French Project Update

February 10, 2010

It has been a while since I spoke about my French project, which I started last year. I asked you if I should post about my progress and many of you said yes, but between then and now life took over and I didn’t have much time to dedicate to French, let alone post about [...]

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What Spanish Dictionary to Use?

February 2, 2010

Choosing the right Spanish dictionary for your studies isn’t easy. Yes, it’s actually easier than ever to compare dictionaries as we now have the internet, but many booksellers won’t let you see the content to check out if it’ll fit your needs. And that sucks.
I mean, a good dictionary isn’t cheap. In fact, a good [...]

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James’ Success Story and Why You Should Go For Full Immersion

January 27, 2010

I know James from some comments he posted on this blog last year, and I was really interested in his story and how going Spanish Only (Portuguese Only in his case, at first) helped him. He also explains why most language learning products won’t help you and why you always need a good amount of [...]

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How to Learn a Language From Scratch Without Studying Grammar

January 24, 2010

About a week ago a reader named Mark sent me the following e-mail about how the heck he’s even able to learn grammar just from sentences:
I’ve been following your blog for quite some time now and decided to try and give this Spanish thing a try.
I already learned Mandarin to near fluency using the immersion [...]

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What Sentences Do I Add To My SRS?

January 20, 2010

It has been a while since I talked about the wonderful Spaced Repetition System. It’s not that I don’t like them anymore, it’s just because everything seems to be written about it, leaving little for me to tell.
Today’s subject is something probably many talked about before me, and they probably did it better as well. [...]

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Question: What are you willing to pay for the sentence DB?

January 19, 2010

Last year I introduced the Sentence Database for everyone out there that’s learning Spanish and wants to have enough choice in example sentences. So far there are over 4,300 sentences, and it’s growning (I’m currently preparing a BIG update which will add another ~2000 sentences).
But I’ve never really been happy with the system the database [...]

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