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WHY CAN'T I LEARN SPANISH?
¿POR QUÉ NO PUEDO APRENDER ESPAÑOL?
If you think it's because there's something wrong with you, you're incorrect.
How can 90 million people speak Spanish fluently -- including over 50 million Spanish speakers in the USA alone -- but you feel stuck when you try to use it?
Why is it that you practice and practice, but when you have to use the language it's like you never heard it before?
¡No comprendo!
Don't worry! You are not alone.
Many of my students were there at some point -- until we met, that is.
The reason you waste your time trying to learn Spanish, is that you are learning it the wrong way.
It's time you try my proven method...
I WAS SCARED TO DEATH
"Hide the pain" Diego, on his way to teach Spanish at IHG
Diego, camino a enseñar español en IHG
I had always been an overachieving student and a type-A-personality motivator, but I didn't understand how I ended up in front of all those global executives.
I felt like an impostor!
One thing is knowing languages well and being able to teach inside a classroom, but another thing is being trusted by global companies to make their executives communicate with one another.
Many times, these executives would be dialing in from all over the world, all while the ones learning with me in the room side-eyed each other as they wondered if these Spanish lessons would be worth their valuable time.
If they didn’t speak Spanish, they would lose their jobs, and so would I.
The same may apply to you if you put in your résumé that you speak Spanish only because you've studied it:
Sooner or later, you’ll have to use it to speak to people and you can’t freeze, or you’ll be a fake.
Pressure makes us creative!
We do become more creative under pressure, and my example is proof. At that point I asked myself a question:
How did I manage to achieve confidence and ease with the five languages I speak?
I’m not an alien! I have two arms, two legs, and five brains one brain like everyone else!
What was my secret? Could my students do the same?
After some soul searching, I finally understood why it was easier for me to pick up other languages, and that's how my hacks were born.
There wasn't anything different about me! I came to a key realization that forever changed the way I viewed languages.
My key realization, the catalyst that started my Spanish Hacks method, was that...
"Easy, gato!" That was my key realization, and no, I'm not crazy -- no estoy loco.
What helped me realize that we all speak the same language was that, thankfully for my students, I was a language learner myself, speaking Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian and French.
What I asked myself was: What did I do to get to speak so many languages? I realized that I was able to speak so many languages because I understood the origin of those words and came up with what I call hacks. I started seeing how many of these hacks that worked with one language would work for other Romance languages (languages that derive from vulgar Latin).
I like to say that we all speak broken Latin. Thanks, Rome!
It's actually kind of impressive that all those languages are so much alike after so many centuries
Let me show you an example so you understand what I mean!
Good question! There are dozens of Spanish Hacks that will be revealed to you inside the course, but let me give you a mini-lesson as an example:
Take a word like information, for example.
Information is a Latin word that made its way to English thanks to the 11th-century Norman Conquest of England. Norman, being a French dialect, shares the word Information with modern-day French, and since both languages/dialects come from Latin -- and Portuguese, Spanish and Italian also come from Latin -- I can easily switch from one language to the other by making slight changes.
The Latin word information becomes information in English, information in French, informazione in Italian, informação in Portuguese, and información in Spanish.
Learning math as a high-school or college student, I would have appreciated all the reasons why we do math a certain way, but at the end of a day, I just remembered a formula, and that's what I want you to do.
In this case, example, the formula is:
tion in Latin, is tion in English, tion in French, zione in Italian, ción in Spanish, and ção in Portuguese.
(Speaking of math, if you're a math person, be sure to read on to see the math explaining how I'll make you fluent in sixty days.)
Let's look only at the English to Spanish hack:
tion becomes ción
This means that...
Information in Spanish is información
Participation is participación
Delegation is delegación
and so on and so forth...
PS: If you need a refresher on your pronunciation (pronunciación), ción is pronounced "sea-on" all in one syllable, and with a very round O. Also, make sure those A's are very open, as if a doctor were trying to see your throat and asked you to open your mouth and say "Ah". If you need more on pronunciation, you can get a refresher later for an ultra low price
Pretty cool, huh?
That's what hacking and Spanish Hacks are about!
There are 2,400 words that fit that criteria, and you just learned them all.
Now try it yourself!
Keep coming up with tion words on your own and see what I'm talking about. Start a list on your notebook, phone or device of your choice. And don't stop doing it.
Doing that will help you build neural pathways for your brain to do it naturally!
You will naturally start hacking. You will never be stuck again
That is the power of the Spanish Hacks!
"Spanish Hacks are good for you!"
Thanks to the Spanish Hacks, you just added 2,400 words to your vocabulary
Read that last section again if you need to, because that's 2,400 Spanish words right there.
