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About Me:: Hi, my name is Steve Hall and I live in Torrevieja, Alicante, Spain Torrevieja and much of the Costa Blanca is a huge expat area where one of the challenges is for the newly arrived masses to learn at least some Spanish. This portal is intended for anybody to add their stories about learning the language, add articles, promote their language schools, courses or books or simply ask questions about the Spanish language.

I would welcome articles about the history of the language, the differences with the other Romance languages, the other official languages of Spain and its various dialects,. I am hoping we will have a "Palabre del Día" and other interesting features. You are also most welcome to add photos of Spain or Spanish-speaking countries.

I have another portal that I have developed over 6 years and you will find more information about Spain and the Spanish on www.thisisspain.info

Website:: http://www.thisisspain.info

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(With apologies to /acknowledgements to a certain Mr W Gates) I recently gave a speech about 11 things they did not and will not teach would-be expats. I talked about how feel-good, commission-hungry estate agents created a generation of expats with no concept of reality and how this "dream" set them up for failure in the real Spain. Rule 1: Expat life is not fair - get used to it! Rule 2 : Expats and Spaniards alike will not care about your previous life. They will expect you to accomplish s… Continue

Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 5:52pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Interesting Sites

http://www.englishlondon.com (London School of English) http://www.polyglot.co.uk (Learn languages) http://www.chinesedictionary.info (Chinese dictionary) - you thought Spanish was difficult!!

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Learning Spanish Living in Spain has made me realise that acquiring really good Spanish will be a steep learning curve. Years ago, when I went to Mexico for a week I learned some basic phrases. I bought the Berlitz tape and phrase book. I have used their books for a large number of languages. In about a month you can cram your head with all the basic phrases of any language. The tapes work well, provided those you meet give textbook answers when you ask the way, etc. The phrases remain in your… Continue

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Another video

How many words did you pick up from this video? Do you know the Spanish for Spain, spanish, football..? Enjoy Steve PS Please feel free to pass this video on.

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Just a little fun

Computers (male or female) A Spanish Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish all nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. 'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.' 'Car,' however, is masculine: 'el coche.' A student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?' Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer' should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was… Continue

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At 11:38pm on July 15th, 2008, Steve Hall said…: In your opinion who would be best to deal with the Spanish or English banks

Spanish - no ifs, buts or maybes!

At 11:21pm on July 15th, 2008, allison pink said…: Thanks Steve I have been so busy I have not looked at my emails for a while I shall get in touch with West Med consulting solicitors . Its asking a bit much but with so many people withdrawing offers on new builds. In your opinion who would be best to deal with the Spanish or English banks Regards Allison Pink

At 10:10pm on July 10th, 2008, Diane Stafford said…: Hi Steve, Thanks for the welcome and don't worry I will shout :-) lol Di

At 11:37pm on March 7th, 2008, Steve Hall said…: Thanks, Jan. Good luck

At 9:26am on March 7th, 2008, Jan said…: Hi Steve,

I know you know about this comment I'm sending to everyone, but I'm sending it to you too in any case LOL

Hi Steve,
I have some Spanish language learning e-books that I have resellers rights to. I have no interest in making a profit from these, so I’m giving them away to members and visitors of our own Spanish language network at: www.spanishlanguagesite.ning.com
Steve is happy for me to tell you about our Spanish Club and so I thought I would let you know that if you fill in the simple online form that shows there with your name and email, you will be re-directed to a page where you can download these e-books for free in a zip file, and also have the opportunity of seeing a sample page from our online Spanish language course. On this particular page is one of the many video clips we have of local Spanish people talking with the transcript in English, Spanish or none at the click of a button – so helping beginners who struggle to understand and more advanced who do not need assistance.
I have put other sample videos and podcasts from our courses in our SLS Spansih Club and would love to show them to you. All the podcasts from our courses are free, which you can listen to on our main site at www.spanishlanguagesite.com by clicking the SLS Podcasts link on any page. A popup player will launch (you need flash player to view this but can easily download it for free if you haven't got it already) and you will be able to choose which of the 59 podcasts to listen too. We plan on adding a further 50+ podcasts to this list when our advanced course is finished. These later podcasts will be totally in Castilian Spanish as befits the advanced course, so bookmark the site if this is of interest to you.
Jan

At 8:57pm on February 14th, 2008, Steve Hall said…: Auf Spanisch geht's besser!

Here are my Spanish sites and I am happy to link your blog to all of them:

www.thisisspain.info
www.searchspainonline.info
www.todaslascasas.net
www.loscostaleros.com

(http://workinginspain.ning.com - you might want to register.)

I enjoyed skim reading your blog (72 pages!) and thanks for the SEO tips. I am essentially self-taught one SEO and do my best. I am as good as housebound so the web is my lifeline to the "Real World"

I support myself as Master Distributor for www.talkfusion.com Seeing your IT interests - maybe something of interest for you?

Speak soon

Steve

PS Pls let me have a < 50 word description of your blog and any other sites you want links to.

At 8:34pm on February 14th, 2008, Carl Galloway said…: Hi Steve, thanks for the welcome, truth be told it's great to meet other people who also have an interest in Spanish although my fiance and I are very new to the language. We've spent the last 9months learning German and now know enough to keep learning by ourselves but Spanish is a very different language.

As for links etc, I'm always happy to link to great sites, especially if they are in the same niche as me.

At 4:20pm on February 14th, 2008, Fernando Pérez Cos said…: Maybe, just maybe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At 4:19pm on February 14th, 2008, Fernando Pérez Cos said…: Muy bueno Steve.

Yo que voy a decir siendo Portavoz del Grupo Municipal del Partido Popular en Puente Viesgo (Cantabria). Por cierto que la página web es www.pp-puenteviesgo.org

At 12:50pm on February 13th, 2008, Malcolm said…: hi Steve thanks for the comments and your useful site. Videogolf is a bit back seat at the moment as I am looking to get some other stuff going.
all the best
malcolm