Build a Memory Palace to Learn Spanish

Unlock your spatial memory to master Latin American Spanish using the creative techniques of medieval monks and scholars

Our Spanish course is a complete program in Spanish grammar and vocabulary. Most importantly, you will learn how to build a memory palace to store, retain, and recall all the details of Spanish grammar. In a matter of weeks, you’ll be able to master grammatical patterns most learners still struggle with after years of study.

Our goal is to get you beyond pre-constructed resources as quickly as possible. In other words, we want to get you to the point where you are expanding your abilities by reading books, watching movies, and talking to people in Spanish. To do this, we focus first on patterns and vocabulary within the grammar of the language. This is the key to unlock total fluency.

As adults, the hardest part of learning a new language is mastering the grammar, the underlying structure. Once we do that, however, we have what we need to work inside the language and learn organically from context. This is actually what we continue to do throughout adulthood in our own native languages. Think of your own job and the jargon you use for it – you probably learned most of your professional vocabulary as an adult.

3 courses in 1

The Spanish program is actually 3 different courses wrapped up and bundled in one. There is a lot of material included in your subscription – read on to find out everything you’ll have access to. If you’re in a hurry, here’s a quick summary of what you’ll learn:

• Memory techniques and how to build memory palaces
• Practical linguistics and how to learn a language
• Spanish survival language
• All of Spanish grammar, including every pattern, variation, and exception
• All sentence patterns, from expressing need to expressing anticipation
• 2,500 words of Spanish vocabulary

You get full access to everything right from the start. This includes:

• Memory Course
• Core Course
• Spanish Materials (on this page – scroll down for syllabus and samples)
• Downloadable handouts for the Core Course (book length)
• Downloadable native speaker audio recording for all Spanish survival language, grammatical examples, and vocabulary builders (literally dozens of hours of high quality audio)
• Downloadable handouts for survival language
• Downloadable handouts for all examples in our map of Spanish grammar (book length)
• Downloadable vocabulary builders and parallel texts
• Downloadable memory worksheets to guide you through creating a memory palace for Spanish
• Personal support whenever you need it – just ask!

In short, in addition to all the video lessons and unique instruction, you’ll be able to download and keep the equivalent of multiple text e-books and more than ten times the amount of audio recordings you can typically expect to receive with book and CD combos that cost twice as much as a single month of our online program.

All of this described above is included in every subscription. Read on to find out more about the different courses.

Memory Course

The Memory Course is central to all our programs, and we recommend you start with these lessons. As people, we tend to be very good at remembering places and images, but not very good at remembering text. Since language learning involves a lot of text, we’ll teach you how to use your spatial and visual memory to master the parts and pieces of a new language quickly and effectively. These are the same creative techniques used by medieval monks to memorize scripture by chapter and verse, and also to compose new works of literature.

The power and efficacy of these techniques is truly astounding, and even those with “bad memories” find themselves storing complex grammatical structures with ease. It’s also a lot of fun – you get to imagine the places and images you enjoy most. The wackier and more extravagant you make your associations, the more likely you are to remember them!

Our approach to language is linguistically rigorous, which might scare you at first. Once you realize what you can do with our memory techniques, however, you’ll see how language mastery is already within your reach.

Core Course

Our Core Course is a full course in practical linguistics. You’ll learn what the parts and pieces of a language are and how they fit together, from grammar through to body language and culture. You’ll also learn useful strategies for learning the different components of language.

What is a noun? What is case? Or gender? Or tense and aspect? What about morphology and syntax? These may seem like technical terms, but you will learn to understand them quickly. Having a grasp of these core concepts will accelerate the entire process of learning a language. It’s a bit like learning what gables or I-beams are before trying to build a house!

Spanish Course

If you continue to scroll down on this page, you’ll be able to see the entire syllabus for our Spanish materials, including several samples you can view prior to signing up. Our Spanish materials are broken up into 4 main sections:

Pronunciation Guide

We start with a brief pronunciation guide so you can familiarize yourself with the sounds of Spanish. Most of your pronunciation practice will come from interaction with the included audio files and review videos, but this module serves as a necessary introduction. It will also help you pronounce Spanish words correctly on sight – that is, from seeing them written.

Starter Module

Our Starter Module is designed to introduce topics of Spanish structure through survival language. You’ll start to see how the language works while learning key greetings, introductions, and other functions. At the same time, you’ll learn how to create a small memory palace you can use just for survival and other ritual language. Even if you have some Spanish already, this is a great place to get started and see how the memory techniques can be applied.

Map

This is the main feature of the entire program – we explore every grammatical pattern, variation, and exception in the Spanish language. We’ll take you through our complete map of the language and explain how to build your memory palace to master all the complexities. Here are some things we’ll cover:

• How to tell the gender of any noun
• Regular, irregular, modal, and auxiliary conjugations
• How to use the subjunctive
• Sentence types and constructions

Spanish has two genders: masculine and feminine. Did you know that there are clear rules for determining what gender a word belongs to? Did you know there are patterns even among the irregular verbs? When do you use object pronouns and how? We’ll explain all this and more in detail, so you can dominate Spanish grammar.

In the video course, we'll cover all the material included on our fabric language maps.

Vocabulary Builders

Our carefully crafted narratives are designed to include not only as much unique vocabulary as possible, but also as many as possible of the construction patterns found in the language. Our main vocabulary builder is a story called Max’s Dream, an adventure narrative in the guise of a children’s story. We also include several journalism articles on a range of topics so you can learn journalistic language to be able to read newspapers and online journals.

Latin American vs. Castilian Spanish

This course is for Latin American Spanish, so all of the audio recordings are by speakers from Latin America, including Mexico and Colombia. Furthermore, the words and phrases in the Starter Module and Vocabulary Builders are tailored to Latin American usage. In terms of the grammar, however, the Latin American and Castilian maps are virtually identical. You can read about the differences further on our blog.

Questions?

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