Visual Link Spanish(TM) Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 32

Current # of Subscribers: 189,540

This issue:
1. Testimonial
2. Weekly Spanish Lesson - “Greetings”
3. Words of the Week
4. Ask Dave Section - “Present, Past, and Perfect Tense”
5. Culture Lesson - “Air on your Neck at Night”
6. Responses to Past Newsletters

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Visual Link Spanish(TM) Testimonial –
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Dear David,

First of all, my compliments for an outstanding language teaching
system. Although I have only briefly seen the free stuff, I
recognized the effectiveness of the Visual Link system immediately.
Being a former personal development trainer (Anthony Robbins’
system), I know by heart what makes people adapt and become one with
the things they’ve learned.

I have tried several courses, but always found that the way Spanish
was teached, did not even look like the way a baby learns the
language. How many baby’s start learning grammer? Well, they actually
do, but not by learning useless rows of words. We all know that, but
it looks more like it, that most - if not all except one - of the
language teaching systems are more interested in making money then in
teaching a language. The only way the subconsious mind absorbes
information is by pictures (Visual), words (Auditory) and emotions
(Kinestetic) all together. The best way to learn a language is to
fall in love with a person who speaks it. Very true, and for most of
us something that can ruin an existing relationship.

Best regards,

Dirk

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Weekly Spanish Lesson—Greetings
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For the weekly lesson this week, click below to learn 7 basic Spanish
greetings with audio. You’ll hear María from Mexico model each.

To check it out, click here:
http://www.spanishprograms.com/learn/greetings.htm

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Words of the Week
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Taken from our complete CD-ROM course —–

Monday / I want / Yo quiero
Tuesday / She wants / Ella quiere
Wednesday / to use / usar
Thursday / the computer / la computadora
Friday / the fax / el fax
Saturday / the Internet / el internet
Sunday / the phone / el teléfono

Click Here to login and access your free membership and lessons.
http://www.spanishprograms.com/login.phtml

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The Official “Ask Dave” Section —–
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Question

Hi Dave

Can you give me a few tips on how to use the verb HABER.

Thanks.

D Tinnams

Answer

Hola D,

The word “haber” can be used in two ways. In the Complete Visual Link
Spanish™ Course, it is used as “hay” (”there is/there are”) or the
past tense “había” (”there was/there were”).

For more practice on using “haber” in this context, go to section “4.
Grammar” of the Complete Course.

The verb “haber” is also used to trigger past tense and literally
means “have”. Not “have” as in “I have something” but “have” as in “I
have gone”, “She has eaten” or “You have walked” (things that “have”
happened in the past).

Hopefully that helps to answer your questions.

Gracias,

Dave

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Culture —– Air on your Neck at Night
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While in Latin America, I lived very close to the equator in some
very hot areas. I mainly lived in lower-income pueblos that had
streets made of sand or dirt. It was extremely hot during the day and
still very warm at night; none of the areas I lived in had air
conditioning. As I would walk through the streets of certain cities,
the sand and/or dirt was so hot it would almost burn my feet.

At night, it was so hot that I could hardly sleep. There were usually
fans in the apartments I lived in so, of course, I would turn on the
fans at night in attempt to take the edge off the heat.

As I did that, the native Latin Americans I stayed with would get
very upset and tell me how bad it was for my health. They explained
that if I slept with air blowing on me at night and it hit my neck, I
was sure to wake up with a pain or a kink in my neck.

I thought they were kidding and I made a joke about it, but they were
dead serious. Since I was a missionary there, I always had a native
companion with me. Usually he would never let me turn on the fan at
night so we wouldn’t wake up with neck aches in the morning. As a
result, I almost learned to sleep in very hot temperatures at night!

The funniest part was when I got my way and had the fan on at night,
every once in a while I would wake up with a kink in my neck (which
is normal for me with or without a fan going.) The native people I
was staying with, when they noticed I had neck pain, would always
accusingly ask if I’d slept with the fan on. When I’d tell them I
had, they would all gang up on me and say ah ha - we told you so!!!
Then they’d give me a bad time for sleeping “with a fan on.” I
actually had a great time light-heartedly arguing back and forth with
them trying to prove that the cause of my neck pain was from how I
slept on my pillow. I explained that many Americans regularly sleep
with fans on (ceiling fans or AC) and don’t get neck pain from them.

I absolutely loved getting to know the Latino people and conversing
with them and learning about their culture and different ideas they
have. They are great people!

Moral of the Story: All of us have ideas about what causes ailments
or pain in our lives, and many of us have our own remedies that we
swear by - chicken noodle soup, tonic, cod-liver oil and so forth.
The interesting thing is that whole cultures can have completely
different ideas about ailments, causes and cures. Science has proven
many things, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions that
we can all speculate about.

Now to our international audience, what ailments and interesting
cures do you have in your countries? We’d all love to hear about
them!

Sneak peek at next week: “Think in Spanish - Change Your Identity!”

¡Hasta luego! (”Until later”)

David S. Clark — President / Director
Visual Link Spanish(TM)
Fun, Interactive Spanish Courses
http://www.spanishprograms.com
dave_c@spanishprograms.com

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