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One way to increase your rate of learning spanish is to make deeper connections to new spanish vocabulary.
If you can create a strong new memory every time you discover a new word in Spanish your rate of learning would increase. [Read more…] about Tips 080: How to Create a Strong Connection to New Spanish Vocabulary
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Understanding the differences between verbs such as quedar vs quedarse is a constant challenge for Spanish students.
Not only is ‘quedar’ versatile for its use in different contexts, but it changes meaning when it becomes reflexive. [Read more…] about Tips 079: Quedar vs Quedarse – How to Use this Handy Spanish Verb
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There is never enough time. Well, at least, it feels that way.
Despite how busy you feel, we all have the same 24 hours in a day. Yet some still manage to get so much more done. How? [Read more…] about Tips 078: How to Find More Time for Your Spanish
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Sometimes mastery of a foreign language is less about how many words you know and more about how many words you know well.
Your job as a language student is not to cram as much into your memory bank as possible but to focus on learning the right things. And learning them well. [Read more…] about Tips 077: Common Spanish Verbs – 6 Uses for the Word “Echar”
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Learning Spanish vocabulary or the vocabulary of any language is a big task. Put simply—it takes focused effort overtime.
But there are ways to increase the effectiveness of your vocabulary learning process. [Read more…] about Tips 076: Learning Spanish Vocabulary – A Deliberate vs. Emergent Strategy
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One long term ongoing test for english students learning Spanish is the difference between ‘ser’ and ‘estar’. For me these two words remind me of studying physics—as you move up the levels they keep telling you to forget the previous rules you have already learned.
As if these two words weren’t confusing enough, you also have to adapt to a number of different ways of talking about the past in Spanish. What this means is that the translation of ‘was’ can present a challenge. [Read more…] about Tips 075: The 4 Past Spanish Translations of ‘Was’
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