by Andrew | Jun 4, 2012 | Learn Spanish from Music Videos, Spanish
This is the 6th 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 | May 21, 2012 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
To put it a bit more accurately: because learning material designed to teach small children a language is specifically designed for people who have only a very basic grasp of the language, require that the material in question be fun and interesting (kids have short... Read more
by Andrew | May 19, 2012 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
I just love this so much, it’s so much fun and to me that is by far the most important factor when learning a language: it must be fun! If it’s not fun then you, regardless of how determined you initially were, eventually get bored, lose focus, and give... Read more
by Andrew | May 14, 2012 | General Language-Learning
I just finished reading a fascinating and concise report from the U.S. Department of State’s FSI (Foreign Service Institute) entitled “Lessons learned from fifty years of theory and practice in government language teaching” that distills what FSI... 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 | Jan 27, 2012 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Basic Spanish Grammar Rules: Lessons & Explanations, Spanish
I was just watching one of my favorite Spanish-language movies, Maria Full of Grace, which is fantastic for learning Spanish, by the way (because you can turn on English or Spanish subtitles and the script is available online), and I noticed they would use the... Read more
by Andrew | Sep 27, 2011 | Guest Posts, Spanish
I’ve got a short guest post here from someone whose site I’ve recommended before (I put it under my recommended links section in the sidebar), I’ll let him explain what they do: At eLanguageSchool.net we are teaching people how to learn Spanish with... Read more
by Andrew | Sep 10, 2011 | Spanish
The worst thing that can happen to you, and it happens to thousands of newbie Spanish learners every year (I’ve met several of them), is that you just don’t know how to start off so maybe you try this, that, and the other random method or resource and, of... Read more
by Andrew | Sep 10, 2011 | Spanish
You know how much I love using children’s learning materials to help people learn Spanish–I do this because these two groups of people, children that are native speakers and adults learning Spanish as a 2nd language, are frequently at about the same skill... Read more
by Andrew | May 10, 2011 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
I want to quickly tell you guys about a fantastic resource that’s available to you and is especially good for beginners and even those at an intermediate level: children’s books. They’re fun to read (how could you dislike a story about a talking... 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 | Mar 25, 2011 | Friday Linkfest
It’s back! Friday Linkfest actually got a bit of attention the last time I did it, and I think it’s an excellent idea because, as I stated before, it gives you, the reader, a short little list of interesting language-learning stuff to look at that you may... Read more
