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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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Words Galore is a free program for Windows only. Words Galore has thousands of Spanish words made into several different lists you can choose from.
You’re able to move the words you know into the “known” list so you won’t see them again and you can concentrate on words you don’t know.
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Make your own lists [...]

Guest post by Brenda at Brenda and Roy Going To Mexico
When we first came to Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico it was supposed to be for only six months to get away from the cold Alberta, Canada winter. I tried to learn some common words that I thought that we would need to survive. I just [...]

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 [...]

Guest Post by John at mexicowoods.com
By the time I was three years old, I could speak English better than I now speak Spanish—after six years of study and five of living in Mexico full-time. Children are geniuses at acquiring language. Their brains are physiologically different—better wired for picking up vocabulary, for constructing a grammar engine. [...]