Staying in the Fight: 600 Hours Retrospective
What 600 hours of input have taught me about staying engaged when understanding starts to fall apart.
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Reflections, resources, and experiments from acquiring Spanish.
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The Spanish Idiom Museum
Lo hecho, hecho está: writing a song with Spanish idioms.
Soundtrack of Resistence: Spanish Folk Protest Songs
An album of anti-fascist folk songs surreptitiously recorded under Franco.
False Cognates and False Friends
Ten Spanish words that felt familiar just long enough to mislead me.
Contigo: Brilliant Songwriting and Cover
Cannot stop listening to this Joaquín Sabina cover by Valeria Contigo. Some of the best songwriting I’ve ever come across.
Victor Jara Folk Tragedy
Sharing the well known Victor Jara song Te recuerdo Amanda
Writing Songs in a Language I Don't Know
Using generative AI as a creative supplement to comprehensible input
Crosstalk With ChatGPT
The prompt I use for crosstalk practice with ChatGPT voice mode
Silvia Pérez Cruz
A couple beautiful songs from the Spanish singer Silvia Pérez Cruz