Tips to Improve Your Conversational Skills in Spanish

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This is the first thing my fluently bilingual husband told me about speaking in Spanish: Don’t’ try to translate in your head. Think in Spanish. Once I started doing this, my Spanish improved dramatically. Also, learning Spanish in chunks is very helpful. The Spring Spanish YouTube channel teaches Spanish this way.

I am one of the 67% who watched your video all the way to the end. I appreciate your work. Thanks for this excellent video!

One tip that I'd give is just start speaking. I'm an intermediate student and I'm sure the people who have heard me speak regretted it later but once you get into a conversation the words just come out. You may have wrong conjugations or use wrong words but as long as your point gets across it's a conversations and it's a great way to grow

"If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary." (Michel Thomas, 2001).

I wish our lives were filled with such articulate and knowledgeable good people like you and Linda. This video really triggered a much better understanding of where I've been going wrong with my spanish conversational skills for the last 50 years. Thank you, Paul.

You are the best spanish teacher I have ever had in my life

One of the hugest hindrances to fluency is not knowing verb forms at the level of speech. It is more than just knowing the forms down cold but knowing the grammatical rules well enough to the point that you can access the correct form for use in daily speech. The

The dual-self dialogue is really funny and accurate! I have noticed that the lag time in my translation is due not only to translating English to Spanish but also first figuring out what I'm going to say in English! I wasn't aware of how little forethought goes into what normally comes out of my mouth. (Not always a good thing, either)

It's just like English. Even in English, we don't always know every word that we are about to say before spitting out our thoughts/sentences. We have sentence fragments in English that have memorized and are so used to saying. This is such a helpful approach for learning Spanish. Thanks!

Mexican American who has always dreamed of FLUENCY in Spanish. My mom used to talk to me in Spanish and I to her in English, but now I'm speaking to her in Spanish because I can be confident with her. I also forced myself to work at a Mexican restaraunt which is still a bit hard but after half a year im able to form better conversations and become more confident. A Spanish speaking environment has helped me learn casual and conversational Spanish so well. I learn the slang and even insults, I gain lots of confidence. Half of these people can't even speak English so I shouldn't ever feel embarassed if I mess up in Spanish, at least I'm trying to be billingual. I want to learn more languages but Spanish has always been my priority. I want to hold my culture close to heart and teach my children it. I'm learning latin Spanish but I want to work in Spain... so maybe I'll just focus on European Spanish through YouTube lol

I am so grateful for your videos. I am traveling to columbia in a month or so and have made so much progress because your videos. Thanks so much, Qroo Paul!

I'm so glad I found your channel! I tapped out in high school Spanish when it came to conjugating verbs, passed Spanish with a C, lol. I have a Spanish coworker and I've always wanted to learn a second language and I've been dedicating an hour a day for over a year and it's insane how much I've learned, but I still freeze when I try to have a conversation with a native speaker. The tips in your videos are gold, thank you for the amazing content!

You and the Language Tutor are my favorite Spanish teachers right now on YT. Both teaching as Native English speakers that successfully learned Spanish

You’re a natural when it comes to teaching. I just found you and now It feels like new life concerning my Spanish learning. 👍

My spanish changed when I just started talking and felt out the sentence… now I am still not perfect and it in the beginning I messed up a bunch…. But it helped build confidence and helped me become more fluent

I think your idea of using "chunks" instead of individual words may be a good idea (in addition to using phrases in which the verb is already conjugated so we don't have to think about it as you mentioned in another video). That has much in common with how we acquire our first language (we don't know anything about conjugating verbs when we first learn to speak).

I’m so happy to have found this channel—such a huge help, thanks so much!!❤

Your videos have helped me improve my Spanish as an intermediate speaker AND my husband improve as a super beginner speaker. We have been learning with duolingo, babbel, and a native speaking tutor. Since discovering your channel a few weeks ago, I've devoured your videos and made dozens of notecards, and to say this has been one more tool in my toolbox would be the understatement of the year! If you're ever in Todos Santos, please let us treat you and Linda to some local cuisine!

Hi Paul, It's good to see that you've got your mojo back again doing Spanish. Brilliant! please keep going. Cheers Harry