Lesson 2 : Expressing Desire, Ability and Obligation in Spanish 

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Great video again! Right after it I put together "Yo nesecito ir al estación de tren or Hola, Buenas Tardes, Yo nesecito ayuda por favor. Yo nesecito ir al Barcelona sants, estación de tren".... I'm learning through both duolingo and you. IR and combining a+el is making me able to speak a little better with practice. I'm only about 30 days into learning Spanish.

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Just finished all 33 lessons in your Animated series. Wish you would add to that series. 10 minutes is an ideal time. Plus the graphics were great! Glad I did that series first. Lesson 1 in this series was a lot to take, but having done the animated series consolidated many concepts. Very much liked the practice and repetition in Lesson 2. Thank you! 🌻🌈

I am so happy to discover this. I moved to Mexico and do one on one lessons. All the books are based on spanish from Spain. I also do Duo every day and it does teach me how to read and new words but definitely not a 28:26 learn how to speak it. Thank you 🙏

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Mr Qroo I have been trying to learn to speak Spanish for years now. I have tried all the different videos etc. but stumbling upon your classes on RU-vid I decided to see how you can be of help to me. I think that your method is very unique. It is conversational, simple and to be honest I can say I can understand and speak the Spanish now if I really stick to your method of teaching.

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Omg, I learned more in this one lesson with you than I did in weeks of using a popular app (which shall remain namesless). Thank you SO MUCH!

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Now that i found your channel this is a game changer than just using different apps that teaches endless vocabulary words without even explaining how the sentence formed. Its all about patterns, thats what ive been searching and looking for all this weeks as i try to learn the language. Thank you so much for this! This is so important for me because to know the language i think we must know first the pattern or formation of their sentence . Vocabulary will go along the way but the pattern/Formation is a must for me to understand it really well.

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I have been learning Russian for a few years (something to keep my brain active during covid) and had no idea where to start as an adult learner who doesn’t memorise things at all. Did a lot of research and found Mark Thomson (Russian Accelerator) and found his methods excellent. My motivation dwindled over this last year or so as I realised I’d not be able to visit Russia or Ukraine to practice the language so I have decided to learn Spanish. Applied the same practice in finding out presenters/teachers/ courses on RU-vid and very quickly came across you Paul. Excellent! Your methods work very well for me (I also don’t like apps for learning). I’m also engaging a F2F teacher locally and have had my first lesson with him so I know that together I will learn well. THANK YOU PAUL and I donated a small amount to you as a means of thanking you.

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I am very pleased to learn … really happy to pronounce, and understand the construction. alot of progress!!!!

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I am from Russia. I studied German at school, which is more difficult to me as you have to remember 3 genders 4 cases for each noun. But when I was 16 I started to study English by myself and with a help of an old soviet textbook aimed for people learning English as a second abroad language. English as an analytical language is much more logical and thus easier to study, so I just loved it. And now, when I am 46, I started to sudy Spanish just for myself, as I like to see the logics of a language, explore the world behind the language and explore my own language more due to it. I find it much easier to study Spanish after English and via sources in English. Because this way I train both English and Spanish, and in English there are much more nice Spanish lessons, also the two languages have much in common. I found the RU-vid lessons of Qroo Paul's yesterday and they are extremely useful to me!!! As many people here, I also use Duolingo which is good, but sometimes too boring to study one simple lesson for a very long time, and not repeating enough the old lessons, forgetting the words from them.

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This method is nothing short of brilliant. I have tried apps and classes, but this has been the most useful in actually helping me to speak spanish.

I agree with you about the apps. I gave up on them and started studying to memorize tons of vocabulary words but I've been so stuck about how to start making sentences. These lessons are a godsend! Thank you so much for making them available!!!

Having done lesson one and onto lesson two as a complete beginner, THIS is the easiest way to learn Spanish I have come across. Applying "formulas" is like a hack, which works since it removes the really detailed complexities for beginners (that'd normally put you off). Thank you Paul. I look forward to continuing as I also continue my travels through central America!

Applause!!!!!!!! Perfect balance of challenging and encouraging and I LOVE this method!!!!!

You're such amazing the way teaching mode you made.... Perfect for beginers

gracias Qroo - I have not taken a language since 4th grade french! I am moving on to lesson 3 and so far quiero aprender más!

!Hola! I am 77 (mujer), from Georgia, former Soviet Union. I tried some books and other sources, but this is the best! Thank you very much!!! And one question that bothers me --- why do I study Spanish, being a mathematician, I do not need it, and taking into account my age, I will never need it. But Spanish became a kind of narcotic for me! Thank you very much!!!

The benefits of "language by formula" expands one's ability even further when one considers the many phrases we use over and over in English with multitudes of nouns and verbs. As in these examples, we can learn one phrase so well it rolls out of our mouths with ease (and minimal thought), propelling us into the blank noun, verb or another phase which might slow us down a bit until we have used that same combination a few times. This is marvelous! Thanks for the linguistic insights!!

Me gusta la forma en que enseñas 👍🏼. ¡Muchas gracias!‼️

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Me gustan las lecciones,Gracias para estos! Espero que podré nos enseñar algunas más

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Great lesson. I love the word construction techniques.

Hola. Buenos dias. Muchas gracias. Even after spending several hours taking courses on udemy and finishing up to 3 beginner courses, I still lack the confidence to state myself in Spanish. Thru this lesson of yours, I can now fully understand and navigate with my own words and create a ton of sentences using the presented techniques. Estas un profesor maravilloso!