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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 [...]

Progress Report

I’m about two thirds through level one of Learning Spanish Like Crazy. It’s getting harder, but not impossible. It is getting more challenging. Now when a new verb is learned, the past tense and the present tense is learned along with whatever other tense they can throw in. It takes me a little longer to [...]

After trying a bunch of different ways to study, I’ve decided on sticking with a couple of core items like Learning Spanish Like Crazy for the core. Spanish Pod or Spanish Connection Podcast for something short and different. Destinos for something to watch that has a story line to follow (Destinos Workbook and CD). Plus [...]

Reflexive Verbs in Spanish

For anyone new, I’m going through Learning Spanish Like Crazy. Almost half way through at lessons 13, 14 and 15, they are going through Reflexive Verbs. There are a lot of comments in the forum about lesson 13. The narrator and the actors change, which isn’t a big deal, but this lesson is the first [...]

Progress Report

I’m about a third of the way through Learning Spanish Like Crazy and it’s going pretty well. I’ve started listening to the Spanish radio but not for very long. I can pick up words here and there, but it’s the music that’s so different! Between XM and Sirius’ limited selection of Latin music stations, there [...]

A Good Study Day

This morning I was able to go through three LSLC lessons and a couple of Spanishpod lessons. I may have to go through the last LSLC lesson again, just to make sure I still get it.
Even after that I was still in the mood for something, but not to study, so I put on my [...]