I’ve been reflecting lately on how effective any of these learn-Spanish programs and websites are for average users. I’ll get to why I have been considering this a bit further down the page.
From what I observe, people tend to lead rather hectic lives. This includes so-called “retired” people. It is easy to be scattered. And [...]
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Rosana's Ramblings
Speaking Spanish, even when you can read and write a fair amount of it, can be a challenge. I was just thinking about this and it occurred to me that for some of us, it would be helpful to think that when we are practicing our Spanish with other people, we are doing a kind [...]
My husband Kelly and I recently came back to Mexico after ten weeks in Colorado, mostly in the town where we used to live. One unexpected part of the trip was having quite a few chances to speak Spanish.
One woman we met spoke Spanish because she was born in the US of Mexican parents. Her [...]
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 [...]
Recently my main work online has been a massive makeover of Mexico-with-Heart.com, which began about five years ago and now has something like 600 pages. Both the main website and the blog have hundreds of pages. It’s been annoying me for quite a while now so I finally began combining everything into one site. Everything [...]
I’m upgrading the Learn Spanish Rapidly blog to a new theme, which I think will be more useful and attractive when I’m done, but it may take me a few days when the blog may be pretty ugly or even disappear momentarily. (Hope not that.)
The main thing I don’t want visitors to miss out on [...]
This month, most of my writing time has gone into creating my new ebook, Five Keys to Learning Spanish Rapidly. You can sign up for it from the top right corner of any page of this site. It isn’t grammar or vocabulary; it’s based on research on how people learn how to speak Spanish, or [...]
Who am I to be telling you how to learn Spanish?
I’ve learned my Spanish in a variety of ways, and noticed that some worked better than others. This sparked my curiosity and I have done a good bit of research on how to learn languages.
Here are some pertinent
