Spanish

Spanish Pronunciation Training – An Inside Look Into The Flow of Spanish

May 9, 2017 By Idahosa Leave a Comment

In this video I’m going to give you a quick walkthrough of The Flow of Spanish, so if you decide to sign up for it you’ll know what you’re getting into.

The first thing you should know is that The Flow of Spanish is an online e-course, which means you can access it from your phone, tablet, and computer as long as you have an internet connection. But there are also audio files you’re able to download and train offline.

Spanish Pronunciation: The Ultimate Guide

January 17, 2017 By Idahosa 6 Comments

spanish pronunciation is not just about reading and writing

Most Spanish pronunciation guides are really only about pronunciation rules for the language. They tend to fall short of teaching you how to actually hear and pronounce said sounds. Here at The Mimic Method, we think this latter part is even more important than just recognizing the location of a sound in word spelling.

By the end of this Spanish pronunciation guide, you should be familiar with most of the sounds associated with the Spanish alphabet in their phonetic form. You may even discover a few tricks to overcome things like ‘rolling your R’s’.

In general, Spanish pronunciation is quite regular. You can tell how to pronounce a word from the way it’s written once you know what sound each letter (or group of letters) represents.

Luckily, the sounds almost always match the spelling. Many speak the consonant sounds in a similar way to English. The main differences are with c, g, h, j, ll, ñ, qu, r, v, z. Vowels are pronounced the same wherever they occur – unlike English, in which each vowel can be spoken in several distinct ways (i.e., through vs. tough vs. though).

The 4 Secrets to Fixing 80% of your Foreign Accent

July 13, 2012 By Idahosa Leave a Comment

After providing feedback on thousands of submissions to students in Spanish, Portuguese, French and Mandarin and English, I have identified four key errors that account for 80% of errors that Native-English speakers have when speaking other languages.

As deeply ingrained as these habits are, they’re not hard to fix; it’s just a question of awareness. Develop a physical awareness of your errors, and you will eventually phase them out.

In this post, I will review these four errors and provide tips for developing your awareness of them to avoid sounding like a foreigner.

How I Learned to Rap in Spanish

February 8, 2012 By Idahosa Leave a Comment

This is my first foreign language!

I’m putting this video up mainly for two reasons:

To show that one can indeed rap in a foreign language
To show how memorizing song and rap lyrics is infinitely more fun than memorizing flash cards and conjugation charts.

Aside from being more fun than these more “traditional” (my euphemism for “ineffective”) ways of studying language, these activities are superior for many other reason, including but not limited to…