Learning Spanish can feel like training for a marathon (lots of effort, some sweat, and the occasional urge to give up and eat tacos instead!) But what if you could practice your listening skills without even opening a textbook or setting foot in a classroom? Enter: music. Spanish-language songs aren’t just catchy; they’re packed with vocabulary, cultural flavor, and rhythms that sneak into your brain and refuse to leave. To make things easier for you, we have researched a list of Songs to Learn Spanish is designed to make learning fun, practical, and portable!
Watching TV shows in Spanish is an effective way to practice your listening skills, expand your vocabulary, and learn phrases that are commonly used in real life. By immersing yourself in authentic dialogue, regional accents, and cultural nuances, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the language.
Here’s a list of the best 50 TV shows in Spanish, grouped by genre, to help you on your language-learning journey. As well as a few tips on how to maximize your learning experience while watching.
Being able to understand spoken Spanish is one of the biggest challenges students face when they’re getting started. In this article, we will go over a few important aspects to keep in mind in order to practice your listening skills with a focus on understanding spoken Spanish in real life.
This article will focus on understanding spoken Spanish, but in order to do so, you need to have a foundation of basic grammar and vocabulary that is beyond the scope of this article.
In other words, in order to understand spoken Spanish, you need to know the meaning of common words and how they are used to make sentences and express ideas. Understanding spoken Spanish is a skill that requires practice, but in order to practice understanding Spanish, you need to be familiar with the words that make up common sentences.
If you feel like you need to review common words and verbs, you can find a list of commonly used words here: Common Spanish Words
In this article, we will go over a few important aspects to keep in mind in order to practice your listening skills with a focus on understanding spoken Spanish in real life and letting go of limiting thoughts that may be holding you back. We will also talk about some of the most important aspects of Spanish you should focus on while practicing your listening and comprehension skills, as well as a few tips you can use to find practice materials online.
Walking around in a new city is one of the best ways to know more about the local culture and find interesting places to visit. But, what if you are in a Spanish speaking city? “No hay problema”, in this article we will learn words and phrases that will make the process of asking and giving directions in Spanish much easier and enjoyable.
Visiting a foreign country is an eye-opening experience that invites us to learn about ourselves as we open our minds to a different world. However, there are times when extra preparation can be advantageous. For example, when you visit Customs and Immigration in a Spanish-speaking country.
In this session, we will go over a Dual Spanish practice to help you understand more spoken Spanish as we review The Biography of Pedro Infante. You can listen here:
In this session, we will go over a Dual Spanish practice to help you understand more spoken Spanish as we review a Dialogue Between an IT Engineer and a Project Manager at work. You can listen here:
It was almost lunchtime when Umair came to my desk and asked me this: “How do I say: “I am going to the bathroom?”
“Why do you want to know that?” I asked.
He replied: “Because I was on my way to the bathroom, I got curious, and started thinking: How would I say this in Spanish?”
He continued: “I already know a little about the present tense. But how do I talk about the future in Spanish?”
I explained that an easy way to say “I am going to the bathroom” in Spanish is: “Voy a ir al baño”, and then continued to share a few essential tools to talk about the future in Spanish during lunch.
Today, we will review a few of the tools I shared with him that day and additional ones that have been very useful for my students over the years.
In this article, we will review a few conversational shortcuts that will be useful for beginners who want to talk about the future in Spanish without memorizing many conjugations.
