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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. Features Make your [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This happens to be the course I use Learning Spanish Like Crazy. Click here at the end to see the website if you want.