Dr. Andres Cordova
ECUADOR’S INCA TREASURE
It is the year 1532 and the vast Inca realm, stretching the Pacific coast of South America from Chile to Ecuador, is mired in civil war. Huascar and Atahualpa, the late emperor’s Huayna Capac’s sons, are battling it out for power.
The emperor had died a few years earlier, likely from smallpox brought to the Americas by the Spanish Conquistadores that, by then, had started to roam the lands.
After defeating his brother in that same year, Atahualpa became the new emperor of the Incas. His reign was to be short-lived though, being taken prisoner by Spaniard Francisco Pizarro in November 1532.
During the capture of Atahualpa, the Spaniards sacked an Inca army camp where they found large quantities of gold, emeralds and silver. Taking note of their lust for treasure, Atahualpa offered his captors a large room full of gold in exchange for his freedom and life.
The Spaniards waited for months as the offered treasure trickled in; being dutifully collected by Inca subjects and carried from the vast expanse of the empire in caravans. However, growing increasingly wary of an imminent Inca attack led by General Rumiñahui, Pizarro and his men fled with part of the bounty, not before executing Atahualpa who had become too much of a liability.
Upon Atahualpa’s death, the vast treasure that had been collected and not delivered is said to have been hidden by loyal Incas in the Llanganates area, a lush mountain range three hours north-east of Quito that slopes down to the Amazon.
Covered in equal parts mist and legend, the Llanganates have seen their fair share of archeologists, historians and treasure hunters over the years.
Many expeditions are inspired by the story of Valverde, a Spaniard who is said to have become rich after finding part of the gold 50 years after Atahualpa’s death, having been led there by the family of his Incan bride, and who left written directions to the treasure before his demise.
Mark Honingsbaum who led several expeditions to the Llanganates and authored Valverde’s Gold in 2004, expressed that “we’re dealing with the frontier between fact and fiction. We know Atahualpa’s gold existed because it’s recorded in the Spanish chronicle, and it’s recorded that a large convoy of gold was on its way from Ecuador. After that, the best and most persistent stories revolve around the Llanganates.”
Llanganates National Park
The Llanganates now comprise a half a million-acre National Park where 200 bird, 50 mammal and 23 amphibian and reptile species can be found amidst over 30 lagoons, and, who knows, perhaps the treasure of the Incas too.
Stay safe,
Andrés Córdova
SPANISH WORDS
Treasure – Tesoro
Gold – Oro
Mist – Niebla
Adventure – Aventura
Map – Mapa
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I’m Gary Scott. Over fifty years ago I started a business that has helped hundreds of thousands of subscribers learn about investing in Hong Kong (1960s and 1970s), Switzerland, London, Isle of Man (1970s and 1980s) and across Europe. My wife Merri and I took thousands on investing tours to these countries.
In the 1990s we began taking investors to Panama, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador. That’s when we realized an incredible need for an easy, super fast way to learn Spanish. Our delegates were business people with hard schedules and tight deadlines. They did not have months, or even weeks to learn a second language.
Plus, even though these delegates were successful international business people, most did not have degrees in grammar. When it came to sentence structure, punctuation rules, parts of speech, morphology and especially derivation of verbs, they were at a loss. They wanted good basic ways to communicate in Spanish that worked and sounded eloquent, right now, without having to become educated in grammar.
Fortunately there is a scientific method of learning (called Super Learning) that was created and refined by a Soviet educational master, Georgi Lozanov. Lozanov transformed the entire Soviet Union’s educational system to such a degree that this third world nation beat the USA into space.
My wife Merri was lucky to be one of a handful of students outside the Soviet Union who were taught this system by Lozanov himself in the early 1970s. She practiced this unique and remarkable form of education for decades so we used it to create a Super Spanish course that has helped thousands of subscribers learn Spanish in three days and less.
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Merri teaching a Super Spanish course in Florida.
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“Most words in English that end in ION are almost identical, just pronounced differently.
For example action is accion.
Education-educacion.
Manipulation- manipulacion, etc.”
There you have it. How long did it take you to read these four sentences?
Ask yourself. “How many words do you know that end in ION”.
You now know all these Spanish words that you will never forget.
How long would it have taken you to memorize all those words? How soon would you have forgotten them?
The next lesson teaches how to pronounce each of the nouns.
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I was amazed by this as I traveled back and forth from the USA to Ecuador. The longer I was away from Ecuador… the better my Spanish became. My second language was automatically improving. The self improving feature comes because you learn to create Spanish sentences rather than remember them.
