Did you make a New Year’s resolution to learn Spanish or to improve your existing Spanish? If so, how are you planning to implement this resolution?
Ahh… that’s where most resolutions break down! The planning is too ambitious and grand… or there isn’t any. Try making a small plan, whether it is to work on a [...]
From the category archives:
Learn Spanish Online Free
In January I blogged about SpanishDict, a popular free online resource for learning Spanish. Over the next few months, readers posted comments that the site was down (and that they missed it). Well, I am happy to report that SpanishDict did a major relaunch a couple of months ago.
You can find it at http://www.spanishdict.com/
I got [...]
One of my readers emailed me that she liked Professor Jason on YouTube, so I took a look. He has done quite a few videos – free, of course.
Here is one with basic greetings:
I’ve just been looking around My Happy Planet and it seems like a potentially useful tool for learning to write Spanish via language exchange. I wouldn’t recommend such an approach for a total beginner, but for anyone who already knows some Spanish, this could be a nice add-on to a course or other more organized [...]
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. [...]
I’m always advocating that you listen to as much Spanish as possible… It’s one of the five keys in my free ebook on learning Spanish. (Don’t have the ebook yet? Get it from the order form on the right side of any page of this site.) So I’m happy today to direct your attention to [...]
Destinos is a telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, with a difference. It’s probably not as corny as most that I have seen on Mexican television because it was created to teach speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish. Produced by WGBH, the public broadcasting station in Boston, in 1992, it can be watched for free [...]
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 [...]
RSS doesn’t stand for Really Super Spanish, though it’s always a good idea to have that as your goal. RSS is an internet term, usually described as a shortcut for Really Simple Syndication. But this is a blog on learning Spanish, so why am I talking about RSS?
By using RSS and an online reader – [...]
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 [...]