Given that we consider a person to be fluent when they have a vocabulary of roughly 10,000 words, we can say that you are already 24% fluent in Spanish after that paragraph.
Just like you added 2,400 words to your vocabulary with that hack in a matter of minutes,
this course will give you over 20,000 words.
As a matter of fact, each lesson is titled using its outcome expressed as the number of words learned or hacked, so you'll know beforehand what you're getting, before you sacrifice any of your valuable time.
Wow, that's easy, but what about verb conjugations and all that jazz?
I read that Spanish has 23 different verb tenses. Do the Spanish Hacks work there?
Short answer: YES, there are hacks for verbs.
Longer answer: YES! Great question!
One of the reasons Spanish is so challenging for so many English speakers is that, indeed,
Spanish has 23 different verb tenses, divided into three moods all with different conjugation rules.
Don't worry, you don't need to grow a mustache to speak Spanish, you only need Spanish Hacks
The reason I started with vocabulary instead of verbs is that research (including my own experience of over a decade working with U.S. high school and college students and in corporate America) shows that remembering vocabulary is the top hurdle language learners face when learning a new language, while conjugating verbs is the second most challenging obstacle.
I'm sure you've seen it! Perhaps it happened to you!
You aced all your tests, and you may even have some certificate that says you know Spanish (LOL @ papers that say you know things...). Maybe you can read Spanish newspapers, say some sentences in Spanish, and understand the difference between ser and estar -- we'll see about that, by the way, but you'll learn hacks for that too :).
You think you know all of it, but when you get in front of a Spanish speaker, you freeze.
OH GOD. THEY ARE TALKING TO ME IN SPANISH. WHAT IS SPANISH??? ¡¡YO NO HABLO ESPAÑOL!! AHHHHHH!!!
You may even know the entire conjugation of the verb to be in the present tense!
Good for you! The truth, however, is...
You won't remember that when you actually need it!
Do you know what I've seen happen to students (not my students, of course) when you ask them something in Spanish?
They start going through the conjugation of the entire verb!!!! Like absolute dorks!!
Who on Earth thinks or speaks like that?!?!
Good luck when you are in a foreign country and you need to speak quickly!
El gato is judging you again...
USE THE HACKS, MAN!!!
Let me give you another couple of hacks that will get you unstuck, but these being applicable to verbs.
If an English verb ends in ate you'll know it comes from Latin (ending in are).
In Spanish, the English verb suffix ate and the Latin suffix are become ar.
The verb to participate, for example, comes from the Latin verb participare
and becomes participar in Spanish
Now you know that any verb that ends in ate can be turned into Spanish by switching it to ar
To delegate? Delegar. To instigate? Instigar. To animate? Animar
So what's the Spanish hack?
ate becomes ar
Congratulations!! ¡Congratulaciones!
You just learned 1,000 additional Spanish words, which added to your 2,400 from earlier means
You now know 3,400 words in Spanish.
But let's finish our mini-lesson by adding another 1,000 words more with another Spanish Hack.
The next hack will get you to 4,400 words, or 44% fluent!
If you are ready to learn the next hack inside the course right away, just click the button below
YO RHYMES WITH O
Pay close attention to this one.
Now that you know that to participate would be participar, you probably want to know how to say "I participate"
I won't say "yo participar because I don't want to say "I to participate". I need a tense!
What I'm saying is that I (now, in the present) participate
All you need to know is a new hack:
yo (I) rhymes with O
YO rhymes with O
So your way of saying "I participate" would be Yo participo
Yo participo comes from the verb "to participate," "participar."
It's yo participo because yo rhymes with o.
YO rhymes with O
The ate verb that I already know in English tells me that it's also a Spanish verb. (Hack 1)
To participate - Participar
To say I (yo) do it, I remember that YO RHYMES WITH O (Hack 2)
Yo participo.
Yo participo. Yo animo. Yo delego.
Yo participo en la clase (I participate in the class)
Yo animo la clase. (I animate the class)
Yo delego mi trabajo. (I delegate my work)
Yo reciproco la información. (I reciprocate the information)
Take a verb that ends in ate and replace the ate with o when talking about yourself.
See how easy that is???
You're already speaking Spanish!!
Now let me should you the proof of how you'll reach fluency FAST...
The mathematic proof
You can probably see I'm very analytical. I tried my best to think of every hurdle mathematically, which leads me to explaining how I came up with the math for making those claims.
Since they say that you need a vocabulary of 10,000 words to be "fluent," let's use 10,000 words as our goal.
