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August 5, 2008

Vol. 5, No. 3
http://www.studyspanish.com/


ˇHola!

Contents for this week:


-- New Site!
-- Common Mistake
-- Cultural Note
-- You Can Learn Spanish
-- New Podcast
-- Idioms


NEW SITE

Finally, we're back! We suspended publication of the newsletter to focus on a complete website redesign. If you've been to the website in the past week, you know that it now looks completely different. Our primary goal was to make the website easier to use by improving the navigation. Judging from the comments we've received so far, it looks like we succeeded!

We have also added new content. Be sure to check out the following sections:

http://www.studyspanish.com/dailyword/

http://www.studyspanish.com/podcasts/

http://www.studyspanish.com/comps/

COMMON MISTAKE

In Spanish, the names of the months and the days of the week are not capitalized:

enero - January
febrero - February
marzo - March
abril - April
mayo - May
junio - June
julio - July
agosto - August
septiembre - September
octubre - Ocober
noviembre - November
diciembre - December

lunes - Monday
martes - Tuesday
miércoles - Wednesday
jueves - Thursday
viernes - Friday
sábado - Saturday
domingo - Sunday

CULTURAL NOTE

One reason people travel to Latin America is to visit the jungles and cloud forests and experience the diverse array of insect, bird, animal and plant life that appears so exotic to northern eyes. One such place is the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica. Armed with guide books, fact sheets, and informational pamphlets, the visitor eagerly ... The rest of the story, complete with audio, can be found here:

http://www.studyspanish.com/comps/canopy.htm

YOU CAN LEARN SPANISH

Have you tried to learn Spanish but just couldn't get it? Lots of people have. Did you study Spanish in high school or college, without any real success? You're in good company. Unfortunately, most classes meet only a couple of times a week, and are simply too crowded to allow individual attention. You need to try a different approach:

http://www.studyspanish.com/audiocourse.htm

NEW PODCAST

Number 14 in our series is "Numbers: 11-30" and is available now to all premium members.

http://www.studyspanish.com/membersite/podcasts/cardnum2.htm

IDIOMS

What's an idiom? An Idiom is an expression that cannot be understood by simply analyzing the meaning of it's individual words. For example, the English phrase "to break one's word" -- how could you "break" a word?

Here's one Spanish idiom, taken from our collection of over 1500:

caminar con pies de plomo - to proceed cautiously

Mario camina con pies de plomo durante este proyecto.

Mario proceeds cautiously while working on this project.

For more Spanish idioms, just go here:

http://www.studyspanish.com/idiom.htm


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