Why attachment styles matter in language learning? Language learning is not just a cognitive task — it is a deeply relational, vulnerable, and emotional process. It asks us to take risks, make mistakes in public, tolerate uncertainty, and express parts of ourselves that may feel unformed or exposed. This taps […]
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From stream-of-consciousness writing to guided journaling, jotting down what’s inside our heads has the power to make sense of the tangle of ideas in our brains. I started journaling when I was a teenager and have never really stopped doing it, but the format, the content and the language have […]
Meditation in Spanish Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed. I have talked extensively about the benefits of meditation for your language learning practice. Having a calm mind will result in a more efficient Spanish practice, but what if you combine meditation with Spanish at the […]
Whenever I ask my new students, subscribers, or any member of my audience what they struggle with, the answer is always the Subjunctive. And I get it. There are things in English whose logic took me time to get. And there are things I still don’t get, like the pronunciation, for […]
Every language has its own prosody – the patterns of stress and intonation–. That’s why when we are in a foreign country we can recognise our compatriots by hearing them speaking even if we don’t hear what they say. In this post you will learn: The intonation in Spanish Five […]
There are 2 ways to give instructions in Spanish: Imperative affirmative Impersonal “se” Imperative Affirmative in Spanish The imperative is used to give orders, instructions, requests… The imperative has only 4 forms: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes. Regular Remember that when the imperative is accompanied with pronouns, the pronouns are attached to the […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y-9mwszqEM This is a common question between the Spanish students and a great source of confusion so in this article you will learn to differentiate the two pair of terms and use them correctly. The simple answer is that one is an adjective and the other is an adverb, but […]
https://youtu.be/0ELITns6n2o There are four past tenses in Spanish; the perfecto, the indefinido, the imperfecto and the pluscuamperfecto. These four tenses dance together when we tell stories about the past or anecdotes… The four are necessary to express when the action happens, but also to set up the context of that past story. In this blogpost, I […]
A few days ago, a follower of my Facebook page asked me for help with his personal nightmare in Spanish. For him, the irregular verbs in the Pretérito Indefinido (Past Tense) were just something he couldn’t understand, so he wrote me a few lines asking me for some tips. As this week, […]