by Andrew | Jun 4, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Learn Spanish on YouTube: Lessons Based on Spanish YouTube Videos, Recommended Channels, How to Do It, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
I thought I’d do something a bit shorter today, especially since I’ve got another post scheduled to come out in a couple hours (I use a short comedy sketch on YouTube to teach you some Spanish, definitely keep an eye out for it!), so I’m going to...
by Andrew | Feb 7, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), General Language-Learning, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
Go to Forvo.com, instructions on how to use it follow Ok, so that’s the site you want (image on the left links to it or just click here) and here I’ll briefly show you how you can download the audio files and then use them to make electronic flashcards...
by Andrew | Nov 21, 2018 | Product Reviews
Español en 3000 is a podcast specifically for people learning Spanish. The name comes from the fact that they focus on the 3000 most commonly used words in Spanish, which they claim encompass 94% of spoken Spanish (that’s probably about right I’d say). ...
by Andrew | Feb 28, 2017 | Product Reviews, Spanish
I just finished trying a new service called GoSpanish and I’ll cut to the chase: flat rate of $35 per month for unlimited Spanish classes at four different levels with high-quality teachers, class sizes averaging 2-6 students, and which you can participate in...
by Andrew | Oct 9, 2016 | Product Reviews
Glossika is a course that’s gotten very popular recently and as such curiosity got the better of me and I decided to give it a try. That, plus I’m learning German (still as a beginner, I’ve had some lulls in my learning of it so I’m not as far...
by Andrew | Sep 28, 2016 | Product Reviews
This is to be a general review of the whole Teach Yourself Language Hacking course authored by Benny Lewis. Though the one I tried was the Italian course, they’re all structured pretty much the same and utilize the same method, so a review for one will cover...
by Andrew | Sep 6, 2016 | Product Reviews, Spanish, Telenovela Method
I was contacted some months ago by the publisher of this, Amp Comics (check out their site there, they have other similar stuff if you like this), who had seen my post about learning Spanish from comics and knew I was a Garfield fan (have been since I was about 7 or...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
