Pimsleur Spanish is arguably the best of all the various learn-Spanish programs when it comes to pronunciation. That’s what friends of mine who have used it extensively say. (I’ve used it a little but not enough to have an opinion on this from my own experience.)
It really trains your ear, and thus your tongue! This [...]
From the monthly archives:
March 2009
I see that our copy of Breaking Out of Beginner’s Spanish, by Joseph J. Keenan, is beginning to show signs of age. We’ve had it for several years, and recently Kelly and I had a friendly squabble over whose bookshelf it should be on. I won, but only because I wanted to do this review… [...]
I thought of Rocket Spanish as an audio course with some added-on PDF ebooks, but actually the ebooks bring a great deal to the program. I just opened all seven of them to have a good browse.
Here are the PDFs you get with Rocket Spanish. Maybe you get more now or I missed some… I [...]
Online Spanish classes come in many forms. I’ve just been having a lot of fun exploring the Spanish Proficiency Exercises at the University of Texas at Austin. You listen to short videos made by people from many parts of the Spanish-speaking world. They are available for beginners all the way through to the most advanced [...]
I just wanted to let my regular readers what is going on here: I am going to be posting one blog article a week instead of the two I’ve been averaging.
My plan, loosely, is to continue with a lot of reviews of software such as Rosetta Stone, Rocket Spanish, Fluenz, Pimsleur Spanish, and some others [...]
Recently I had the opportunity to try out Rosetta Stone Spanish on a friend’s computer. After that experience, I can better understand why some people like this program a lot. Someone else I know, who is very visual, commented that she likes the way it is set up with pictures and words. But I must [...]
This guest post is from my friend Linda, who lives near me in Mexico. — Rosana
Beginning and even intermediate level students of Spanish usually own a few bi-lingual dictionaries. I know, because I am an advanced intermediate student now and for the longest time I depended on my copy of The New World Spanish/English, English/Spanish [...]
