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 | Sep 1, 2016 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain, Spain, Spanish
It’s two-for-one day here on How to Learn Spanish! We’re going to cover two phrases in one Learn Spanish for Real post, primarily because they both mean the same thing: something is really far away. For the curious, this is from the Sochi Winter Olympics,...
by Andrew | Aug 31, 2016 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain, Spanish
Literally, it means “this is an armed robbery”, or more colloquially, “this is a stick-up”. An “atraco” is a robbery or hold-up, “mano” as you likely know means “hand” (but note that it’s feminine, so...
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 | Sep 9, 2015 | Spain, Spanish
My first in-person language exchange was superb, if you can find a native speaker in your area to work with I can’t recommend it enough. First face to face language exchange in Spain. A video posted by Andrew Tracey (@andrewhasacamera) on Sep 8, 2015 at...
by Andrew | Mar 2, 2015 | Basic Spanish Grammar Rules: Lessons & Explanations, Spanish
First of all, it’s “which Spanish verb tenses…”, not “what Spanish verb tenses…”, but Google tells me the first one is what people are searching for, so that’s what the title is. Now that that’s out of the...
by Andrew | Feb 2, 2015 | Guest Posts, Spanish, Telenovela Method
I’ve got an excellent guest post for you today very much in line with my methods and previous posts, enjoy. -Andrew Watching Spanish-language TV series and movies is one of the best ways to improve your Spanish. First, you’ll be engaged and entertained, which...
by Andrew | Jan 14, 2015 | Spanish
Very quickly I just wanted to share with you four free Spanish readers I found thanks to a reader (Ron) e-mailing me about one of them and that led me to find three more. What’s a “Reader”? It’s a book specifically designed to help foreign...
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 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 | Nov 5, 2014 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Spanish
This is the first in a new series of posts I’m going to be doing called “Learn Spanish for Real” where I’ll teach the sort of Spanish that’s commonly used, that you need to know in order to be able to speak like and with a native, but...
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...
