Total Physical Response (TPR) and Foreign Language SUCCESS

What is Total Physical Response and how can it help you with foreign language acquisition? Total Physical Response offers tremendous advantages to language learners.  TPR is known to: Motivate students Improve retention Reduce anxiety and stress Help academically weaker students Teach students to determine meaning from context Increase student confidence Offer a refreshingly different style of…

Resources

Check out this fun article on home remedies for toothache! Try this lesson on verbs like “doler” (to hurt/ache). Hilarious video!” Think our gestures are silly? Watch this crazy dentist explain his! LesCOURES More Practice Opportunities Extra Reading and More El vampiro y la dentista Here is an “embedded reading” (easy version A, more detailed…

So many choices for Spanish! How do I pick?

There has never been a greater time to homeschool OR to pick up a new language. With countless resources at our fingertips, the problem is not getting information– It is wading through the overwhelming quantity of information to seize the best, most accurate, and most concise information. So how are we to save both time…

What’s Different about Excelerate SPANISH?

“What’s different about Excelerate SPANISH?”  This is the question I hear most often at homeschool conferences.  I love answering it, and I think you’ll love the answer, too! It’s really no exaggeration to say, “What’s different is everything.”  Excelerate SPANISH is truly unique from the other choices available to homeschoolers today!  Read the reviews and…

The Best Way to Learn a Foreign Language

I taught Spanish in the public school classroom for 10 years, mostly at the high school level, then to homeschooled students (mine and others) for about 8 years. I am not a fan of traditional, formal curricula for foreign language learning. Some students will learn in spite of them… but many more inevitably wind up…

Excelerate SPANISH for Your Homeschool, Co-op, or Class!

Do you have a single student? Or do you need to offer Spanish to multiple students in your homeschool? How would you like to give them an awesome experience that will help them to acquire tons of practical, useful Spanish? Excelerate SPANISH is ideal for equipping your students for real life, for employment, for college, and for…

Better SPANISH Practice for Your Homeschool

The key to becoming really proficient in Spanish is practice, practice, practice…but how is a homeschool family to accomplish this goal most advantageously? Obviously, choosing an effective curriculum is important.  Make sure that your program’s approach is based on sound principles.  Many common practices are not best practices, and they will waste your valuable time…

Grab Comprehensible Input Resources for ANY Language!

As young children, we acquired our native language via relevant, personalized, compelling comprehensible input.  Unfortunately, this is lacking with most foreign language programs.  Fortunately, finding solutions is easier than ever, once we know what to look for. Appropriate input might include videos, music, television, news articles, podcasts, books, conversations, sports narrations, and more.  You’ll be…

FREE Spanish Lesson and Foreign Language Workshop!

Contact us today to arrange a FREE Spanish lesson and foreign language workshop for your co-op, support group, or school! You will learn: 1. How and why so many students fail to achieve proficiency with ordinary methods 2. What brain researchers and language acquisition experts are saying 3. Simple techniques that improve retention 4. How…

It’s HERE! Check out Excelerate SPANISH 2!

Hear ye, hear ye!  All of the Excelerate SPANISH 2 components are now available for purchase.  The Whole Program includes all 24 lesson videos on 6 DVDs, one lesson book, one student workbook, and answer keys for the parent or teacher. And let me just tell you, Spanish 2 is a blast!  Here’s a little preview…