Now that I’ve described the basic outline of the lessons in Fluenz Spanish, I can review several lessons at a time.
Lesson Five gives you a variety of useful words: the Spanish versions of where, this, that, here, there, and which. The whole present tense of estar is worked seamlessly into the lesson — you [...]
From the monthly archives:
January 2009
I was happy to receive an email from Paralee Whitmire, who had come across my website and wanted to let me know about the lessons for learning Spanish and English that she has created at Spanishdict.com/learn. So I just went and took a look. In a nutshell, the website has a bunch of useful tools [...]
I’ve got a review of Rocket Spanish on the website, and now I’m starting a series of more detailed articles about this popular program. In a nutshell, it’s mainly an mp3 program for learning to speak Spanish, designed to give travelers a good foundation.
The other day I rode the bus from where I live, by [...]
The other day, my husband and I chatted with an American friend of ours who has lived in Mexico off and on since the early 1990s. She is more at home in Spanish than we are. I’ve enjoyed noticing how easily Linda speaks with Mexicans when I’ve been out and about with her.
She had taken [...]
In Lesson Four of Fluenz Spanish, you continue in a restaurant as in the last lessons. This time you are learning to ask questions, and Sonia Gil comments that this is not typically taught so early in Spanish languages courses, but it has been put here because if you are traveling in a Spanish speaking [...]
I’m becoming more and more of a fan of using flash card programs, as I’ve been using VTrain long enough now ( a few weeks) to notice that I’m remembering things I tended to forget before.
So I decided to tackle past tense verbs with the help of flash cards. It’s been working great. I’m just [...]
I could make a case that the biggest enemy to learning basic Spanish, or to improving what you already know, is…. perfectionism. Fear of failure. Luckily, this is something within you, and therefore something you can work on.
Generally Spanish-speaking people worldwide tend to be very encouraging about
LoMásTV is an enjoyable website which can help you improve your Spanish, no matter what level you are at right now. It offers over 300 short videos you can watch… "Well, so what?" you might be thinking. After all, YouTube must have a gazillion by now. But this gives you far more language learning at [...]
Of course you know how paper flash cards work, for learning Spanish or anything. You turn them over and see if you had it right, then make piles of which ones you know and which ones you don’t. I thought I was pretty creative a few years ago when I started putting my homemade cardstock [...]
Lesson Three in the Fluenz Spanish Software continues the theme of being in a restaurant, and it uses everything you have learned up till now. This is really good for your ability to recall, as research shows that frequent review helps us move new information from our short-term memory to our long-term memory.. AND stick [...]
