Spanish With Kerry

"Feeling unable to claim your identity because of not having the language..."

A reality that many Latinos who grow up in the United States face. If they don't have mastery of the language, they may b…

Looking to make 2021 your year for learning Spanish?  In part one, I share my perspective on how to maximize progress and set realistic goals for yourself.  

Do you know there's multiple ways to say …

How is it that you can recognize the sound of your name above hundreds of sounds in any given environment? 

We can use this same mechanism within the brain to tune into the language we're learning, i…

If you're in this thing for real, you're going to get overwhelmed at times.  There's so so so much to learn... even if you want to be "just conversational." So sometimes we need to put the heavy stuf…

Jordan Nealy joins me for the first interview of this podcast to share his experience of becoming bilingual.  His story captures what the language learning process is truly about. Anyone who hopes to…

Every THING has a gender in Spanish... and you have to learn the gender of everything. Which can be a bit daunting considering every rule regarding masculine & feminine nouns has an exception! 

So fo…

"Me gusta"-  El Kanka 

How to tell someone "I like you"  in Spanish  ;)

The verbs Gustar and Encantar will be used to express when we like or love something, but the set-up is different in Spanish. 

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To start to understand better the why and when of reflexive verbs, let's look at a number of examples of verbs that exist both as reflexive and as regular verbs. 

In part two, follow along with this …

Some lines from The Alchemist, by Paolo Coelho-

"Entonces, ¿por qué debo escuchar mi corazón?

Porque no conseguirás nunca mantenerlo callado. E incluso si finges no escuchar lo que dice, él estará de…

Being bilingual has some pretty RAD EFFECTS  on the brain. Here's the article I pulled from for Part 1 :  "How a second language can boost the brain"

Part 2: To Be or To Be? This week, we break down …

Let them have that "take the bra off" feeling!

This week, we look at the verb "Ser" which means "to be".  We use "ser" to describe ourselves- our personality, our physical characteristics. So use thi…

If the man speaks 8 languages... let's respect his input on the whole language learning process.
Find Olly Richards as "iwillteachyoualanguage"

The most important activity for language learning! Lis…

In this two-part episode, we'll look at - 

• Defining your goal for Spanish.  Why do you want to learn? How do you envision yourself using it? 
  Having an answer to this question is important for so m…

Hola! And welcome! In this episode, I tell you about my life-long love story with Spanish. 

I became bilingual while not living in a Spanish speaking country, while not using Spanish in the work-plac…