Linguists are the really smart people that study human language, and many of them believe that the 3000 most common words in a language make up 90% of the content we experience on a daily basis. Moreover, once we understand those 3000 most common words, we can understand the general context of whatever we might […]
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Spanish Lite
I’d like to share with you a series of Spanish language shows that I recently stumbled upon. Extr@ was an educational TV series that ran from 2002 to 2004 in four language versions: English, French, German and Spanish. Unfortunately, only 13 episodes of the Spanish language version were produced, and links to all 13 episodes […]
Spanish Subjunctive Mood
Somewhere along the line I developed a fear of the Spanish subjunctive, and I don’t know where it came from. Maybe it was a well-meaning teacher who indicated that the subjunctive would be too difficult for me to learn (at least at that point), or perhaps it was fellow Spanish learners who had ventured into […]
Hear and Speak Spanish
Did you know that MOST of the languages that ever existed were never written down? As a result, it is clear that language is by nature a means of communication that is spoken, heard, and felt. Writing systems that include letters, marks, and symbols which transcribe human communication are a relatively recent development in the […]
Native and Fluent Speakers May Read Silently
You can write an email message in only a few of the languages. Why? Because most of the languages that have ever existed are spoken languages, and they have never taken on written form. Humankind was communicating verbally for thousands of years, and in hundreds of different languages, long before anyone figured out how to […]