Let me start by showing you how much Spanish you already know with just the three hacks I gave you earlier:
Just with those three hacks (tion to ción, ate to ar, yo rhymes with O), if your English vocabulary is large enough.
YOUR SPANISH VOCABULARY IS ALREADY AT 4,400 WORDS
How so?
There are 2,400 TION words.
There are 1,000 ATE verbs.
There are 1,000 additional words for every ate verb in yo (I) form
2,400 + 1,000 + 1,000 = 4,400
Your road to becoming fluent:
4,400 out of 10,000 words
That's only in a few minutes! And without counting words that I'm sure you know, like gato, agua, vino, queso... you know, the important ones. :)
"Can you imagine doing the whole thing??"
P90X grads should get the reference
With all the Spanish Hacks in this course alone, you'll learn 25,000 words in Spanish.
Using the 10,000-word fluency parameter, that means you'll be OVER 250% FLUENT in Spanish.
Remember I was telling you earlier how I was worried that my students wouldn't get to learn Spanish in time to save their jobs?
My second a-ha moment -- as a reminder, the first one was when I realized why it was easier for me to speak other languages -- came when at a school where I was teaching. A group of students having their very first class (less than an hour of Spanish) was asked how the A/C felt, and one of them replied, in Spanish: "¡Comfortable!"
¡Comfortable! (With the stress in the A)
WOW! If the hacks were already catching on, and my objective was for those folks to learn Spanish...
...what if I could turn my entire curriculum into hacks???
SPANISH HACKS IS BORN
The same magic solution that helped my corporate students communicate confidently with their Latin American peers was also the key to get everyone not to freeze when asked something in Spanish by the water cooler.
No, that's just the start of it! First of all, you only learned three hacks, and this course will teach you over 20 hacks (or over 40, depending how you count it, since most hacks divide into sub-hacks, since Latin works like a jigsaw puzzle)
But while the hacks themselves are fun and all, the reason you are taking this course is to speak Spanish!
That's why, after you learn each hack, you'll have a chance to practice it with the video, and then chances to practice it in exercises.
JUST LEARNING THE HACK WOULD BE LIKE GOING TO THE GYM, LEARNING AN EXERCISE...
...AND THINKING YOU'RE ALREADY FIT WITHOUT DOING IT.
"Great, your form is perfect! You should never do that exercise again" -- said no-one ever
NOW'S THE TIME TO MAKE THOSE GAINS AND DO THE EXERCISE YOURSELF!!
The hacks are the tool that will help you get there way faster.
The hacks will help you speak, but they only become second nature to you after you get to practice them in our...
A coach wouldn't have you practice a play to never use it in a game, right? Neither would I!
That is why you'll get to practice what you learned in Spanish Hacks'...
That is where you put your Spanish to practice in real-life situations!
¡Yo quiero Spanish Hacks!
And when you're done with those, you'll practice in our...
This is where you have fun and show off your language gains with other students -- and me.
You'll also get to practice in our FACEBOOK GROUP
That's where you'll show off your language gains with other students while sharing pictures of cats and arguing about politics!
Just kidding about the politics part, but gato pictures are always welcome :)
Work with Diego personally
Trabaja con Diego personalmente
Go, Diego, Go! Sorry, kids, that's not me!TU INSTRUCTOR: DIEGO RODRÍGUEZ
That's me! I tried to copy the Go Diego Go the photo but my cat wanted nothing to do with it. Still, the resemblance is uncanny.
My name is Diego Rodriguez, and beside being obsessed with languages since before even starting elementary school (I can read and write fluently since I am four years old, which is also the happy age when I got my first English dictionary), I have been working as a language teacher since 2007 -- thanks to the fact that I graduated college early.
I have worked as a Spanish coach, instructor, translator, and interpreter.
I have designed and re-engineered curriculums for hundreds of professionals, artists, and executives,
from companies such as, just to name a few:
- Arby's
- Coca-Cola
- Verizon
- Delta Airlines
- Accenture
- Ernst & Young
- The Home Depot
- CNN
- Turner Broadcasting (now Warner Media, an AT&T company)
- IHG (the international hotel company whose brands include Holiday Inn, Staybridge Suites, and Crown Plaza)
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Focus Brands, the international food holding whose brands include:
- Schlotzsky's
- Carvel
- Cinnabon
- Moe's Southwest Grill
- McAlister's Deli
- Auntie Anne's
- and many others....
State and federal courts of law
Government agencies such as FEMA and CDC
- Many, many others...
Something else you might want to know about me is that I am a brain injury survivor.
