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About.com has a good walk through of Spanish verbs that change meanings when they are made reflexive. Some of the changes are subtle and are almost obvious (once you have the idea of what a reflexive verb is….) But, some of them change the meaning of the verb subtly (i.e. take off vs. [...]

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This site has some good 1st hand comparative difficulty of the more common Romance languages: French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. It seems as though there’s an ongoing debate over whether French or Spanish is an easier language to learn. I’ve seen and heard arguments each way. One argument is along the lines [...]

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For years I “grazed” I had spent a couple years on Spanish in High School, a year on German in College, six months or more studying French on my own and I just listened/read/flitted back and forth between each. I wasn’t making any progress I wasn’t really trying. In fact, now that [...]

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