The bridge from English to Spanish
In the U.K. 17 and 18 year old students may take A-level Spanish. This is Spanish at CEFR level B1 – B2.
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Get into this lesson and enjoy. If you have a favourites Spanish festival, I would love to hear about it.
Muchas gracias 🙂
Do you know the words for all the things you might want and need in your hotel room?
Get into this lesson and enjoy. Write your answers with humour and send them off to me to enjoy!
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There are lots of very simple stories, in Ukrainian, on Duolingo. They are not in the Ukrainian course, but in the English for Ukrainians course. In the video below you can learn how to access these stories in about a minute. Be sure to download the one I have typed up for you … A Difficult Problem.
My Big Book of Ukrainian Exercises is available on Amazon, and supports your studies on Duolingo.
Beatrix Potter Stories in Ukrainian and English is also available on Amazon, and gives you 3 charming stories in parallel text to understand and enjoy.
The goals here are:
Download your free, 5 page PDF. I usually sell this lesson for £30, so be sure to take full advantage and enjoy working through the exercises.
Relax and enjoy the video presentation of this lesson. Be sure to complete the tasks. If you would like to share your work, I would love to read what you have to say. Email me!
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A Spanish Phrasebook for Educators Phrases and activities for people working with young children
Spanglish Fantastico The ultimate easy reader to improve confidence and fluency
Jokes to help you learn Spanish Have fun and learn some Spanish set pieces
Learn Spanish in a Week Kick start your Spanish with this achievable challenge
Spanglish for your Holiday Story, puzzles and activities
Pedro Rabbit The classic story with a term’s worth of activities for kindergartens and primary schools
Thank you for learning español conmigo.
The goal here is to learn words for:
Download your free, 6 page PDF. I usually sell this lesson for £30, so be sure to take full advantage and enjoy working through the exercises.
Relax and enjoy the video presentation of this lesson. Be sure to complete the tasks. If you would like to share your work, I would love to read what you have to say. Email me!
If you have compliments or suggestions about my lessons, pop them in the comments on YouTube. It all helps me.
Gracias.
Support my work by buying and sharing my books.
Positive reviews are very valuable to me.
Gracias.
A Spanish Phrasebook for Educators Phrases and activities for people working with young children
Spanglish Fantastico The ultimate easy reader to improve confidence and fluency
Jokes to help you learn Spanish Have fun and learn some Spanish set pieces
Learn Spanish in a Week Kick start your Spanish with this achievable challenge
Spanglish for your Holiday Story, puzzles and activities
Pedro Rabbit The classic story with a term’s worth of activities for kindergartens and primary schools
Thank you for learning español conmigo.
I’d like you to come on holiday with me. I fancy a road trip to take in some beautiful countryside, a steam railway and finish it off with a day at the spa. Can you persuade me to do something even better than that? Let’s look at the vocab and the language, and study together to raise our nivel de español. ¿Vamos?
Your challenge, should you choose to acceptarlo, es escribirme sobre lo que vamos a hacer de vacaciones juntos. Use plenty of future tenses, and remember! Make it persuasive, or I won’t come!
La idea es aumentar nuestro nivel de español. Do you have any favourite phrases from today’s lesson? Make a note, and share the best ones in the comments.
Hasta la próxima,
Ruth 🙂
Spanglish For Your Holiday. A great gift to get someone you love started with learning español. Click here.
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We all know what we think of staying in a tent in the rain, or in a noisy hotel packed with drunk tourists … but can you talk about it en español? Download the presentation, watch the video, complete the tasks and enjoy your growing vocabulary. You are using your time wisely!
Your challenge, should you choose to acceptarlo, es escribir un blog sobre varios tipos de vacaciones. Se titula “El paraíso de las vacaciones o el infierno de las vacaciones… ¡Qué elegir!”
La idea es escribir sobre tus preferencias, reconociendo lo malo de lo que te gusta y lo bueno de lo que no te gusta. If you would like to share your work, email me, or simply put it in the YouTube comments. Podría ser valioso y entretenido para nuestra pequeña comunidad leer sus ideas.
Hasta la próxima,
Ruth 🙂
Spanglish For Your Holiday. A great gift to get someone you love started with learning español. Click here.
Check out the other books in my bookshop:
Ready for more? Listen to Joaquín Sabina’s wonderful song, Ruido with the lyrics. Then follow the link to the lesson from ELE and complete the tasks. ¿Tienes preguntas? Just drop me a line 🙂
I love watching telly dubbed into Ukrainian, especially when I can understand some of it. In this PDF I have collected phrases I understood from the first 3 episodes of The Queen Charlotte story on Netflix.
I have watched all the Bridgerton series on Netflix and I love the phrases I can gather from each episode. They are things I feel I can use:
There are sure to be some errors in my 144 strong list, but I am still going to study all these phrases. I will see my Ukrainian teacher soon, and it will be good to practice the pronunciation with her. In the meantime, I hope to make progress by trying to produce some of these phrases from memory.
I want to be able to communicate and have fun with this language, and that is what I am doing. I hope you don’t mind me sharing this with you.
Best wishes to all, and praying, as ever, for peace.
Ruth.
Review and augment the first half of the Duolingo course in this book which has been checked and approved by my Ukrainian teachers. Lots of good exercises, helpful for beginners and those reviewing the basics.
Read about the Queen Charlotte Netflix series on Wikipedia, in Ukrainian!
Revise your future tense verbs, memorising the endings and the “dirty dozen” – the 12 irregular stem forms. If you follow all the instructions in this lesson you will get some really good practice which will improve your confidence using Spanish, and improve your Spanish vocabulary.
Download your copy of the presentation, including all recommended links and all the examples in the video.
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Fancy an easy way to revise your basic español? Pick up your copy of Spanglish Fantastico, the easy Spanish reader that will get you from zero to fluent in no time!
Many people began learning Ukrainian when war broke out in February 2022. As people finish the course on Duolingo, we can easily reduce the amount of time put into studying.
When I finished writing “My Big Book of Ukrainian Exercises,” … when all the proofs were done and the publishing had begun, I found I lost direction with my learning. I visited a Ukrainian friend which I always find inspiring, and then I decided to put my feelings into words.
I went back to Duolingo, and the first sentence it gave me to practice was a clear sign to me that I need to JUST KEEP GOING! I made a short video of some of the sentences I want to learn this week, and you can download the script, watch the video and learn with me.
Watch the video and learn these useful sentences.
If you think it might help you to revise the basics of Duolingo, why not try My Big Book of Ukrainian Exercises.
Learning any language takes a lot of time. You have already put in a lot of time, but you haven’t got the results yet. You can’t enjoy a good chat in Ukrainian. (This is me, talking to me by the way, you might be different). In order to get the results, and make good on the investment you have already put in, you need to KEEP GOING.
Believe in yourself. You can do it.
If you have kindly read this post, I would welcome comments here, or on the YouTube video, about what you are doing to KEEP LEARNING UKRAINIAN.
Дякую
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