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Learning Spanish Vocabulary – Is It ‘El’ Or ‘La’?

Maria — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:12:25 +0000

Subscribe and start learning now! Spanish vocabulary audio flashcards from Maria Fernandez’s course . Forgetting the gender of the Spanish nouns you’re supposed to know well is both frustrating and demotivating. Today I’m going to walk you through the reason why those mistakes are made, and I’m going to give you an easy solution. My fifteen years teaching Spanish [...]

Free Spanish quiz

Maria — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:30:57 +0000

Here’s a free Spanish language learning quiz from my Spanish course. It’s the first of the two review quizzes that you get in Lesson 1. Press Start to play it: You can find many more language learning quizzes in [...]

3 fatal mistakes Spanish learners make – and how to avoid them

Maria — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:36:11 +0000

In my experience as a Spanish language teacher, here are three mistakes that can make you waste precious time, ruin your confidence and eventually give up. As you will see, they are easy to avoid: 1. Rushing through your first Spanish lessons Having a sound knowledge of the basics will determine how fast, and how well, you [...]

5 Spanish questions from everyday conversations

Maria — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:00:38 +0000

Knowing some common Spanish sentences well can greatly boost your motivation to continue learning, and it will give you precious confidence. The dialogs in my Spanish for beginners course include a wide variety of everyday questions and answers that you’ll often hear when communicating with native Spanish speakers. Here are five questions from the dialogs in my [...]

How to speak Spanish with confidence – even as a beginner

Maria — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:03:06 +0000

If you want to speak Spanish with confidence, even if you just know the basics or have only studied the language for a short while, the single most important aspect you should concentrate on is the pronunciation. You may only be able to say simple, short sentences, but if you can say them clearly and with [...]