Learn Spanish, step by step! This podcast teaches you the top 1000 words that make up 80% of Spanish. Starting with a foundation of core Spanish grammar and the most common Spanish vocabulary, Timothy will guide you through the essential steps to speaking and understanding fluent Spanish like a native speaker. If you're a serious Spanish learner and you want to make deep, personal connections with the native Spanish speakers in your life, the LearnCraft Spanish podcast is for you. Join us on ...
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Let’s practice saying things like “can”, “can’t”, “could”, and “couldn’t” in Spanish, in real-life contexts. Quiz and speak along. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/70By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Spanish has a lot of nouns for time. Let’s learn the words for “hour”, “minute”, “week”, “month”, and many more. We’ll also learn how to talk about clock time in Spanish, such as how to say “one o’clock” or “three o’clock”. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/69By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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68: Spanish adjectives: Feliz, mismo, seguro
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32:49Today we’ll learn some Spanish adjectives, including feliz, mismo, seguro, and claro. These are very frequent adjectives that you’ll encounter in just about every Spanish conversation. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/68By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Let’s learn the rest of the essential conjugations of Poder, including the past tense, the future tense, and the subjunctive, so that we can say “was able”, “will be able”, “would be able”, and “could”. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/67By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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How do you say “can” in Spanish? Today we’ll explore the verb Poder and start using it to say “can”, “can’t”, and “might” in Spanish. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/66By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Let’s get some good spoken practice with all the conjugations of Hacer, along with all the other Spanish we’ve learned recently on the podcast. Try to answer all the quiz questions out loud! Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/65By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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The most common Spanish nouns aren’t physical objects — they’re abstract ideas, such as problema, trabajo, razón, and idea. Let’s learn and practice several Spanish abstract nouns. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/64By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Why does Spanish use the phrases “se lo” and “se la” so often? And when does le turn into se? Let’s explore some advanced uses of Spanish indirect objects. We’ll also get lots of practice using the “redundant a” and putting our object pronouns in the right order in Spanish sentences. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/63…
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Let’s learn the rest of the essential forms of Hacer, including the imperfect past (such as hacía), the preterite (such as hice), the future (such as haré), and the subjunctive (such as haga). We’ll also explore verb contractions, such as hacerlo and hazlo. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/62…
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The Spanish verb Hacer means both “to do” and “to make”. Let’s practice its present-tense forms, hago, hace, haces, hacen, and hacemos, as well as the unconjugated forms. We’ll also practice Hacerse, which roughly means “to become”. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/61By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Today we’ll get lots of out-loud practice with some of the trickiest forms of Ser and Ir, such as fue, fui, fuiste, fueron, fuimos, and fuera. We’ll also learn some new ways that you can use todo. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/60
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What’s the difference between “because” and “because of” in Spanish? Let’s talk about porque versus por, as well as the several different meanings of hasta. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/59
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58: Fuera and other past tense subjunctives
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22:32Why does Spanish have a past tense subjunctive — and will you ever need it? Let’s learn how to use fuera, estuviera, and tuviera. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/58By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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How do you use fui, fue, fuiste, fueron, and fuimos as forms of Ser? Let’s learn how to use Ser’s preterite tense — which looks and sounds exactly like the preterite tense of Ir! Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/57By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Why does the Spanish preposition “a” appear right before some direct objects? Let’s practice using the personal “a” in Spanish sentences. We’ll also learn a couple of new idioms involving other Spanish prepositions. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/56By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Let’s practice using Spanish imperatives out loud! Here’s a spoken quiz to give you a variety of ways to practice imperative terms such as vete, váyase, ten, and tenga. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/55By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Spanish imperatives can be tricky, especially some of the most-used imperatives such as ve, ten, and váyase. Let’s learn both the positive and negative imperatives of Ir, Irse, and Tener — and get lots of practice using them in context. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/54By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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How do you use Tener and Haber to talk about obligations, such as “I had to do that” and “someone needs to do it”? Let’s explore the Tener + que and Haber + que constructions that Spanish uses to express obligation. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/53By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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The Spanish verb Tener has a lot of conjugations — let’s learn the many ways this verb is used, including the preterite, imperfect past tense, future, and subjunctive. We’ll also get a lot of spoken practice using Tener in context. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/52By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Tener and Haber are the two ways to say “have” in Spanish. Let’s start learning Tener and practice using the present tense conjugations (tengo, tiene, tienes, tienen, and tenemos). Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/51By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Sometimes words don’t mean what they seem to mean! Let’s use our Spanish vocabulary to create new meanings by combining them into non-literal phrases we call idioms — such as ya que and ya está. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/50By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Where, when, how, and how much? Let’s learn how to ask some common questions in Spanish, as well as the adverbs you can use to answer them! Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/49By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Buenos días, buenas tardes, buenas noches! In this episode we’ll cover some essential greetings and polite terms in Spanish, such as gracias and de nada. We’ll also discuss how to use Haber to talk about existence, using words like hay and había. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/48…
