I found 8 Words that help you Learn Spanish Crazy Fast (Pt1)

0:00 if you're learning Spanish what if I told you there are eight magical words that if you master them would give you the ability to say 87% of the things you need to say in your normal daily life and that the reason it takes you five six seven years to learn Spanish is because most of the courses and books out there Focus mostly on a random assortment of words and complicated grammar you know you're not going to need in your normal daily interactions so why do you think these eight words help you form thousands of sentences so quickly well it's because they're found in pretty much any sentence you can think of and in a minute you'll see exactly what I mean if you don't know me my name is Rob I learned six languages over the last 20 something years and picked up a degree in linguistics along the way but I always felt so frustrated that it took so long to learn a language and I got fed up with every language

0:46 course book and grammar lesson out there I always wanted to know if a language could be learned in 5 weeks instead of 5 years one day I came across some research that still today most people including language course creators don't seem to have discovered and this information gave me a huge boost forward a language like Spanish has around 990,000 words but a native speaker only knows about 30,000 so already you can see that about 2/3 of the language is useless in real life but it gets better in a normal day a person uses about a thousand different words and the best part is 80% of what we say every day is just the same 300 words over and over so let me ask you a question would you rather study the dictionary of 90,000 words or find out what those 300 are now now this sent me on a journey to discover not only what are those top 300

1:33 words but what is number one what are the top 10 top 50 language I discovered is built not like a dictionary of thousands of words but more like an onion where you have the core in the middle of the top words you need every single time you step outside the house hello how are you what are you doing today goodbye see you later then you have Layer Two which is words that are slightly less important but still absolutely essential for daily life life and it turns out when you get to Seven layers of the onion you have 300 words and enough to have a basic conversation in Spanish so that's how the layers method was born and yes since then there's many people that have gone from beginner to conversational in those 5 weeks now what I want to show you today is a recording of my most popular Master

2:19 Class by this point I've done it for tens of thousands of people and it's the eight words that you'll find in almost every sentence in Spanish I call it eight magical words and what makes these words so powerful is that almost any sentence you can think of in Spanish you'll find at least one of these in the middle and sometimes two three four or even more of them in the same sentence so let's get to it so these are the top eight words in all of Spanish but what do I mean by the top eight words well if you were to measure you would find that these eight words are used more and are more powerful than any other word in all of Spanish by far it's not even close if you were to think of a sentence a random sentence right now the chances are you would need one maybe two or three of these words in that sentence and I'm going to prove it to you right now if

3:05 you want to go and have a conversation in Spanish you have to be able to make a sentence that makes sense now look want want go gr gr have have you have to have to by the way have to and have are not the same at all and we're going to get into that be be able which is the same as can I can I am able and make make and do by the way are the same word in Spanish so I've used all of these eight

3:51 just about in one single sentence and you can see how powerful these words are so normally you go and start off learning words like swim and run but you'll find that you actually don't say those as much as you think you do in real life although they're nice to learn the ones you need are these words right here I'll give you another example of why they're so important we're doing this recorded but normally I do this live and I start off covering all of these up so you can't see these and I ask people on my live just come up with any random sentence you can think of anything and pretty much I would say eight or nine out of 10 sentences people come up with these words words one of them or two of them or three of them are included in what they come up with and I want to show you that so I've actually copy pasted some of the ones that they've given me recently a guy called

4:38 Paul in one of my lives you have to go to the bathroom orille we have two cats someone called Kadar said you are going let's go I can which is the same as to be able I want to reserve a table these are things we say quite often I mean maybe not we have two cats unless you're introducing yourself and explaining who you are um but certainly you can look at these and you'll realize these are things you say quite often in the real world I'm from England nice to meet you I'm here now when will you be here I'm busy doing my work so all of these eight are included there so if you want to be able to make a sentence in Spanish you really do need to master these eight words and I can tell you that if you don't have a Mastery of these eight words I already know that you cannot string your own sentence

5:23 together in Spanish now in this video it's going to take me a while just to cover the first four so what I'll do is the first four of these in this video and the next four I'll do in a part two just so you don't have to sit through such a long video now I highly recommend you stick around till the end of the video because the last word we're going to deal with is this one to have to if you know a lot of Spanish words I bet you're not using this one and you should be because it's one of the top eight and it's going to make you sound a lot more Spanish when you know how to use it now what makes Spanish so difficult is that in English if I learn the word want go have I want you want they want we want everybody wants go if I learn the word go I can use it immediately I learn to say go and I can say I go you

6:10 go they go we go Spanish is not like that and this is what makes Spanish so difficult and makes people sort frustrated so if I learn the word K to want I still can't use it I still have to figure out how to put it in a sentence and it changes for every person let me show you what I mean we're going to start off with k so we can see at the top that to want is get but if we say I want it's no longer get it now it changes the word for I is y and the word for want in this case is now K so that ER at the end has changed to an

