Category: Spanish
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Unlocking Spanish Fluency: Avoiding Common Pitfalls with Polysemous Words
Polysemous words, such as “get” or “put,” carry multiple meanings in English, making them versatile and efficient in conversation. For instance, “get” can mean to retrieve something (“I’ll get that”), to understand something (“I don’t get it”), or to arrive somewhere (“When will we get there?”). This flexibility makes polysemous words powerful tools in English,…
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Boost Your Spanish Vocabulary: Using ChatGPT for Effective Mnemonics
Imagine trying to remember the Spanish word for in-laws — suegros. Instead of rote memorization, picture your in-laws swaying side to side in a silly manner, while you watch with an exaggerated expression of disgust. This humorous scene, combined with the phonetic cue sway gross, creates a vivid mental image that effortlessly etches the word…
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Practice Situational Spanish with ChatGPT
ChatGPT is an innovative chatbot from OpenAI. ChatGPT stands out from other chatbots because it is able to provide natural, human-like responses to any question you ask.
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iTalki Review: One of the Best Platforms to gain Fluency in another Language
iTalki is a language learning platform that connects you with another real-life person to help you learn a language. If your goal with language learning is to communicate with others, then this is the platform you need to gain confidence speaking in another language.
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Learn Italian Through Spanish
This is one of the coolest language learning hacks I just learned. If you already know how to speak Spanish well, then you will notice that other Romance languages, like Italian, are very similar. In this post, I’ll show you a technique to supercharge your language learning by learning Italian through Spanish.
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My Favorite Spanish Resources to Maintain Fluency
This is a collection of my favorite Spanish resources that I regularly use to maintain my Spanish fluency while living in the US.
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Why Audiobooks are my Favorite way to keep up with my Spanish
Audiobooks have become my new favorite medium to expose myself to Spanish. In this post, I’ll talk about how you can leverage Audiobooks in Spanish to supercharge your language learning.
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Vocabulario del Coronavirus (Coronavirus Vocabulary in Spanish!)
There are a lot of new vocabulary words used to describe the Coronavirus pandemic that I’ve encountered by reading the news in Spanish. In this post, I will highlight the words I have encountered most frequently.
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Add a Spanish to Spanish Dictionary on your Kindle
I’ve recently started reading in Spanish on my Kindle. As a Harry Potter fan, my first Spanish book purchase was, of course, Harry Potter book 1 (la Piedra Filosofal). Reading on a Kindle makes it effortless to look up definitions of new words.