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26: Latino Politicians, Intellectuals and Community Leaders Abandoning California Farmworker Children
Let's imagine your parents are farmworkers and speak only Spanish. All you hear at home is Spanish. Your friend's parents are farmworkers too so they all speak Spanish. And with your friends you spea..
27: Want To Retire Or Work In Mexico? You'd Better Read This!
Let me shoot straight from the hip. No fancy introductions to this article, no witty sayings, no clever expressions, no wildly used adjectives. Just plain talk about what you will find if you are plan..
28: Puffy Wet Lips
There's this guy who lives across the street from us who we have renamed Wet Lips. When we are in a really lighthearted mood, we refer to him as Puffy Wet Lips. This gomer is in his late 60's to early..
29: Want To Succeed At Writing? You Need A Platform!
When I finished my book, "The Plain Truth about Living in Mexico," I sent queries to a number of publishers. On a lark, I queried McGraw-Hill. To my utter shock and awe, they wanted to look at the com..
30: Cyberstalking Is A Worldwide Problem
I live in a medium-sized central Mexican town called Guanajuato. Guanajuato is the capital of the state of Guanajuato. We moved here in 2003 for a multitude of reasons. We wanted to learn Spanish, liv..
31: Hello From Cuernavaca: Attending The Monthly Meeting At The Newcomers Club
This morning I got up early and had a nice breakfast in the inner courtyard of La Nuestra. Shortly before 9 am Andie and I left for her monthly meeting of the Newcomers Club, a group of about 170 most..
32: Hello From Cuernavaca - The Most Intense Day Of My Trip (Part II)
The Santa Maria area is a rather poor area and was an independent village prior to being gobbled up by Cuernavaca. We parked the car and hiked down into a barranca (ravine) with a river at the bottom...
33: Hello From Cuernavaca - The Most Intense Day Of My Trip (Part I)
I have a habit of cramming a few too many things into my schedule, and I think yesterday was such a day.I started my day with a nice breakfast and then took a taxi to the Cetlalic language school. Cet..
34: Guanajuato: Too Many False Expectations
A friend of mine told me about a conversation she had with a person she knows in one of the Mexican Prime Living Locations on the west coast of Mexico. This area, one to which many Americans flock, ha..
35: There's No Reality, Only Perceptions
It has occurred to me lately just how the filters through which we see and read events determine how we evaluate and react to them. The phrase, "You look at the world through rose-colored glasses" is ..
36: Cultural Diversity in the Classroom Equals Language Success!
Cultural differences in communicating are important for a teacher to understand because cross-cultural communication abounds in early childhood classrooms. Its goals include communicating despite dif..
37: The Gringolandizing Of Mexico-pt 1
The literature that exists in book form and especially in online newsletters and magazines presents to the "Move-To-Mexico Wannebee" Mexico as an Image and not Mexico as it Really Is.I found an excell..
38: Learning Spanish: Financing Your Spanish Education
A couple of years ago, an American lady came to Guanajuato to learn Spanish. She enrolled in one of the most expensive schools in town. This school is good, by the way, and I always recommend it to pe..
39: Living In Mexico: Fight Well, Love Better
Though a conservative, I read liberal points of view. I do so for two reasons. One, their views help me refine my own. The second reason is that I owe it to "the other side" to be able to fairly and a..
40: Living In Mexico: Gringolandia Denial
I cannot begin to imagine what life must be like in isolated little enclaves where the inhabitants have only one another for socializing. In areas like Guanajuato that still have such few Gringolandia..
41: Mentor For Hire Services Eases Your Move To Mexico
Sometimes I marvel at how my wife and I arrived in Guanajuato, Mexico, with so little Spanish and with so few cultural skills. Somehow we managed to survive some pretty severe bumps in the expatriatio..
42: Living In Mexico: Where Did That Bus Driver Go?
Gringolandians, those living in Gringo enclaves, live such isolated and bizarrely separate lives from the Mexicans in the same town that they have on more than one occasion called me an absolute liar ..
43: Learning Spanish: Begin By Listening - Part 6
Most folks, when they set out to study a new language, begin by enrolling in Spanish I at their local Junior College. This is not the way to begin. In fact, the formal learning about the language in a..
44: Living In Mexico: Confessions Of An Insane Gringo
Let me first say that whether or not I am actually insane could be debated. However, my personal pendulum tends to swing toward the yes column. So, there you go, my first confession.The second confess..
45: Learn Spanish Language Effectively
Take a moment to take yourself back to when you were learning English. You'll remember that you started learning to speak by listening to your parents repeatedly speak simple phrases and eventually re..
46: How Do I Become Fluent In A New Language?
I read the following online on a site supposedly devoted to learning fluency in a second language:"Language is like any other skill or aptitude: some people are proficient in languages, while others a..
47: Learning Spanish Has Never Been Easier
Mnemonic memory training is a memory system that allows you to store information in and recall it from your long-term memory, and, in the case of learning a new language, your speech center. Mnemonics..
48: Spanish Voices in a Worldly Marketplace
It's no secret that the Spanish market is booming in the United States, particularly the Hispanic market.After several generations of people from Latin America and South America establishing roots as ..
49: Learning Spanish Part Twenty-one: Why Talk About Methods?
My purpose in this series (which I failed to make clear, apparently, from the beginning) has been to do two things. One is to show the progression of second language acquisition instruction in its his..
50: Learning Spanish Part Six : More On Conversation Classes
Think about this very seriously for a moment. If you have children, just think what degree of spoken fluency your child had when you first packed him off to first grade. Think of all he could understa..
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