6:55 o that is a pattern that is extremely common in Spanish whenever you talk talking about I the word like the want or the go or the can or the have is going to end in an O and because it ends in an O we know you are talking about your ey now one more little thing to notice here in this particular case this is not always the case but there's an eye that gets added into the middle that's not the case for all of these let's move on to the next one if I wanted to say you want can we just say learn the word for you and then say no we can't what we have to do is say to so this E S at the

7:42 end is what what refers to or references the word two and by the way this two has an accent but don't stress too much about those accents they're really not important in Spanish if you put them on or get them off or leave them off it doesn't matter too much uh there's only one or two words where they matter and I'll always show you when that actually matters now we've seen here that two want is but you can't say your or like in English look it stays the same want want want so very easy in English very difficult in Spanish but at least there is some solace in the fact that if it ends in an S it's always going to be talking about two and if it ends in an O it's always going to be talking about y so at least we know that let's try to make a sentence right let's say that

8:28 you're at the restaurant and you want to say I want a coffee we add the word please at the end how would you say that in Spanish well we know how to say I want it's right over here okay y a is UN coffee is Cafe all right so I want yo Cafe let's do I want a hamburger so you already know how to do this now the word for hamburger is Amba so I know it's going to Bea okay why is it una well a coffee the

9:16 word for a is UN but with hamburger the word for a is UNA there's two words for a in Spanish one for masculine things coffee is masculine one for feminine things it's kind of easy to know if it's masculine or feminine because most of the time feminine words end in a so we're talking about a feminine hamburger and masculine words most of the time they end in e or o so we'll get to a few more examples of these Now Let's do let's move this down in a page so we can see more and we're going to do you want right we know how to say you want because it's right up here we've just learned that so how about you want a beer what not

10:02 be all right that'sa you want to and by the way Mexican Latin American pronunciation in Spain so the C here and the Zed with a z are pronounced like a th in Spain let just fix the spelling of this because some people get quite upset about that but really remember those don't matter too much those little accents and I will say you want french fries chips so chips in England and then uh french fries in America french

10:48 fries so we know it's to to K means you want but that has free literally batatas means potatoes fras fried fried potatoes you know deep fried potatoes so we now know that if you want to say want it's K but if you start to use it in a sentence you can't do that unless you change all right so changes for I to Y and for you do now here's the thing in Spanish which is different to almost every language I know because of the fact that it ends in o for y it can only ever be referring to

11:36 Y if it ends in an O and therefore you can actually remove the word yo completely so if you remove that GTO still means I want and if you remove the to still means you want whether you leave it in or not and because of this the Spanish 99% of the time or let's say 90% of the time they will actually leave that word off so instead of saying I want a coffee by the way please you can remove the word y completely and it still means the same thing in other words these two words in English I want represent one word in Spanish and these two words represent one word in Spanish okay

12:24 so one word in Spanish equals two words in English the o on the end we all know you're talking about I and the same thing here I can remove the word to why because KS ends in an S so a Spanish person will know that when you say that S at the end that refers to to you same thing here I can remove this put differently the word KES means you want and if you say toes it still means you want so of course we don't need the word ah here just like in English we're not saying a chips or some chips we're just saying chips but that do does all right so we've learned how to use the word want G in Spanish now we're going to move on to the next word to go and I have to say to go is probably in fact

13:10 definitely the number one on this list of most used words and you're going to see why if you think about it you can say this in so many different scenarios and you can also use it to talk about the future you know tomorrow I'm going to school tomorrow or next week I'm going to visit America future tense so that's one of the reasons why this is the most powerful word in all of Spanish so just as before the fact that you've learned how to say go which is e that doesn't mean you can actually use it yet all right now you still have to learn how to put it in a sentence and like in English I go as you can see in English it stays exactly the same you go it stays exactly the same so what are we going to do well I

13:56 go your boy now granted this doesn't exactly follow that pattern of ending in an O it's one of those exceptions however you should learn this word so early on and a lot of teachers won't teach us early on because it's got that exception to the rule where it doesn't follow that beautiful pattern ending in an O the pattern that you'll start to see the more that you do Spanish but I believe that is important to learn the most useful words first why would I want to learn something like run or Swim early early on when I can't even say something that I needed every single sentence like go or want or do so to V so this e changes to boy and V now the V is actually pronounced like a B in Spanish so you can say y Bo bus

