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We are in Barcelona!

Spanish 1 works for us

We’ve now been here in Barcelona for a couple of Gaudi's Pedreraweeks. Our Spanish is improving by leaps and bounds, and we are having great fun exploring the city. (see Gaudi's Casa Mila on your right.) We prepared for our stay with our Spanish 1 course and are pleased at how many words, phrases, and expressions from our course we see, hear, and read every day. During our walks around town, we practice with shop keepers, waiters, and anybody else we can talk to. We read the local El Periódico every morning, and watch some Spanish television at night. Our list of new words, which we review often, keeps growing. 

Research for Spanish 2

Lunch MenuWe have started to take pictures of the advertised daily lunch or evening menus, asked for them in restaurants, and are compiling a list of the most common names of Spanish foods and dishes. These terms, together with other words and phrases that we encounter, will then become part of Spanish 2. (They’ll also be available as downloads on our site for those who are interested.)

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GamesforLanguage interview with Watertown Patch

The following article appeared in the Watertown Patch on March 9, 2012 under the headline:

"Couple Wants to Help Watertown Residents Learn a Foreign Language"

A Watertown couple has launched an online program to help people learn a foreign language and they want to share it with town residents.

Peter and Ulrike Rettig have desks facing each other in the second floor of their Watertown home, overlooking the Oakley Country Club. That is where they work onGamesforLanguage.com, a website where people can learn French, Spanish, German or Italian....