How to Avoid Drawing a Blank in Spanish - LSFB 044
Learning Spanish for Beginners Podcast
Miguel Lira
4.0 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In this session, we will learn How to Avoid Drawing a Blank and Keep Control of a Conversation in Spanish. You can find more resources at https://learningspanishforbeginners.com/44
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| 0:00.0 | Learning Spanish for Beginners Podcast Session 44 How to Avoid Drawing a Blank in Spanish Welcome to a New Session of the Learning Spanish for Beginners podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | Today, we will learn how to avoid drawing a blank and keep control of a conversation in Spanish. |
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| 1:26.1 | Here it is one more time. |
| 1:28.7 | Spanish for your job.com slash beginners. |
| 1:36.0 | Okay, let's get started. |
| 1:40.1 | We have all experienced something like this at some point while learning a new language. |
| 1:45.9 | You start by learning and practicing common phrases on your own for a while. |
| 1:51.2 | One day, you decide to talk to someone who speaks the foreign language you are trying to learn, |
| 1:56.5 | and you go ahead and confidently say a phrase you have practiced many times. The other person, |
| 2:03.5 | here's what you confidently said, assumes you are fluent, and starts speaking very fast, |
| 2:10.1 | and you do not understand what's being said. You get nervous and then you draw a blank. It's so |
| 2:17.1 | awkward and uncomfortable that you end up walking |
| 2:20.1 | away feeling like a failure. It's awful. I get it. If you do this enough times, you end up |
| 2:27.4 | quitting because it's just way too frustrating. But it doesn't have to be like that. All you need |
| 2:33.8 | is to allow yourself to be vulnerable |
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