What's actually holding your Spanish back?
You learn a new Spanish word, feel good about it, use it in a sentence — and then the next time you need it, it’s gone. Not fuzzy. Gone. I know that feeling well. I once used a new word I’d been practicing, got halfway through the sentence, and completely lost the ending. The pause…
When I decided to get serious about tracking Spanish vocabulary, I built my own spreadsheet. It took longer than I expected — and the first version was missing things I didn’t realize I needed until I was actually using it. What I eventually landed on was a system with eight columns that work together: the…
Finding the right vocabulary tools made a bigger difference than I expected. Not because they did the memorizing for me — but because the best ones show you words in real context instead of just giving you a definition. That context is what makes a word actually stick. This post pulls together the most useful…
The first Spanish words I tried to learn were nouns. Casa, perro, comida — concrete things I could picture. Those felt manageable. What nobody told me was that the words I actually needed most weren’t nouns at all. They were the small connecting words — de, que, en, por, con — the ones that show…
For a long time I couldn’t figure out why Spanish words wouldn’t stick. I’d study a list, feel like I knew it, and then sit down to have a conversation and come up with nothing. What changed things was understanding a little about how vocabulary actually gets stored in the brain. Words don’t live in…
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