Conversation Hacking in Spanish
7 Simple Tricks Anyone Can Master
The traditional way of learning a language is often not that useful when it comes to chatting with native Spanish speakers in real life. Although I learnt Spanish throughout school and university when it came to living in Spain and living with Spanish people, a lot of what I’d learnt went out the window as talking to people every day was a whole new ball game.
In this blog post we will look at how you can become an expert at conversation without years of studying with textbooks. Continue reading
Q&A: Self-Teaching A-Level Languages
Learning another language can be a challenging task, with many obstacles to overcome, including structuring your learning, and getting enough practice in between study sessions. Lots of people find that difficult in a normal class, so it would be crazy to try and go solo, right? Well, this week’s post delves a little bit deeper into my experience of doing just that. Continue reading
The Pros and Cons of Language Learning Apps
Can you learn a language just from an app?
There are so many language learning apps available nowadays each claiming to help you learn a language easily in record time. Popular apps include Duolingo, Busuu and Rosetta Stone. Language learning apps use images, audio and activities such as matching up exercises, re-ordering words in a sentence to help you pick up the basic language. However, just how good are these apps when it comes to actually communicating in the language effectively in real life? This is what we will look at in this blog post. Continue reading
The Case System: A Summer Refresher
Whether you’re studying for a qualification, going on a work event, planning a holiday to a German-speaking country, or just learning for fun, all German learners will come across the case system at some stage. Shiver. For many, the case system is a baffling, complex grammatical feature, which fogs up the mind, and makes the meaning of a sentence hard to understand. In this week’s post, I’m going to try and clear away some of that mind fog, and provide you with some tips and tricks to help get your head around the cases. Continue reading
How to use “mismo” in Spanish
‘Mismo’ can be a confusing word to understand in Spanish because it has several uses; it can mean ‘same’, ‘right’ or ‘only’. You will hear it used as an adjective, a pronoun or an adverb.
In today’s blog post we will try to simplify ‘mismo’ for you to understand it more easily.
1) Mismo as an adjective
When you hear mismo used as an adjective it must agree with the noun it goes before. Here are some examples: Continue reading
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