Popular Spanish podcasts – improve listening and pronunciation
As well as being able to speak a language one of the most important and useful skills when learning any language is to be able to listen to and understand native speakers. It is widely known that Spanish people are amongst the fastest speakers in the world therefore it takes a lot of practice to be able to get the grasp of what they are saying. The best way to improve your listening skills is to listen to as many different native speakers as possible as often as you can. People that listen to Spanish audio for just a few minutes a day notice a big difference after a short time. You will also find that your pronunciation will gradually improve. This article will give you some links to some excellent audio and podcasts you can download today. Continue reading
The Benefits of Taking an Intensive Spanish Course
There are many reasons why you may choose to learn Spanish with a shorter, more intensive course over maybe a week, 2 weeks or a month.
A course that takes half the time as a standard one is highly appealing to many people especially to those who are naturally fast learners.
In this blog post we will look at the ways in which an intensive Spanish course will benefit learners who prefer to study over a shorter amount of time. Continue reading
8 Ways to Really Achieve Your Language Learning Goals in 2025
One of the most common New Year’s Resolutions is to learn or improve a foreign language. Whether this is to make holidays more enjoyable and stress-free, to talk to foreign speaking relatives and friends or to do business abroad then having an end goal in mind is one of the best motivators to achieve your goal.
In the first blog post of 2025 we will give you some tips to help you really achieve your language learning goals this year. Continue reading
5 Weird and Wonderful Spanish Christmas Traditions
Everyone knows Spain likes to party. They have a fiesta for almost any reason throughout the year, however, especially at Christmas time, when they stretch out the celebrations for longer than us here in the UK, (from 22nd December with the Christmas lottery until 6th January – Kings Day) they have some really funny fiestas and superstitions. Here are the top 5 weirdest Christmas traditions in Spain: Continue reading
How to Learn Spanish with Instagram – Top Tips!
As you already know Instagram is a social media platform known for sharing photos and short video clips.
Why is Instagram good for learning Spanish?
• Visual: As it is a visual app it is a brilliant way to learn a language. Seeing an image related to the Spanish word is a great way to make it stick out in your mind and you will find that you will memorise words more easily this way and also retain them in your long term memory. Continue reading
5 tips to improve your Spanish pronunciation.
Learning new words and understanding the grammar is just half the battle when learning a language. If you don’t pronounce the words correctly you will find communicating effectively with native speakers difficult which can sometimes lead to confusion and embarrassment. Here are some useful tips on how you can improve your pronunciation and sound like a native Spanish speaker in no time at all! Continue reading
How to Start Learning Spanish as a Beginner – and Succeed!
Most people who learn a language often haven’t studied anything since they were at school! Maybe you have studied Spanish on and off for several years and you are just coming back to it again after a break and you’re telling yourself, right, this is it – this is the year I am finally going to become fluent in Spanish.
In this blog post we will look at how to get started learning Spanish.
The three tips we will look at are:
1) How to make good connections
2) Identifying your learning style
3) Setting up a study plan Continue reading
Spanish idioms using colours
Rojo
- Ponerse rojo: To blush/go red (get embarrassed)
e.g. Cuando le dio cumplidos, se puso roja – When he gave her compliments, she went red. Continue reading
5 Easy Ways to Use the Spanish Subjunctive in Everyday Conversation
When you are learning Spanish you soon come across grammatical jargon that just doesn’t make sense – things like, the ‘subject of the verb’, ‘object pronouns’, ‘possessive adjectives’ and the ‘subjunctive’! You panic as you don’t know what these all mean. The problem is most of us haven’t learnt English grammar at school so when faced with these terms it is natural to worry that you won’t understand. However, all these are, are names of parts of the language we speak all the time. For example, the subject of the verb is simply, “I”, “he”, “she”, “we”, “you” or “they”. A possessive adjective is just “my”, “your”, “his”, “her”, “our”, “their”. We use these all the time but we don’t know what they are actually called. Likewise, using the subjunctive is just the same. We use it without knowing that we are. Continue reading
5 Tricks to Sound Like a Native Spanish Speaker
When speaking in Spanish the last thing you want is to sound like a ‘gringo’ or a ‘guiri’.
What is a gringo or a guiri?
A gringo is a foreigner in Latin America or in Spain the equivalent is a guiri. A gringo or a guiri is someone who really sticks out as being out of place.
Clearly you don’t want to sound like one of these and you want to fit in with the locals. Here is a quick and easy guide to the best ways to fit in and sound more like a local in a Spanish speaking country. Continue reading
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