14:46 you don't have to do a strong V if you do say a v make it kind of a soft v so it sounds like it's halfway between a V and a v like V vas you can see how you kind of make it a little bit unclear that's exactly how you're speaking in Spanish so let's make a sentence with to go now the first sentence I'm going to write here is I'm going to the beach but the way I'll write it is I go to the beach the reason for that is if you're saying I'm going in Spanish to the beach really the first thing you should do is translate that in your head to I go to the beach and this is actually English that's the exception if you learn a lot of languages you realize to say I'm going in most languages they just say I go I go to the beach and that's exactly how it is in Spanish now

15:32 we know how to say I go your boy your boy a la fer to the beach a is to La is the and Beach is player what about I'm going to the shop so I go let's do not shop let's go I go let's do something that's masculine so let's do I go to the restaurant this is a masculine word so I'm going remember I'm going to the restaurant in Spanish you would think to yourself before you translate I go to the restaurant well we know I go your boy now this time we're not going to say yo why because if you say the word Bo

16:18 you already know that we're talking about yo because Bo only refers to Y always it can never be be speaking about they we you it has to be be I so all we have to say is boy Al in this case rest okay question comes up Rob why are we saying Al but well this is very very important and very very simple to understand if I want to say to the beach it's a la and if I want to say to the restaurant sorry why do I keep saying BL it's Al

17:08 rest now why what's the difference well what I'm actually saying the beach is laa and the restaurant is El resturante so if I remove these words here and I just say the beach okay let's make a space here so it's easier to see the beach is laa the restaurant is El so this is masculine you know because it ends in e normally that's what it means and this is feminine so that's why it's LA and l two words for the just like there are two words for a up here

17:54 un La L now if I wanted to say to the beach it's a and a it's very easy for me to say but it's very difficult to say try to say these two words without that little break in your throat don't say because no one speaks like that in real life they say just like you make no break here when you speak you say Allah make no break here and try and say that you automatically end up saying this Al and so over the years spelling has changed to push those two words together and match the way people actually speak another way of saying it is a plus L equals Al that's all whereas

18:42 a plus La oops that's the wrong sign equals a so it doesn't change at all that's all it is so it's pretty simple I go to the restaurant or I'm going to the restaurant Bo Al rest now we're going to say you go to the shop or you are going to the shop so this is you go to bus so we're going to say instead of to bus we're just going to say bus why because we know that if it ends in an S just like with KES right KS it's always referring to you to so much so that we don't even need to say the word to bus a

19:29 the word for shop is ti ti so last one we're going to say you're going to school or you go to school all right I'm going to tell you what the word for school is and you try to say this by yourself okay the word is esqua there's a few other words which I'll will show you too so how would you say you go to school remember the word for two is a and this ends in an A so you don't have to worry about the whole a plus L thing now because we're talking about a feminine word how would you say that give it a try on your own it's V A es well done pretty simple okay as long as you know how to use the

20:15 word e and change it for different people and as long as you're using words that are super common that are in every sentence you can now make your own sentences in Spanish it's a difficult language but this is how you make it easy so to recap you don't need the Y here boy refers to two words in English and in the same way over here boy refers to two words in English you sorry yo is all covered by that one word in Spanish one word in Spanish two words in English one word in Spanish equals two words in English this is always the case with these things

21:01 once again bus you go one word in Spanish equals two words in English remember that that's going to come in handy as we work through the next words okay just a quick note side note here a little bonus there's other words for school for example [Music] in Spain or actually in most Spanish speaking countries I've checked with a lot of people now um the word for primary school so school is a squa school in general now there is a separate word they use for primary school so when my kids for example when they go to school they don't say I'm going to esqua they say I'm going to Kio Primary School Kio and my daughters that are in high school they don't say I'm going to esqua they say I'm going to Instituto

21:47 Instituto which is high school all right so let's just put this here um this is the case in most Spanish speaking countries okay and if it's not ask them where you are but I know I've checked with Mexico I've checked with um Nicaragua I think it was a lot of them have all told me the same thing and no one's told me anything different yet I live in Spain and this is certainly the case now one more thing to note instead of if you do move to a Spanish speaking country they're not going to say the whole word they're not going to say Kio they're going to say k they're not going to say Instituto they're going to say in all right because these words ended in an o in fact they both do

22:33 they are masculine words so they are L not l in okay so I'm going to show to you like this l in so how would you say remember this rule that we spoke about here A Plus L equals Al how would you say you go to school using the word k you would say Al you go to school you are going to school same thing remember Al is so what you're actually saying is but you can't say so you say Al but because AA is feminine ending in

23:19 an a we can say V Allah so Allah versus Allah they mean the same thing so this brings up the question what's the the difference between Spanish from Spain and Latin America well they're the same language it's like English from Britain or America Australia New Zealand everyone understand each other the accent might be a bit different in some countries they might choose a little bit of a different word here for school but they will still understand each other in all the words the big thing is that accent that I spoke about earlier when it comes to a word like cesa or Thea where the C and the Z is pronounced as an s in Latin America both are pronounced as an S but in Spain they're both pronounced as a th let's get back to the master class so now you know that when you learn the words want and go in Spanish it's not enough just to learn the words but you

