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You can speak Spanish! All it takes is a little work….. Lynn Cobb www.learn-aprender.com After just a few lessons of a properly structured course, you should be able to make some simple sentences for yourself, & talk a bit about what you do in your daily life. By ‘properly structured’ I don’t mean a course where a teacher just gives you lots of random ‘useful phrases’ to learn & repeat parrot fashion. That’s OK for ‘holiday Spanish’, but not if you actually want to learn the language & USE it! I’ve come across lots of people over the years who know lots of slang, can say all kinds phrases which sometimes incorporate quite advanced Spanish….. But, if they need to actually construct a simple sentence to ask for, or about, something, or tell someone something which isn’t covered by their ‘stock phrases’…….. they can’t.