Let's start laying a solid foundation for Spanish fluency.

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Most Spanish podcasts and courses start by teaching you some fun words or phrases that'll get you

rattling off a little bit of Spanish right from episode one. But on this show, we do things

differently. In our experience, coaching language learners all the way to fluency, it's super

important to get started on the right foot. And the most important part of the language to

cover right at the beginning is not words or phrases, but some deep foundational grammar.

Now, if you're impatient, don't worry, we will finally start learning some Spanish in this episode.

I'm not going to spend this whole podcast preaching about

language learning methodologies, but still, as I mentioned yesterday, it is essential to start from

the right mindset. So there will be a bit of theory of learning intermingled with our Spanish

throughout this show, just enough to help keep your learning on track.

And since this is the first week on the show, we have to start with a bit more theory than usual.

As the show progresses, we'll move into more and more Spanish very quickly.

Now, what is deep foundational grammar?

Well, let's think about the foundation of a house. At first glance, a house

looks like it's made of windows, doors, some bricks, and a roof. But as most people know,

if you try to build a house from scratch in that order, you're going to end up with a mess.

To build a livable house, you have to start with a solid foundation.

You can't just throw some flashy pieces together.

And it's the same thing with language learning.

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