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Let’s learn 10 common Spanish nouns — including the words for “life”, “truth”, “woman”, and “man”, as well as the idioms for “actually” and “really”. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/47By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Spanish reflexive pronouns are tricky, and they have many different uses! Let’s learn how to use se, me, te, and nos, especially when they turn Ir (“to go”) into Irse (“to leave”). Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/46By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Use this quiz to practice using the Spanish verb Ir in all kinds of different ways — the present, the preterite, the imperfect, the future, and the subjunctive. Try to predict each Spanish sentence and speak out loud! Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/45By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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The verb Ir is one of the most irregular verbs in Spanish. Let’s learn its many conjugations, including the preterite, the subjunctive, and the future tense, using a memory palace. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/44By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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43: How to put any Spanish verb in the future
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25:34Let’s learn how to use Ir to mean “going to”. This is how we can put any verb in the future, simply by using our conjugations of Ir along with an infinitive. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/43By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Let’s learn how to say “go” in Spanish! We’ll learn the present-tense conjugations of Ir (voy, va, vas, van, and vamos), using a memory palace. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/42By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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The past of the past? The continuous future? What is the purpose of complex verb phrases such as habías hecho and estará haciendo? Let’s learn how to do fun, complex things with verb tenses. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/41By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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40: Conmigo, contigo, and Spanish prepositional pronouns
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20:55Prepositional pronouns let us do a lot of creative things in Spanish! Let’s learn how to say things like “with him”, “with her”, “for them”, and “from us” in Spanish. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/40By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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How do you say “now” in Spanish? Today we’ll explore a bunch of Spanish adverbs, including the words “ahora” and “ya”, the two different ways you can say “now”. We’ll also talk about some of the many ways “ya” can be translated into English. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/39…
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Let’s learn how to use the words hacer, hecho, and haciendo in Spanish. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/38By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Let’s learn a lot more Spanish pronouns, including indirect objects, as well as the words for “something”, “nothing”, and “everything”. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/37By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Let’s learn the verb haber so that we can use he, ha, has, han, and hemos to put other verbs in the past, using their participles. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/36.By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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35: Practicing Ser and Estar, in all tenses
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13:29Let’s get lots of quizzing practice with Ser and Estar, in every commonly used tense and mood! We’ll also learn the prepositions del and al. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/35By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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34: This thing, that thing // Do all Spanish nouns have a gender?
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23:35Esta, esto, este… esa, eso, and ese… let’s learn all the words for “this” and “that”. We’ll also talk about why some pronouns don’t have a grammatical gender, even though all nouns in Spanish are either masculine or feminine. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/34By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Let’s wrap up learning Estar by working on estará, estaría, estarían, estarías, estaríamos, and estado. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/33By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Let’s learn the last of our important conjugations of Ser, and we’ll get some good practice with the unconjugated forms ser, sido, and siendo. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/32By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Why does Spanish have two past tenses — the preterite and the imperfect? And how do you know which one to use in real life? Let’s explore the preterite and imperfect tenses, and we’ll also get some great practice using estaba, estuve, and estuvo. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/31…
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Eric has wanted to learn Spanish his whole life. And now, with a Spanish-speaking partner and plans to move to Spain, Spanish fluency is no longer optional! Here is his story. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/30By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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How do you use “lo que” in Spanish, without confusing it with “el que” and “la que”? And when should you use “qué” instead? Let’s dive into all the ways you can say “what” and “the one that” in Spanish. We’ll also learn how to use bueno and bien. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/29…
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28: Mi, tu, su: Spanish possessive adjectives
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21:39Let’s learn how to use “mi”, “su”, “tu”, and “nuestro” before Spanish nouns. We’ll also get some practice with new conjunctions, including “pero” and “cuando”. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/28By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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27: Using Subjunctive to Express Concepts in Spanish
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20:09Spanish subjunctives are often used to express abstract concepts such as intentions and emotions. Let’s learn some sentence templates for this, and we’ll practice them using the subjunctives of Ser and Estar. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/27By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Spanish subjunctives don’t have to be hard! Let’s learn the most common uses of Spanish subjunctives to indicate intention. We’ll get lots of practice using the subjunctives of Ser and Estar in a variety of sentences. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/26By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Let’s practice Ser, Estar, and all the essential Spanish we’ve learned. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/25By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Ser and Estar both translate as “to be” in English, but as you now know, the translation isn’t perfect! Let’s practice choosing the right verb, and the right conjugation, using some serious Spanish quizzing. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/24By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Time for the past tense of Estar! Learn and practice estaba, estabas, and the other imperfect past forms of Estar. We’ll also work on some advanced uses of Estar, including how to use this linking verb at the end of a sentence. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/23By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Learn the Spanish verb Estar, using a memory palace! We’ll also talk about some ways you can use this “to be” verb, in contrast with how we’ve been using Ser. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/22By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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Usted vs tú: Why are there two words for “you” in Spanish? Today we’ll learn how to use usted and practice it in a bunch of Spanish sentence contexts. Practice all of today’s Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/21By Timothy Moser, Founder, LearnCraft Spanish
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