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Despite summer is almost here, please feel free to ask and share experiences teaching English or Spanish, or any other language, as a second language. There are many approaches, tools,  and strategies that I am willing to share with you. I also want to hear from yours too. My goal is making this blog a community of learners. Educators, parents, and anyone interested in teaching strategies to learn a language is very welcomed. We learn from each other. Sin importar que el verano casi está acá y las vacaciones también, por favor no dudes en preguntar y compartir tus experiencias ya...

Carlota Roa is a Spanish teacher at Hillbrook School, a private K-8 educational facility in Los Gatos, California. Highly experienced, Carlota has taught Spanish for 33 years – beginning in Mexico City, Mexico, and continuing on for the last three decades in the United States. She has taught in all school types (public, private, charter, low income areas, high income areas, etc.). Recently, we sat down to talk to Carlota about why she uses Sube instead of other Spanish teaching programs.  Question:  We’d like you to tell us a little bit about the teaching environment that you work in at...

Music is a powerful force in our world. Just about every society in the world has developed their own musical sounds and rhythms, whether they use instruments they make from nature around them or use high-tech electronic gadgets. Music is, quite simply, a universal experience. While the melody and rhythm make music engaging, they also reach further into our minds than we realize.  When children are taught a second language, vocabulary acquisition can be quite a trick. Repetition and other standard memorization techniques all work fine, but if you add music and rhythm to the process, the learning process goes...