by Andrew | Dec 15, 2014 | Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools, Spanish
Many people have asked me if there was a search engine or software or app or something that would give you contextual examples of any Spanish word you wanted being used, like if you just learned a new word and you’d like to see some actual examples...
by Andrew | Dec 14, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
Brilliant. Long overdue. People have been asking for this, wanting this (even if they couldn’t exactly describe what it was they wanted), for years now. That’s how I would describe HiNative. It’s very simple: you have questions, native speakers...
by Andrew | Dec 13, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
If you want to practice writing a foreign language either because you want to practice that separately in addition to speaking and listening practice you’re already doing or because you’re solely interested in learning to read and write it but not speak...
by Andrew | Dec 12, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
Today I’m going to quickly share with you my favorite resource for finding foreign language newspapers plus I’m going to show you my simple and effective method for learning the language from them (you don’t need to know any of the language to start...
by Andrew | Dec 11, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools, Spanish
Just wanted to write a very short post today to introduce you to this fantastic free resource I discovered a while back and forgot about: LyricsTraining.com. Here’s how it works, it’s very simple… They have music videos in various languages from...
by Andrew | Sep 2, 2014 | Product Reviews
Yabla is a website that was designed from the ground up specifically and exclusively for helping people learn languages via videos of popular media in the language they want to learn (TV shows, cartoons, documentaries, etc.) that you can watch (streaming) on the site....
by Andrew | Aug 4, 2014 | Product Reviews, Reviews
Perspective: A beginning Spanish learner As with all my reviews, this one will be written from the perspective of a beginning Spanish learner, one which I am intimately familiar with as I have spent quite a bit of time as one, during which I tried a good number of...
by Andrew | Apr 24, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Product Reviews, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools, Spanish
I’ve talked about (here) how I think language exchanges are probably the single most valuable thing you can do to learn a language because that’s where you’re actually talking to – and being corrected by – a native speaker, that’s...
