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Today’s post to practice Spanish was written by Cristina, one of the teachers at  Spanish Learning Club. It’s packed with practical information on traveling to Spain.  It’s written in Spanish from Spain, so you can practice all those vosotros endings!

Today’s post was written by James Dickie, student of Spanish Learning Club.  It’s a post about about his experience in Cuba and his take on Che Guevara. It’s an interesting read which invites reflection on Cuba before, now and in the future.

Today’s post was written by local historian and a student of Spanish Learning Club Penny Stokes.  This short post tells us some interesting things about Kintbury, it is written in English and it has an accompanying translation in Spanish so that you can guide yourself if necessary. I have also included an audio reading of it to help you with your listening skills.

This post was written by Steven Mills a local wine aficionado and student of Spanish Learning Club. He reckon’s English wine is no longer a joke. Read to find out why. It is a short blog post written in Spanish and it has no translation. If you are a beginner Spanish student simply see how many vocabulary words you can recognize, or how many verbs you can spot, even if you can’t make sense of the entire thing at this time. In a couple of months  read it again and see how much more you can understand.

Spare time? I don’t have any! You mutter to yourself.
Truth is we all have spare time or at least low – value uses of time as explained by Josh Kaufman author of The First 20 hours, how to learn anything fast. These are moments that you could eliminate and replace with higher value activities.

Debbie Patterson is an editor and children’s writer based in Kintbury and she is also a Spanish student at Spanish Learning Club. She is planning a big adventure with her husband and two children, starting in Alaska going through the west coast all the way to Chile!  Talk about motivation to learn a language.

One of the biggest issues when learning Spanish as a foreign language is the speed at which natives speakers seem to speak, and I say seem to speak because as your ears attune over time you will find that it wasn’t as fast as you originally thought. Granted there will be some variations that will […]

Once we get hooked on learning a language it becomes this amazing journey in discovering different ways of understanding, learning and perhaps most importantly enjoying your chosen language. I guess, in your case it might be Spanish, in my case is French.

Again here you will find the Spanish version first and the English version afterwards. This post has a video – you can also visit the Facebook page that I mention below if you want to know more about this initiative. If you have any questions on the way I have used a Spanish word or how I have constructed a sentence get in touch.

Read it Spanish and try and see what you understand first, see if you can get the gist of it. You can then read the English version and see how close you were. There are many ways you can use this as a learning tool. For instance, you could pick all the verbs up and turn them into the infinitive. You can pick up vocabulary that you like or it’s relevant to you.