Congratulations to our 16 remaining 90-Day Spanish Bootcamp participants! Everyone made it this week! When we asked them how they have managed to get everything done on super busy days, this is what they told us: He hecho esto una prioridad y yo trato hacer los requisitos temprano en el día. A reminder on my […]
How many hours does it take to become an expert in Spanish or otherwise? I recently read the book The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. If you’re interested in cultural anthropology, you may find this book as fascinating as I did. According to the author it takes about 10,000 hours to become an expert […]
La tarea opcional de esta semana es echarle un vistazo a la página de Pinterest de Pura Buena Onda y traer una foto o copia de 3 cosas que te gustaron. Puede ser un chiste, un nuevo recurso que encontraste, un meme ridículo, lo que te llame la atención. PBO’s Pinterest page (La tarea extra […]
Weekly Tip: Learn from your mistakes! As you all know by now, making mistakes is part of the process of learning a language. As a matter of fact, we encourage you to put it all out there and make as many as needed. However, we assume that you want to improve your Spanish, which means […]
Congratulations to the following students who made it through the first 2 weeks of Spanish Bootcamp! Luckily we only lost 2 students this week! A1: Chrystal M, Jean E, Rechelle M A2: Chris S, Lizzie S B1: Bill S B1.5: Melanie T, Stephanie C B2: Carol S, Roxie H B2.5: Eva M B3: Carolina […]
La tarea opcional de esta semana es escribir 4 preguntas de conversación para la clase, usando uno de los tiempos compuestos del indicativo diferente para cada una. Por ejemplo: ¿Has viajado a Italia? – ¿Habías tomado clases de español antes de PBO? – ¿Habrás tomado vacaciones antes de que termine el verano? – ¿Qué habrías […]
Congratulations to the 18 students that made it through the 1st week of Bootcamp! We lost 4 the first week, but we hope that at least 10 of you make it to the end! Will it be you? A1: Chrystal M, Jean E, Jennifer G, Rechelle M A2: Chris S, Lizzie S B1: Anne M, Bill S B1.5: Melanie T, Stephanie C B2: Carol S, Roxie […]
There are usually 3 types of language learners: Type 1 – The ones that only want to be conversational and don’t care about grammar Type 2 – The ones that want to speak perfectly and struggle communicating Type 3 – The balanced ones whose primary focus is conversation, but spend time perfecting their Spanish as […]
La tarea opcional de esta semana es ver el video “Conditional Perfect” de Adriana Díaz-Ross en YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbbGq-NARr8). (La tarea extra de la semana * para los que quieran más tarea * es seguir con el capítulo 11, Compound Tenses: the future perfect and the conditional perfect, en “Complete Spanish Grammar” de McGraw Hill, de […]
We would like to congratulate our 22 Spanish Bootcamp participants for taking our 90 day challenge! We know you can do it! Time to breathe, sleep & eat Spanish! Yeah! A1 Chrystal M Jean E Jennifer G Rechelle M A2 Chris S Lizzie S B1 Anne M Bill S B1.5 Melanie […]