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 program like Fluenz Spanish or Rocket Spanish say 5 days a week, or to learn 3 new words a day, or something of the sort.
As for me, this year I am not making a learn-Spanish resolution as such, but I intend to keep researching different programs for this website and will inevitably pick up some more Spanish that way!
This year is shaping up to be a bit different for us, as we have our house in Mexico up for sale. I blogged about why and our future plans here, on my site about Mexico. In the spring we’ll be returning to the small town in Colorado where we used to live, using that as our home base, and I always have plenty of chance to speak Spanish there, whether with the tamale lady who sells from her car near the post office or just around town. And we don’t expect to stay full time there, so likely will be back in Mexico.
But with all this going on (driving from Guadalajara with two cats and two dogs, for example) I may be a little erratic at times in keeping up here.
Here’s a website I just came across that has a nice-looking list of free Spanish lessons:
http://www.openculture.com/free_spanish_lessons
So that might help too.
