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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I had a revelation this week. I learned something this week that might just be the answer to how each of us can dramatically improve our Spanish and accelerate our progress toward becoming fluent. I learned that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. If you are reading this posting, you may […]