When I was looking for a good Spanish flashcard program to use on my computer, I came across several recommendations for VTrain… that’s short for Vocabulary Trainer. You can download it and try it for 30 hours, after which the price is under $30; I paid about $24 US but am not sure if that [...]
From the monthly archives:
December 2008
Anki is a free language flash card program for Windows, Mac, Linux, and some mobile platforms which I turned to after exploring another one called Mnemosyne. For an overview of Spanish flash card programs, this link takes you to my first article in this series. I really liked Anki, but ended up myself with another [...]
I’m upgrading the Learn Spanish Rapidly blog to a new theme, which I think will be more useful and attractive when I’m done, but it may take me a few days when the blog may be pretty ugly or even disappear momentarily. (Hope not that.)
The main thing I don’t want visitors to miss out on [...]
Lesson Two of Fluenz Spanish was actually what got me excited about this innovative software for learning Spanish. You can do it online for no charge at the Fluenz software demo, as I did. You don’t even have to give them your email address.
This month, most of my writing time has gone into creating my new ebook, Five Keys to Learning Spanish Rapidly. You can sign up for it from the top right corner of any page of this site. It isn’t grammar or vocabulary; it’s based on research on how people learn how to speak Spanish, or [...]
Mnemosyne is one of two free programs descended from a commercial flash card program called SuperMemo. SuperMemo exists but I found a number of references online to its being buggy and these two programs being better than it, so I didn’t pursue it. The other free program is Anki, which I will review in my [...]
So you want to learn how to speak Spanish! Is Fluenz Spanish the best choice for you? I was very impressed with the company’s website, and so I decided to work my way through the program. I speak enough Spanish that I figured I wouldn’t learn much, but I was curious how they would teach.
Lesson [...]
Short videos are an excellent way to learn some Spanish quickly. Here are two that even total beginners should get something from.
The first one I made with a tiny portable video camera I have, called “the flip.” Recently I had a chance to visit with Victor Cueto Valencia whom I’ve known now for about three [...]
There are flash card programs that will present you with the cards at intervals that correspond to how our memories work, and they come in both free and low cost versions. I examined three programs that seem to be widely used. I will do reviews soon on each one of these, with screenshots:
the free Mnemosyne [...]
If you want to learn how to speak Spanish, one very good way is with the relatively new programs from Fluenz. This article begins a weekly series in which I will review both Spanish 1 and Spanish 2.
To begin the Fluenz Spanish program, you just put a DVD into your computer, either Windows or Mac. [...]
