by Andrew | Sep 5, 2016 | Learn Spanish on YouTube: Lessons Based on Spanish YouTube Videos, Recommended Channels, How to Do It, Spanish
Professor Jason is a channel that just directly teaches Spanish (and some Brazilian Portuguese), that is you just get a series of Spanish lessons on particular subjects (e.g. preterite, subjunctive, irregular verb conjugations, etc.). There are many of those. The... Read more
by Andrew | Sep 4, 2016 | Learn Spanish on YouTube: Lessons Based on Spanish YouTube Videos, Recommended Channels, How to Do It, Spanish, Telenovela Method
This is the first in a series of posts I’ll be doing where I cover as many great channels for learning Spanish on YouTube as I can find. There are many such channels and new ones are being created all the time, not just for Spanish but many other languages as... Read more
by Andrew | Sep 2, 2016 | Reviews of Free Websites and Tools, Spain, Spanish, Telenovela Method
RTVE is Spain’s state-owned corporate television station, very similar to the BBC in the U.K. or PBS here in the U.S. They’re the largest and most popular broadcaster in Spain, and they show a wide variety of news, documentaries, fictional dramas, reality... Read more
by Andrew | Sep 1, 2016 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain, Spain, Spanish
It’s two-for-one day here on How to Learn Spanish! We’re going to cover two phrases in one Learn Spanish for Real post, primarily because they both mean the same thing: something is really far away. For the curious, this is from the Sochi Winter Olympics,... Read more
by Andrew | Aug 31, 2016 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain, Spanish
Literally, it means “this is an armed robbery”, or more colloquially, “this is a stick-up”. An “atraco” is a robbery or hold-up, “mano” as you likely know means “hand” (but note that it’s feminine, so... Read more
by Andrew | Aug 29, 2016 | General Language-Learning
Who am I interested in? Which culture, which people do I want to learn about? That’s it, simple, done. Yes, there are exceptions, people for whom it’s not that simple – I’ll get to that below – but that’s what they are: exceptions.... Read more
by Andrew | Aug 19, 2016 | General Language-Learning, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
Anki vs Memrise As many of you know – and many of you are as well – I’m a big fan of Anki. People have bugged me about Memrise for years now and, although I’ve used it a fair bit, I’d never gotten around to writing a proper review of it,... Read more
by Andrew | Aug 14, 2016 | General Language-Learning, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools, Spanish
The tool in question is ReadLang, it works with any website in a variety of languages, and makes the process of learning new words from online text much easier than it was before, saving you massive amounts of time and effort. You click the word you don’t know,... Read more
by Andrew | Oct 28, 2015 | Miscellaneous, Spain
I’ve been wanting to write about the culture in other countries for a while now but wanted to wait until I actually started traveling to do so. I’m in Spain at the moment and have had just a ton of observations and interesting little insights into Spanish... Read more
by Andrew | Sep 20, 2015 | General Language-Learning, Spain
Ok, so I’ve been here two weeks now, I’ve done nearly ten face-to-face language exchanges so far (all with native speakers), I’ve interacted with other natives quite a bit (buying groceries, ordering food, etc.), and I’ve got some insight I... Read more
by Andrew | Sep 9, 2015 | Spain, Spanish
My first in-person language exchange was superb, if you can find a native speaker in your area to work with I can’t recommend it enough. First face to face language exchange in Spain. A video posted by Andrew Tracey (@andrewhasacamera) on Sep 8, 2015 at... Read more
by Andrew | Sep 8, 2015 | Spain
Hey guys, just wanted to post this video for you that I made, I give you a quick (~10m) tour of my apartment so you can see what I’m getting for what I’m paying in this particular location. A couple of things to keep in mind: This is located in El Centro,... Read more
