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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, [...]

I completed Level one of Learning Spanish Like Crazy in the last post. Thirty, approximately 30 minute long lessons covering a lot of vocabulary, verb conjugations, present tense, past tense, preterite tense, imperfect tense, reflexive verbs and much more with conversations at what seems like normal speed with different actors throughout so you get used [...]

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 [...]

There are a zillion different places on the internet to find stuff to help you learn how to speak Spanish. The most common and well known is Amazon.com. I’ve got a “Store” setup on the Products page that has a bunch of learning Spanish products in one place. Full disclosure - It’s an “affiliate” store, [...]

Why? When the second unofficial language in America is Spanish and in some cities it’s number one. You would think there would be several immersion schools around the US. You could be in a school in El Paso or Laredo in a classroom for a few hours, then reading Spanish newspapers, listening to the radio [...]

Most of us gringos have trouble trilling our r’s and especially the Spanish rr’s. Everything I’ve been able to find says practicing this tongue twister over, over and over is the best advice I can find. I’m open for any other suggestions!

Erre con Erre Cigarro
Erre con Erre Barril
Rápido corre el carro
Repleto do ferro en el [...]

A video lesson about Spanish Reflexive Verbs. This is in addition to my other post about reflexive verbs here. Learning Spanish Reflexive verbs seems a little more difficult for some people. Here’s a better explanation about the grammar of reflexive verbs from a Professor with an entire Youtube series on Spanish grammar.
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Learning with a group or at least a partner is always easier especially when it comes time to practicing your conversation skills. In order to learn to speak Spanish, you have to SPEAK SPANISH!
For those of us that don’t live in Mexico, Latin America country or a Spanish speaking neighborhood in the states, I found [...]

Sherman, Texas is going all out to get their patrol officers bilingual. Their plan is to first use Rosetta Stone’s Program, (Rosetta Stone: Free Demo)
then move to formal classes at the college, then -
Sherman Police learning Spanish
In addition to the work on the computer and in the classroom, members of the Hispanic community, like [...]