Episode 171 Busy Nurse & Mom Learns Spanish at Age 40: Interview with Kimberly Winfrey Do you think you don’t have any time to learn Spanish? Spanish Fluency Club member Kimberly Winfrey shares how she juggles work, family life, and her passion for language learning. I’m… Read More »Episode 171: Busy Nurse & Mom Learns Spanish at Age 40: Interview with Kimberly Winfrey
Episode 157 Conversaciones decembrinas de Colombia During the fiestas decembrinas (winter holidays), Colombians have a special way of celebrating. In this episode, you’ll hear a conversation about making plans with family and all the tasty dishes made in a typical Colombian household. To get access to the… Read More »Episode 157: Conversaciones decembrinas de Colombia
Episode 153 Aprende español colombiano con la mĂșsica: ‘Mi encanto’ por Carlos Vives (parte 1) In this week’s episode, you’ll learn all about Colombian Spanish and culture through the country’s music. Language Coach Maribel Zapata talks about music genres in Colombia from vallenato to salsa.… Read More »Episode 153: Aprende español colombiano con la mĂșsica: ‘Mi encanto’ por Carlos Vives (parte 1)
Episode 152 When Should You Change Your Approach to Learning Spanish? (Interview with Rebecca Kinsella) From countlessly learning formulated answers on Duolingo to consistently speaking Spanish every week and making measurable progress. This is Rebecca’s story of how she decided to switch her approach to… Read More »Episode 152: When Should You Change Your Approach to Learning Spanish? (Interview with Rebecca Kinsella)
Episode 154 Aprende español colombiano con la mĂșsica: âMi encantoâ por Carlos Vives (parte 2) In this episode, we’ll be reviewing a song by Carlos Vives from the Disney movie ‘Encanto.’ Spanish con Salsa Language Coach Maribel Zapata breaks down the song lyrics to ‘Mi… Read More »Episode 154: Aprende español colombiano con la mĂșsica: âMi encantoâ por Carlos Vives (parte 2)
Episode 137 Why Living Abroad Wonât Help You Get Fluent: Andreaâs Story Andrea traveled to Central and South America for over a decade and never got beyond speaking ‘survival Spanish’ — even after living abroad and studying Spanish in university. She went from being overwhelmed… Read More »Episode 137: Why Living Abroad Wonât Help You Get Fluent: Andreaâs Story
Episode 132 The Music-Loverâs Guide to Becoming Fluent in Spanish (Olly Richards Interview) In this week’s episode, I am actually going to be the interviewee so I will not be doing the interview this week but I’m giving you an opportunity to hear someone else… Read More »Episode 132: The Music-Loverâs Guide to Becoming Fluent in Spanish (Olly Richards Interview)
Episode 130 Backpacking and Slow Travel in Ecuador and El Salvador (Part 2) This week you get to hear part 2 of my conversation with Melissa Neacato from Traveling Wallet. In our conversation we talk about slow travel, her #1 travel hack to offset costs… Read More »Episode 130: Backpacking and Slow Travel in Ecuador and El Salvador (Part 2)
Episode 129 Backpacking and Slow Travel in Ecuador and El Salvador (Part 1) Imagine if you could spend 4 months traveling to ALL the countries on your bucket list. Our guest this week, Melissa Neacato, did just that with her family of four. Melissa, her… Read More »Episode 129: Backpacking and Slow Travel in Ecuador and El Salvador (Part 1)
Episode 126 Learning Spanish through Story (Interview with Olly Richards, StoryLearning) Our guest this week is polyglot Olly Richards. He is a language educator and author from the UK who speaks 8 languages. Olly started a blog called I Will Teach You A Language, and… Read More »Episode 126: Learning Spanish through Story (Interview with Olly Richards, StoryLearning)