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22
Mar 10

Get Your Groove On For Spanish

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Learn Spanish with LEGO Rock Band? I wish.

I purchased a Spanish grammar book a few weeks ago, and you want to know how many times I’ve cracked it open? Once. The book is collecting dust on my bookshelf because the curriculum, while important, is dry and the complete opposite of fun.

Enter Lyrics Training, the free website service that provides music videos to learn and improve your foreign languages skills through the music and lyrics of the songs.

And it is fun. The objective is to fill in the words of a verse for the song to continue playing.

The only downside I see is I’m not familiar with any of the Spanish bands or songs listed. I say bring on the Sepultura and not only will I rock my face off, I’ll learn twice as fast.

Mucho gracias a mi Twitter amiga @darker_stiletto por compartir Lyrics Training

Lyrics Training is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills like English through the music and lyrics of the songs.

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Subliminal Learning — 2 comments
18
Mar 10

Can Listening to Spanish While Asleep Help You Learn Faster?

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Learn while Sleeping? Photo by Abe and Liina Novy

As a boy, I was up on my rock bands. From April Wine to ZZ Top, if it was on rock radio, I knew it.

At the time, I remember being a little surprised of my own (rather impressive) knowledge of rock radio bands, since I didn’t really pay attention to the stuff. The music was just there, in the background of my life. Even when I slept.

You see, I used to leave my favorite rock radio station on all night. It was habitual for me.

Now I’m wondering if listening to music and radio talk while asleep inadvertently educated me on rock music minutiae.

More importantly, can listening to Spanish while asleep help you and I learn the language more efficiently today?

So I thought I’d poll my friends on Twitter, and the good people on Aardvark:

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Twitter: @rinkjustice

Here were some responses (and a big thanks to everyone who participated):

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Reply by Germán Salízar P. Twitter: @gersapa

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Reply by Seth Meadows. Twitter: @SethCo_Inc

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Reply by Kent Julian. Twitter: @KentJulian

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Reply by Garo Hovnanian. Twitter: @ghovnanian

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Reply by Tony Gonzalez

Here’s my favorite reply (and a ray of hope for pro-subliminal learners everywhere):

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Reply by Tony Gonzalez

Tony’s clarification really resonates with me. I suspect we need to consciously process our new words and phrases, and deliberately find or create those relationships and patterns in the new information, for these words to snap snugly into our mental maps and become part of our new vocabulary.

It’s a huge subject, and not fully understood by anyone, so I’ll leave further extrapolation for another time ;-)

Conclusion: I think I’ll continue with my subconscious / subliminal training, but only on preprocessed material and not uncharted terrain. Who knows, maybe it’ll help me dream in español a little bit sooner.

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Lifehacks — 3 comments
09
Mar 10

Be Entertained and Learn Spanish: dream in español

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Subscribe to dream in español. You WILL be entertained!

It’s my first post for dream in español, the blog for learners of Spanish, so I’ll start it off with a bang! “¿Le no entretienen?!” is a quote from Ridley Scott’s masterpiece “Gladiator”, staring Russell Crowe.

I watch all movies in Spanish now, or at least with Spanish subtitles enabled (and therein lies the first of many tips, tricks, hacks and secrets to  learning Spanish fast).

Mind you, I’m still a beginner. It was four weeks ago, from the time of this posting, that I started practicing Spanish. Before then, the only Spanish I could speak was a few menu items from Taco Bell.

Now, I can cobble together whole sentences – although my vocabulary is extremely limited and my delivery is slow.  Still,  my Spanish speaking amigos are thrilled with my progress, and I’m determined to be conversant in Spanish.

I’m also determined to share any knowledge I have with you.

Now allow me to introduce myself.

Me llamo es [ my name is ] Jason Comely.  I have written two books, Zero to Superhero and Economtricks and am a Search Engine Optimization expert in Cambridge Ontario. I maintain a number of blogs (albeit sporadically).

If you take a moment to visit these websites of mine, you’ll notice a running theme: lifehacks and success systems, to better myself, and help others do the same.

You’ll find dream in español has the same success-oriented objective.

The goal of this blog, for both you and I, is to experience a dream in the Spanish language.

I’ve been told by several bilingual friends that to dream in español signifies the language has truly taken hold. Hence the name of this blog.

You can be involved by leaving comments in the comment section, and sharing your Spanish language hacks with me and the rest of the readers via email, or you can hit me up on Twitter.

Subscribe to dream in español now and let’s make this Spanish dream a reality.

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