24:04 have to learn how to change the endings of the words first before you can start putting them in a sentence and actually there's more than that because if you think about it we've just spoken about I and you but what about he she it want what about we want they want and there's even one for you guys want and if you're wondering if the endings change every time in a different way for all of these people unfortunately yes they do and that is why I highly recommend in the beginning phases you only focus on I and you and this is not an approach you'll see anywhere else in any language course because what they do is they show you the whole list at first assuming that all of these are equal in terms of priority but they're not because if you think about it when you're learning Spanish and you want to have a conversation with someone which should

24:51 be your goal is to actually Converse right not just to learn all the book knowledge in a real situation you'll Corner yourself with one person in a room and you'll try to speak to one person at a time you're not going to just walk into a big crowd and start speaking to a group where you talk about we or you guys or even they in real life you speak to one person and you talk about where are you from I'm from this place uh what are you doing tomorrow it's always I you I you I you this is a massive tip because if you focus just on getting comfortable changing the verb endings for I and you with the most important words the ones we've shown you in this master class then you're going to be able to actually start speaking much quicker than the people who start to learn all of these endings for all the different versions and they get so confused and normally what happens and I've spoken to them many times people

25:36 like this is they see the long list and they go this is just too much and they give up and I don't want that for you so in my Spanish course the layers method you only work with I and you for many of the most important verbs like 20 or 30 of them the ones that you're going to need all the time and you get comfortable changing the endings for just I and you so that you can have a conversation in real life your first goal is to get conversational and then you start to learn the rest of them and that's exactly what we're doing in this master class we've done the first two let's move on to the next two so to have Spanish is da now what do you think it's going to change to when we say I have what do you think it's going to end in well if you said o you're exactly correct your Dango so that g makes it a little bit kind of kind of weird but

26:24 what is regular to the pattern is that it's going to end in an o and what do you think it's going to end in if you say you have if you said s you are absolutely correct to DNS all right so here we have KS vas DNS they always end in s that s is referring to the to or it's kind of matching with the to and the O is matching with the yo now what I want to do here is actually show you in a spreadsheet because if I show it to you in this way you can see much better how the pattern works first first of all the main version of these words always always end in an R okay so if you see them ending in an R you know that that's the version with the word to in front to go to want get that r at the end kind of

27:11 matches with the word to in English and over here the pattern isn't as obvious because of this y over here but still there is an o in the middle and that's pretty near to the end and so if it ends in an O you can see every time that it's going to be referring to I and same here the S at the end is referring to you or to in Spanish and that pattern becomes clearer and clearer the more that you learn these Spanish action words these verbs now most people what they try to do is or most classes and courses they always try to teach you the words that look the prettiest that that don't break the pattern and unfortunately the reason I think that's a mistake is you end up learning words that you don't need the the reality is the way that language works is the words that are used the most actually are the ones that are often not following the rule irregular

27:59 and that's because you can think of it like a car the more that you use it the more wear and tear there is the more things can change uh the more something gets used the more a word gets used in a language the more opportunity it has to kind of break the rules and change and evolve over time and so that's why the most common word like go has broken the rules quite a bit here the fact that this doesn't even look like the original word and so even though these common words are a little bit harder to learn because they kind of add these little eyes in the middle and they break the rules a bit and they add had these funny G's in the fact that they are so much more useful than the words you would normally learn in a Spanish course makes it worth it you don't need to go and study the pattern first because your brain is a pattern recognition machine what you need is to be able to speak first to be able to start communicating and if you learn these kind of words

28:44 early instead of the words you normally learn in a course like to swim and um you know apples and carrots and things like that because the words follow a normal standard if you learn those first you might be spending months or even years just learning words words that you don't actually need where in this case you'll be learning words that you can go out and use today on day one you're not studying the pattern as much as studying the important words but let your brain which naturally picks up patterns do the rest and pick up the pattern as you go so now that we know how to say have I have you have let's try to make a sentence let's do I have a car so we already know how to say I have it's right here the word for car is

29:30 this is a masculine word it's a male word so yo a car would be un or well it's masculine as I said un well done if you got that correct if you did not put in the Y you are absolutely correct okay if you put it in or if you take it out they're both correct the more common way that someone would speak is without the word y what about I have a house I have a house the word for house is Kasa and after this I'll go back and show you some other words for Caro unaa why is it because Kasa ends in a so

