Overlearning the basics of a language is crucial to long-term success and crucial to the ability to speak the language.
But, as the language components increase in complexity and sheer vocabulary volume, the amount of material to be learned expands beyond the speed that most human brains can assimilate. Read more…
If you think that Spanish is difficult, look what happens when you try to simplify the language!
Warning: Reading this is not for beginners.
En vista de la evolución del castellano en los últimos años, debido a las aportaciones realizadas por los jóvenes, la Real Academia de la Lengua dará a conocer, la reforma modelo 2004 de la ortografía española, que tiene como objetivo unificar el español como lengua universal de los hispanohablantes. Read more…
Scott Adams, of Dilbert Fame, provides a great motivator for learning Spanish.
Scott produces his daily comic strips in español.
It is easy to overlook the math when learning a new language. “What is the Math of language learning?” you ask.
Answer: The math of language learning is the geometric growth of vocabulary and the exponential growth of items such as verb conjugations. Read more…