About Us

Decode Spanish was created to make Spanish much easier to learn.

About the founder

The founder, Joseph S. Kong, PhD (UCLA), is a Silicon Valley data scientist. His research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), including a cover article on web mining, and in the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).

Recently, he became fascinated by the hidden connections between Spanish and English vocabulary. While exploring these connections, he discovered that a surprisingly large share of high-frequency Spanish words, around 80%, can be recognized through their relationships to English.

That observation led to the development of a systematic approach for decoding Spanish words with less obvious connections to English called the STRONG System.

Our Mission

Our mission is simple: help you see that you already know-or kind of know-80% of Spanish words.

With this foundation, acquiring the few thousand words needed to reach a conversational or intermediate level can be much more achievable in a short amount of time via our method, which is available through our ebook or video course.

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