How I Became Fluent in Spanish in Under a Year 

I think your comment about being a native English speaker that can explain things in a different way is really helpful.

Babies don't tell their first words until at least 18 months and last many years to get fluent. Then, they need to add 2 yesrs to study how to read and write and still study grammar rules and verbs conjugations, learning tenses during the primary school, and having a review on the high school. That was my process as a Spanish native speaker living in total immersion. Spanish has 50 different verbal forms.

I agree 100%, do NOT Focus too much on grammar when learning a language, especially at the beginning of your journey. 40 years ago when I was a young soldier in Germany (before the Internet for all you young folks) I also became fluent in German well within a year and I know for a fact if I would've started to study German grammar at the beginning, I for sure would've quit after a few weeks. To this day I am still very fluent in German and 4-5 years ago I started learning Spanish and used the same method, however I do admit Spanish was much more tougher for me. Although I would consider myself high intermediate in Spanish presently, for whatever reason even though I speak Spanish every day with my Colombian wife I still feel more comfortable in German. Mucha suerte a todos!

I am a white American who took a couple years of Spanish in high school. A decade later I found myself traveling Spain for a couple months, desperately trying to remember my classes from years ago. I've decided it's TIME to fully understand this culture I love so much! So excited to get started with you!

Mil gracias! Acabo de cambiar mi telefono a espanol. Buena idea!!

Very helpful, thank you. The idea of using Spanish for the things you do every day is most helpful. Gracias.

I'm looking forward to checking out your content!

Speaking in "strings" is how I do it. 100 phrases gets you to be reasonably fluent in another language.😮 Internalize them as a toddler might.

This is so helpful 🎉

I signed up for 4:00 today. I'm glad I saw your channel channel. I want to learn Spanish and teach it to my grandchildren whose father is Dominican and he does not teach it to them. So the Italian-American grandmother will have to do it!

Es uno fe los mejores videos he visto en este tema. Bien hecho bro.

Thanks for the vid, Michael. Studying abroad for a full 12 months starting in November and I enjoy all your vids. They are super helpful and I appreciate the inspiration!

Every body should try Rocket Spanish

Hola, Yo sigo este mismo sistema para estudiar inglés, menos gramática y más práctica. Esteesel secreto. Enhorabuena por tu canal, espero que vaya creciendo exponencialmente.

Los bebés tardan al.menos 18 meses en decir sus primerss palabras. Además, hay que agregar algunos años hasta que hablan fluído. Luego tardan al menos un par de años más en la escuela para,sprender lecto edcritura y durante la escuela primaria aprenden y practican con mucha ejercitación, en total durante 6-7 años las reglas gramaticales, que luego vuelven avrepadar el la escuela secundaria. Luego, mientras trabajsn y estufian alguna carrera formstiva de su profesión, continúsn adquiriendo lenguaje, que con el paso del tiempo queda fuer de moda y debe ir sctualizanfo. El español tiene unad 50 formas verbsles y toma tiempo aprenderlas y practicarlas.

It's weird watching videos in Spanish if I speak Spanish as a first language. Saludos desde México. I'd like to learn English just in a year :c

Eveyone should try language transfer ❤

This is so helpful and how is this going to help me if you’re like fluent in Spanish how is your brain going to develop? Please make that into your next video if you have time

❤Thank you

What is the best path for learning verbs. Thks

Good morning how's it going today ☀️ I speak 5 languages french Spanish English Portuguese criollo I want to speak Italian ❤ I did learn Spanish in 1995

I have my phone in Spanish lol I realised I cant live without being on my phone so it was a no brainer. I've recently started making videos so I learn video editing and Spanish at the same time to keep myself motivated and so I have better content to watch lmao

please come back

Damn I wish this was me Ive been learning 14 months and I'm no where near there

🔥🔥

💯💯💯

🎉🎉

I think that your partner speaks Spanish ;)

😂 go to a bar and say this apple is green

Yeah. Okay. I took a little longer than «under a year» (26 months) because I wanted three things most learners don’t care about: 20,000 non-cognate vocabulary arranged in full context with an intensity register and formality register of verbs, something English doesn’t possess. Also, I want to speak with a Spaniard accent. That was a bitch, trust me. And finally, I wanted to be able to read ANY book on the shelves in Spanish today. I think I’d call that, C1 level so, that took longer but, yes...a person CAN follow your method and perhaps achieve B1 in a year, definitely. You have a solid, strong, sincere product, better than anything automated online. My actual goal is NATIVE speaker level but, I think that’s going to take 5 more years. Using all five senses in the imagination is good advice. Personally, I think honesty like you offer is best because, someone believing they are «fluent» and knowing they can't read any book with a 1000 word vocabulary or they sound like they’re speaking Spanish in English, which I personally HATE. You have to give people what they want and people have to be realistic. The 10,000-hour rule applies to Spanish. I wish you well Mr. Michael Harper Spanish teacher guy. Love your insight, enthusiasm and approach.

This method takes for years.There is an audio book called spanish verb drill.If you are a beginner watching film is frustrating Going to store and asking how much an apple is ,doesn't make you fluent.I learned 4 languages ,,and always learned it only from native speakers.

Nice! I found you on TikTok but prefer to not use that platform anymore RU-vid it is!

I fell asleep @ minute 5….

WHY IS YOUR VIDEO ENGLISH SUBTITLE? I can hear the audio perfectly, and if I need subtitles, I can turn it on. Its distracting. I don't know why SO many people do this. What's the thought process?

I souldnt consider that fluent

Nothing is free