by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 30, 2026 | Blog
To stay consistent learning Spanish, stop relying on motivation and build a small system instead: a routine of 20 minutes or less, tied to a habit you already have, that you can keep even in your busiest week. Hannah has taught Spanish for nearly 20 years, and she...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 28, 2026 | Blog
Code-switching is when a bilingual person moves between two languages in the same conversation, sometimes in the middle of a sentence. For Hannah, a Spanish teacher from the US who lives in Mexico, it usually happens for three reasons: a Spanish word says something...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 25, 2026 | Blog
You freeze because your brain has practiced understanding Spanish far more than producing it, and because in the moment you are trying to build a perfect answer instead of a functional one. It is not a knowledge problem. It is a retrieval problem, and retrieval is...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 24, 2026 | Blog
The Mexican expressions worth learning first are not the famous slang words. They are the ones people say without noticing: este arroz ya se coció when something is settled, valió chetos when something is ruined, and don and doña before the name of anyone older than...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 23, 2026 | Blog
You forget Spanish words quickly because you are reviewing them too few times, too close together, and never using them for anything real. Recognizing a word and being able to produce it under pressure are two different skills. The fix is fewer words, spaced...
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