Learning a foreign language without immersion is somewhat like trying to put together a puzzle without the original picture--you have no bigger picture to look at to reference where all the pieces go. Or maybe it's somewhat like walking through a life-size maze--you...
After having my first son and quitting my day job to stay home with him, my mom asked me to start teaching Spanish to my three siblings that were still school-aged. My first go at it was with my brother that had one year of high school left. I did what any...
It seems somewhat backwards that students of a foreign language tend to learn about the grammar of a language before they can actually speak the language. With our first language, we learn how to speak words first as a baby, then sentences as a toddler, until...