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 | 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 | 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...
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 | 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...
