Archive | Language Learning

23 February 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Review: Notes In Spanish

We’ve been big fans of Notes in Spanish for quite some time. So, we invited Leah Budke to write a review of NIS, and explain what makes it so great.

After spending quite a bit of time listening to Spanish podcasts, I felt quite fortunate to stumble across Ben and Marina’s Notes in Spanish site and [...]

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03 February 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Spanish Language Music

August and I got a puppy. Her name is Pasa (Raisin in Spanish), or for now, Pasita. Pasa has a lot of energy and por eso I’ve been walking her a lot. This has given me a lot of time to listen to new music and podcasts that I don’t normally listen to. One thing [...]

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29 December 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Best Spanish Language Movies in the 00’s

Watching Spanish movies (o sea Spanish language movies) is not only a great way to improve your Spanish, but a pretty damn fun one as well.  We’ve watched A LOT of Spanish language movies over the last year, and here are our top five recommendations for movies from the last decade. Enjoy!
Y Tu Mamá También [...]

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19 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Successful Language Learners: Interview with John Biesnecker

The Lenguajero team spent the last week enjoying the Oaxacan coast here in Mexico, and taking it easy for a few days.  Well, vacation is over and it’s back to work!  We are starting the week with a new interview in our continuing  series “Successful Language Learners”.
This week we interviewed John Biesnecker on his experiences [...]

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05 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Successful Language Learners: Interview with Sara Elaine Magil

Over the last few months as we have built Lenguajero, and come to know more about online language learning, we have noticed that there are a lot of self-proclaimed experts in this field.  While they may all be very successful language learners, many of them seem to espouse the belief that there is only “one [...]

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29 September 2009 ~ 5 Comments

SRS Flashcard Program Launched Today!

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 [...]

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22 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Weird Language Learning Experiences

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 [...]

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