Señora Gose's Homeschool Spanish Blog (aka "Seriously, Suzanne")

We LOVE learning new words in Spanish - but we're fearful sometimes of using them because we don't want to misuse them... Here are a few of my blunders when I first began learning and speaking Spanish. Hopefully you can learn from some of my mistakes and side step them! perezoso (lazy) and peligroso (dangerous)peh-reh-soh-soh   --- peh-lee-groh-soh There's a pretty funny story with this one - if you have a few minutes, you might want to hear it here: Spanish Geniuses: Confusing Words embarazada - pregnant (ehm-bah-rah-sah-dah) Yeah. Pregnant. not embarrassed, like you would think... and Yes, I used this one...

Your kids are excited, you're excited, and you want to get started RIGHT now!Is it possible? YES! Check out this free six minute video lesson in my FREE SPANISH LESSON PLAYLIST and use the method again and again! Here's the video! Click away!   Where do you look up the words? Well, SpanishDict.com is your best option for choosing your first three nouns you are including in your first session. 1) Choose three Spanish Nouns that are common in your life. 2) Look them up, listen to the pronunciation, and doodle while you repeat! 3) Make the speaking chart and build your own...

Any sort of family change, including homeschooling transitions are HARD! Have you begun your back to school schedule? Sort of? Feeling a little bumpy? Me too! I have a quick video, if you need to see for yourself.   Don't have time to watch my rant, I mean, "helpful advice"? Here are the main points: 1) Start with the HARD thing. This gives you motivation, a sense of purpose, and progress. It helps you point to one thing that was accomplished.  2) Next time you end a semester, or prepare for a break, let go of the easy things first. The fluff...

Let's face it, there are too many sparkly things in the homeschool world - or in the mom world, even... ok, in the world."Squirrel!" Honestly, I did NOT want to write this post - deciding a focus and sticking with it is just NOT super fun. It's even maybe a little boring, but it's important to have a plan so you can adjust... "PIVOT" if you will. As you look into the spring semester for your foreign language journey, I recommend planning your focus. When our five kiddos were younger, we chose ONE focus per day. That way, at the end...

This is updated from another time - back in 2019, but it's hitting home hard again. So, I'll use the same story and apply it differently to Suzanne today (Seriously, Suzanne) and hope it helps you too! (Aff links included - they'll help me fill the stockings for our five! Thanks for clicking!) How do we keep going? Honestly, back in 1999, (in the pre-baby times - do you remember those times?) when I was asked this question in my second (maybe it was third) interview for becoming a public school teacher after our move from Waco, Texas to Bryan,...