Daily Spanish for Beginners: How to Easily Speak Spanish with Only 12 Minutes of Practice a Day
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Celestino Rivas
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Are you interested in learning to speak Spanish and are looking for the right teacher? Have you tried learning Spanish before, but nothing stuck with you? Or do you want to learn but don’t have the time to practice for an hour a day?
If any of those questions sound like you, this guide is the right fit for you.
There are many strategies out there for learning a new skill because one solution does not work for everyone. Everyone learns differently.
Maybe you took Spanish classes in school and you had to memorize lists of words and regurgitate phrases to pass a test.
This audiobook takes a different approach. Rather than cramming information, you will understand how the Spanish language works in short, guided daily lessons.
You will spend less than 12 minutes a day building your Spanish speaking skills.
A 2012 article in the British Journal of General Practice by Benjamin Gardner, Phillippa Lally, and Jane Wardle reveals the power of building daily habits to make changes in your life.
Through daily repetition, tasks like learning a new language become automatic and take less cognitive energy to complete, as it is now a part of your routine.
This guide uses this approach and teaches you the fundamental words, phrases, and concepts in short lessons, so you can easily add it to your routine!
In this guide, you’ll discover:
- The absolute best method for you to develop Spanish speaking skills - without requiring a ton of time you don’t have!
- How you can learn Spanish at your own pace - without committing to an unrealistic project you won’t stick to.
- An easy-to-listen guide that works on the go, friendly for your mobile lifestyle!
- The most foolproof way to build your Spanish vocabulary in an applicable and logical way!
- Daily lessons, already designed for you, so you don’t have to plan or organize anything and just start listening to your audiobook!
- How to sound like a native Spanish speaker with this one-of-a-kind pronunciation guide (because it’s actually useful!)
- Why it will take you a lot longer to speak fluently if you don’t use these 5 tricks (Hint: do you love to travel?)
- How to navigate real-life situations when you travel to Spanish speaking countries, even if you’ve never spoken to a native Spanish speaker in your life!
- And much, much more!
Learning a language is about more than memorizing words, it’s also learning about a different culture and seeing the world through a new angle.
While this guide does give you words and phrases to learn and memorize, it also teaches you about cultures that speak Spanish through understanding how the language works and opens up opportunities for you to grow and learn more about the world.
So, what are you waiting for?
If you want to dive in and enrich your life by learning Spanish with a trusted instructor and at your own pace, buy this audiobook now!
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A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history.
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Great for casual linguists
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By: John McWhorter
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How to Say It: Words That Make a Difference
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Words. We use them all the time, every day, mostly without giving them much thought at all. We take for granted that they’re here at our disposal whenever we need them. But if you’ve ever wished you could communicate more effectively, words are the place to start. It’s incumbent upon you to choose the best words to accomplish your goals, because how you choose to communicate influences—well, everything! The power of communication shapes our professional goals, our relationships, and our lives—so the words we choose to use carry a great deal of power.
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Meh. Glad I didn't pay for it.
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It’s not just you. Stress levels are at an all-time high—so much so that a recently convened panel of medical experts in the US has recommended that all adults under the age of 65 be screened for anxiety. In How to Release Anxiety, Gabby Bernstein offers simple, actionable steps for feeling better, living with more ease, and showing up for those around us. Gabby’s unusual advice: Rather than manage your anxiety, what if you befriended it? Gabby posits that what we befriend, we can ultimately be at ease with. So she invites us to get curious.
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Not my thing, but one good point
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Manifest Now
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- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Manifest Now provides a step-by-step guide with tools, techniques, and proven strategies to raise your frequency and create the reality you want. This audiobook is designed to guide you through the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of manifesting and creating all that your heart desires. You'll learn how to start removing mental and emotional blocks so you can rediscover that manifesting is your natural birthright. You'll feel more confident, reconnected, and powerful as you listen.
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This is my first review of 2 years subscribed!
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30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships
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Identifying covert emotional manipulation is tricky. You sense something is wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on the problem. This powerful book will reveal to you if manipulation is at play in your relationships. It will open your eyes. You will learn 30 tactics manipulators use to get what they want. You will also learn to spot the warning signs within yourself that expose covert manipulation is taking place, even if you can't identify the specific tactics being used.
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This book can change your life!
