Juan Pablo Cardona Audiobooks

Learn Spanish Verb Conjugations Like Crazy: forty-one hours of spoken drilling

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Who is Juan Pablo Cardona?

Conjugation is where enthusiasm for Spanish usually runs into trouble. Vocabulary can be picked up almost incidentally, whereas verb endings have to be drilled until they arrive without thought. Juan Pablo Cardona builds a course around precisely that problem, and the subtitle, Basic to Intermediate Workbook, states the method plainly.

Forty-one hours is an extraordinary length for a language recording, and it makes sense only as repetition. This is not a book about Spanish grammar; it is grammar practised aloud, over and over, in the format that actually builds fluency. Our catalogue files it under education and learning, and it belongs there more literally than most titles on that shelf.

Juan Pablo Cardona in audiobooks

Cardona delivers the course personally, which for pronunciation work is the point rather than a bonus: the model you are copying and the instruction you are following come from the same voice throughout.

Use it in short daily sessions rather than long ones. Forty-one hours taken in great blocks will exhaust anyone, whereas twenty minutes a day turns the same material into a habit. Listener ratings are far too sparse to mean anything yet, so judge it on the approach. The listing sits below.