It’s been a busy second month for the Lenguajero team, although we will admit to packing our laptops and heading to Puerto Escondido for a week of part work/part beach bumming.
Over the last month we have continued to crank out new features, sign up new members, and promote our site. Here’s what was new [...]
When Natalie and I decided to build Lenguajero one of the goals we had was to build an online SRS system for Spanish and English learners. We are happy to announce that our SRS system has been built, and is now available for free to all Lenguajero members.
What is a Spaced Repetition System and [...]
The Lenguajero team has been studying Spanish pretty hard for almost 10 months now. The experience has been fantastic, but we’ve noticed some things about learning a language, weird things. These are two weird things that have happened to us over the past 10 months while learning Spanish.
1. If you form a relationship with someone [...]
There’s just something about a really good colloquial phrase that gets me all excited about learning Spanish and really mastering the langauge. I’ve stumbled across a couple of good ones lately, and decided that I would share a few them here.
As in English colloquial Spanish is pretty regional. Something that is said in Spain might [...]
You land at the airport, pass through immigration, collect your bags, and make your way out to a taxi. You catch that first breath of fresh air, glance at the billboards (your first insight into the culture), and then head to a hostel or hotel. You’ve made it. You are in a new city, in [...]
Just over a week ago the Lenguajero team decided to spend one long, overly- caffeinated, Sunday inside our apartment/office building a new site feature – The Writing Club.
The Writing Club provides Spanish and English learners with a daily topic to write about. Members write in Spanish or English about the topic (depending on what language [...]
When Natalie finished up her last year of university by taking a Spanish course she thought that by the time the year was over her Spanish would be pretty good, and she’d have no trouble spending the summer in Mexico and Guatemala. So she studied hard, got good grades, and learned how to conjugate her [...]
