3 Minute Spanish - Free taster course | Beginner lessons (Udemy.com)
Learn to speak Spanish you can use in everyday real-world situations - all in just 3-minute chunks!
Created by: Kieran Ball
Last updated April 2025
What you will learn
- Speak Spanish confidently and comfortably in everyday situations
- Understand what's being said back to you
- Be more than just an average tourist when travelling to Spanish speaking countries
- Go from complete beginner to building your own sentences after the very first lesson
- Build a solid base vocabulary of words and phrases you can use straight away in the real world
- Understand and use grammatical and linguistic features of the Spanish language with ease
- Understand the structure of the Spanish language
- Get to grips with Spanish pronunciation
Course Description
¡Hola! Hello and welcome to 3 Minute Spanish :-)
3 Minute Spanish is a collection of online lessons that helps the complete beginner learn to speak Spanish in simple, bite-sized chunks.
The lessons start off by giving you a few words that you can use to build your own sentences. For example, in lesson one, you'll learn these words and phrases:
bueno - good
es - it is
fantástico - fantastic
aquí - here
muy - very
no es - it isn't
With those words, you can build sentences like these:
It's good.
It's fantastic here.
It's very good here.
It isn't good here.
It isn't good; it's fantastic!
(See if you can translate those five sentences above into Spanish just by using those words and phrases.)
The lessons continuously build on what you've been learning, enabling you to express yourself fluently in Spanish. As you move through the course, you'll pick up new vocabulary, useful grammar points and interesting ways to look at the structure of the Spanish language that will give you plenty of "Aha!" moments.
The reason it's called "3 Minute Spanish" is because the lessons are broken down into very short, three-minute chunks. Everybody, no matter how busy you are, has time to fit in a single three-minute lesson once a day, and in fact, by keeping learning to such short chunks, you'll reap huge benefits. Short but consistent daily lessons are more effective than a longer lesson once or twice a week, because you'll find you maintain enthusiasm, develop a learning habit and you'll also memorise everything much better.
If you've never learnt Spanish before, or if you have had a bad experience with learning this beautiful language, the 3 Minute Spanish lessons will help you to succeed.
Gracias :-)
Kieran
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
7,954 Reviews
Kieran Ball
Hello, bonjour, hola, hallo, ciao and olá!
I’m Kieran and I’m a language tutor based in the UK, and I also create online courses and write books to make language learning accessible to all.
My books and online courses are based on the method I developed for teaching languages, which I've been using in all my classes for many years. The method will get you speaking quickly, without the struggle normally associated with language learning.
I have created three series of language courses available in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. They're called: '3 Minute Languages', 'Building Structures' and 'Quick Guides'.
I hope you enjoy, and "Happy Learning" :-)
Kieran
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Reviews
By Mary dela Cruz on 10/13/2023
What an amazing teacher!! Breaks everything down into MANY very simple 3 minute lessons, and gives us permission to study just 3 minutes a day, or in short 3 minute increments, which truly takes away ALL pressure. For the first time in my 63 year life I’m really learning something!!!!! Very valuable class, which shockingly is FREE!! I’m registering for as many of his classes as I can handle. Truly a rare find when it comes to the perfect teacher!
By Ma Joevelyn Nunez on 5/16/2020
His lecture is muy fantastico, es absolutamente muy bueno, I know some spanish but not that much so im trying to learn more so i can use it when it comes to work and his lesson its easy to understand and to follow. I will absolutely take his class again. Mucho gracias
By Umais Ullah Khan on 4/11/2020
Hola kieran, I am glad finally I got a sensible Spanish learning platform where I can learn slowly and easily with out getting bombarded with abundant information on the first go. I must say the way you designed this course for beginners is absolutamente. keep up the good work and I am looking forward to this process of learning..Thanks!
By Hardik Desai on 1/31/2019
Very well done!! Training was well executed.. Well organized course. You ensured that the students learn each and every word taught in the course.. Half less star for not including more vocabularies in this course. :) I learnt basic Spanish. Took other courses too. However, it wasfun learning with this course. Hoping for other free Spanish courses.
By Rafael Robledo on 4/17/2018
I think it's a good concept for teaching. Short and repetitive lectures are really helping to remember words. However, instructor can add some energy, as it gets boring repeating same thing over and over with same tone.
By Pooja Pushkarna on 4/12/2018
the trainer is very experienced and this course has helped in overcoming the fear of starting to learn Spanish. now we know some words and its applications very well thanks again for making the wonderful course, it would have been great if more words could be included ....however it had been a great learning experience ! with regards
By Rubén Mellado Culebras on 3/17/2018
My rate 3'5/5 I thought it was something better. I've completed more than half of course, and I see this some repetitive, I am from Spain and I speak Spanish, but I was sign up with wish to learn some English with the examples it have. For the people who is starting in the language, it is good. The level of the course let me see that is basic, but if it has been a bit more extensive it will be perfect, thank you. :) // Mi puntuación 3'5/5 Me esperaba algo mejor. Llevo más de la mitad del curso, y lo veo bastante repetitivo, soy de España y hablo Español, pero me metí con la esperanza de aprender algo de inglés con los ejemplos de aquí. Para quien está iniciandose en el idioma, no está nada mal. El nivel del curso ya indica que es básico, pero un poco más extenso no estaría mal, gracias. :)
By Nita Awatramani on 1/29/2018
Loved the short videos! Ideal for a quick review as time permits. Also, the reviews helped reinforce the lessons and I liked how the successive videos built on lessons learnt (vocabulary, grammar, etc.) to learn more. I learnt more Spanish in this course than I had in the 6 months prior trying to use phrasebooks, etc. Can't wait to get started on the full length courses by Kieran Ball!
By Pallavi Shetty on 1/23/2018
First of all, Thank you. I have earlier tried learning on a few android apps, Spanish didn't seem easy to learn. The direction in this course is very engaging and feels like a real conversation, very well-structured. And I now feel I can learn Spanish quicker than I thought, Gracias!
By Ilya Shalaev on 8/27/2016
This course gives you an introduction of Spanish language. You'll be able to build a few sentences after finishing it. I've given only 4 stars, because it's really really short, I was expecting more. But nevertheless this course is quite good for the every beginner of Spanish.
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