Book Review “Victor’s Adventures In Spain” From The Fabulous Folks At LightSpeedSpanish

Victor's Adventures In Spain

After buying Victor’s Adventures In Spain, I am convinced Amazon is stalking me. I am sure it comes as no surprise to you when I say that.  Because all the big retailers are stalking you.  That is how marketing is developing right now. A couple of weeks ago, Amazon sent me this e mail: I…

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Learning The Spanish Alphabet

It hit me yesterday when I was going through my Anki cards and doing the recall. The system has been set up in a way that asks me to spell some of the words. Up until now I have been saying the letters in “English”. That means I can rattle off the spelling of a…

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Let The Spanish Pronunciation Training Begin…

Spanish Pronunciation Training

In Gabe Wyner’s book, Fluent Forever, he talks about the importance of pronunciation training and getting it right early. One of the things he has done is create a set of pronunciation trainers for different languages.  These are based on his own language learning experience.  He created a kickstarter campaign a couple of years ago…

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Learning Spanish – Creating An Immersion Learning Environment Part 2

Now in my previous post on how to create an immersion learning environment, I waxed lyrical about a lot of things. How having too much choice means we make no choice at all. I am still faced with lots of things getting in the way of me really starting to learn Spanish. That immersing myself…

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