Valencia is the third biggest city in Spain. I talked to several friends with contacts in Spain and finally a men’s home in Valencia invited me to come over. The house was a rehabilitation center for drug addicts. A lot of men with strange backgrounds, complicated family histories and bad experiences in life waited for me.…
I had totally different plans as a student in high school, but then I chose to study Spanish and German at university to become a teacher. I had found out that my heart was more into languages and cultures and learning about people than any other thing. The first choice I had to make was…
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I wanted to join a youth group that was traveling to Spain. As I didn’t know a lot of Spanish I prepared myself by learning phrases by heart. It helped a lot, and I had the impression that I was making progress. But then, something terrible happened: I met a Spaniard in a train. He…
My parents gave me a gift after college: a journey to my country of birth, Chile. Unfortunately, I left Chile when I was four years old and had forgotten all my Spanish. It would have been quite hard and complicated for my parents to organize a Spanish-speaking setting for me to keep the language. It…
So those are the most important philosophical underpinnings of GPA. Now on to the approach itself. GPA is divided into 6 phases, each of which I’ll describe briefly. Phase 1: the Here and Now Phase. In this phase, you start out not being able to participate at all. So you need a lot of non-verbal…
Most everyone in the world has tried to learn another language, if only a few words. And there are almost as many language learning methods out there as there are language learners: everyone has his or her own method, however well-defined it is or not. But not all methods are created equally. Some simply conform…