Travel Spanish That Actually Works
In seven days, handle greetings, ordering, directions, prices, and confusion in Spanish without freezing up.
This course is for members
$9 unlocks every course in the library, this one included, plus a credit to build a topic of your own and at least 10 new courses every month.
What you will learn about Spanish for Travelers
The 7-day sprint
- Say It Right The First Time. Spanish spelling maps onto sound almost perfectly, so once you learn five pure vowels and a handful of consonant rules, you can pronounce any written word you meet.
- The Courtesy Layer. A short set of greetings and politeness words does most of the social work in travel Spanish, and using them makes strangers patient with your imperfect grammar.
- Asking For Things Without Grammar. You can request almost anything by putting a noun into one of three fixed polite frames, so you never need to conjugate a verb to get fed, housed, or driven.
- Getting Information Out Of People. Five question words plus rising intonation let you ask for any fact you need, and turning a statement into a question in Spanish requires no extra words at all.
- Four Verbs That Carry Everything. Learning just the I and the you-formal forms of querer, tener, poder, and ir covers the overwhelming majority of what a traveler needs to say about themselves and ask about others.
- Numbers, Money, And Time. Transactions and schedules are where travel Spanish either works or collapses, and they run on a compact number system you can drill in one sitting.
- Repair, Recover, Keep Talking. Fluency for travelers is not perfect Spanish but the ability to fix a breakdown in the conversation without switching to English, using a fixed repair kit and workarounds for words you do not know.
The 80/20: the 7 concepts that matter most
- Five pure vowels and phonetic spelling
- Fixed frames with swappable slots
- The politeness layer plus usted
- Question words and rising intonation
- Hay, está, and es
- Numbers, money, and clock time
- The repair kit and talking around gaps
The core idea, explained like you are 5
Most of travel Spanish is a small number of fixed sentence shells with a hole in them, and you get fluent-sounding by swapping different words into the hole.
Then the quiz and the ladder
10 questions that correct you when you are wrong, and beginner, intermediate, advanced levels, each with a practical exercise.