If you have successfully completed at least The Learnables and The Pimsleur Spanish, Learning Spanish Like Crazy courses, you are ready for the formal study of Spanish (i.e., grammar). I know this is very costly. I know because I’ve paid the price myself for these courses. But what do you want? Do you want to become proficient in the language…
Tag: Fluency
Developing Reading Fluency
How many times have you heard a child reading aloud and it sounded like they were counting instead of reading? This is a problem that many teachers and parents face. It is caused by a lack of reading fluency. While it has long been recognized that fluency needs to be developed, teachers have been reluctant to teach it over the…
Learning Spanish Begin By Listening Part 6
Most folks, when they set out to study a new language, begin by enrolling in Spanish I at their local Junior College. This is not the way to begin. In fact, the formal learning about the language in a course at the JuCo is about 5 years away from where you are at if you’ve had no experience at acquiring…
Learning Spanish Part Twenty Four The Acquisition Learning Hypothesis
Dr. Stephen Krashen’s foundational principle in his theory of Second Language Acquisition is called “The Acquisition-Learning hypothesis.” In this idea, a distinction is made in that wonderfully exciting and gaiety-galore world of linguistics and language pedagogy between learning a language and acquiring it. “The acquired system” is the means through which spoken fluency is acquired. I can recall scores of…