GREAT NEWS!🎉 Our membership is now open for you to join our conversational lessons. 🎉 ¡Hola, Reader! Would you like to practice your Spanish weekly and get feedback and support to make actual progress? Our 🧠brain-friendly conversational lessons are great for anyone who... 😪Has a busy schedule and feels a bit tired to practice Spanish, or 🤐Doesn't have anyone to practice their Spanish with, or 🤔Is practicing with natives who fail to give proper feedback to improve. If this is you,👉 go here and...
25 days ago • 1 min read
¡Hola, Reader! ¿Qué sabemos realmente sobre la vida en las Islas Malvinas o "Falkland Islands"? 🤔 Más allá del conflicto histórico que enfrentó a Argentina con Inglaterra en 1982, existe una realidad cotidiana fascinante y poco conocida en este territorio disputado del Atlántico Sur. Hoy en el pódcast, te invito a descubrir 7 (siete) datos sorprendentes sobre las Malvinas que probablemente no conocías. 💡¿Sabías que en este pequeño archipiélago conviven personas de más de 40 nacionalidades...
27 days ago • 1 min read
¡Hola, Reader! Una pregunta que surge varias veces en las clases privadas es cómo se dice "comfort food"🍕 en español. Desafortunadamente, no tenemos un equivalente exacto y no podemos decir "comida comfortable" ni comida "reconfortante". Pero no temas porque podemos buscarle la vuelta.💪 Cuando hablamos de comidas que nos gustan tanto que nos ponen felices o nos recuerdan a nuestra infancia... ¿Qué decimos en Argentina?👀 Te doy opciones: A. Panza llena, corazón contento. B. Un mimo al alma. C....
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
¡Hola, Reader! I am RE FELIZ🤩 to share with you this exciting news! ✨There will be 2 NEW CONVERSATION GROUPS inside our membership✨ 📅¿Cuándo? As of Monday 18th of August, 2024 , we'll be having fun conversations in Spanish on: Mondays at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Fridays at Noon Eastern Time. 🌍¿Dónde? On Zoom. 🤓¿Y qué hacemos? The 40-minute lesson goes más o menos like this: [Min 0-2]: We all greet each other and engage in small talk until everyone's in. [Min 2-3]: We observe an image. 👀 [Min...
9 months ago • 1 min read
¡Hola, Reader! Here's my favorite word of all the words that change drastically across Spanish speaking countries: 🍓FRUTILLA (strawberry). Why? Because it's cute and funny when you realize WHY it's called frutilla. My students learned this in our last conversational lesson. During our lesson, we were discussing what we saw in an image. This one had gorgeous hermanas gemelas (twin sisters) wearing abrigos (jackets), buying frutas (fruit) at a local market, in an isla (island). Plenty to talk...
11 months ago • 1 min read
¡Hola, Reader! Have you got doubts about when to use comer or comerse?🍕🤔 See an example below: Normalmente no como dulces, pero ayer me comí un alfajor. No como dulces = comer Me comí un alfajor = comerse What's the reason to use "comerse" instead of "comer"? Take a look at the amount (of food, in this case) and ask yourself these 2 questions: Is it a specific amount? Is it complete? While "dulces" doesn't refer to any specific amount of sweets, "un alfajor" refers to one complete unit. 🤓In...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
¡Hola, Reader! Imagine you're in an asado with your father-in-law and you don't understand a single word he says. That can be quite nerve-racking!😰 What you can do to avoid this awkward situation is to listen to today's podcast episode. When you finish listening, you'll know the 5 FIVE phrases that are usually repeated in an ASADO 🥩🍗😋 Knowing such phrases can save you tons of misunderstandings! Click here to listen: 👉5 Frases comunes en español que repiten los argentinos en un asado👈 And,...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
¡Hola, Reader! ¿Te estabas preguntando si sería buena idea unirte a nuestras clases de conversación?💬 📆Todos los días, de lunes a jueves, estoy conectada en Zoom a las ⏰10 AM (Eastern Time) para hablar con mis estudiantes. ❌No es necesario que los estudiantes tomen las clases todos esos días. Pero yo sí, ahí estoy, cada día, lista para hablar con quien quiera practicar su español. ¿Cómo son las clases?👩🏫 Los lunes espero a los estudiantes con una serie de preguntas que, generalmente, se...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
¡Hola, Reader! A question I get asked a lot about my memberships is: Melany, I am just beginning to learn Spanish and wonder if this would be a fit or if I need a more beginner class?👩🏫 Well, I want to make clear that I do take beginners under my wing👼 and help them with their Spanish. However, there are a series of 🐾steps I want beginners to take: ✅Learn, from the get-go, what makes Argentine Spanish unique; to see if this variant is a good fit for you. ✅Study the basics and build a strong...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read