Accelerated Spanish, Episode 41.

How fast do you want to be fluent in Spanish?

Using our tested system that combines timeless language learning hacks with a memory palace of mnemonics,

you can be ready to integrate with native speakers in as little as one month.

Now that you're thinking in Spanish and building your own sentences from scratch,

it's time to expand your vocabulary so that you can

begin to express your thoughts more accurately. But first, let's talk about a temptation that you're

probably beginning to experience. You might currently feel like swerving slightly from the

accelerated Spanish protocol and starting to learn more descriptive

vocabulary so that you can have specific conversations.

Now, I'll grant that learning colorful vocabulary, such as more nouns, adverbs, and adjectives,

is important, and we will do that soon, but we have to be careful not to sacrifice everything that

we've done so far.

Currently, based on what we've covered in the first 40 episodes, you should know about 300

words.

But how well can you use them?

Are you successful at integrating them into many different types of conversations?

Not long ago, I received an email from a student whom we'll call Nate. Nate was dissatisfied with his small vocabulary.

He had recently tried to converse with a five-year-old who was a native Spanish speaker.

This kid was talking about what he'd had for breakfast that morning,

and Nate couldn't understand the items that the kid described.

Nate wrote to me,

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