by Andrew | Sep 30, 2012 | Popular, Spanish
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...
by Andrew | Mar 27, 2011 | Popular, Spanish
Every language has a short list (a few dozen or so) of standard “answers” or “responses” to indicate commonly expressed sentiments (e.g yes, no, maybe, I don’t know, good luck, etc.). Knowing these and being able to whip the correct one...
by Andrew | Feb 16, 2011 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Popular, Spanish
An extremely common problem amongst people learning a new language is smoothness, that ability to keep talking without herky-jerky stops-and-starts in their sentences (lots of awkward silences and “ummms” while they try to think of the right word), which...
by Andrew | Jan 24, 2011 | Popular, Spanish
Easy, but important…and often skipped. That’s how I’d put this. We all have a certain set of manners ingrained in us since birth by our society that we do automatically, things you do to be considered polite (e.g. saying “please” and...
by Andrew | Dec 11, 2010 | Basic Spanish Grammar Rules: Lessons & Explanations, Popular, Short Spanish Lessons, Spanish
I couldn’t find a picture that related to what I was writing about (I always try to do that), in this case the Spanish subjunctive, so here’s a picture of my idea for an anti-gravity device based on a cat with some buttered toast on its head – what...
by Andrew | Aug 27, 2010 | Popular, Spanish, Telenovela Method
Today I’m going to give you a list of my favorite websites that you can use to help you learn Spanish via watching television in Spanish (news, shows, telenovelas, whatever), almost all of which are entirely free. I’ve divided it up alphabetically by...
by Andrew | Aug 10, 2010 | Basic Spanish Grammar Rules: Lessons & Explanations, General Language-Learning, Popular, Spanish
This is going to start out a bit technical and academic, but I promise that if you’ll wade through it you will be rewarded with some very useful practical information that you can use to significantly enhance your learning of the Spanish language, or any other...
