The Real Fast Spanish Tips Podcast

In this week’s theory podcast we take a close look at the verb “llegar”.

“Llegar” is a common Spanish verb and generally gets used correctly by native English students but there are more ways to use …

This podcast episode is part 2 of a two part interview that I recently did with Kris Broholm.

Kris is running his own language learning podcast called The Actual Fluency Podcast. He was great fun t…

Answering the phone is an everyday occurrence. But the rules of phone etiquette in English don’t exactly work in another language.

When you make a phone call in Spanish, the language you tend to use …

This week we welcome Kris Broholm to the podcast to discuss language learning mindset.

Kris is running a language learning podcast called Actual Fluency. Each week he invites on an ‘expert’ languag…

Valencia is an amazing city. It home to delicious food, a good climate, great people and some impressive modern architecture.

In this week’s Spanish podcast episode we talk about what to see and do i…

This podcast episode is part 2 of a two part interview on language learning with Olly Richards. 

If you haven’t listened to part 1 of the interview then go back and start with part 1 first.

In this …

Possessive pronouns in Spanish are generally straightforward except for one small detail. 

The detail is about knowing whether or not you need to use the definite articles with the possessive pronoun…

This week we welcome Olly Richards to the podcast. Olly can speak 7 languages and knows a lot about the process of acquiring foreign languages. In this mindset podcast, Olly shares some of his best …

In today’s theoretical podcast, we will take a closer look at some of the different ways the word “even” can be translated from English to Spanish.

When you are listening to today’s podcast, have a t…

What are your conversations like in Spanish? Do they flow? or do they stall?

Being a great conversationalist in your first language doesn’t come easily—so how then can you be great in your second lan…

In this podcast episode you will learn the second half of the prepositions of position. This episode is part 2 of a two part series and follows on from the last theoretical episode.

In last week’s t…

Confidence in language learning is huge. Those who think they can and those who think that can’t are probably right. 

This mindset episode of the podcast is part 2 of a two part interview I did with…

Prepositions are hard. Why? Because prepositions rarely translate well between languages. And their use often doesn’t follow a nice set of rules.

For example, when is something below and when is it …

In 2005, Ruan De Witt was riding his bicycle on a bridge in France. A passing car caused him to fall from the bridge onto the busy highway below. He broke his pelvis, hands, elbow and back. He surviv…

In this week’s theoretical Spanish podcast we will explore the verb ‘tratar‘.

‘Tratar‘ can be confusing because of one particular meaning that is difficult to translate to English. But this difficult…

This week Amy Whitney is on the podcast. Her story beautifully captures the idea that language learning is hard but truly worth it.

Amy has been a regular listener of the Real Fast Spanish Tips podc…

In this week’s podcast tip we are going to look at the verb ‘caer’. We will look at the differences between ‘caer’ and ‘caerse’ and give a few spanish phrases using this common verb.

What you will di…

One way to increase your rate of learning spanish is to make deeper connections to new spanish vocabulary.

If you can create a strong new memory every time you discover a new word in Spanish your ra…

Understanding the differences between verbs such as quedar vs quedarse is a constant challenge for Spanish students.

Not only is ‘quedar’ versatile for its use in different contexts, but it changes m…

There is never enough time. Well, at least, it feels that way.

Despite how busy you feel, we all have the same 24 hours in a day. Yet some still manage to get so much more done. How?

For as long as …