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Hey Reader 👋🏾 Over the next couple of weeks, your conversation teachers will be evaluating you to determine exactly where you are within the 12-Logro method, giving you a clear path to complete all 12 Logros. We hope you are just as excited about this as we are!! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! Just reply directly to this email.

Let me guess how you've been building your Spanish vocabulary.

You come across a word you don't know, so you write it down. You find a list online — "100 Most Common Spanish Words" — and try to memorize it. You save words in an app. You make flashcards for a trip.

In other words, I bet you're collecting words...lots of them. Randomly.

And here's the problem: words you learn randomly get used randomly — which usually means never.

Did you know that words only stick when your brain has a reason to hold onto them? To really learn vocabulary, we must have something to connect the word to immediately after learning it.

That's the difference with the 12-Logro Method. Every vocabulary list exists for a reason. It's tied directly to the grammar you're learning in that Logro and the real-life thing you're learning to talk about with your conversation teacher. Nothing random. Nothing wasted.

Let me show you exactly what I mean.

Logro 6 is where you master the past tense — both the preterite and the imperfect. If you're at all familiar with these two tenses, you know that they can trip up almost every English speaker.

So the Logro 6 vocabulary isn't just "past tense words." It's carefully chosen to make those two tenses click:

• Verbs we use to talk about childhood — the ones that live naturally in the imperfect ("I used to...", "we would always...")
• Verbs we use to talk about the weekend — the ones that pull the preterite ("I went," "she called," "we ate")
• Past time markers — the signal words that tell you which tense to reach for (ayer, de niño, siempre, el fin de semana pasado)
• Connectors — so you can string past events into an actual story instead of choppy sentences
• Common past-tense verbs — the high-frequency ones you'll reach for constantly

See what's happening? The vocabulary and the grammar are working together. By the time you finish the list, you're not just holding words — you're telling stories about your past.

I'm sharing the actual Logro 6 vocabulary list so you can see it for yourself.

​See the Logro 6 vocabulary list (PDF) →​

This is the same material rolling out to the full BTG Spanish Community at the end of August.

¡Hasta pronto!

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Next week, we're moving on to a preview of Logro 9.

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