Posted on Jan 28, 2012 in Free Trials, Learn Spanish
This is more immersion and not so much instruction. There music videos, Spanish speakers talking about various subjects, news and drams videos. Completely in Spanish. There are subtitles in Spanish and English below the video. You have the option of hiding one or both languages and just listening. The video player has the regular pause, [...]
Posted on Jan 27, 2012 in Free Trials
Everyone loves free. Free trials to help learn Spanish are a great way to see if you and the product are compatible. You have to be comfortable in your training and study aids. A few I’ve found so far Rocket Spanish – starts out free with a few free trail lessons. Scroll down to their [...]
Posted on Jan 20, 2012 in Free Trials, Secrets Learning Spanish
If you want to learn a language quickly and inexpensively, you have picked the right language. With the exception of English, Spanish is spoken more than any other language in the U.S. You will have plenty of opportunities to practice your Spanish with native speakers of Spanish and even Americans that learned Spanish as their [...]
Posted on Jan 17, 2012 in Free Trials, Studying
Flashcard Exchange is a great site for not only building your own flashcards but you can use and share the flashcards other people have made. There are literally thousands of flashcards already available for Spanish. People have made flashcards to help with certain CD programs, flashcards that are related by a certain subject or you’ll [...]
Posted on Jan 03, 2012 in Free Trials, Learn Spanish
I still like Learning Spanish Like Crazy. I’m kind of done with level 1. Kind of, meaning I need to go back and listen a few more times to the last five lessons to get more comfortable and quicker with my responses. Every lesson has the same format a conversation at the beginning, then smaller [...]
Posted on Dec 25, 2011 in Free Trials, Reviews
A couple reasons for this post. There are several ways to upload mp3 files and I wanted to see how this one looked and make sure it worked. Another is to show how advanced Learning Spanish Like Crazy is. Okay, this is a blatant Learning Spanish Like Crazy commercial. Only because I like it so [...]
Posted on Dec 22, 2011 in Free Trials
Spanish Pod celebrated their 100th lesson awhile back. Their website has had a makeover and they’ve added grammar and their “comments” (forums) have been expanded. A personal RSS Feed, audio quizzes, transcripts and more. Plus Spanish Pod has been doing a lot more Spanish slang. No swear words yet, but you can get Spanish swear [...]
Posted on Dec 09, 2011 in Free Trials, Video
This happens to be the course I use Learning Spanish Like Crazy. Click here at the end to see the website if you want.