30:18 we know most likely it's going to be a feminine word in Spain they say Co but in so I'm going to put here Spain for you let's say Spain is co Latin America in most countries they will say say Caro or they will say Alo depending on the country and I think in most countries you can actually say both Caro and a but in Spain it's co so again that's one of the small differences but as you can see it's the same language and by the way in Spain Caro is a shopping C at the mall or the cart that you push your baby in like a pram all right now we're going to say

31:05 you have a child now this child is a boy and so a boy child is called noo if your child was a girl you would say na we're going to say a boy child this time so you have DNS all right if this was a girl you would have to say so and un n now this littlea this little sign at the top here just as a side note

31:52 this used to be literally an n and a Y without that thing on top and that's the sound makes ningo and in Catalan a related language they still spell it like this they have an n and a y why did it change well back in the Middle Ages the monks were translating the Bible and they were doing it by hand and they often needed to save space which is where a lot of these little symbols come from so what they did was they decided to make the Y represented by the little line above the n and that's literally what the line represents is a y now we're going to say you have a friend now once again we're going to specify that this friend is a girl so the word for friend in Spanish if it's a boy Amigo if it's a girl Amiga how are we going to say

32:44 that okay so we have dealt with how to say to have I have you have diis now there's another word similar to this which I told you at the beginning of the video that this is the word you're probably not using and it's very important that you do to have to what a lot of people are saying instead is they're saying Neo I need to I need to however I want to explain to you why you should be saying instead all right instead because in English if you go around saying I need I need I need it's it's too much it's too strong and if you think about it most people don't really think about this but if you think about it and you measure you will find that you're actually saying I have to I have

33:31 to go now uh I have to eat you say this way more often probably 90% of the time all right some people don't but most of us do and it's the same in Spanish so if you go and learn Spanish and you always want to say necess Neo you're going to sound a little out of place and therefore you're going to sound like a beginner it still works but it's worth learning this word because it's a top eight word it's super super useful and as soon as you know how to say D you also know how to say it's not that much different okay in fact I can copy paste this over here so this is going to make you sound a lot more Spanish and you're going to make a lot of progress when you speak in real life you start using this word instead so instead of I have I have to you have

34:17 to all right Soo okay you just take this K and you can stick it there all right so the K does not change now why do we say a lot of you think well you know that means what and that's true other times it means that so in this case it's the same question in English why do we say two I have two what does the two mean it's not like you're going to a place if you have to eat you're not going anywhere there's the two means nothing all right I'll explain to you why we use these two random words to and K they kind of don't mean what they normally mean in the situation what they are doing in order to understand that first you need to understand the difference between have and have to let me show

35:04 you this sentence here okay you have a friend to have a friend or to have a child or to have a house or to have a car it's showing possession all right so ten shows that you possess something possession uh maybe ownership um you don't need anything there's no lap because you already possess that friend that house that shirt that car but if you say for example I have to buy a car immediately you know that you don't have a car right therefore they are exactly opposit if you have to buy a car that means I don't have a car I'm lacking a car if you don't have a house the opposite of I have a house is I have to go and get a house I have to buy a

35:51 house I have to look for a house you have a child no I have to have children so as soon as you say I have to it really means that you don't have that thing otherwise you wouldn't have to go and get it so it shows a lack in other words this word to represents a lack of something we don't think about that in our own language but it's the same in Spanish this get it's like I have not got something right I have in English not got a friend so I have to go and make friends so let's make a sentence let's literally use the same sentences as before for so instead of I have a car we're going to say I have to buy a car now the word for buy you know what car

36:39 is buy is com so this word you'll notice when we use have to naturally the sentences start become start becoming a bit longer right because it's often that you have to do something so we have to add the doing and now the sentences are becoming a bit longer the doing here is to buy so I have to it's right here and remember we do not need the Y I have to buy right there let's sayov Mexican style what about the next one we had is I don't I have a house uh I have to find a house I have to find a

37:26 house and and find in Spanish is in cont in it's like encounter def find encounter okay so then go to find a house let me point out D covers I have to covers I have to now let's do you have to so we say you have to have

38:12 children um yeah you have to have children let's do that for now so children it's the same as the word for child but it's plural so adds an s on the end now we can see here DNS get is you have to DNS get oh to have remember we used to have earlier to have is D and I'm going to explain in a second why we're not saying Deno I'll show you in a second to have noos all right some of you are thinking I know what you're thinking we're talking about you here why don't you you

38:57 say DNS because if you look over here you have is DNS okay if we're talking about you why are we saying da well because da means to have and that's exactly what we say to have not you have the best way for me to show you this is to translate it back to English D you have to well best way for me to show you is to show you the wrong way first so let's say that you said DNS because we're talking about you and you know that you have is DNS so if I translated this back to English I would say DNS you have to DNS means you have not just have and then

