Ciao a tutti! 👋

Mi piacerebbe iniziare a imparare lo spagnolo, ma parto completamente da zero.

Ho provato a cercare un po' di informazioni online, ma ci sono così tante risorse, metodi e consigli che mi sento un po' perso e non so bene da dove cominciare.

Vorrei quindi chiedere qualche consiglio a chi ha già affrontato questo percorso.

Ci sono tre aspetti da considerare:

• Parto da zero: non ho alcuna conoscenza dello spagnolo.
• Budget zero: al momento posso utilizzare solo risorse gratuite o quasi.
• Sono DSA (dislessia): quindi mi sarebbero particolarmente utili metodi e strumenti adatti a chi ha difficoltà con la lettura e la memorizzazione.

Mi piacerebbe soprattutto capire quali passi seguire, in che ordine affrontare gli argomenti e quali risorse utilizzare, magari per costruire una piccola routine di studio sostenibile.

Se qualcuno ha esperienze simili, consigli pratici o un percorso da suggerirmi, gliene sarei davvero grato!

Grazie in anticipo a tutti! 😊

¡Hola, amiguitos y familias! 👋✨ ¡Aprender el abecedario nunca fue tan mágico y divertido! 🎶📚

En este nuevo episodio de "El Mundo de Amanda y Bastián", nos vamos de viaje al fondo del mar para cantar juntos la canción del abecedario 🚀🧜‍♀️. Acompañados de nuestros inseparables amigos, el perrito y el gatito 🐶🐱, te invitamos a repasar cada letra, desde la A hasta la Z, de una forma súper especial.

¿Sabías que cada letra nos recordará a un personaje increíble de nuestras películas animadas favoritas? 🎬🍿 ¡Así es! Cantaremos y descubriremos a personajes mágicos como Ariel con la A, Buzz con la B, Elsa con la E, Woody con la W, y muchísimos amigos más 🌟. Es la aventura perfecta para que los más pequeños de la casa aprendan las letras mientras bailan, cantan y se divierten a lo grande. ¡Incluso cantaremos el abecedario al derecho y al revés! 🔄

🤔 ¡Queremos saber tu opinión!

¿Cuál fue tu personaje favorito del video? ¿Y cuál es la letra por la que empieza tu nombre? ¡Pídele a un adulto que nos deje tu respuesta en los comentarios! 👇💬

🔔 ¡No te pierdas ninguna aventura! Si te gustó esta canción y quieres seguir aprendiendo con nosotros, no olvides dejarnos un SÚPER ME GUSTA 👍 y SUSCRIBIRTE a nuestro canal para disfrutar de más canciones infantiles y aventuras emocionantes. ¡Comparte este video con todos tus amigos para que también aprendan el abecedario cantando! ❤️

👇 ¡Síguenos en nuestra aventura musical! 👇

#ElMundoDeAmandaYBastian #CancionesInfantiles #AbecedarioParaNiños #AprenderCantando #MusicaInfantil #EducacionInfantil #PersonajesAnimados #AprenderElAbecedario #VideosParaNiños #MagiaYDiversion

Hello! Are there any websites for PD sessions for teacher hours in the USA where you can watch some videos and get a certificate? let me know if you know any good resources! Thanks!

You can download them more conveniently as PDFs at palabros.org.

You’ll also find fun spelling games, prizes, a daily challenge featuring 10 different words, and 25 new words added every week.

Hi everyone! I’m currently recruiting participants for my doctoral dissertation study through California Baptist University.

My research examines the professional support California elementary Dual Language Immersion (DLI) teachers received during their first one to three years of teaching in a DLI program.

I am looking for current or former California elementary DLI teachers who may be eligible to participate in a short online survey.

The survey takes approximately 10–15 minutes. Participation is completely voluntary, and survey responses will remain confidential.

At the end of the survey, participants may also choose to complete a separate form if they are interested in participating in a follow-up interview.

