Learning Spanish Blog

Mi Vida Loca

Wayne — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:10:25 +0000

Mi Vida Loca is an interactive first person telenovela. It’s so interactive that the program starts by asking if your male or female. The characters talk directly to you. The video stops and helps translate and the narrator is always helping. The first episode has you in a taxi driving around Madrid enroute to your friend’s [...]

Think Spanish!

Wayne — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:19:13 +0000

Think Spanish! Audio Magazine is a magazine about Spanish culture from around the world. It says it’s for all levels however, I’d suggest at least some knowledge of Spanish is needed so you will at understand some of the magazine without have to always refer to the included glossary on every page and not be [...]

Learning Spanish Like Crazy Level 2 Review

Wayne — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:03:37 +0000

I completed Level one of Learning Spanish Like Crazy in the last post. Thirty, approximately 30 minute long lessons covering a lot of vocabulary, verb conjugations, present tense, past tense, preterite tense, imperfect tense, reflexive verbs and much more with conversations at what seems like normal speed with different actors throughout so you get used [...]

Learning Spanish Like Crazy End of Level 1

Wayne — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:00:50 +0000

I still like Learning Spanish Like Crazy. I’m kind of done with level 1. Kind of, meaning I need to go back and listen a few more times to the last five lessons to get more comfortable and quicker with my responses. Every lesson has the same format a conversation at the beginning, then smaller [...]

The New Spanish Pod

Wayne — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:06:54 +0000

Spanish Pod celebrated their 100th lesson awhile back. Their website has had a makeover and they’ve added grammar and their “comments” (forums) have been expanded. A personal RSS Feed, audio quizzes, transcripts and more. Plus Spanish Pod has been doing a lot more Spanish slang. No swear words yet, but you can get Spanish swear [...]

FlashCards to Help Learn Spanish

Wayne — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:35:06 +0000

Flashcard Exchange is a great site for not only building your own flashcards but you can use and share the flashcards other people have made. There are literally thousands of flashcards already available for Spanish. People have made flashcards to help with certain CD programs, flashcards that are related by a certain subject or you’ll [...]

Learning Spanish Products

Wayne — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:31:34 +0000

There are a zillion different places on the internet to find stuff to help you learn how to speak Spanish. The most common and well known is Amazon.com. I’ve got a “Store” setup on the Products page that has a bunch of learning Spanish products in one place. Full disclosure – It’s an “affiliate” store, [...]

Progress Report

Wayne — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:00:51 +0000

I’m about two thirds through level one of Learning Spanish Like Crazy. It’s getting harder, but not impossible. It is getting more challenging. Now when a new verb is learned, the past tense and the present tense is learned along with whatever other tense they can throw in. It takes me a little longer to [...]

Learning Spanish While Sailing

Wayne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:20:05 +0000

Guest post by Bliss at blissbloggin.blogspot.com I had one Spanish class in third grade because I was a Texas kid. In my 20s I went to Mexico with two other women, we spent a couple of weeks playing around with an old Spanish textbook we found. When my husband and I sailed to Mexico in 1997 [...]