Spain’s new Eurovision song is entirely in English. So what?!
For the first time ever a song written entirely in English is to represent Spain at the Eurovision song contest after viewers of state broadcaster RTVE and a celebrity jury earlier this week picked...
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Spanish videos for children, Speekee style
Speekee series 1 – puppets, animation, Spanish children and much more You’ll know by now that Speekee is video based Spanish learning. Yes, the videos – there are 41 of them – form the ‘bedrock’ of...
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Seville by Bicycle
What better way to enjoy one of Spain’s great cities than by bike… My lovely sister gave me a lovely gift for my birthday: a night in 3* hotel in the centre of Seville. But not only was there a...
View ArticleTeachers and Positive Reinforcement
There are teachers, and then there are TEACHERS… You have been watching Special Needs teacher Chris Ulmer talking to his students. He’s a man who knows the value of positive reinforcement in the...
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Speekee Spanish Worksheets
Love this pic! Does this look like a happy, healthy learning environment to you? It does to me. These children are in the US of A and they are homeschooled. Here they are shown learning Spanish with...
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How Spanish am I??
My thanks to Lisa Sadleir of Family Life in Spain for sharing a most interesting article entitled “The chart that proves that Spanish schedules are downright weird” This article got me thinking: How...
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Does a single letter make all the difference?
Take a look at this: What do you notice first? The people, the backdrop, the blackboard? You may recognise two famous YouTubers on show. Yes, it’s Zoella (10 million subscribers), boyfriend Alfie (5...
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SOS – Save Our Siesta!
In a 2013 article about the Siesta in Spanish culture, this image appeared in The Daily Telegraph: It was not kindly viewed in Spain and was later replaced with this one: Put it down to a national...
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Brilliant Borgen
Have you seen Borgen?? I refer to the Danish TV series of that name; a gripping political drama full of twists and turns, of plot developments I consistently fail to correctly predict! I’ve never...
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I, Guiri
Here in Andalusia Spring doesn’t always come early. This year, after a Winter which seemed not to exist, the weather became unsettled and cool in March, those conditions lasting until very recently....
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Once a Foreigner, always a Foreigner?
Chris Tarrant is a British TV presenter who first became a household name via a children’s programme called Tiswas. “Madcap mayhem” for children, on the set of Tiswas In later years he would present...
View ArticleLearning Speekee by heart
Funny expression that, “learning by heart“. Have you ever thought about its meaning? I found this online: How does it happen we say we learn things ‘by heart’ instead of ‘by head’? It’s because of a...
View ArticleSchool languages ‘deep in the doldrums’
Joined-up thinking they call it don’t they. If foreign language learning in the UK education system made sense then it would start at primary level, be consolidated at secondary level and flower at...
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Then and Now – Maggie from Speekee
Eagle eyed viewers will know that some of the children who appear in Speekee Series One also appear in the second series. Can you name them? They are: Joe, Victoriano, Ana Belén and Maggie. I asked...
View ArticleCelebrating 10 years of Speekee!
There’s no great fanfare over here at Speekee Central but we’re quietly proud of the achievement: 10 years in operation! I still remember quite vividly the wildly creative brainstorming process in...
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Gotta Catch ‘Em All!
Since when did adults become engrossed in games originally designed for children? This advert for the new Pokémon craze features just one child (sandwiched between two adults) and a whole host of hip...
View ArticleVirtual versus Real
I had planned this time around to be writing about how Speekee combines the real world with a virtual counterpart as a great way for kids to learn Spanish. I’ll save that post for next time though...
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The Flexibility of Learning Spanish with Speekee
Over the Summer we have been working on some exciting new changes to the Speekee website; changes which will be especially welcome to professional teachers as well as parents who are acting as teachers...
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Our updated Scheme of Work for Primary Spanish teachers. We are proud of it!
Primary Spanish teachers, have you seen our updated Scheme of Work covering KS1 and KS2? Let me explain how it works for you as a subscribed teacher. We’ll start at www.speekee.com and click first on...
View ArticleJill Stanish reviews Speekee Accelerate
Over the last 10 years of homeschooling my 6 kids, we have tried multiple Spanish programs including computer programs, workbooks, and DVD courses. Speekee has been the most entertaining, while...
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