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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Fluenz Spanish: Review of Lessons Five through Seven
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 … Continue reading
Spanishdict.com, A Free Online Resource to Learn Spanish
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 … Continue reading
Rocket Spanish: Review of the First Six Lessons
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 … Continue reading
Tips on Learning Spanish from An Expat
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 … Continue reading
Fluenz Spanish: Review of Lesson Four
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, … Continue reading
Tackling Past Tense Verbs with Flash Card Programs
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 … Continue reading
The Biggest Enemy to Learning Spanish
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 … Continue reading
LoMásTV: Learn Spanish via an Internet Video Magazine
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 … Continue reading
Flash Card Programs and Your Memory
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 … Continue reading
Fluenz Spanish: Review of Lesson Three
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 … Continue reading