Accelerated Spanish Episode 26.

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We're going to use this episode to take a little bit of a breather and talk about why we've been learning so much grammar

in the first few weeks of learning Spanish.

We've spent a lot of our time learning vocabulary, especially in the last week,

but we've also placed a lot of emphasis on piecing phrases together.

In the next three episodes, we're going to be learning three new verbs, each of which

is used in multiple ways to mean completely different things. Just learning a new word isn't enough.

You have to know how to use it the way that native speakers would use it. Also, the selection

of what words we've been learning is extremely important.

All words are not created equal, whether in Spanish or in any other language. So in any real

Spanish conversation, some words will be repeated a lot. In fact, more than half of the words spoken in a Spanish conversation

are going to be restricted to a list of about a hundred words, the 100 words that we've been

learning in the first 30 episodes of this podcast. You may or may not be familiar with Pareto's

principle, also known as the 80-20 rule, which

states that in general, some items in a collection provide some sort of extremely disproportionate

results.

So if our collection was the collection of all Spanish words, some are much more important

than others.

Now, in general, this principle can

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