Archive | August, 2009

27 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

I can’t believe it’s been one month!

I can’t believe Lenguajero is turning one month old today! What a great first month it has been. Here are some of the milestones we reached this month.

We have signed up users from nearly every English and Spanish speaking country in the world, and quite a few from countries where neither English nor Spanish [...]

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21 August 2009 ~ 7 Comments

5 Simple Things English Speakers Say Wrong In Spanish

The following errors are five really simple things that we did wrong for a long time without even knowing it. They are also errors that I hear a lot of English speakers make when they are learning Spanish. If you can drop these five little errors you will make a big jump forward with [...]

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19 August 2009 ~ 8 Comments

Spanish Romance Novel

I used to read romance novels when I was 13, and I only read them when I was babysitting. I babysat for a family that had stacks of them lying all around their house. I would start one after the kids went to sleep, and then spend the next couple of hours furiously reading it [...]

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18 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Our Confession

It is time that Lenguajero faces up to what it has done. We are publicizing this confession today because we feel true remorse for our actions.  We don’t expect your forgiveness, we only ask that you try to understand us.
Like so many other crimes, we knew our first victim. We didn’t mean for it to [...]

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17 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Quest to Master Spanish Evolves Into Web 2.0 Startup

A guest post I did for the Latin America travel blog Travelojos.
The idea was to cram everything we owned into a storage unit and head out on the road, writes August Flanagan–co-founder of Spanish learning website Lenguajero.  The goal, learn Spanish.  The destination, Latin America.

View of Medellin from our apartment/office
From the beaches of Mexico to [...]

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16 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The tools of the trade

When most people think of a startup they think of a small group of people tucked away in a small office somewhere with a bank of monitors lighting the room. That’s not how we do things here at Lenguajero, so I decided to show you what powers Lenguajero, and where we run the site from.
The [...]

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11 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

How to have an intercambio

In my last blog post I mentioned a few of the resources that I found incredibly important in the my quest to learn Spanish. What I did not make incredibly clear was that the number one way I learned Spanish, the thing that above all others helped me achieve my goal of speaking a [...]

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