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 a tutor. This crossword puzzle is all about the most common type of French verbs (-er). The gird below is an image. You can use the clues and the word… Read More French Vocabulary: Crossword Puzzles for Beginners
Here are a few activities free Spanish (or any language) learning activities to talk about houses. One of my favorite parts of being a language teacher and learner is that anything can become a language lesson. Free Spanish Learning: My Dream House Doodles and sketches are some of my favorite activities to learn… Read More Free Spanish (or ANY language) learning activity
Spanish for Travel: 25 Phrases for Travel and Beginners Do you want to learn Spanish for travel fast? Check out these 25 phrases all themed around Spanish for travel- the perfect context to start learning a language. When you learn a new language for travel, you learn all the vocabulary and grammar you need in context.… Read More Spanish for Travel: 25 Phrases for Travel and Beginners
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 90s. 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… Read More Spanish Teacher: First-year Survival
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 language proficiency in a foreign language requires an investment of time engaged in understanding and using new words and phrases. While we can track and note our progress and improvements… Read More Learn Italian Online: The 200-hour Challenge
Learn French for beginners Do you want to learn French fast? Check out these phrases all themed around language for travel- the perfect context to start learning a language. When you learn a new language for travel, you learn all the vocabulary and grammar you need in context. Learn enough words and phrases, and they… Read More Learn French for Beginners
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 I think it’s true. I think it’s one of those things that comes last in a language because they’re so often attached to phrasal verbs. For example, in French, we… Read More Prepositions: Teaching in a foreign language
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 and correct in our communication. And of course, we want that for our students. The instinct sometimes can be to correct everything that’s wrong. We think if we correct an… Read More A Fun Way to Correct Errors for EFL, ELT, Spanish, French, German & Italian Classes
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 might believe. I have achieved fluency in Spanish and French. I am a B-1 level speaker of Italian. I still speak some Japanese and Korean after leaving Asia in 2006.… Read More Fluency in Spanish (or ANY Language) through Games and Movement