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Learn Spanish with Everyday Conversations: Victoria from Mérida, Mexico

This article outlines an authentic beginner-friendly conversation to help readers learn Spanish through real-life examples. The conversation features Victoria, a 25-year-old from Mérida, Yucatán. Below is a clear, practical breakdown of the topics covered, useful vocabulary, and ready-to-use phrases learners can practise immediately. Meet Victoria: Quick Snapshot Victoria is 25 years old and lives in […]

Imperfect Tense in Spanish: My Favorite Activities

Spanish 1 Lesson Plans, Spanish 2 Lesson Plans, Spanish 3 Lesson Plans, Spanish Class: Master Verbs, Spanish Lesson Plans

Are you looking for a ready-made pack of activities to teach the imperfect tense in Spanish? These activities are designed to help students master the imperfect tense in less than a week! Overview of Activities These activities typically take two block periods to complete. However, if you choose to integrate them with additional text-based activities,

New Spanish Teacher: First-year Survival

Teaching World Languages

New Spanish teacher? Every Spanish teacher, native or not, has walked in your shoes. I did back in the 90s. Here are some tips for first-year survival. Here are some tips and resources to make your life easier as a new Spanish teacher. I want to share how to work in the 5Cs and not just

How I Used ChatGPT to Evaluate My Language Proficiency (And How You Can Too)

Assessing Language Proficiency, Teaching French, Teaching World Languages

Here’s how it went. I took transcripts of my spoken responses and pasted them into ChatGPT. Then I said, “Okay, evaluate my language proficiency.” One important note—if you try this yourself, make sure to tell ChatGPT that your transcripts are from spoken responses. That’s key. A writing sample is usually more polished and doesn’t reflect

How I Use AI to Check and Build My Language Proficiency

Assessing Language Proficiency

Today I want to share how I’ve been using AI—specifically ChatGPT—as both a proficiency checkpoint and a practice tool to help reach my language learning goals. Why I Still Believe in Human Evaluation Before we dive in, let me be clear: there’s no better measure of language proficiency than human evaluation. Personally, I’m a fan

Two Weeks of Beginning Spanish Lessons

Spanish 1 Lesson Plans, Spanish Lesson Plans

Kick off your Beginning Spanish Lessons with an immersive approach that introduces students to greetings, calendar routines, classroom commands, emotions, and cultural elements through interactive activities, visuals, and real-world practice. Lesson 1 Objectives: Students will work in the interpretive mode. They will learn to understand basic greetings, the calendar, the Pledge of Allegiance, emotions, meeting