39:46 children in other words one word in Spanish I told you earlier equals two words in English so here you're saying you have to you have have children that's why it's incorrect all right if anyone's told you rules about you can't conjugate two verbs in a row that's not true there's plenty of times you can that's not how you should think about it how you should think about it is if you want to make a long sentence you take it piece by piece you have to translate into Spanish DN next one have are we saying you have no we're just saying have have da da I'll put that in red too children Nal if you translate it phrase by phrase you

40:31 won't go wrong you're going to be able to make long sentences in Spanish or by yourself and I'm sure a lot of you have realized from this video that you can do that already we're going to make some longer sentences in a second if this word is being a little bit complicated for you it's because of the fact that it often comes with longer sentences it gives you the ability to make longer sentences so let me step it back one level make it one level easier with a shorter sentence I have to eat all right so we're going to say let's translate it bit by bit by the way the word for eat is just so you literally just have to say I have to and then come I have to is

41:20 T all right it's just the fact that the sentence is a bit longer because we're saying I have to buy instead of just I have to buy I have to buy a car but if you take it piece by piece you'll be okay right remember in this sentence we're not saying I have to I buy a car that's why we're saying com and some of you might know that if you wanted to say I buy you would say compro instead of coma some people would have translated the sentence that way mistakenly because they think if it starts with I now we have to go and change all those action words to end in o because of what I showed you earlier here where they end in o if we're talking about I but we're not talking about I are we we're saying to

42:09 buy so I'm adding this one to the list just putting that care underneath because you can see now the pattern starts to form the more words you know the more you can start to see the pattern okay these are the four words but now we're going to go a little crazy now we're going to see if we can put them all into one sentence and I'm going to show you after watching this you now have the ability to make long sentences in Spanish and we're going to do three or four of those together okay so here we have them to want to go to have to have to now let's try to put them all together to make a super long sentence let's start with just want and go so we'll put it down here I want to go to the party how would you say that in Spanish well I want we can see K to go

42:54 eat so we start off with kto a Festa if you didn't know the word for party now some of you might be thinking if we're talking about I then why doesn't this word change to boy because I go it's boy and that's the wrong way to think about it because what you're doing is you're going who are we talking about oh it's I now let's just look at all those action words in the sentence and change them to the I version in other words the I version of want ISO and the I version of go is voy so you'll say k voy a lot of people ask me this every day when I do lives Etc and the way to think about it is you should really be translating in English in your head phrase by phrase then you'll know that it's not correct and I'm going to prove that to you quickly the easiest

43:40 way to to do that is just by double-checking by translating back into English so here kto means what I want boy means I go so you can see straight away that this is incorrect because you can't say I want I go to the party boy doesn't mean go boy mean I go so if you want to say I want to go well to go is e and that's the reason to go that's the reason you can't sayest you need to look at each section phrase by phrase and say what are we trying to say here we're saying I want kto to go what is that is it boy or is it e well it's e to a the party laa

44:25 let's try to make this a bit longer now let's say I want to go to the party tonight but I have work tomorrow okay so let's start with that first tonight is EST EST and then we're going to say but I have work tomorrow all right now I'm just going to make this a little easier to follow by making that red so you can see K one word in Spanish two words in English to go one word in Spanish two words in English like I always say to the party tonight but I have work tomorrow but is I have right here youro or

45:11 justo the word for work is and I'm sure you all know tomorrow is Manana all right so dingo one word in Spanish two words in English and then is work tomorrow now what if we wanted to say so I have to sleep all right the word for sleep is dormir and to say so is actually two words in Spanish I see so how would you say that so I have to sleep now you can see we're using all four of the words we' learned want go have and have to so is

45:59 a and these two words represent just so okay I have to we know what that is all right so I'll just highlight that so you can see again Tango represents I have to now look how long a sentence you've been able to string together and I bet you couldn't do that before this master class because what I've shown you is that if you learn the most important words and then learn how to use them in a sentence by changing the endings based on who you are talking about you can actually string together really really long sentences that you probably couldn't before now let's try and make it a little bit harder by instead of

46:45 just saying I I I let's change this in English to I want to go and then but you have work tomorrow so you can't come to the party okay you have work tomorrow so you you have to sleep and let me point out quickly how these sentences being so long really are wrapped around these important words that we've learned these are the words that enable you to build long sentences everything else kind of wraps around these important words that change based on the situation whereas the rest of them don't really change that's why they're so powerful and so necessary you have to sleep okay so we need to change now Dango we know exactly what to do if we look up here is it Tango or TNS well now we have to just change it to TNS better

47:31 you have to sleep okay now remember how I said you can remove the yo and the and that's certainly true but there's actually sometimes in Spanish where it makes sense to put them in it gives a little more emphasis or context and this is definitely one of those times where you might want to stick it back in because what you're saying is I want to go to the party tonight but you you have work tomorrow so you have to sleep so this would be a great time to put in at least the word to I wouldn't necessarily put in y you could though you could because you're emphasizing the big difference between you and me but let me show you