I am working toward a goal of 150 participants, so if you qualify, I would be extremely grateful for your participation. If you know another California DLI educator who may qualify, please feel free to share the survey with them.

Link: https://calbaptist.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6nS7zIJvF28QLeC

¡Hola amigos! 👋 Bienvenidos a "El Mundo de Amanda y Bastian", un canal pensado para los más pequeños de la casa. Aquí encontrarán canciones infantiles súper divertidas, animaciones coloridas y valiosas lecciones sobre el respeto, la bondad y la importancia de decir "por favor" y "gracias". Acompaña a Amanda, Bastian y sus adorables mascotas en increíbles aventuras en el parque, la escuela y fiestas llenas de música. ¡Aprender nunca fue tan divertido! No olvides suscribirte y darle like a nuestros videos. 👍🎶

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yz67gvKcy8&list=PLP6gMF69YPN4&pp=sAgC

The idea is pretty simple! You tell me your availability, and we schedule a session that works for both of us. We can do 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1.5 hours, or even 2 hours, depending on what you prefer. My rate is $5 USD per 30 minutes.

I can help you with basic Spanish if you're just starting, but my main goal is to help you feel more confident when speaking Spanish. Sometimes you can understand a lot of a language, but when it's time to actually speak it, your brain just goes 💀 And that's totally okay! I want to help you get past that little obstacle, step by step, without pressure or feeling embarrassed about making mistakes.

A little bit about me: I'm a shadow teacher here in Mexico, and I work with neurodivergent children, especially autistic children. I'm a very patient person, and I understand that everyone learns differently, so we'll go at your own pace.

I don't want to focus only on academic Spanish or grammar rules. I want you to learn how to actually communicate, have conversations, understand everyday expressions, and feel comfortable speaking with other people. Basically, I want you to be able to use Spanish in real life, not just in a textbook!

There's no lyrics available and the CC option somehow didn't provide the full lyrics/words so I'm not using that. The song is Celoso by Little Smoking.

If anyone could help me it's highly appreciated

Hola amigos!

This is Franco, Spanish teacher from Argentina. I wanted to share some graded readers I created with vocabulary and quizzes. There are 3 levels. 1st is a story about a boy and a girl in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2nd is about argentine history from prehistoric times till the 19th century. 3rd is about the local personality el gaucho martin fierro (a local "cowbow"). part 2 and 3 can be challenging but I'm sure intermediate students will enjoy them. If you don't know a word you can underline the word and you will find a translation. Here you have the 3 links and you can also download them for free. Hope you like them

Part 1: https://francospanishschool.com/.../un-ano-en-buenos-aires

Part 2: https://francospanishschool.com/.../story/historia-argentina

Parte 3: https://francospanishschool.com/reading/story/martin-fierro

Ciao a tutti, posso chiedervi se siete a conoscenza di una scuola che permetta di seguire un corso di spagnolo a pagamento (Catania, preferibilmente zona centrale) Grazie mille.

Hello Spanish teachers! I took the DELE A2 last year and passed, thanks to my very supportive and amazing spanish teacher, and now we are preparing for the B2. The oral exam was the hardest part for me, and I know it’s the same for many students: getting stuck and going blank in the live speaking test.

So I built a practice simulator that follows the real exam as closely as I could.

In the simulator, students pick their level (A2 or B2), get a topic and a photo to describe, and have a timed prep stage for their notes. Then the mock exam starts: it records their answers, they talk to an AI examiner for the dialogue, and they get feedback based on the official scoring bands. It’s practice guidance, not an official score, and it’s an independent tool, not affiliated with Instituto Cervantes, but I tried to match the scoring as close as possible to gauge myself.

If you think it could help your students, they can try it free at https://www.delevoz.com. I’m happy to give extra sessions to your students, and I’d really value your honest feedback as a teacher, especially on how close it feels to the real exam.

¡Gracias!

Can You Talk About Your Likes?

This is not a full Spanish level test. It is a quick way to check whether you can communicate one specific idea clearly and identify what you may need to review.

