Posts by Chris Collie

Ever since my daughter was born, I try to introduce different Spanish words and phrases to her so that she can start picking up the language. At such a young age, words and phrases are hard to learn...

It can be easy to sit your kids down in front of the TV to learn a new language or drop them off at school, but that doesn't help you or I learn Spanish (the parents!) with them. So, what are some...

Before my daughter was born, I wondered if it was beneficial for her to learn another language. In particular, I wondered if learning English and Spanish would be beneficial for her. After some...

I have studied Spanish since I was a young child. I started as a boy learning my Spanish name of Cristóbal ("Christopher") and moved up from there. As I got older, it never occurred to me whether...

I grew up in the United States and learned Spanish here. All of the Spanish that I learned had the words pronounced how they were spelled. However, when I visited Spain, I noticed that a lot of...

When I first started learning Spanish, I didn't understand why exactly I was learning the language. At first, I was learning Spanish because my parents said it was best. As I got older, I started...