learn Spanish

The BBC has a free website with audio, video, tests, games and even crossword puzzles. It’s Spain Spanish which there are a few differences between Latin American and European Spanish, but at this level, I’m not sure that’s a concern right now. Some of the pages go along with their TV series on the BBC, [...]

And the winner is… Learning Spanish Like Crazy! Rocket Spanish I’m sure Rocket Spanish is fine for a lot of people. Rocket seemed more “touristy”, so if you’re going on vacation that may be a better choice. The free trials from Rocket, were really lightweight. If those were the real 6 first lessons, they were [...]

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, [...]

Now that I’ve decided on the language I’m going to learn and I’m totally motivated to start, now what? Google and Amazon will show thousands of products, books, cds, dvds, online guides and even vacations in Mexico to totally submerse you into the Spanish language. There is no way I can check out every single [...]

I live in the US Southwest. There are a lot of job opportunities that open up if you’re bilingual.  When I’ve worked with crews of workers, most of the time there may be only one or two people that speak English. If I knew enough to help out, give directions or be able to participate [...]

To understand better. Like it or not, you’ll hear as much Spanish as English at the airport, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and in many other places now. Wouldn’t it be nice to understand what people are saying, and what the announcements are? To be able to help others. To improve your brainpower. A new language expands [...]

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. I mainly put it there to see [...]

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 [...]