by Andrew | Sep 5, 2015 | Spain
First: The problem isn’t “speaking Spanish” (or not), it’s speaking their Spanish, and fast enough. I found that I could pick up a Spanish paper (I prefer Heraldo because it’s local) and easily and quickly read through any article and... Read more
by Andrew | Aug 19, 2015 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain
Have you ever heard the expression “throw a shit-fit”? Well, regardless, you do now know how to say that in Spanish! …and apparently it’s available in t-shirt format, as you can see there on the left (that’s what “cabreo de... Read more
by Andrew | Aug 9, 2015 | Spain
I have bought the tickets, booked the apartment (and paid the first month’s rent), bought the necessary luggage, and I’m about to buy some train tickets to get from the airport in Barcelona where I’m arriving to the city where I’m staying for... Read more
by Andrew | Jul 6, 2015 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain
Real quick I just thought I’d share with you an interesting new expression I learned today from one of my Spanish tutors, Silvia (she’s very good, check her out if you’re in the market!), when I realized it would make a great 3rd installment in our... 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 | Feb 15, 2015 | General Language-Learning, Product Reviews
This is a repost from my German blog here, I’m posting all articles about the iTalki 2015 Language Challenge on both blogs. As I’m fond of saying: You learn to speak a language by trying to speak it, poorly at first. What this means is that you learn by... Read more
by Andrew | Feb 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Note: this is a repost from my German blog. The original article is here. I’ve tried six different tutors at this point (5 professional, 1 “community” tutor which is just someone who doesn’t teach the language as their day job and does online... Read more
by Andrew | Feb 2, 2015 | Guest Posts, Spanish, Telenovela Method
I’ve got an excellent guest post for you today very much in line with my methods and previous posts, enjoy. -Andrew Watching Spanish-language TV series and movies is one of the best ways to improve your Spanish. First, you’ll be engaged and entertained, which... Read more
by Andrew | Jan 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’m currently doing the iTalki 2015 Language Challenge which is where if you take at least 20 hours of instruction via their tutors then you can win 400 ITC (iTalki Credits, which are used to buy lessons with the tutors on there, with ten of them costing $1US).... Read more
by Andrew | Jan 14, 2015 | Spanish
Very quickly I just wanted to share with you four free Spanish readers I found thanks to a reader (Ron) e-mailing me about one of them and that led me to find three more. What’s a “Reader”? It’s a book specifically designed to help foreign... Read more
by Andrew | Jan 6, 2015 | General Language-Learning
I’ve been meaning to move onto a new language at some point for about a year or so here despite my Spanish not being perfect (it’s actually waned a bit since I’ve been so busy, but I’m back into it now) and I really thought it was going to be... Read more
by Andrew | Dec 30, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
I used to have a post here about various chat rooms you could use to practice not just Spanish but other languages as well, however all of those are now defunct and I didn’t want to just leave the post up directing people to a bunch of sites that didn’t... Read more