The portion of the brain that creates is more powerful than the portion that recalls. When your mind creates something… it owns it! You do not have to remember .
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When the course ends… the mind keeps working… and creating… so next time you begin to speak Spanish you’ll be surprised . You improve even though you have not actively worked on your lingual skill.
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Here are some testimonials from the course.
Here are a few quotes from delegates of the course.
One delegate from St. Louis wrote: Hi Gary, Just ended forty-five years in dentistry last week, and I’m on to a new career. What is my new career? Still formulating, but the eye -opening,mind expanding Super-Spanish course last weekend in St. Louis surely shows me the opportunity exists to expand my horizons.
Besides having a lot of nice people to learn our new language; the methods Merri and you developed proved to be just what you said they would be. We all and I in particular relaxed our way to new learning. I feel so very comfortable with the basis of my new language skills that I know I will be spitting out great Spanish sentences by the time I reach Ecuador in October. Last year I spent six weeks in Ecuador and now I plan on conversing with the people.
Today’s excerpt of your newsletter really hit home. You do what you say you will. There are no surprises or hidden sales tricks. The only tricks are beneficial to our learning. Thank you for a wonderful experience that I was quite unable to grasp how you would pull it off. You did, however, and I look forward to other courses that you offer, and I have absolutely no doubt they also will work beneficially. Best regards, Denis Molloy.
Another wrote about the Super Spanish course: Buenos Dias, here is a testimonial for Super Thinking-Super Spanish. Please feel free to use all or part in promotions for the course. In addition, you may give my email address to any prospect “on the fence” about enrolling. Yesterday, in Cotacachi, Ecuador, I finished Super Spanish. I had high expectations for the course and they were exceeded.
After three days, I can speak Spanish in complete sentences. In simple conversations, such as buying groceries or ordering a meal, I can make myself understood. I think that’s incredible!
Although I am far from the competence level of a native speaker, I feel I’ve taken a giant step forward in learning Spanish so that I can experience the people and culture of Ecuador. The foregoing benefits would have more than justified the time and money I invested in Super Spanish. And learning some Spanish was not the most important benefit I got from the course.
Prior to leaving the USA, I had felt for some time that the pace of life there was unhealthy for me (and for most people) and I did nothing about it.
I’ve thought about the pace issue during the course. One of the key elements Merri Scott designed into Super Spanish is placing the student in the optimal state for learning. In class, the past three days, I’ve been re-introduced to guided journeys and introduced to the calming effects of Baroque music (www.sundaybaroque.org). What a blessing! I’m inclined to make one or both a daily part of my life. Rob Christi. Cotacachi, Ecuador
Another attendee from a course wrote: “I took this incredible class a few weeks ago, and I would like to tell anyone that is interested, that it is an amazing three days of learning with lots of laughs included. You leave everyday wanting to learn more and are so excited to do so.
“Other Spanish classes and tutoring made us feel like it would take forever to get to the point where we could put it into practice, but this method gave us a more fluent use for everyday life almost immediately AND the confidence to use it. It is a fantastic way to show people how much they know and give confidence to learn and use Spanish creating a momentum.
“They made learning Spanish easy and fun in a very relaxed, comfortable atmosphere. I would definitely recommend this course. Even if you know some Spanish, this helps make it easier because of the less stress that no verb conjugations gives you. This gives you more confidence in yourself to try and speak it more.
“I liked how simply the course was organized and the positive attitude about learning. Thank you so much for helping me to learn Spanish!” Nadine Taylor
The ONLINE Super Spanish course has our, full satisfaction or money back, guarantee. Try Super Spanish for 60 days. If not fully satisfied, simply let us know for a full refund.
The course is available at the highly reduced price of $149, but in this special offer we are knocking another $70 from the price so you can start now for only $79.
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Still not sure?
Take just ten minutes to let me prove to you that this super fast way to gain the basics can let you can communicate in Spanish in an incredibly short time.
Gary
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The ONLINE Super Spanish course has our, full satisfaction or money back, guarantee. Try Super Spanish for 60 days. If not fully satisfied, simply let us know for a full refund.
The course is available at the highly reduced price of $149, but in this special offer we are knocking another $70 from the price so you can start now for only $79.
Learn Spanish online $79 - using coupon code SPANISH70 at checkout to immediately save $70 off the regular price of $149.
