza. So to order more pasta or to ask for more pasta. And let's say you're drinking a bit too much coffee. So you want to say I need to order less coffee. What would that be? I need to order less coffee. Necesito pedir menos café. How about don't forget to order. Let's say don't forget to order more fruit. Fruit is nice and easy. Fruta. So don't forget to order more fruit would be. No olvides pedir más fruta. And let's have a look at it. Lo. So lo is it. And if you want to say to order it, it's just pedirlo. Pedirlo, to order it. So you can see how the lo just sticks to the end of the verb. Pedirlo, to order it. How would you say don't forget to order it. No olvides pedirlo. How would you say to buy it. Comprarlo. Comprarlo, to buy it. How would you say I need to buy it. Necesito comprarlo. What about I don't need to order it. What would that be? Maybe there's you just discovered there's more in the fridge. I don't need to order it. What would that be? No necesito pedirlo. And of course, once you're layering up on the verb element, we can keep expanding. So we have comprar, but it could be I mentioned before, encontrar, to find, to find it. Encontrarlo. Necesito encontrarlo. I need to find it. And next we have to practice. Nice and easy. Practicar. Practicar, to practice. And the great thing here is that there are so many other verbs that are very, very similar or even the same as in English. So to practice, practicar, we could have to study, estudiar, to invite, invitar. So lots of verbs you already know without knowing it. So how would you say to practice it? Practicarlo. Practicarlo. What do you think it means if I say practicar mi español? Practicar mi español. Yeah, that's right. To practice my Spanish. How would you say I need to practice my Spanish? Necesito practicar mi español. How about don't forget to practice. No olvides practicar. And our final one is primero. Primero, meaning first. And it would be very easy to layer up with other time expressions. So instead of primero, first, it could be luego, later, mañana, tomorrow, esta noche, tonight. Right now we've got primero, first. So how would you say don't forget to go to the bank first? No olvides ir al banco primero. How about first I need to practice my Spanish. What would that be? Primero necesito practicar mi español. How about don't forget to order it first. No olvides pedirlo primero. OK, so now we'll move on to the automaticity or fluency phase. In the first part, you'll listen to the Spanish and try to work out the English before it appears on the screen. And in the second part, you'll see the English. And your job is to translate it into Spanish. So say the Spanish phrase aloud or in your head before it comes up on the screen. You've got about four seconds for each one. And if you need longer, just pause the video. And another quick reminder, you can already see how effective this teaching, this approach is. So again, the levels one to six pro Spanish course is available exclusively from prospanish.co.uk. Hay café o vino? There is coffee or wine? No hay más pasta? There is no more pasta. Necesito comprar café. I need to buy coffee. Necesito pedir menos vino. I need to order less wine. No olvides comprar pizza. Don't forget to buy pizza. Primero necesito ir al banco. First, I need to go to the bank. Necesito practicar primero. I need to practice first. Hay paella o pizza? There is paella or pizza. Hay menos vino. There is less wine. Necesito más café. I need more coffee. Necesito pedir café primero. I need to order coffee first. No olvides comprarlo. Don't forget to buy it. Necesito ir al banco primero. I need to go to the bank first. Hay más café. There is more coffee. Necesito practicar más. I need to practice more. No hay paella. There is no paella. Hay más o menos ocho. There are more or less eight. There is coffee or wine. Hay café o vino. There is no more pasta. No hay más pasta. I need to buy coffee. Necesito comprar café. I need to order less wine. Necesito pedir menos vino. Don't forget to buy pizza. No olvides comprar pizza. First, I need to go to the bank. Primero necesito ir al banco. I need to practice first. Necesito practicar primero. There is paella or pizza. Hay paella o pizza. There is less wine. Hay menos vino. I need more coffee. Necesito más café. I need to order coffee first. Necesito pedir café primero. Don't forget to buy it. No olvides comprarlo. I need to go to the bank first. Necesito ir al banco primero. There is more coffee. Hay más café. I need to practice more. Necesito practicar más. There is no paella. No hay paella. There are more or less eight. Hay más o menos ocho. OK, so now for the part for our non-beginners. And if you've jumped forward to this point, well, welcome back. Let's start off with iré. So iré means I will go. You'll already know that ir is to go. So iré, I'll go. And you can see how we form I will in Spanish. We just add i with an accent onto the end of the verb. So iré, I'll go. What does it mean if I say iré a Madrid? I'll go to Madrid. Let's try another verb, comer, to eat. How would you say I'll eat pizza? Comeré pizza. OK, next we have luego. Luego means later. You may have heard the very common phrase hasta luego. Hasta luego means literally until later. Hasta luego. Until later. How would you say I'll go later? Iré luego. Next, we have mirar, meaning to look or to look at. So in English, if we look, if there's an object to look at something, then