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4/1/10 - It's 3:00am in the morning. I have been building and creating for the last month everyday and everynight, Though I did take off one night and went to see Ray Davies. Excellent show, but i did come home and work after the concert. I have been building up the English Program and the Spanish Program. I am creating the past tense, and future tense, I have built a lot of German Programs and more are coming next week. I have been working on finding French voices, but of no avail. This has been a very productive month for languages4free.com. There are more people coming to the site than ever. Some people have said it was too slow, but haven't told me any reasons why they feel the program is going too slow. I do have a very fast version of the Spanish program being created. That should start being available in about about 5/1/10. Well, I am going to go to sleep, If you have any negative comments, I would like to hear from you. I need feedback so that I can create what you need. 3/8/10 I have added new German, and I have been building a new site called freespanishprogram.com. it's under construction, but there are Spanish Songs with Translations of the song so that when you are listening to the song, you can learn the vocabulary. So basically, you listen to the singers say the words in Spanish and you learn the words because the translation is right next to the spanish vocabulary. There are all different kinds of songs, but I try to use the slower songs so that you can here the vocabulary. A great way to pick up new vocabulary. 2/06/10 "Stories (advanced)" in the "Spanish Menu" has been fixed and is available again. The voice overs for the story telling in the English is being created, and the Spanish voice overs are coming for the advanced Stories in Spanish.. 1/31/10 5:30am Ok it has been a successful month. I have been building the German content. I also started building easy to listen to voice overs. You can see the work in "¿Que es eso?" in chapter one in the Spanish section, the Italian and German sections. I also added Chapter 10... Chapter 10 is getting into the futures, and past tense. If you are a beginning learner, I advise you learn chapter 10 as you are learning the rest of the program. The voice overs are not there yet, but they will be there in about a week or so. 1/27/2010 2:39am Still going. I created more German programs and I just created a new Italian program. I am burned out the last two days. I have been working around the clock and I keep going to bed at 3:00 am - 3:30am everyday. The prep work to build each program seems to take forever. Please donate for the work that has been done and for the hard work in the future.. 1/20/10 happy b-day joey.. 1/12/10 11:40 - The start of the German Program (santa barbara adventure Ok, so 20 minutes after I left L.A. to get to Santa Barbara by 2:30pm, my car overheated, I was quite lucky though because I pulled over on the side of the freeway and parked the car dead center of a call box. I pressed the button and the police sent a tow truck. The tow truck took me to Chuckies. yes I got ripped off, but good ole Chuck was entertaining and comical. I stood next to him the whole time while he worked on the car. I even was able to get a picture of him so that I could use it in the program as "mechanic". Well, after spending two hours to fix a leak in the radiator. (All he did wa put "radiator repair" into the radiator and switched out my thermostat, which was probably unnecessary, but i let him do it, My goal was to do whatever it took to get up to Santa Barbara, meet marc and get the voice overs completed. There was 65 hours of work put into building the German program and by the time I was done, there were 150 pages of voice overs to do. Well Chuck gave me a 70 /30 chance of making it, after fixing my car with scotch tape and crazy glue. So I arrived safely in Santa Barbara and we worked 11 hours on the voice overs and made it half way through. I will be going back to Santa Barbara in the next month or so to finish up. It was a great time and a lot of hard work went into correcting and making sure that you as the learner is getting the best German program possible. I made it home Sunday evening and was out of it all day Monday. It is Tuesday Jan 12th 2010 at 11:49am and I am right now going to start building out the first German program. There is the good ole Gumby Mobile that came with my wife.
