by Andrew | Apr 21, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
The only way to learn to speak a language is to do so, horribly at first. That’s it. Get it through your head, there’s no getting around it. The only way to learn how to speak a language is to do so or, really, to try to do so, horribly at first while...
by Andrew | Apr 6, 2013 | Spanish, Telenovela Method
The following list of resources are the ones that I use the most, by far. These are my “daily tools”, that is things that I use every. single. day. to learn more and more Spanish, and that I’ve been using for a very long time now. They are...
by Andrew | Mar 7, 2013 | General Language-Learning, Spanish, Telenovela Method
Anki is by far my most important tool that I use in learning Spanish using my own personal method, the Telenovela Method. It has been a vital staple of my language learning for years now and I just realized I’ve never really done a full and proper post about...
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 | Aug 4, 2012 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
I just found a new resource that I really like and wanted to let you guys know about it (it’s free, before you ask): Edustation.es It’s a website for people learning languages that’s entirely in Spanish (not a big deal, even if you’re a...
by Andrew | Jul 24, 2012 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
Making it fun and interesting. Period, hands-down, no contest, that’s it. Seriously. Nothing else even comes close. I honestly believe that this is the most important post I’ve ever written, if I could give you only one single piece of advice about...
by Andrew | Jun 15, 2012 | Friday Linkfest, General Language-Learning, Spanish
Hey guys, since I’ve starting posting frequently again I thought I’d bring back something I did a few times about six months ago and then stopped because I stopped posting altogether due to other commitments. What I do is just post links to stuff that...
by Andrew | Jun 4, 2012 | Learn Spanish from Music Videos, Spanish
This is the 6th in a series of posts I’m doing where I help you learn Spanish from music videos and show you how I do it myself (that way you don’t have to wait for me to dissect a Spanish music video, you can go out and start doing it yourself with whatever songs you...
by Andrew | May 21, 2012 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
To put it a bit more accurately: because learning material designed to teach small children a language is specifically designed for people who have only a very basic grasp of the language, require that the material in question be fun and interesting (kids have short...
by Andrew | May 19, 2012 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
I just love this so much, it’s so much fun and to me that is by far the most important factor when learning a language: it must be fun! If it’s not fun then you, regardless of how determined you initially were, eventually get bored, lose focus, and give...
by Andrew | Jan 27, 2012 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), Basic Spanish Grammar Rules: Lessons & Explanations, Spanish
I was just watching one of my favorite Spanish-language movies, Maria Full of Grace, which is fantastic for learning Spanish, by the way (because you can turn on English or Spanish subtitles and the script is available online), and I noticed they would use the...
by Andrew | Sep 27, 2011 | Guest Posts, Spanish
I’ve got a short guest post here from someone whose site I’ve recommended before (I put it under my recommended links section in the sidebar), I’ll let him explain what they do: At eLanguageSchool.net we are teaching people how to learn Spanish with...
