Welcome to Spanish Practice - A Language Learning Web Application
¡Hola, les damos la bienvenida!
¡Hola, les damos la bienvenida a Spanish Practice!
Hello, and welcome to Spanish Practice - a web application where you can get practice with your Spanish through a variety of exercises and activities! This website features lessons related to Spanish grammar, vocabulary and conversation, as well as research into elements of Mexican culture. Below you'll find links to our latest lessons, and you can also navigate to all lessons via the main menu of the site.
If you are using this website as part of a Spanish class at UW-Milwaukee's School of Continuing Education, multiple lessons from this site may be scheduled together as part of a lesson plan. For help with lesson planning, don't hesitate to contact us.
On this page, you're introduced to helpful resources and some of our language learning tips. Please review the tips at the start of your studies. You'll likely want to access the resources more often. You can think of these as handy bookmarks.
You can learn more about us here.
We wish you success in your language learning journey! ¡Mucho éxito!
Saludos cordiales,
Instructor Alaina Brandt
Featured Lessons
We're working on new lessons all of the time. New lessons are featured here.
Elements of Culture
We're adding new element of culture pages all of the time. New pages are featured here.
Language Learning Tips from Alaina
#1 Get really comfortable making a lot of mistakes.
#2 Listen to and read the language you're learning as much as you can.
#3 Speak the language as much as possible.
#4 Try not to translate from your dominant languages into the language you're learning when you speak.
#5 Don't become overly reliant on dictionaries when reading.
Helpful Resources
- WordReference.com - Online language dictionary with verb conjugation pages
- Typing Accented Spanish Letters - A table with the Windows alt codes and the Mac commands for typing Spanish letters with accents
- DeepL - One of the best off-the-shelf machine translation engines for Spanish/English in the instructor's opinion
- ChatGTP / Claude Sonnet (generative AI systems) can be helpful for a lot of language tasks; in these materials we sometimes share GAI prompts you can use to practice specific elements of the Spanish language with your GAI system of preference