Foreign Language Lessons: Shopping Activities that simulate shopping are super valuable for beginning language students. They recycle lots of vocabulary, are interactive and allow for…
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French Vocabulary: Crossword Puzzles for Beginners
French Vocabulary: Crossword Puzzles for Beginners Looking for a fun way to learn French vocabulary? Try crossword puzzles. They are engaging, fun and don’t require…
Free Spanish (or ANY language) learning activity
Here are a few activities free Spanish (or any language) learning activities to talk about houses. One of my favorite parts of being…
Spanish Teacher: First-year Survival
New Spanish Teacher: First-year Teacher Survival New Spanish teacher? Every Spanish teacher, native or not, has walked in your shoes. I did back in the…
Learn Italian Online: The 200-hour Challenge
Learn Italian Online: The 200-hour Challenge Two hundred hours is a perfect amount of time to invest in upping your skills in a language. Building…
Prepositions: Teaching in a foreign language
I once heard someone say that you can tell the difference between a native speaker and a very advanced language learner by their prepositions, and…
A Fun Way to Correct Errors for EFL, ELT, Spanish, French, German & Italian Classes
I feel really strongly about errors as a language teacher. It’s so interesting, because I think in this profession, we want to be accurate, effective…
Fluency in Spanish (or ANY Language) through Games and Movement
Fluency in Spanish (or ANY Language) through Games and Movement Spanish fluency (or fluency in any language) is not as difficult to achieve as some…
Spanish Teaching: 10 Instant Games for ANY Language Classes
After teaching Spanish for many years, I have come to believe that games are a fabulous way to learn new material. Games should not be…