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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My first experience with Spanish was in Ms. Rose’s high school class. I believe that I actually sat through two years of that class. Somehow I managed to get through it all by using a newly available tool called “an internet translator” something my 65 year old on-the-verge-of-retirement teacher had never heard of before. I [...]
