Kelly and I are taking a vacation to the US soon, leaving a friend as a housesitter with our dogs and cats here in our home near Lake Chapala, outside of Guadalajara, Mexico. I’m looking forward to seeing what it’s like to speak English with everyone! Yes, I used to do that when I lived [...]
From the monthly archives:
June 2009
Rocket Spanish is one of the most popular of the Spanish language programs that I review on this site. (If you haven’t seen it, here’s my comparison chart for it, Pimsleur Spanish, Rosetta Stone Spanish, Fluenz Spanish, and Tell Me More Spanish.)
Anyway, I thought it might be helpful to spell out what the two different [...]
I read someone’s opinion someplace online that the website Livemocha was like Rosetta Stone, only better. So I decided to check out Livemocha, specially since it has a large free part.
Now Rosetta Stone doesn’t suit my learning style, plus theoretically I think it’s not the best approach to learning languages… here’s my Rosetta Stone review. [...]
Pimsleur Spanish has a lot of fans as a method for learning Spanish, but like everything in this world, it has its pros and cons. Here I summarize the views of a variety of people who have actually used this program. My resources for this article include two good friends of mine who used it [...]
