Bill, a reader of this blog, writes: I am writing to ask if you offer short stories that are designed to expose students of the Spanish language to the usage of the many and varied subjunctive "triggers". I am aware that there are many books out there on the [...]
Bill, a reader of this blog, writes: I am writing to ask if you offer short stories that are designed to expose students of the Spanish language to the usage of the many and varied subjunctive "triggers". I am aware that there are many books out there on the [...]
One of the shortest but most useful sayings by legendary French teacher Susan Gross, is, “Shelter vocabulary, not grammar.” It is important to teach and use verbs as vocabulary, rather than as drilled formulas. When the sound/meaning pair is different, verbs may need to be presented explicitly—but this is [...]
If you teach heritage speakers, or Spanish 3, 4, 5, or AP Spanish, you need to get this book into your students' hands. El libro salvaje, by esteemed Mexican author Juan Villoro, was published in Mexico and has been around since 2008, but Spanish teachers in the United States [...]
THIS IS ABOUT LATIN CLASS BUT THE ACTIVITIES AND IDEAS APPLY TO ALL WORLD LANGUAGES Last year my daughter started a classical school in Denver and asked me to teach Latin. I didn't know Latin, but I took up the challenge and decided to learn and teach it the [...]
It's here! I have been working on this book for a year and a half, (well, actually, my whole career). And it's finally done. This is the best of what I teach teachers. It is some of the best work I have ever written, a distillation of all my [...]