by Andrew | Apr 12, 2021 | Basic Spanish Grammar Rules: Lessons & Explanations
I couldn’t find a picture that related to what I was writing about (I always try to do that), in this case the Spanish subjunctive, so here’s a picture of my idea for an anti-gravity device based on a cat with some buttered toast on its head – what... Read more
by Andrew | Jul 13, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Learn Spanish from the News
We continue with our series of Learn Spanish from the News where I take short news clips and turn them into short Spanish lessons by teaching you some of the language contained within said news clip. This one is about how the Prado Museum has adapted to the recent... Read more
by Andrew | Jul 10, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Friday Linkfest
And here is the latest installment of Friday Linkfest where I just post a few links to resources I think will help you learn Spanish or languages in general along with a short description. If you have any suggestions for next Friday’s post please shoot me an... Read more
by Andrew | Jul 9, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Learn Spanish from the News
In this series, “Learn Spanish from the News”, I’ll take short news clips and use them to teach you some of the Spanish used in them. Today we’ve got a clip just a bit over a minute long from RTVE in Spain talking about the reopening of The... Read more
by Andrew | Jul 6, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), General Language-Learning, Learn Spanish from Spain
I get the appeal: sounds like fun, makes sense on the surface, get a little cultured, get a little drunk, catch of a bit of clap, come back home fluent in Spanish. However, it usually doesn’t work like that (fun-drinking-STDs yes, fluent in Spanish, no). I say... Read more
by Andrew | Jul 3, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Friday Linkfest
And here are just links to resources I’ve found recently that I think will help you learn Spanish or even just languages in general. I’ll include a short description with each one. I try to do these every Friday though that doesn’t always happen.... Read more
by Andrew | Jun 30, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Learn Spanish on YouTube: Lessons Based on Spanish YouTube Videos, Recommended Channels, How to Do It
In this series of articles I call, Spanish Lessons from YouTube Videos, I take a video, typically something made by and for native speakers (not a Spanish lesson), and then use it to teach you a bit of the Spanish they use (words, phrases, expressions, grammar,... Read more
by Andrew | Jun 5, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Friday Linkfest
I forget where I got the idea of “Friday linkfest” from but it was some other blog that came up with it. Anyway, what I (try to) do each Friday is just give you a list of links to helpful resources with a short description and/or review of each one.... Read more
by Andrew | Jun 4, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Learn Spanish on YouTube: Lessons Based on Spanish YouTube Videos, Recommended Channels, How to Do It
This is by one of several YouTube channels I’m subscribed to which is in Spanish and intended for Spanish speakers (it’s not intended for non-native students so they speak at a normal rate and don’t explain the language they’re using). ... Read more
by Andrew | Jun 4, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Learn Spanish on YouTube: Lessons Based on Spanish YouTube Videos, Recommended Channels, How to Do It, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
I thought I’d do something a bit shorter today, especially since I’ve got another post scheduled to come out in a couple hours (I use a short comedy sketch on YouTube to teach you some Spanish, definitely keep an eye out for it!), so I’m going to... Read more
by Andrew | Jun 2, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Short Spanish Lessons
Today, as part of my new series of short Spanish lessons, we’re going to briefly (I promise) cover three words/expressions: deberse (most commonly seen as “se debe a”), pérdida, and abarcar. All three come from a single sentence used in the Spanish... Read more
by Andrew | May 29, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Short Spanish Lessons
And here’s the second in my series of short Spanish lessons where I teach vocabulary, expressions, and short phrases. Today, as in the previous lesson, we’re going to be looking at words and phrases from the Spanish news program, Telediario. The... Read more
