by Andrew | Mar 17, 2013 | General Language-Learning, Guest Posts
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...
by Andrew | Mar 7, 2013 | General Language-Learning, Spanish, 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 about...
by Andrew | Dec 1, 2012 | General Language-Learning
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...
by Andrew | Aug 4, 2012 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
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...
by Andrew | Jul 24, 2012 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
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...
by Andrew | Jun 15, 2012 | Friday Linkfest, General Language-Learning, Spanish
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Andrew | Mar 3, 2011 | General Language-Learning, Guest Posts
And today I’ve got my first guest post ever! From J. over at Polyglottally, he addresses something that every language-learner has done at some point and then had to deal with… Oh dear, you’ve fallen off the language learning wagon. You were tired,...
by Andrew | Dec 28, 2010 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
Firstly, I’d like to point out a fascinating thread over at Reddit discussing this exact question that has a lot of interesting responses and turned into a great discussion: How did you become fluent in another language? Secondly, if you haven’t joined the...
