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What Actually Trips Up Adults Learning Spanish (It Isn’t the Subjunctive)

What Actually Trips Up Adults Learning Spanish (It Isn’t the Subjunctive)

by Hannah Pinkerton | Sep 20, 2026 | Blog

If you asked most people what makes Spanish hard for English speakers, they’d say the subjunctive, or ser versus estar, or por versus para. We went through 113 of our own one-to-one classes with 16 adult students, tagged what each session actually spent time on,...
How Many Spanish Classes Does It Actually Take? We Counted 1,896 of Ours

How Many Spanish Classes Does It Actually Take? We Counted 1,896 of Ours

by Hannah Pinkerton | Sep 20, 2026 | Blog

If you’re wondering how many Spanish classes it takes before the language starts to feel like yours, we can answer that with our own records rather than a guess. We went back through 1,896 one-to-one classes taught since 2020, to 67 adult students, and counted...
Do You Have a Different Personality in Each Language?

Do You Have a Different Personality in Each Language?

by Hannah Pinkerton | Sep 1, 2026 | Blog

Many bilingual people feel they have a different personality in each language, and the reason is practical rather than mystical: your personality in a language is limited by your fluency in it. Humor, nuance and emotional precision all draw on vocabulary, so the...

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