The Mexican And American Culture Clash
Hey guys, I've got a guest post today I think you'll really enjoy by Jeffrey Nelson, who is a husband, father, author and bilingual living and working in the Midwestern United States. He lives with his Mexican wife and their son, Liam, who is currently...
Spanish Learning Resources & Tools: These Are My Top 9 Most Used, Most Valuable, and Most Recommended
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 time-tested...
Best Spanish Dictionary Online: Why SpanishDict is Awesome and How to Use It (with video demo)
Hi guys, short little post here, primarily to share a video with you I just did but I also wanted to add some things that I didn't get to in the video. I've mentioned several times that SpanishDict is my preferred Spanish dictionary and my preferred...
The Tacit Approach to Learning Languages
Hi guys, today I've got a guest post from Alberto Horihuela, who's the head of business development over at Drama Fever, currently one of the few legal sites for watching full episodes of Spanish-language telenovelas in the United States (I just recently...
My Most Important Language-Learning Tool: Anki – What it is, why it’s awesome, and a video on how to use it with the Telenovela Method!
Anki is by far my most important tool that I use in learning Spanish using my own personal method, the Telenovela Method. It has been a vital staple of my language learning for years now and I just realized I've never really done a full and proper post...
Told you so, now Tim Ferriss is saying it, too: use material intended for natives that YOU find fun and interesting
Just a short post to share with you guys and an awesome video interview with Tim Ferriss courtesy of Benny over at Fluent in 3 Months. It's 43 minutes long, entirely about language learning, and absolutely worth watching in its entirety, but the part I want you to...
List of Sites Where You Can Watch Spanish Videos with Spanish Subtitles or Transcripts Online
This is the Holy Grail for Spanish-learners: Spanish videos with Spanish subtitles (movies, TV shows, whatever), or with an exact transcript in Spanish of what was said (the two are functionally the same given our purpose here). Why are Spanish subtitles so...
Learn Spanish with Edustation.es – Very cool resource, love it (they have tons of Spanish videos with Spanish subtitles!)
I just found a new resource that I really like and wanted to let you guys know about it (it's free, before you ask): Edustation.es It's a website for people learning languages that's entirely in Spanish (not a big deal, even if you're a complete beginner...
The Most Important Factor in Learning a Language Is…
Making it fun and interesting. Period, hands-down, no contest, that's it. Seriously. Nothing else even comes close. I honestly believe that this is the most important post I've ever written, if I could give you only one single piece of advice about...
Friday Linkfest – 6/15/12 – Five awesome new Spanish blogs and more!
Hey guys, since I've starting posting frequently again I thought I'd bring back something I did a few times about six months ago and then stopped because I stopped posting altogether due to other commitments. What I do is just post links to stuff that...
Learn Spanish from Music Videos: Shakira’s ‘Lo Hecho Está Hecho’ (Spanish version of ‘Did It Again’)
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...
Why you should use kids’ stuff: because you’re a simpleton who needs to be entertained lest you lose interest and wander off, that’s why.
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...
Learn Spanish with comics! Do you like Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, Cathy, Foxtrot, Marmaduke, etc.? I’ve got something for you!
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...
Fascinating Report from the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute: “Lessons learned from fifty years of theory and practice in government language teaching”
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 believe...
Guest post: Keep Calm and Learn Spanish
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...
Para qué vs. Por qué – The difference explained and when to use each
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...
Learning Spanish with Comics
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...
How to avoid wasting months learning Spanish the wrong way (and learning the wrong type of Spanish)–get started the right way, learn to talk like native speakers do
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 course, that...
!Arriba Juan¡ A simple children’s song with lyrics
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...
The Awesome Language-Learning Resource that is Children’s Books
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 worm, or...
