Disappointing first day. I was very excited to start Spanish classes today. Why?

Because the school in Shayla said they used TPR storytelling to teach Spanish.

As you know, my listen and answer lessons use the TPR storytelling technique.

This technique is the most powerful, the most effective, and the most efficient language teaching

method I know. It's awesome! Like many English learners in the

past I suffered through terrible Spanish lessons. In school we rarely listened.

We never read anything natural or interesting. In my high school Spanish class we only studied grammar rules and memorized vocabulary.

And so I never learned to speak Spanish.

Last year, I started studying Spanish by myself.

Unfortunately, I haven't studied much.

In fact, I haven't studied at all during the last six months.

When I did study, I just listened to interesting

articles and read interesting many novellas. It helped. I learned more from

doing this than from one full year of Spanish classes. But what I've always dreamed of is to learn

Spanish with my own effortless English methods, especially listen and answer lessons.

So I came to class today full of excitement. Finally I was going to learn with a great

method. But I was disappointed. While the school claims to use TPR storytelling.

In fact, they do not understand the method.

They also don't use it very much.

So what did we do in class today?

We reviewed conjugations of past tense verbs.

Ah!

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