(This blog is the English translation of this week’s primary blog, which was originally written in Spanish.) Most of the time I talk about my successes in these blogs. There are a few reasons for that: because successes make me happy, because it’s better to share something if it works than if it’s a failure, … Continue reading My Failures Learning Spanish
(This blog is the English translation of this week’s primary blog, which was originally written in Spanish.) A popular topic for language learning tips online is how to make sure that you enjoy it. Sometimes spending hours and hours each day learning can be difficult, maybe boring, and many people give up before they finish … Continue reading Continuing to Learn When You Don’t Feel Like it
(This blog is the English translation of this week’s primary blog, which was originally written in Spanish.) Finding time to learn something while working isn’t easy. This week I started a new job and I had to change how I study. I have less free time, so it was necessary to reduce the amount of … Continue reading Learning a Language with a Job
(This blog is the English translation of this week’s primary blog, which was originally written in Spanish.) This time of year always feels like it’s the season of challenges. October is the month of tintubre/inktober and November is NaNoWriMo/Mes Nacional de Escribir Novelas, so you can't go anywhere on the internet without finding someone trying … Continue reading It’s the Season of Challenges
(Normally this blog would be a trying-to-be-faithful translation of the principal blog for the week, but I ran into a quandary with that this time around. As an experiment, I opted to attempt to write a flash-fiction story in Spanish. Writing fiction is something I do all the time, and it seemed like a good … Continue reading Let’s Write a bit of Fiction in Spanish
(This blog is the English translation of this week’s primary blog, which was originally written in Spanish.) Today is my birthday. I don't say that because I want well wishes or anything, but this week’s been busy for me. My friends wanted to celebrate with me and so did my parents, so I didn't have … Continue reading When Life Gets in the Way
(This blog is the English translation of this week’s primary blog, which was originally written in Spanish.) Normally I write blogs in Spanish for the week of the middle of the month, and this blog is a week late. Last week I was in Chicago visiting my family, and I didn’t have much free time. … Continue reading The Long Path of Learning
(This blog is the English translation of this week’s primary blog, which was originally written in Spanish.) A few months ago, almost a year, I wrote a blog about how difficult it is to listen to a new language instead of reading it. I’ve improved a lot since then. At that time, I watched kids … Continue reading The Two Spanish Languages
(This blog is the English translation of this week’s primary blog, which was originally written in Spanish.) There’s a thought in the United States about language learning, and that thought is that no one can learn any other language unless they live in a place where people speak it. If you live in the United … Continue reading Is Immersion Vital?
(This blog is the English translation of this week’s primary blog, which was originally written in Spanish.) When I started learning Spanish, I thought that the most important thing for learning languages was memorization. That was at least a decade ago when I was in high school. At that time, I wasn’t a great student, … Continue reading Memorization in Language Learning
