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1 Updated Intermediate Master the Spanish Present Perfect

In this fun Spanish lesson we help you master the Spanish Present Perfect in a clear and concise Spanish lesson with examples and explanations.

Come and join us and really get your Spanish going as well as helping yourself to master the Spanish Present Perfect!

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Un saludo,

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As well as the lessons that you receive as a Socio, we also offer many other resources to help you make your Spanish move forward at a pace.

Free Videocasts Take a look at our range of 160 free podcasts and many other lessons all designed to take your Spanish forward at LightSpeed! Every videocast that we have produced comes with a comprehensive helpsheet to guide you through the grammar and to test your understanding.

Our Fantastic Books Check out our ever-increasing range of high acclaimed, no-nonsense workbooks that explain Spanish grammar in easy-to-follow language. (Link to books)

Our Total Immersion Courses Set close to Madrid in Spain we offer week-long total immersion courses designed to boost your confidence levels sky high! Remember that as a Socio you have a 50 Euro discount on the cost of the course.

Online one-to-one and group lessons. Why not have a free, no-obligation chat with Ana and find out more about what is available to really get your Spanish moving!

Gordon’s Diaries. Catch up on the 100s of free ‘Diarios de Gordon’ in which he talks about Spain, life, and anything else that comes to his mind.

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2 Updated Early Intermediate Spanish bar vocabulary

In this fascinating Spanish lesson we help you with the Must Know Spanish bar vocabulary.

Ordering drinks in Spain is not the same as in other Spanish speaking countries, so be sure to watch this lesson.

Join us to brush up on your vital Spanish bar vocabulary.

Get your Intermediate HELPSHEETS here:

Find out more about our Immersion Courses here!

If you would like to join SER SOCIO freely and receive two lessons a week from Gordon and Cynthia of LightSpeed Spanish, just click HERE.

Visit our website here: https://lightspeedspanish.co.uk/

Check out our Hardback, Kindle and Audio Book Range HERE.

Take a look at Cynthia’s Book Club HERE

Join our Telegram group here:

Nuestro canal.

Join us and Support this channel and have the chance to join our live classes HERE:

Find tons of Spanish resources. Browse our Store HERE.

Get your Helpsheets that complement our free Videocasts HERE.

Get your Beginners Verb Conjugating course HERE.

All of our FREE podcasts can be found on Spotify now:

Beginners HERE

Early Intermediate HERE

Advanced Intermediate HERE

Advanced HERE

Be sure to check out our other Spanish student videocasts here.

Un saludo,

Gordon y Cynthia:)

As well as the lessons that you receive as a Socio, we also offer many other resources to help you make your Spanish move forward at a pace.

Free Videocasts Take a look at our range of 160 free podcasts and many other lessons all designed to take your Spanish forward at LightSpeed! Every videocast that we have produced comes with a comprehensive helpsheet to guide you through the grammar and to test your understanding.

Our Fantastic Books Check out our ever-increasing range of high acclaimed, no-nonsense workbooks that explain Spanish grammar in easy-to-follow language. (Link to books)

Our Total Immersion Courses Set close to Madrid in Spain we offer week-long total immersion courses designed to boost your confidence levels sky high! Remember that as a Socio you have a 50 Euro discount on the cost of the course.

Online one-to-one and group lessons. Why not have a free, no-obligation chat with Ana and find out more about what is available to really get your Spanish moving!

Gordon’s Diaries. Catch up on the 100s of free ‘Diarios de Gordon’ in which he talks about Spain, life, and anything else that comes to his mind.

Cynthia’s Insights. Join Cynthia as she gives her take on life in Spain and on life in general in her free range of video diaries.

All of our Playlists. Come and browse through the hundreds of videos that we have for you to enjoy on Youtube. If you have any questions or want to know more, please feel free to write to lightspeedspanish@hotmail.co.uk

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3 Updated Early Intermediate Spanish restaurant vocabulary

In this fascinating Spanish lesson we help you with some key Spanish restaurant vocabulary.

What do you say when you walk into a restaurant in Spain?

Join us to brush up on your vital Spanish restaurant vocabulary.

Get your Intermediate HELPSHEETS here:

Find out more about our Immersion Courses here!

If you would like to join SER SOCIO freely and receive two lessons a week from Gordon and Cynthia of LightSpeed Spanish, just click HERE.

Visit our website here: https://lightspeedspanish.co.uk/

Check out our Hardback, Kindle and Audio Book Range HERE.

Take a look at Cynthia’s Book Club HERE

Join our Telegram group here:

Nuestro canal.

Join us and Support this channel and have the chance to join our live classes HERE:

Find tons of Spanish resources. Browse our Store HERE.

Get your Helpsheets that complement our free Videocasts HERE.

Get your Beginners Verb Conjugating course HERE.

All of our FREE podcasts can be found on Spotify now:

Beginners HERE

Early Intermediate HERE

Advanced Intermediate HERE

Advanced HERE

Be sure to check out our other Spanish student videocasts here.

Un saludo,

Gordon y Cynthia:)

As well as the lessons that you receive as a Socio, we also offer many other resources to help you make your Spanish move forward at a pace.

Free Videocasts Take a look at our range of 160 free podcasts and many other lessons all designed to take your Spanish forward at LightSpeed! Every videocast that we have produced comes with a comprehensive helpsheet to guide you through the grammar and to test your understanding.

