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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 […]