48:16 how this would sound if I put the tools in here okay so so what we doing is we're kind of saying I'm Different to you and we're emphasizing that Difference by adding that word back in let's do the next sentence let's try to make one more nice long sentence let's say I want to go to a restaurant how would you say that in Spanish I'm not going to show you now try and say that all by yourself by the way here's a great tip for pronouncing when you see two um vowels

49:04 like this in a row so Spanish only has five different sounds where in English we have like 12 so in English restorant this would be like an o sound which is not one of the five vowels right it's two vowels mixed together to make a new sound that's why there's 12 sounds in English Spanish just has the five vowel sounds so when you see two vowels together you have to pronounce each one one by one so you say rest so you [Music] sayante okay so K I want in fact I can just copy paste this because I want to gr we have the same thing

49:50 here all right so to go in Orange matches up to e and then let's say but I don't have money I don't have money so we know the word for whoops let's put this up there the word for but we know is better so let's say that better now when you have something negative like I don't do this or I don't want this the first thing you need to understand is don't think about don't all right don't try to translate don't into Spanish because there's no word for don't in Spanish you have to think to yourself no I have instead of I don't have no I have you just add the word no so I have is Tango no I have is no Tango

50:40 that should really help you a lot you can't say don't and Spanish a lot of people spend ages trying to think how do I say don't how do you say do you can't say do and don't in this kind of context in Spanish at all you literally just have to add the word no in the front noo and you should know the word money I think I think a lot of people know it all right let's try to make it a little bit longer let's try to add in that word have to so let's put in and this time instead of so and I have to save all right the word for Save is a or AAR to save so and it's just E I have to we know what that is now our

51:28 all right so Tango okay is I have to and Tango let's put no Tango we'll put that all in red because that's all part of this little phrase here I don't have no Tango nooo all right and then what if we wanted to change this to like in the last situation I want to go to a restaurant tonight or let's switch it around you want to go to restaurant tonight but I don't have money and I have to save okay we're going to do that same principle where we kind of emphasize the P the contrast between I and you all right you want we know what that is get

52:14 this so you want to go to a restaurant but so we're going to say so I probably wouldn't put the yo over here because it's kind of obvious now like we've already done the emphasis on the yo and I might even say the same thing up here um I might even remove the two over there it might even be you could do it but it would probably be even more sort of natural and smooth this is really a question of feel when you get to that stage where you start to add in the word y to emphasize the difference between me and you so I don't have money and I have to save so now you can see that if you

53:01 learn these top eight words and we've done the first four in the next video we're going to do the next four words and in fact in that video I'm actually going to incorporate the top four words as well so we'll do all eight and I'll show you how to break down these four and we'll make sentences with the rest of them all together try and make some super long sentences I'm showing you here that if you learn how to use these words you can make very long sentences all by yourself and this is how you do it and this is what we've done today now as you know by learning to change the endings of these words you can start to make very long sentences but don't forget what I said earlier there's not just I and you I recommend learning I and you for all the important words first but later at some point you're going to have to learn he she it they we

53:50 because the word is different every time for those in other words for example when I say we we want you would say the word for we which is noos and then you would sayos all right so that MOS at the end is actually referring to noos got the S there the MOs always is paired with noos again that means you don't even need to say noos because it's kind of included in the end of the word now if I've helped you today if I've simp simplified it for you and I've shown you how to unblock your Spanish using these important words and showing you how to string sentences together and you want to know what the next step is for you I do have a full course from

54:35 beginner to conversational in Spanish and Beyond the first goal you should have is just to get conversational not to learn all the extra words that you don't need and gramar that's not going to serve you in the beginning and that's what my course the layers method is all about and you can find it at school.com gonp speaking if you've been learning Spanish and you've been doing courses is learning words and grammar and thinking when am I going to need this in real life I know exactly how you feel remember I learned six languages it took me over 20 years I picked up a degree in linguistics along the way and one of the most important things I learned is that most of the stuff we learned 90% of the stuff we learn in these courses is grammar that you don't need and words that you don't need why is that well what most course creators and language teachers don't know is that

55:21 Spanish has 90,000 words but it's 300 words that you actually need and it's the same 300 words we use over and over every day you're learning words that are way outside of the top 300 and that's why you have that feeling like you're just not getting anywhere it's irrelevant or you're wasting your time another thing to understand is that language is not this dictionary of 990,000 words it's not this ocean of words you want to dive into and just hope that some of them stick hope that you get wet no every word has a different weight of importance language is not built like a dictionary language is built like an onion in the very middle that core of the onion are the top few words the ones that you cannot step outside without saying Hi how are you bye see you later what are we doing today things like that that's layer one

