by Andrew | Feb 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
Let's learn some travel Spanish together. "El avión se ha demorado cuatro veces" - "the plane has been delayed four times" - "the plane is two hours late" - "sonofabitch" - "hijueputa"/"joder" (Iberian") A post shared by Andrew Tracey (@andrewhasacamera) on Feb 22,... Read more
by Andrew | Mar 2, 2015 | Basic Spanish Grammar Rules: Lessons & Explanations, Spanish
First of all, it’s “which Spanish verb tenses…”, not “what Spanish verb tenses…”, but Google tells me the first one is what people are searching for, so that’s what the title is. Now that that’s out of the... Read more
by Andrew | Apr 24, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Product Reviews, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools, Spanish
I’ve talked about (here) how I think language exchanges are probably the single most valuable thing you can do to learn a language because that’s where you’re actually talking to – and being corrected by – a native speaker, that’s... Read more
by Andrew | Apr 6, 2013 | Spanish, Telenovela Method
The following list of resources are the ones that I use the most, by far. These are my “daily tools”, that is things that I use every. single. day. to learn more and more Spanish, and that I’ve been using for a very long time now. They are... Read more
by Andrew | Mar 27, 2012 | Guest Posts
Hello my name is Jade and I started studying Spanish in High School back in 7th grade. I was excited to finally be learning a second language, but when I started I found class to be very boring, and it took 2 years before the teachers started to teach different... Read more
by Andrew | Mar 27, 2011 | Popular, Spanish
Every language has a short list (a few dozen or so) of standard “answers” or “responses” to indicate commonly expressed sentiments (e.g yes, no, maybe, I don’t know, good luck, etc.). Knowing these and being able to whip the correct one... Read more
by Andrew | Feb 26, 2011 | Learn Spanish from Music Videos, Spanish
This is the next installment in the whole “let’s learn Spanish from music videos” thing I’m doing that everyone seems to like (which I totally agree with, using popular media like this that you enjoy is a fantastic way to learn the language,... Read more
by Andrew | Feb 16, 2011 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Popular, Spanish
An extremely common problem amongst people learning a new language is smoothness, that ability to keep talking without herky-jerky stops-and-starts in their sentences (lots of awkward silences and “ummms” while they try to think of the right word), which... Read more
by Andrew | Feb 5, 2011 | Learn Spanish from Music Videos, Spanish
This is the 4th in a series of posts I’m doing where I help you learn Spanish from music videos and show you how I do it myself (that way you don’t have to wait for me to dissect a Spanish music video, you can go out and start doing it yourself with whatever songs you... Read more
by Andrew | Jan 24, 2011 | Popular, Spanish
Easy, but important…and often skipped. That’s how I’d put this. We all have a certain set of manners ingrained in us since birth by our society that we do automatically, things you do to be considered polite (e.g. saying “please” and... Read more
by Andrew | Jan 5, 2011 | Learn Spanish from Music Videos, Spanish
This is the 3rd in a series of posts I’m doing where I help you learn Spanish from music videos and show you how I do it myself (that way you don’t have to wait for me to dissect a Spanish music video, you can go out and start doing it yourself with... Read more
by Andrew | Dec 11, 2010 | Learn Spanish from Music Videos, Spanish
And now we get to the second installment of our “learning Spanish from music videos” thing I’m doing based roughly on The Telenovela Method where we use popular entertainment media like music, TV shows, and movies to learn Spanish. The first... Read more