October 2008

Rosetta Stone Spanish is the market leader when it comes to programs available to help you learn to speak Spanish. It’s been around for a long time and is a large company, with programs for learning many, many languages. Chances are you’ve heard of it.
Fluenz Spanish is a relatively new company. Chances are you [...]

If you speak even a little Spanish, how did you learn to speak Spanish?
Did you study it in high school, pick it up in Mexico, take academic classes before coming to Mexico, or take lessons once in Mexico?
What’s your level of Spanish, and what are your goals? Any tips for other people?

Should you consider voice recognition software when you consider what program to use in learning to speak Spanish?
Here’s how it works: The program says a word in Spanish. You have a microphone hooked into your computer and you say the same word. The computer then gives you feedback on how good your pronunciation is.
Fluenz Spanish, [...]

If your first language is English, speaking Spanish or any other language is going to require getting over some emotional barriers. It isn’t enough just to learn all that vocabulary… no, you have to deal with yourself too!
What I mean is this:

Why did Fluenz get the top spot on the comparison chart for learning Spanish programs of LearnSpanishRapidly.com? And what does this mean to you, if you are wanting to learn to speak Spanish?
Whether you are completely new to Spanish or maybe learned some a while ago, it is my opinion that this program is the [...]

This morning while working in my garden, I listened to the first lesson of a program called Platiquemos Español. I had bought it in 2003, and worked with it during a time that we were roaming around Mexico in our little motorhome.  At the time, I was rather overwhelmed by how much Spanish I didn’t [...]

Fluenz Spanish is the new kid on the block when it comes to multi-media Spanish language software. It’s going up against the well-known Rosetta Stone, against Tell Me More, and possibly some other programs.
This is a way you can learn to speak Spanish by using a program that runs on your computer. All of them [...]

I went to the Tell Me More website and noticed that they had a free trial, so naturally I went to get that. On the list of languages, they had

Spanish — Discovery Path
Spanish (Latin American) — Discovery path – Beginner level

I hesitated a moment, then figured out that probably the Latin American one would be [...]

“I could never live in Mexico like you do,” a good friend in the US said to me on the phone the other day. “I am no good at languages.”
I didn’t contradict her at the time, but I thought to myself that she was wrong… and that I was creating this website for people exactly [...]