learn Spanish

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 [...]

I’m going to expand the scope of this blog because even though I’ve never been deep into Mexico and would only be able to go there on short vacations, there are plenty of opportunities to experience the Spanish language in the United States, especially in the Southwest. You don’t have to be in the Southwest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is kind of the point of this article. Saying that Immersion schools are not the best way to begin learning a language. It makes sense that adults and children learn differently and that a lot of methods, including immersion try and teach a language like you were a child. Children learn by associating pictures [...]

Everyone says the best way to learn a language is by immersion. I agree, but realistically, at a beginning level, all I hear is a bunch of words. You could probably never even hear English if you didn’t have to in America there’s so much Spanish radio, TV, books, newspapers, movies and everything else. Maybe [...]

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, [...]