56:07 that's the core of the onion Layer Two are things that are slightly less used but still absolutely essential every time you speak layer three and four and it turns out by the time you get to Seven layers that makes up 300 words and that's enough to have that basic conversation that's enough to get you started once you can speak now you can communicate now you can start to ask how do you say this in Spanish to summer in Spanish now you can start to learn the language in Spanish as people speak around you because you communicating with them in their language you can have a basic conversation so what's special about this method and I'll show you here on the screen is that when you go into the classroom area you'll see it's laid out in terms of those layers of the onion layer one being the most common words and phrases Layer Two slightly more complex ones the other thing that

56:53 you don't need a lot of is all the hundreds of different grammar things that you learn in a language School you need about five pieces of grammar to get conversational and that's what's included here the first two layers you don't need grammar because it's about memorizing the most important things that you want to say every time you speak but by the time you get to layer three now it's time to start picking up a little bit of grammar so learning how to use words like a and the and this and these I explained a bit of this in the master class you say and un and L and la so understanding the difference there is that first little bit of grammar that you need but it's not complicated importantly then the action words most of what we did today was all action words that allow you to make a long sentence layer five but of future tense why because if you try to have a conversation and you want to say what are you doing tomorrow tomorrow let's do

57:40 something that's future tense you need that to have a little conversation you need a simplified version explaining how to use the future tense layer six is describing things which is a little harder in Spanish than in English but you need to be able to say big small hot cold fast slow and the last layer that you need to have a conversation is a simple version of the past there's seven past tenses in Spanish I will only teach you one stick with one why well I have students that come to me and they know all seven past tenses perfectly but because they have so much in their head as soon as it comes to actually speaking they just freeze because there's too many options learn the first past tense learn one the simple one that I'll show you you can use that for everything and then later as you get to layer eight layer 9 layer 10 layer 11 now you can have a conversation now it's time to

58:26 start adding those things but your first goal should be to speak you don't learn the language so you can impress your friends with grammar you want to be able to speak and that's what this course is all about now there's three fundamental philosophies to this course the first is to know what the top 300 words are and to isolate them and to work on them in order of importance so for example if I look at Layer Two you're going to get the cheat sheet of words and phrases that are super important you need to be able to say these what why when how much excuse me here there Etc the second part is how are we going to commit these to memory long-term memory and there is actually a scientifically proven way that's way better than all the others called space repetition and for that we use a unique flashcard app which is designed to track what you're

59:12 good at and what you're not good at and to show you what you're bad at more often why because you can't afford to have any weaknesses in the top 300 words they're all important for every day so you would open up the app it would be on your cell phone but this case it's on the computer just so I can show you you press review for example on this particular set of flash cards and you say now you look at it and you say it out loud in Spanish you need to get your tongue used to the way that the new language sounds you need to get used to A New Path in your mouth I would like you say it out loud me flip the card and you get to hear the native speaker so you can make sure your pronunciation is good then you rank yourself on the bottom that I fail was it hard good or easy let's say that was hard next one I want we've done this us today flip the card first you have to say it out loud

59:59 GTO GTO now once you do that let's imagine that I failed that I'll press fail what do you want say that loud once you've done that for a while you when you finish it's going to give you a score and this is the best part because if you have a bad score like I'm not very happy with 60 it makes you want to go again it makes you it encourages you it gamifies what would normally be boring right you're learning some of the most important BAS B stuff but it forces you or not forces you but it encourages you to keep trying to push up your score so when you go again it's going to show you your failures more often than your successes it's going to keep pulling back those cards that you failed at which is why it's called spaced repetition now the third very important part about this philosophy is that once

1:00:45 you've memorized these top 300 words that means you can go outside and what speak that's why we have a language class where you can come and join there's three a week so you click on the calendar here and you can see that there's different time uh times to come to the conversation class where I will be there now a lot of you find this intimidating a lot of you find that that's too much so there's absolutely no obligation to come to the conversation class but if you do want to practice speaking I will then say to you where are you from in Spanish depending on what layer you're working on I'll be there you'll be there and you'll be able to try to speak Spanish with me and answer my questions and ask me some questions along with the other people in the class because the point of learning a language is to speak now very importantly you study in your own time and as a result you could finish the first seven layers in 5 weeks you could do it in 3 weeks or you might do it in 6

1:01:32 months the cost for this program is $29 a month you go to school.com gonp speaking and I'll make it the first link in the description below this video and you'll get to a page that looks like this and there'll be a button here that says join for $29 a month remember this master class is part one of two so click up here to watch the next video and if you want to get weekly free Spanish tips in your email inbox sign up for the newsletter it'll be the second link in the description sh