Introducing the number one most frequently used word in Spanish.

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

I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

We are almost halfway through this first week of foundational grammar, so congratulations

on making it this far. I promise things aren't always going to be this abstract. We'll start

speaking in full Spanish sentences soon, and it'll be super fun. But to do that, we need to dig in and

talk about some important things that seem really small,

but are actually a really huge deal for fluency.

Yesterday, we talked at a high level about parts of speech, particularly nouns and verbs.

But now, let's dive deep into the fine-grained words that make the language work

and that help define what makes Spanish

different from English. And that starts with conjunctions. Here's why. Let's imagine a real-life

situation where you might need to use Spanish. Let's say someday you're on a walking tour of a European

city, and the only other person on the tour

who's close to your age is a native Spanish speaker who doesn't know any English.

You decide to try to strike up a chat with this person, but with the pressure of making a good

impression, one of two things is going to happen. Either you'll utter a few words clumsily and haltingly, one at a time,

or your words will flow together in coherent sentences. If your goal is to be fluent, you want your

words to flow coherently. In fact, the word fluent comes from the Latin word for flowing, and flowing starts with

making sure that all those tiny words that fill in the cracks become second nature, starting

with your conjunctions. So what are conjunctions? Conjunctions are basically words that can

hold entire sentences together, or even hold multiple

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