Hey, friends learning #Spanish or #French:
Kwiziq is 40% off for the next week!
This is a fantastic tool with great grammar explanations that uses spaced repetition for grammatical concepts, mostly having you fill in the blank for sentences with the correct word (but also sometimes, multiple choice "which is the correct translation?" stuff).
This is how I plugged the gaps in my Spanish grammar left after doing Duolingo. This is how I passed the DELE B2.
Sooooo... thinking about the possibility and feasibility of big life changes, namely studying opera seriously in Europe. Would love to connect with other #Blind language learners, especially those using #braille as a component of their learning. Currently learning #French. Am particularly interested in chatting with people who have taught themselves grade 2 French Braille as well as those who are either conversational or fluent and/or who have worked in or currently live in a Francophone European country. If this is you or you're in any way adjacent to this world, please reach out. Would love to talk to you. Would also love to chat with people who use #MusicBraille / #BrailleMusic in Europe.
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Things Your Spanish Teacher Didn't Tell You
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@videsnelson is teaching a friend of his Spanish. He's a native speaker, not a language teacher.
I had 9 years of Spanish classes & 5 years of self-study, and I found answers to plenty of things my past teachers under-explained or explained in ways that caused predictable mistakes.
I started telling him what to tell her, so she could skip those frustrations.
The result is this blog post.
A friend of mine (a native Spanish speaker) just started teaching one of his friends Spanish, and the first thing I said was: Explain to her that ser is essence/identity/characteristic and estar is status, and that’ll go SO much better than the stupi…Mackenzie Morgan
