Month: January 2024

I do not know about you, but each time I see an website promoting you to learn Spanish within 3 days, I am horribly angry. I know that they are doing that to make money by cheating you.

Learning how to speak Spanish is a long term process. It will require your time,energy and some of your money. Patience also plays an important role during the learning process.

If you are planing to learn Spanish by the old school system it may take longer time for you to learn because most of them are boring and they are expensive. In the modern world of internet, they are numerous of fun ways for you to learn Spanish. This option would allow you to learn Spanish the way you wanted to.

However if you are serious to learn Spanish fast, there are several golden rules that you should follow.

1# Start Now… Read more

Many people are interested in learning Spanish these days. Maybe it’s because of the 17 million Spanish-speaking people in the U.S. who either don’t speak English at all or don’t speak it very well. You need to know Spanish these days to speak to your neighbors, on both sides of the border!

Maybe it’s because Spanish is arguably the fourth most widely spoken language in the world. In the Western Hemisphere there are more native Spanish speakers than native English speakers. And the U.S.A. now has the fifth largest Spanish-speaking population (45+ million) of any country in the world…

Or maybe it’s because Spanish is relatively easy to learn since there are so many similarities and common words between Spanish and English. For traveling, Spanish is very useful, not only in the Americas but in Europe too, where Spanish is widely spoken.

For whatever reason, when people want to learn … Read more

When I first started playing in a band as a keyboard player, I was not familiar with the speaking part of the music language, as a musician. Sometimes as musicians, we get introspective and start looking at why we play patterns or chord progressions the way we do.

A wonderful comparison between speech language and improvising in music is that everyone learns to speak and have a conversation, as well as write in our given language. Unfortunately, many musicians never learn the “speaking” portion of the musical language.

When I first started taking piano lessons, I was classically trained to read all the notes on the music staff. After several years of advancing through different levels of music books and applying lots of music theory, I still wasn’t able to find a music teacher who wasn’t afraid of improvisation.

In short, music educators were not taught the history and evolution … Read more