Reading will help you learn to speak Spanish like a native speaker, no matter when in life you start your journey.
Most beginning Spanish learners fail to truly speak Spanish because they focus on the wrong thing. Textbook grammar rules will leave you confused and rote memorization is ineffective at best. But that doesn't have to be you. You can learn Spanish by reading for fun and achieve native-like fluency fast.
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Unlock Your Language Learning Potential
A one-page PDF download with some of the highest frequency words in Spanish. Print this out and use it as a reference while you read. It will save you tons of time and help you learn these words fast!
Discover the Joy of Spanish Through Storytelling
Crafted from over a decade of innovative teaching experience, this book offers a fresh and engaging approach to acquiring Spanish. Dive into stories that are not just educational but also entertaining, humorous, and sometimes outright absurd.
An innovative approach to learning Spanish online.
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Read to Speak Spanish is Unique
At Read to Speak Spanish, we take a different approach to language acquisition. We make original and compelling stories to help you achieve natural and, over time, native fluency.
Think about it. Our brains are hard-wired for storytelling. Engaging stories take our focus off the "how" we communicate and put it squarely on the "what" and "why". In other words, when we hear and read stories, our brains only care about the message of the text.
When you read (watched?) the Lord of the Rings, you didn't care that Frodo used the first person singular form in the present indicative. You cared about his perilous and heroic quest to destroy the ring.
When you read for fun in Spanish, your brain gets lots of opportunities to process the language. Since processing comprehensible language is the driving force behind acquisition, you want to have as many chances as possible to do just that. If you want to learn to speak Spanish, you need to get serious about reading Spanish. A lot of Spanish.
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