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  • Learning Spanish: The Affective Factor
    The chief problem for most Americans who want to learn Spanish but who don't succeed is the Affective Factor Plainly put, this means the emotional issues; that is, adults become freaked out at the thought
  • Living In Mexico: Fight Well, Love Better
    Though a conservative, I read liberal points of view I do so for two reasons
  • 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 Gringolandians, the "Social Incest" (as the southeast Asian locals used to say the Americans there committed) must be incredibly horrid
  • 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 expatriation road
  • 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 for the things I've reported happening in the Mexican city where I live

    One thing with which they take particular exception is what I've written about buses
  • 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
  • Living In Mexico: Everyone Loves The Theater!
    If you haven't been following my articles plastered all over the Internet, what I've been writing about with much alacrity is how life for the American expat in Mexico basically falls into two classifications

    First, there are the Expats who actually live in the trenches
  • Learning Spanish: Begin By Listening - Part 5
    To maximize our brain's ability to store visual and auditory impressions in the target language, we must constantly, each day, create an atmosphere in which we are hearing and seeing the language we seek to acquire in an immersion situation This is not only possible to do in a country in which the target language is not spoken but is being accomplished all the time
  • How-To Conquer Central Mexico In Your Next Vacation
    I've noticed lately the tourists that make their way to central Mexico (Guanajuato) tend to be either the loosey-goosey backpackers or the tourist elite who tend to have a lot of experience in coming to strange and new places

    The backpackers (and there's nothing wrong with loosey-goosey, I would like to add) seem to be a highly adaptable group that can, more or less, stay almost anywhere, under most conditions, and more easily go with the flow, no matter what the flow throws their way
  • Terrorism: A New Perspective
    I've been wondering lately about the word "terrorism" and its various definitions It is certainly an appropriate inquiry considering today's world environment
  • Learning Spanish: Begin By Listening - Part 3
    The way in which adult Africans, and I believe many of the adults I've met in the resort areas of Mexico, have developed a high degree of spoken fluency is the same way in which we learned our native tongue as children—Passive Listening If ever there was a "natural way" to learn a second language, this is it
  • Learning Spanish: Begin By Listening - Part 2
    The place most worth considering where instruction in how to learn a second language abounds just might surprise you Africa is the place where more people are multilingual than anywhere else in the world
  • 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
  • Learning Spanish: Begin By Listening - Part 1
    I remain convinced the primary reason why so many Americans are attracted to Mexico is in the Gringolandias, or Gringo Expat Enclaves, they will never be faced with what seems to be the overwhelming task of learning Spanish The British, I am told, do the same thing in the south of France
  • 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 are better at math, science, or music Everyone has the potential to learn, but the fact is that some people are just more capable of learning language than others
  • Living In Mexico: It's The Rainy Season And I'm Bored
    We've been holed up in the house pretty much now for two weeks and counting We venture out between downpours

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