“So, where have you been?” you ask. “Well, trying to catch my balance,”  I respond.  ”While Luis and I continue to work on the Free Online Video Program I have had to add a job search to the ‘jarana’ (party)”. Yes, I’ve lost my job.  The clinic I was working for has experienced a meaningful [...]

In the Post Pregúntale a Joan/La historia de Andy – Ask Joan/Andy’s Story I responded to some questions that an online student of ours had written regarding a budding love affair upon which she was embarking.  She’s a Canadian and he is a Peruvian and they met through an online chat language exchange site thingy [...]

It has become so automatic that we don´t often realize that we have a running dialog going on in our heads at all times.  It´s so a part of us that it’s often happening at a pre-verbal level.  Yes, you heard me right!  A pre-verbal dialog!  Think about it for a moment.  Just a second [...]

I remember when it scared me to find myself in a group of Spanish speakers.  The people speaking looked nice enough, non-threatening enough, for the most part they were even shorter than me which gave me that unusual feeling of physical advantage …. should I need it … but I remember how unsettled I felt [...]

Luis and I are in the throws (visualize tandem seizures) of teaching the Subjunctive tense in our Free Video Classes right now … and man! … it’s been an interesting process. Not to belabor a point that those of you viewing our videos already have heard me say about a half a million times, but as English [...]