Well this is just to update you all a bit.  I will write more tomorrow on other matters, but I wanted to let you know that we´ve started a Community site where people who are blog readers or video watchers or podcast listeners or class attenders or just happening by, can stop in and connect [...]

I  just stepped out of my Advanced Spanish Class with Luis.  It was fabulous!  Like they all are!  We talk about history, politics, tradition, culture, we read great books in Spanish, we will soon be watching great movies in Spanish and today we listened to great music in Spanish.  The technique he uses, that dear husband and teacher of [...]

I am told that I am married.  Though the first thoughts that come to mind is “Really.  To whom?”  And then I remember the muted noises late at the night coming from the upper room.  “Oh, that’s who’s in that room,”  I squint my brain to remember.  I was getting accustomed to the idea that the mice were back. [...]

Well, sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes it’s awkward at best but lots of times….. it just doesn’t work.  Rene, our video editor (see http://www.rojasspanish.com/video.htm the guy on the far right) told us a great story last weekend that illustrates this perfectly.  He was together with two friends that didn’t know one another.   Guy A is from the US [...]

   Hace algunas semanas terminamos de leer este libro de Isabel Allende y ahora puedo finalmente hacer un tiempo para escribir acerca de la parte restante del libro. El comentario será un tanto general pero no quiero dejar de compartir algunas ideas que estimula a la reflexión con los que han estado buscando una conclusión [...]

Well, I think I mentioned some time back that my mother-in-law was here visiting from Peru.  She was with us 6 weeks and tonight she leaves.  I am exhausted and there are several reasons for this.  Probably the reason that relates most to the theme of this blog is what her visit required of me in terms of my [...]

…..Or to be more accurate, we lost a student a week ago or so but it became clear today that there was no mending the fences.  We are sad, we are very sad.  We don’t know quite what went wrong.  We’ve had students come to a session or two and then disappear and then come back [...]

I recently sent out an email to our students asking them to tell us in detail how they felt their classes were going.  In order to get the information I felt I needed, I constructed my questions as specific as possible.  Though Luis routinely asks during class and after class if things are feeling good [...]

….and that’s an order!!!!  Did your mom ever tell you that?  I heard that often after the final word on something had been given.  “…and that’s an order!”  ooooo kinda strong, but it gets the point across loud and clear.  And the point I want to make here is that you just can’t expect that bit by [...]

You’ve all no doubt heard the well worn adage, “Location, location, location.”  This is answer to the question, “What is the first thing we should think about in buying a new house?”  Even a small house in a dynamite area can yield a return unlike a much larger one in a less desirable area. Believe [...]