Keeping Spanish alive
🎯 Turn the course into a daily habit and know where the exams lead.
🗣️ Say these out loud
- ¿Cómo se dice … en español? 🔊 KO-mo seh DEE-seh … en es-pa-NYOL How do you say … in Spanish? The question that keeps teaching you after this course ends.
- Más despacio, por favor. 🔊 mas des-PA-syo, por fa-VOR Slower, please. Native Spanish is fast. This phrase is your brake pedal.
- No entiendo. 🔊 no en-TYEN-do I don't understand. Say it early and often. It is not a failure; it is how you learn.
- Poco a poco. 🔊 PO-ko a PO-ko Little by little. The Spanish answer to every impatience.
- Practico todos los días. 🔊 prak-TEE-ko TO-dos los DEE-as I practise every day. The only sentence that decides whether you will ever speak this language.
- ¡Ánimo! 🔊 AH-nee-mo Keep your spirits up! Said to anyone struggling. Say it to yourself on a bad day.
Read every line aloud twice before moving on. The mouth learns a language, not the eye.
🔍 What comes after these six lessons
You now have roughly A1: greetings, needs, family, time, opinions. The recognised ladder is A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, tested by the DELE examinations of the Instituto Cervantes, which has a centre in New Delhi.
- Change your phone to Spanish for a week.
- Watch a film you know by heart with Spanish audio and Spanish subtitles — never English subtitles.
- Read children's news in Spanish for five minutes a day.
- Speak to yourself while walking. Fluency is a muscle, not a fact.
🌍 Among the people
Spanish spelling is so regular that a Spanish child's spelling test is about accents, not letters. Once you learn the five vowels you can read anything aloud — even without understanding it, which is itself a useful skill.
🔁 Practise today
- Read Lesson 1 aloud and notice how much is already yours.
- Set a daily two-minute alarm called 'español'.
- Teach somebody else how to pronounce the five vowels.
