The alphabet is one of those things that are fairly to learn and can be hugely helpful for your starting to read in Spanish.
This short tutorial will be helpful for you to start spelling.… CONTINUE READING
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The alphabet
Image bytes
Image bytes, whether you want to practice or develop your vocabulary or writing sentences, one point of grammar or another, or a combination of all of those. Images are wonderful triggers and starters for you to enter the path of your language practice.… CONTINUE READING
More oral practice
More oral practice is much-needed to make use of integrated skills in meaningful contexts. Knowing about grammar and knowing vocabulary does not translate automatically into oral proficiency.
More oral practice involves focusing on some particular topic with the purpose of integrating verbally relevant vocabulary and relevant grammar.… CONTINUE READING
Routine, preparing oral practice
With “Routine preparing oral practice” the aim is to get you thinking about some steps that will support a positive experience, when you do some oral practice. It pays off to be a little bit organised.… CONTINUE READING
Asking about a famous person
A famous person: a good opportunity to give your oral skills a boost and to remember what key phrases to use when asking personal information about other people. CLICK HERE for a full access to both the script and the audio.… CONTINUE READING
Tutorial: shopping for food (DIALOGUES)
IN THIS TUTORIAL you will hear some 
examples of dialogues that serve as a model for your oral practice. There are some comments and guidance as for how to use them for revision practice.… CONTINUE READING
Tutorial: doing shopping (useful vocabulary)
In THIS TUTORIAL you will have an opportunity to learn some vocabulary, revise it, and/or assess yourself.
Prepare to do some shopping!
You can access the PDF of the document HERE.… CONTINUE READING
Gente nueva
In this little movie try to spot the missing graphic accents in some of the words, read out the dialogue, look up for any words you do not understand, and post any questions regarding the grammar in the comments’ section of this post.… CONTINUE READING
Giving directions
HERE you will find a map, a starting point (we are facing north), and a number of examples of how simple can be to give some directions in Spanish!
Once you have studied the examples, and practiced the pronunciation HERE, you can give a go at following some directions to locate the missing streets in your map that are listed at the bottom of the page.… CONTINUE READING
Many pictures, many sentences
You may have already read the post “One picture, many sentences”, which would be good because then you can take that suggestion further with the following pictures:
1. Pedro 2.… CONTINUE READING