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Mind Mapping
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This is a comprehensive guide to learning about a wonderful technique called mind maps. Mind maps are an amazing organizational and creativity tool that can improve memory, concentration, communication, organization, creativity, and time management.
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make sure to practice
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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
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Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir about a mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the key to healthier, happier lives for her American children.
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Great concept, interesting writing.
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Most people think the way to write a best seller is to have a lot of talent and even more luck. As you will learn, there is a recipe for success, and luck may be the least important ingredient in creating a best seller. No one has cracked the code better than James Scott Bell. A best-selling author himself, and the author of the number-one best seller for writers, Plot & Structure, Mr. Bell has been teaching the principles of best-selling fiction for over 20 years, principles that apply to any genre or style.
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I'm a writer and this course is to blame.
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Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language. But what is grammar? In fact, it's the integral basis of how we speak and write. As such, a refined awareness of grammar opens a world of possibilities for both your pleasure in the English language and your skill in using it, in both speech and the written word.
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Spectacular
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Easy Spanish Step-by-Step is designed in such a way that each section builds upon the last to help your brain progressively create lasting and meaningful connections to each new word and grammar concept. Simply by listening and speaking out loud with us, you will naturally progress, step-by-step, toward Spanish communication and fluency.
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Best so far . . .
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Survival Theory
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This preparedness guide will help you develop a plan to escape the deadly rioting and looting, showing you where you can take your family to keep them safe, even if you can't afford a fully-stocked survival retreat. Jonathan Hollerman's in-depth expertise and recommendations will cover many topics including bug-out bags, SHTF Weapons, tactical gear, survival tools, knives, long-term food storage, livestock, bug-out locations, survival retreat recommendations, and much more.
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Literally a half decent book.
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How to Boost Your Credit Score 100+ Points in 30 Days Without Credit Repair!
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Did you know that you could have credit scores in the low 600s even if you never missed a bill payment in your life? That's because your payment history is only 35% of your credit score. How to Boost Your Credit Score 100+ Points in 30 Days Without Credit Repair will show credit industry secrets for maximizing the other 65%. The best part is you will see real results in just 30 days.
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Don't waste a credit on this!
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Dark Alliance
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In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One - the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about - without even looking for it. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Bigger than You Thought
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- Neil Belvestre
- 12-11-20
Perfect!
Perfectly turning tool for me I enjoyed being able to hear words in one language and then in another with the narrator pointing out the accents and explaining the words meaning in detail.
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- Earlean Mohn
- 12-14-20
Definitely the best lessons I've listened to.
Definitely the best lessons I've listened to. I have learned much more than I have ever learned using other audiobooks. Worth the money.
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- Patience Nyland
- 12-15-20
Highly recommended!
If you want to learn Spanish I highly recommend this audiobook! Its thorough and comprehensive and it will have you understanding and speaking Spanish and all you have to do is listen.
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- Starr Purifoy
- 12-13-20
Really enjoyed this audible book!
Really enjoyed this audible book! Really feel like my Spanish has improved, can’t wait to buy the intermediate set on here!
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- Anthony Rendulich
- 12-10-20
The most helpful ways to study Spanish.
I have found this one of the most helpful ways to study Spanish. The only critical feedback I have for this audiobook in particular is that sometimes the speakers spoke too fast for a beginner's book lesson.
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- Maximina Tomko
- 12-15-20
Learn how to converse in Spanish.
This book really helped me to brush up on what I have forgotten. I highly recommend this book set for anyone wanting to learn how to converse in Spanish.
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- Louise Heuer
- 12-13-20
Still a great book :)
Great lessons, just wished, you have the option to display the transcript while listening on the app. Still a great book :)
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- Anna Viedyla
- 12-10-20
Effective book indeed!
I can say my speed and comprehension continues to improve as I practice my ability to speak through this series and my ability to comprehend through reading Spanish novels and watching tv shows and movies in Spanish.
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- Leomord Moba
- 12-11-20
Very helpful and useful book!
Very helpful and useful book, it made you learn some basic Spanish. I found this good to listen. Awesome!
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- Francina Renard
- 12-14-20
This is an excellent book!
This is an excellent book to get if you are looking to learn Spanish. I have been listening to it for the last month and it's really helped me to relearn to speak Spanish.
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