Learn to speak Spanish - lessons for beginners

Hola y bienvenido 😊🇪🇸

Bienvenido al sexto curso de "3 Minute Spanish" - Welcome to the sixth course of "3 Minute Spanish". This course contains lessons 45 to 53 of the series, as well as a couple of bonus "half lessons" I had to add in because nine lessons just wasn't enough.

This course leads directly on from course 5 and we start immediately by recapping the "present perfect tense", which we learnt at the end of the last course. We'll be looking at how to form questions in the past and what different things these questions could mean in English.

Learning a new tense is something teachers sometimes glaze over, but verbs are the backbone of any language, so good proficiency in grammar is something that will take you far in language learning. We'll be making sure we know the present perfect tense inside out and back to front at the start of this course. There's nothing worse than being introduced to a tense, but then being too scared to use it because you don't quite feel confident enough to manipulate it at conversation speed. Well, in this course, we'll have plenty of opportunity to practise forming the past tense in Spanish, so that when we come to use it in "real life", we can do so confidently.

We'll build on the knowledge we learnt in course 4 around using the word "lo" to mean "it" (aka an object pronoun). We'll be learning lots more of these so-called object pronouns and how to use them with some new verbs we'll be learning, too. We'll look at how the little words "de" and "a" can be used in our sentences in ways you might not have thought of, and we'll look at the different meanings of them, too.

We'll start to explore a second way to talk about the past with phrases like "(yo) quería", "(yo) estaba" and "(yo) tenía". These aren't in the present perfect tense, but they're part of a different past tense in Spanish.

We'll also have plenty of opportunity to recap everything we learnt in previous lessons, and we'll be blending it with our new information to improve our language proficiency.

Again, this is just a brief glimpse at some of the things we'll be learning in this course, but as always, there's too much to mention it all here.

¡Vale, comencemos! - So, let's begin!

What will I learn in this course?

Here's a handy contents page you can use to see a brief outline of what you'll learn in this course. It will also come in handy whenever you want to recap any particular part of the course - you'll be able to find the lesson quickly without having to trawl through videos!

Full curriculum (watch the first few lessons for free)
  Introduction
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  Lesson 45
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  Lesson 45.5
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  Lesson 46
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  Lesson 46.5
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  Lesson 47
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  Lesson 48
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  Lesson 49
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  Lesson 50
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  Lesson 51
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  Lesson 52
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  Lesson 53
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3 Minute Spanish - Course 6

Once you have completed this course, if you would like to learn more Spanish using the same method, you can find the next courses below:

3 Minute Languages series

3 Minute French - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7 | Course 8 | Course 9 | Course 10 | Course 11 | Course 12 | Course 13 | Course 14 | Course 15 | Course 16

3 Minute Spanish - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7

3 Minute Italian - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7

3 Minute German - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6

3 Minute Portuguese - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4


Building Structures series

Building Structures in French - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5 | Structure 6 | Structure 7 | Structure 8 | Structure 9

Building Structures in Spanish - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5

Building Structures in Italian - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5

Building Structures in German - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4

Building Structures in Portuguese - Structure 1

 

Quick Guides series

French - Verbs 1

Spanish - Verbs 1

German - Verbs 1

Italian - Verbs 1

Portuguese - Verbs 1

 

Grammar courses

French Present Perfect tense

Essential French grammar - Future | Conditional | Imperfect

Essential Spanish grammar - Future | Conditional | Imperfect

 

English courses

English Idioms

English Verb Tenses

English If clauses

 

Maths courses

3 Minute Maths - Fractions

3 Minute Maths - Percentages

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Further learning material

You can find plenty of articles and YouTube videos I've created to help you with your language learning. Find them all here:

YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_W8zw-DxvfU0lF_ojIm2mA

Blog: https://www.3minute.club/blog


I hope you enjoy :-)

Happy learning!

Kieran