After a brain injury almost took my life, it was my love for languages what made my recovery time defy all expectations even break several records: I received the highest scores ever recorded for two of my brain-injury rehabilitation tests at one of America's top rehabilitation centers.
This proves that even if you don't have a pressing need to learn a language, you should take on the challenge: it's going to open new neural pathways that will make you smarter. Oh, and the result is you'll now speak another language too. :)
You don't get that from your brain training apps! Be sure to read the next section to see some collateral benefits of learning a new language.
[Needless to say, I would love for you to take this course if you too suffered from a brain injury]
Now that you know who I am, I would like to invite you to interact with me inside the course.
My ultimate goal isn't for you to take this course.
My ultimate goal is for you to speak Spanish.
The course is just the road, not the destination.
(Read below to see how committed I am to helping you learn)
Here's another fitness/sports analogy:
If you're a competitive athlete, you don't do your drills just for the sake of it,
you do them to get conditioned for the game.
- The video lessons correspond to SHOWING you how to do your drills
- The exercises are like DOING those drills
- The video scenarios are like PLAYING against your teammates
- The monthly live webinars would be like the TALKING with your coach
- The Facebook Group will be like playing a friendly game
and finally...
- Speaking Spanish outside the course, in the real world, will be using all that experience to play the game and
BECOME A CHAMPION
That's how you'll feel with Spanish Hacks :)
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Accelerated learning
"Before I started working with Diego and using his hacks, I spent hours on Duolingo and had a false sense of confidence that I knew Spanish, but I would get stuck or lost for words. Working with Diego has accelerated my Spanish speaking abilities much faster than I could have done on my own with a simple program like Duolingo. Nothing else needed to say, just buy it."
Johanna Martinez
"As a Spanish teacher, using Spanish Hacks to learn the suffixes in Spanish and what they correlate to in English is super useful — knowing the etymology of the words, their origin, helps me remember them. When I teach this to my students, they find it very useful as well! I also love the ser vs estar explanation! It's so simple and makes perfect sense! The explanation is so concise that students will be able to understand and remember when to use each verb based on the origin of the words instead of explanations made up by teachers — which is what most people teach or write in books, and is often incorrect.”
That's right. Every second you don't take this course, is costing you money.
How Much More Time and Money Can You Afford to Waste?
With "cheap," you get what you pay for...
I really don't care that much if you take this course or another course, as long as you come out speaking Spanish, but take a look at that title above: If the course you take is cheap, you will get what you pay for.
Let's imagine for a moment that you are about to go on a motorbike ride all over South America. You chart your roads, try to stay away from jungles, mountains, and other hazards. You calculate the food you'll need and where to get it, plan where to spend the night, when you'll stay at a hotel versus a camp, where to stop for gasoline.
Now it's time to buy the bike.
Would you buy the cheap bike that saves a buck but might leave you stranded in the middle of the andes, or would you purchase the reliable bike that makes you feel comfortable and assures you that you'll get to your destination, besides saving you money in repairs?
I should have bought Spanish Hacks... Debí comprar Spanish Hacks...
Do you think any of my clients want CHEAP?
Imagine, as an example, that you work for a government agency abroad, like my student Pawan did when working for FEMA. What would be more expensive for him, a reliable education that allows him to speak to victims from all over the world in situations of extreme duress, or a cheap course that could cost him not just his reputation and job, but also human lives?
I think you're smart enough to know the answer.
It is not too different if you work with a multinational hotel company, or for a global media company, like the ones you read earlier.
What would be more expensive, spending a few thousand dollars on training they can trust, or their executives' inability to communicate among company branches, potentially leaving millions of dollars on the table?
I think the answer is obvious...
Haven't you dreamt of adding Spanish to your résumé?
It might even have it on your résumé already! Wouldn't it be nice to actually speak it confidently?
[By the way, if you already say that you speak Spanish, sooner or later you'll have to use it! It will suck to make a fool of yourself if you say you speak it but you can't!]
Spanish is spoken by 50 million people in the US alone.
Companies know this. That's why they pay for it.
Speaking Spanish also results in proven collateral benefits, like reduction of decision biases that result in improved decision-making, and improved clarity when speaking any language (including your own native language).
The longer you postpone, the longer you'll miss our on the benefits.
Don't take it from me, take it from our Spanish Hacks students:
The more you wait, the more you lose
Realizing the benefits above, you won't be realizing the further benefits that come with those.
Think about it like going to the gym or playing an instrument:
The first hour doing those activities is not as productive as the second hour, which is not as productive as the third, fourth, and so on and so forth.
Sometimes all you need is a friendly push, and you have nothing to lose.
Start now. Comienza ahora
You have nothing to lose. Nada que perder.
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