Can you talk about what you like in Spanish? Try these 10 questions:

1. If you were to say “I like coffee” in Spanish, what would you say?
2. If you were to say “I like movies” in Spanish, what would you say?
3. If you were to say “I like cooking” in Spanish, what would you say?
4. If you were to say “I don’t like running” in Spanish, what would you say?
5. If you were to say “I like coffee, but I don’t like tea” in Spanish, what would you say?
6. If someone asked you “Why do you like learning Spanish?” what would you say?
7. If you wanted to ask someone “What do you like to do after work?” what would you say?
8. If you wanted to say “I like your brother” meaning “he seems nice / I get along with him,” what would sound natural in Spanish?
9. If you wanted to say “I don’t like your brother” meaning “I don’t really get along with him / I don’t like him as a person,” what would sound natural in Spanish?
10. If you wanted to say “I like your brother” meaning “I’m attracted to him,” what would sound natural in Spanish?

How many did you get right? And more importantly: which ones showed you what you need to review?

If this exercise showed you something you need to work on, that’s exactly what a Functional Snapshot is supposed to do.

Functional Snapshots are short practice activities I create to help learners check one specific communication skill at a time. The goal isn’t to tell you what “level” you are, but to help you notice what you can already use in Spanish and what still needs some work.

If you found this useful, I run a free Facebook community called Natural Spanish for English Speakers, where you’ll find more than 200 learning and practice resources built around the same approach.

Join the free group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/naturalspanish

Translation is not the enemy

A lot of English speakers try to avoid using English when they learn Spanish. Sometimes this happens because they have heard things like “Don’t translate,” “Think only in Spanish,” or “Using your native language will slow you down.” And of course, there is some truth there. If you translate every single word literally forever, Spanish will feel slow, unnatural, and frustrating.

But translation itself is not the enemy. For many students, English is the starting point. It is the language where the idea is already clear. You know what you want to say. The challenge is learning how Spanish organizes that same idea.

And Spanish and English share more structure than many people think. Using English as a reference can help you notice sentence structure, verb usage, word order, and how time is expressed through verbs. The real problem is not translation. The problem is staying at word-by-word translation and never asking: How does Spanish actually say this?

At first, you translate because you are trying to express what you mean. That is normal. But little by little, as you understand the structures better, you start recognizing patterns. You stop thinking only, “What is the word for this?” And you start asking better questions:

How is this idea built in Spanish? What verb form do I need here? Does this sound natural? Would a native speaker say it this way?

That is where translation becomes useful practice, not a bad habit. The goal is not to hate translation. The goal is to use it as a bridge. First you use it to understand. Then you use it to compare. Then you use it to practice. And over time, what used to feel like translation starts feeling more like communication. That is exactly why we will use translation in this group, but not as word-by-word memorization. We will use it to understand structure, build better sentences, notice natural Spanish, and communicate more clearly step by step.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/naturalspanish

Hi everyone! I’m Alba, and I’m researching how independent language tutors currently manage their teaching materials, homework, students, and lessons.

I’m developing an early prototype of a web app that could bring some of these things together — for example:

• Organising teaching materials and exercises
• Giving students practice between lessons
• Keeping track of students and lessons
• Sharing book, movie, or other learning recommendations
• Eventually, possibly adding other tools based on what tutors actually need

But I’m still very much in the research stage, and I don't want to spend months building features that tutors don't actually need.

So I'm looking for 10–15 private language tutors who would be willing to try an early version for free and give me some honest feedback.

I'd particularly like to understand:

• How do you currently organise your teaching materials?
• How do you give students homework or exercises?
• What tools do you currently use?
• What parts of managing students or lessons are frustrating or time-consuming?
• What would genuinely make your work easier?

The prototype will be free during the trial, and there's no obligation to continue using it afterwards.

I'm also genuinely interested in negative feedback. If you think this is something you wouldn't use because you already have a better solution, I'd like to know that too.

If you're interested in taking part, feel free to comment below or send me a DM. Thanks!