Our Fantastic Books Check out our ever-increasing range of high acclaimed, no-nonsense workbooks that explain Spanish grammar in easy-to-follow language. (Link to books)

Our Total Immersion Courses Set close to Madrid in Spain we offer week-long total immersion courses designed to boost your confidence levels sky high! Remember that as a Socio you have a 50 Euro discount on the cost of the course.

Online one-to-one and group lessons. Why not have a free, no-obligation chat with Ana and find out more about what is available to really get your Spanish moving!

Gordon’s Diaries. Catch up on the 100s of free ‘Diarios de Gordon’ in which he talks about Spain, life, and anything else that comes to his mind.

Cynthia’s Insights. Join Cynthia as she gives her take on life in Spain and on life in general in her free range of video diaries.

All of our Playlists. Come and browse through the hundreds of videos that we have for you to enjoy on Youtube. If you have any questions or want to know more, please feel free to write to lightspeedspanish@hotmail.co.uk

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4 Updated Early Intermediate Lost in Spain? You need this vocabulary!

In this fun Spanish lesson we guide you through asking directions in Spain.

What do you say when you stop someone?

Join us to build your asking directions in Spain vocabulary!

Get your Intermediate HELPSHEETS here:

Find out more about our Immersion Courses here!

If you would like to join SER SOCIO freely and receive two lessons a week from Gordon and Cynthia of LightSpeed Spanish, just click HERE.

Visit our website here: https://lightspeedspanish.co.uk/

Check out our Hardback, Kindle and Audio Book Range HERE.

Take a look at Cynthia’s Book Club HERE

Join our Telegram group here:

Nuestro canal.

Join us and Support this channel and have the chance to join our live classes HERE:

Find tons of Spanish resources. Browse our Store HERE.

Get your Helpsheets that complement our free Videocasts HERE.

Get your Beginners Verb Conjugating course HERE.

All of our FREE podcasts can be found on Spotify now:

Beginners HERE

Early Intermediate HERE

Advanced Intermediate HERE

Advanced HERE

Be sure to check out our other Spanish student videocasts here.

Un saludo,

Gordon y Cynthia:)

As well as the lessons that you receive as a Socio, we also offer many other resources to help you make your Spanish move forward at a pace.

Free Videocasts Take a look at our range of 160 free podcasts and many other lessons all designed to take your Spanish forward at LightSpeed! Every videocast that we have produced comes with a comprehensive helpsheet to guide you through the grammar and to test your understanding.

Our Fantastic Books Check out our ever-increasing range of high acclaimed, no-nonsense workbooks that explain Spanish grammar in easy-to-follow language. (Link to books)

Our Total Immersion Courses Set close to Madrid in Spain we offer week-long total immersion courses designed to boost your confidence levels sky high! Remember that as a Socio you have a 50 Euro discount on the cost of the course.

Online one-to-one and group lessons. Why not have a free, no-obligation chat with Ana and find out more about what is available to really get your Spanish moving!

Gordon’s Diaries. Catch up on the 100s of free ‘Diarios de Gordon’ in which he talks about Spain, life, and anything else that comes to his mind.

Cynthia’s Insights. Join Cynthia as she gives her take on life in Spain and on life in general in her free range of video diaries.

All of our Playlists. Come and browse through the hundreds of videos that we have for you to enjoy on Youtube. If you have any questions or want to know more, please feel free to write to lightspeedspanish@hotmail.co.uk

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Early Intermediate Spanish Podcast 1 – Spanish Perfect Tense

The Spanish Perfect Tense!teacher blackboard scale

So, what is this tense exactly? Well, it’s a very important one and one that will open up your conversational ability.  With this tense you can ask: “What have you done today?”.

Now, just imagine the wealth of Spanish that you will hear with a question as open as that one.

Even better! “How has your week been?” or, “Have you ever been to Mexico?”

This Spanish perfect tense is the one that will allow you to ask these kind of questions and instigate some great conversations.

As a learner, it’s important that you get to hear people speaking. You yourself may not be able to express yourself in great detail, but by having some key questions that demand reasonably lengthy answers, your Spanish will be onto a winner.

What we cover.

In this free Spanish podcast we explain step by step and then give a clear demonstration of the way you can talk about what you’ve done today using the Spanish perfect tense.

We can’t stress the importance of this tense in conversation and once you grasp this, your ability to instigate a conversation will go from strength to strength!

What’s even more interesting is that the Spanish perfect tense is virtually identical in Spanish as it is in English. It breaks down into what is called ‘the auxilary verb’ and the ‘past participle’ in exactly the same way is it does in English.  What’s more, it’s used in virtually  the same way and under the same conditions.

It’s easy to make and use and in the majority of Spanish speaking countries it is one of the key conversational tenses.

Just picture yourself in a bar in a Spanish speaking country and there you are wondering how on earth you are going to start off a conversation with the person at the table next to you. Well, this is the tense that will save your bacon or your enchilada.

Once you have this tense under your belt you could easily lean across and say: ” Hola, buenos días. ¿Qué tipo de día ha tenido usted? = What kind of day have you had? Then, you can just sit back and soak up the whole listening experience.

Have we convinced you enough that this is the tense for you? Great! Then why don’t you listen in and start broadening your Spanish. After all, what have got to lose?

¡Buena suerte!

Remember that all the additional information and guidance can be found in the comprehensive Spanish help-sheets.

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