we add the at. So mirar, to look or to look at. And how would you say I'll look at the problem? I'll look at the problem. El problema, the problem. In fact, how would you say I'll look at the problem later? What would that be? Miraré el problema luego. Maybe a bit simpler. I'll look later. What would that be? Miraré luego. And next we have solo quiero. I just want. Solo quiero. I just want or I only want. Solo can be just or only. Solo quiero. I just want. How would you say I just want to look? Solo quiero mirar. And how about I just want to go to the party? I just want to go to the party. And to the party is a la fiesta. So what would that be? And don't forget that you need to go, not I will go. So I just want to go to the party is solo quiero ir a la fiesta. Solo quiero ir a la fiesta. Now you'll notice I'm going through these a bit quicker than I did in the beginner section, but that's because you aren't beginners. And I think you'll benefit a lot from getting into the automaticity stage a bit quicker. OK, so next we have quieres. Quieres, you probably know this. You want or do you want? How would you say you want to go later? Quieres ir luego? So maybe you want to go to the party later. How about do you only want to look? Do you just want to look? What would that be? Solo quieres mirar? Do you just want to look? And next we have si, if. Exactly the same as the word for yes, but without the accent si, if. How would you say if you want? Si quieres? And how about only if you want? Right, we'll do this, but only if you want. What would that be? Solo si quieres. How about only if you want to go? What would that be? Solo si quieres ir. And next we have hace sol. Hace sol or hace sol. If we're pronouncing it in Latin America, it would be hace sol, that C like an S, but in Spain like a TH, hace sol. Literally it makes sun, but we'd say it's sunny. So how would you say if it's sunny? So do you want to go and do this if it's sunny? Si hace sol. How about only if it's sunny? What would that be? Only if it's sunny. Solo si hace sol. What about I'll go if it's sunny? Iré si hace sol. It could be I'll go to the beach if it's sunny. Iré a la playa si hace sol. And how would we say I only want to go if it's sunny? Solo quiero ir si hace sol. And let's bring in the next one at this point. So it rains or it could be it's raining. Llueve, llueve. And remember the double L pronounced like a ya, llueve, it rains. How would you say if it rains? Si llueve. What about if it doesn't rain? Si no llueve. I only want to go if it doesn't rain. What would that be? I only want to go if it doesn't rain. Solo quiero ir si no llueve. What about I won't go if it rains? No iré si llueve. And our final one is dar una vuelta. To go for a walk or a stroll. Dar is to give, so it's literally to give a walk or to give a turn. We might say una vuelta, a turn, to give a turn. So how would you say I just want to go for a walk? Solo quiero dar una vuelta. How about I don't want to go for a walk if it rains? No quiero dar una vuelta si llueve. And how about do you want to go for a walk later? ¿Quieres dar una vuelta luego? And how about I'll go for a walk later? I'll go for a walk later. So we change ir to iré to make it go from to go to I'll go. So how do we change the dar? Yeah, daré. Daré una vuelta. Is I'll go for a walk, so I'll go for a walk later. Daré una vuelta luego. OK, so now it's time for the automaticity phase. If you didn't get the instructions before, it's in two parts. First, listening, you'll hear the Spanish and your job is to work out the English sentences before they come up on the screen. And then the speaking, you'll hear the English and you need to say the Spanish aloud or in your head before it appears on the screen. And you've got four seconds. So if you need any longer, just pause the video. And just once more, the levels one to six course is available exclusively from ProSpanish.co.uk Iré luego. I'll go later. Si llueve, no iré. If it rains, I won't go. Si hace sol, iré. If it's sunny, I'll go. Solo quiero mirar. I just want to look. ¿Quieres mirar? Do you want to look? ¿Quieres dar una vuelta? Do you want to go for a walk? Iré si hace sol. I'll go if it's sunny. Iré si no llueve. I'll go if it doesn't rain. Luego quiero dar una vuelta. Later I want to go for a walk. ¿Quieres ir luego? Do you want to go later? Quiero dar una vuelta luego. I want to go for a walk later. Solo quiero dar una vuelta. I just want to go for a walk. Si llueve, solo quiero mirar. If it rains, I just want to look. Si hace sol, quiero dar una vuelta. If it's sunny, I want to go for a walk. Si hace sol, ¿quieres dar una vuelta? If it's sunny, do you want to go for a walk? ¿Quieres mirar luego? Do you want to look later? Luego quiero mirar. I want to look later. If it rains, I won't go. Si llueve, no iré. If it's sunny, I'll go. Si hace sol, iré. I just want to look. Solo quiero mirar. Do you want to look? ¿Quieres mirar? Do you want to go for a walk? ¿Quieres dar una vuelta? I'll go if it's sunny. Iré si hace sol. I'll go if it doesn't rain. Iré si no llueve. Later I want to go for a walk. Luego quiero dar una vuelta. Do you want to go later? ¿Quieres ir luego? I want to go for a walk later. Quiero dar una vuelta luego. I just want to go for a walk. Solo quiero dar una vuelta. If it rains, I just want to look. Si llueve, solo quiero mirar. If it's sunny, I want to go for a walk. Si hace sol, quiero dar una vuelta.