Entries by Alexis Fishbaugh

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How to Choose a Spanish Tutor for Your Child

After deciding that you would like your child to learn Spanish, the next step is choosing a great Spanish tutor for children. This can be a daunting task, as children have different needs than adults. How can you decide who is the ideal Spanish tutor to accompany your child on their Spanish language learning journey? This blog post will hopefully help guide you to making the right decision.

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Mistakes Speaking Spanish as a Foreign Language

Depending on your native language, you might find yourself making mistakes that someone whose native language is different from yours might not make. This article is specific to native English speakers learning Spanish as a foreign language. We will discuss some common mistakes native English speakers make when learning Spanish.

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Speak a Foreign Language | Why You Shouldn’t be Fearful

Many people report that speaking, or orally practicing a foreign language they are learning, can be terrifying. From our fear of failure, being judged and sounding silly, on top of added difficulty of putting to use new vocabulary and grammar structures, you may feel your brain shutting down. This can all boil down to a case of anxiety enough to make anyone want to give up or find many reasons to not speak the foreign language they are learning.

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Mistakes Help You Learn a Second Language

Making mistakes is inevitable. Regardless of how hard we try, mistakes happen at some point in time, especially when learning something new, like learning a second language. Many people often experience a fear of failure because making blunders can make us feel silly and exposes our vulnerable side. However, what matters is what we make of these blunders and how we utilize them to our advantage. The good news is that we can learn from our mistakes and sometimes it’s these mistakes that end up making us much better at what we are trying to learn.

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Spaced Repetition to Learn a Foreign Language

We have all experienced certain late-night cram sessions with hefty textbooks, academic notes and a steaming cup of coffee, trying to review a large amount of coursework in the hopes of retaining at least some of the information for the morning exam. From students to professionals, we often go through certain situations that require us to learn a lot of information in a limited period of time.

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Spanish Christmas for Children is very Different from the Rest of the World

¡Feliz Navidad! The Christmas season is a special event all around the world, and it brings happiness, joy and excitement to many but especially to children. In Spain, the Christmas season is celebrated with family, and it includes more than just one special day. There are many different Spanish Christmas activities for children. Food, decoration, parades, gifts, songs, and dances are a big part of the tradition. Spanish Christmas for children is truly a special time.

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Spanish Immersion Method: 5 Questions You Might Have

So parents, you want your child to learn Spanish helping him or her be a more well- rounded individual, broaden their horizons, and of course, provide them with more opportunities for their future. Your child learned their native tongue by actually living it, and being totally immersed in the language. They heard it from their family, radio, TV, and they spoke it every day until the language almost became a part of them, a kind of extremity. That is how natural language acquisition occurs, when one is covered with the language from head to toe. So why not use the same method when learning a second language such as Spanish?