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Learn Spanish, step by step! LearnCraft Spanish is a proven system that will teach you how to learn Spanish fluently, from the ground up. Starting with a foundation of core Spanish grammar and the most common Spanish vocabulary, Timothy will guide you through the essential steps to speaking and understanding fluent Spanish like a native speaker. If you're a serious Spanish learner and you want to make deep, personal connections with the native Spanish speakers in your life, the LearnCraft Spanish podcast is for you. Join us on a rigorous, fulfilling journey to Spanish fluency.

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Learn Spanish, step by step! LearnCraft Spanish is a proven system that will teach you how to learn Spanish fluently, from the ground up. Starting with a foundation of core Spanish grammar and the most common Spanish vocabulary, Timothy will guide you through the essential steps to speaking and understanding fluent Spanish like a native speaker. If you're a serious Spanish learner and you want to make deep, personal connections with the native Spanish speakers in your life, the LearnCraft Spanish podcast is for you. Join us on a rigorous, fulfilling journey to Spanish fluency.

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71: Querer: “want” and “love”

6/10/2024
Let’s learn the Spanish verb Querer, which means “to want” and “to love”. We’ll practice using the unconjugated forms (querer and querido), along with all the present-tense forms (quiero, quiere, quieres, quieren, and queremos).

Duración:00:22:08

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70: Practice Poder

6/7/2024
Let’spractice saying things like “can”, “can’t”, “could”, and “couldn’t” in Spanish, in real-life conte xts. Quiz and speak along!

Duración:00:33:07

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69: Hora, minuto, semana, y mes

6/6/2024
Spanish has a lot of nouns for time. Let’s learn the words for “hour”, “minute”, “week”, “month”, and many more. We’ll also learn how to talk about clock time in Spanish, such as how to say “one o’clock” or “three o’clock”.

Duración:00:22:53

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68: Spanish adjectives: Feliz, mismo, seguro

6/5/2024
Today we’ll learn some Spanish adjectives, including feliz, mismo, seguro, and claro. These are very frequent adjectives that you’ll encounter in just about every Spanish conversation.

Duración:00:32:49

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67: How to say “could” in Spanish

6/4/2024
Let’s learn the rest of the essential conjugations of Poder, including the past tense, the future tense, and the subjunctive, so that we can say “was able”, “will be able”, “would be able”, and “could”.

Duración:00:22:15

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66: Poder

6/3/2024
How do you say “can” in Spanish? Today we’ll explore the verb Poder and start using it to say “can”, “can’t”, and “might” in Spanish.

Duración:00:26:02

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65: Practice Hacer

5/31/2024
Let’s get some good spoken practice with all the conjugations of Hacer, along with all the other Spanish we’ve learned recently on the podcast. Try to answer all the quiz questions out loud!

Duración:00:26:00

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64: Problema, trabajo, razón, and idea

5/30/2024
The most common Spanish nouns aren’t physical objects — they’re abstract ideas, such as problema, trabajo, razón, and idea. Let’s learn and practice several Spanish abstract nouns.

Duración:00:30:54

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63: Redundant Indirect Objects

5/29/2024
Why does Spanish use the phrases “se lo” and “se la” so often? And when does le turn into se? Let’s explore some advanced uses of Spanish indirect objects. We’ll also get lots of practice using the “redundant a” and putting our object pronouns in the right order in Spanish sentences.

Duración:00:29:08

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62: How to conjugate Hacer

5/28/2024
Let’s learn the rest of the essential forms of Hacer, including the imperfect past (such as hacía), the preterite (such as hice), the future (such as haré), and the subjunctive (such as haga). We’ll also explore verb contractions, such as hacerlo and hazlo.

Duración:00:32:12

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61: Hacer - “to do” or “to make”

5/27/2024
The Spanish verb Hacer means both “to do” and “to make”. Let’s practice its present-tense forms, hago, hace, haces, hacen, and hacemos, as well as the unconjugated forms. We’ll also practice Hacerse, which roughly means “to become”.

Duración:00:22:56

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60: Practice fue, fui, and fuera

5/24/2024
Today we’ll get lots of out-loud practice with some of the trickiest forms of Ser and Ir, such as fue, fui, fuiste, fueron, fuimos, and fuera. We’ll also learn some new ways that you can use todo.

Duración:00:27:31

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59: Porque and Hasta

5/23/2024
What’s the difference between “because” and “because of” in Spanish? Let’s talk about porque versus por, as well as the several different meanings of hasta.

Duración:00:32:57

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58: Fuera and other past tense subjunctives

5/22/2024
Why does Spanish have a past tense subjunctive — and will you ever need it? Let’s learn how to use fuera, estuviera, and tuviera.

Duración:00:22:32

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57: Ser, the preterite tense

5/21/2024
How do you use fui, fue, fuiste, fueron, and fuimos as forms of Ser? Let’s learn how to use Ser’s preterite tense — which looks and sounds exactly like the preterite tense of Ir!

Duración:00:13:32

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56: The Spanish personal “a”

5/20/2024
Why does the Spanish preposition “a” appear right before some direct objects? Let’s practice using the personal “a” in Spanish sentences. We’ll also learn a couple of new idioms involving other Spanish prepositions.

Duración:00:19:42

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55: Spanish Imperative Practice

5/17/2024
Let’s practice using Spanish imperatives out loud! Here’s a spoken quiz to give you a variety of ways to practice imperative terms such as vete, váyase, ten, and tenga

Duración:00:12:32

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54: Spanish imperatives

5/16/2024
Spanish imperatives can be tricky, especially some of the most-used imperatives such as ve, ten, and váyase. Let’s learn both the positive and negative imperatives of Ir, Irse, and Tener — and get lots of practice using them in context.

Duración:00:35:53

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53: How to express obligation in Spanish

5/15/2024
How do you use Tener and Haber to talk about obligations, such as “I had to do that” and “someone needs to do it”? Let’s explore the Tener + que and Haber + que constructions that Spanish uses to express obligation.

Duración:00:22:00

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52: How to say “had” in Spanish

5/14/2024
The Spanish verb Tener has a lot of conjugations — let’s learn the many ways this verb is used, including the preterite, imperfect past tense, future, and subjunctive. We’ll also get a lot of spoken practice using Tener in context.

Duración:00:23:32