Mon, May 25, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Every once in a while, we all run into a word that deceives us about its meaning.
Barra de Español: A new Firefox toolbar for Spanish students
Fri, May 22, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Ladies and gentlemen, Spanish students across the globe, I’d like to introduce you to my latest creation!
Barra de Español: The making of a Firefox extension
Fri, May 22, 2009
I have just released a new Firefox add-on called Barra de Español, a toolbar for those who are studying the Spanish language.
We have hopped onto the Twitter bandwagon
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Joining Twitter has become the trendy thing for bloggers to do, and while the non-conformist inside of me tells me to go against the trend, I think there may be some value in Twitter that I haven’t totally realized yet.
Wed, Apr 29, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
I had once assumed that if I were to learn a constructed language, it would be Esperanto.
Thu, Apr 16, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Last night I found Spanish-dubbed versions of a couple of American television shows online, and I was watching them while doing laundry.
BibleFeed Project: Consuming a SOAP web service
Mon, Mar 30, 2009
This is the third post in the BibleFeed Project. If you haven’t already, read the first and second posts.
In my last post I stated the difficulty I was having finding a python library to handle the SOAP web service which I’ll be using to get the data for this project.
The difficulty of consuming a .NET Web Service using Python
Fri, Mar 6, 2009
This post is not part of my Biblefeed series of posts, but it is very much related. For the Biblefeed project, I was hoping to consume this web service in order to get the data I need to make the project work.
Mon, Mar 2, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
This past Christmas, I received Huevos verdes con jamón, which is the Spanish translation of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr.
BibleFeed Project: Creating the models
Thu, Jan 29, 2009
This is the second post relating to the BibleFeed Project. If you haven’t yet, you may want to read the first post.
Listening to compressed words in Spanish
Thu, Jan 29, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
I’ve been trying to improve my listening skills in Spanish. So far I’m terrible at it but I’m picking up more words the longer I listen.
Find music you actually like in the language you are learning
Sun, Jan 11, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Photo by [nati]
One of the great challenges of learning a new language is immersing yourself in the new language enough so that you can almost absorb it through osmosis .