1/8/10 4:19pm Well, I am going to Santa Barbara this weekend to voice over the German program. So for those people who have been asking for the German version... It will be arriving February 1st 2010. Please spread the word about languages4free.com and let your family and friends know about this website. You never know how this website is going to help people. This site is only going to get better.. Have a great weekend! 1/6/10 - 3:23pm Wow! I have put in about 50 hours in the last 4 days on building the German program. I know so much German I am probably going to dream in German by February 1st. If you haven't wanted to learn German, I suggest you learn it. It is a fun language to learn and if you know English and have been studying other languages, then you will learn German quickly. If you have any kind of yiddish background, you are going to love it.... My favorite phrase to say is "Die Hose ist shmutzig. - The pants are dirty." It's not the sentence that makes it great, it's the pronunciation of that sentence that makes it great. When I say it, it reminds of Gene Wilder. 1/4/10 - my first post in 2010. The work continues.... 6;48pm I actually took a little vacation and came back rejuvenated. I have been working on the "German"program. I didn't think I was going to get to create this language for a while, but for some reason two nights ago I was inspired. I am actually having a great time learning German. If everything goes correctly, it will take about 4 weeks to build out the program and start uploading the video lessons. So if you have been wanting to learn German, this is going to be a great program to learn from. The Italian is always on going and will also be completed within the next few months. So by April this site should be rocking. French is also on the horizon. I would like to be creating the Hebrew and Japanese programs by the end of summer. 12/25/09 2:45am Just finished putting a new program in the Italian. I corrected the voice overs yesterday in the Italian programs to make them sound better and I have been working on voice overs and building Italian programs. It's taking a lot of time to build the Italian. I am working on it everyday and trying to get the Italian done as quickly as possible. That last 13 days have been very busy building the Italian program. 12/12/09 I have been working everyday since 11/26/09. Crazy amount of time and hours have gone into building the new content. You will see new vocabulary builders. New Spelling Exams, Did some new Speed Vocabylary. BUT if you are wanting to learn Italian, "Stay Tuned" because I am uploading NEW ITALIAN VIDEOS. I am hoping the Italian program will be completed in the next 6 - 7 weeks, but as it gets completed, I will be putting up new programs in that time. So if you follow along, you could learn Italian in 6 - 7 weeks. If you come on everyday and do a program a day, you will learn qucikly. Please support my affiliate programs because it's the only way I can make money to pay for this site. But a donation would be great. 11/26/09 11:59pm It was a nice turkey day. I created a few new "vocabulary builders" for "Descriptions" and "¿Cómo está?". Then I did something that I do every Turkey Day. I cleaned my work area and the house. It feels good to clean after living in the mucky muck for so long. I hope the new "Vocabulary Builders" help your Spanish Studies. I will make "Vocabulary Builders" for all the other languages once I am able to raise money for the voice overs. Please help the cause and send a few dollars through pay-pal. It just goes to making this site better. In 14 years I have not made a dime from this project. This program is known as the money pit. I am out of work and don't have the money anymore to pay for what is needed. I am asking for help from the users who want to keep the content flowing. Every little bit helps. I also would like to hear your success stories, please send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ..... Good luck with your language acquisition. 11/25/09 11:00pm Well it's been a very long day. I am going to sleep tonight, though I wish I could work through the night, but I want to be fresh for the morning. I will be building Vocabulary Builders all weekend long to finish up that section. WOW! I can't believe I am getting to work on the Vocabulary Builders. I can't wait to see how nice the Vocabulary Builders page looks when it is completed with a plethora of programs. Well have a good night everyone and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! 11/25/09 2:30am I started at 7:30am yesterday. It's now 2:30am the next day. I have been trying to finish the English video programs. I am off to bed right now for at least 4 hours sleep. 11/24/09 12:18am Well, I am finally going to go to sleep. I worked all day putting together the English programs. I will finish the English programs tomorrow and start moving forward with more Spanish Vocabulary Builder Games. I am going to sleep well for the next 5 hours. 11/23/09 12:43pm I fell asleep around 6am after a grueling but exciting 24 hours of work. My wife came into the room at 7:45am and woke me up. I picked up the ton of bricks that was being held up by my neck. I reluctantly opened my eyes to look at her excitedly about being woken up from the deepest part of my 1.5 hour sleep. I looked at her, she looked at me and says, "your eyes are very bloodshot." At this point I was excited to hear I had eyes after looking at the monitor for so long. Well, I jumped out of bed, which wasn't even my bed, because everyone in the household was sleeping in my bed. At 6:00am I was tired so I took the closest available bed. At 7:45am I was woken up to help by my wife get the kids ready for school. I got up fairly quickly. It was one of those things that you just do to get it over with. The first thing I did the minute I got up was go to the computer for a short visit, because I have responsibilities. I had to make their lunches, change a diaper, get the boy dressed and find shoes and backpacks and the whole shabang. They were all gone about 8:30am and I was on the computer working and it's 1:11pm and here I am working. I am going to work for about another 6 hours before everyone comes home and the night begins again. Maybe I will sleep. 11/23/09 5:28am I started working yesterday at 8:30pm. I worked through the night and now it is 5:28am. I am so tired and I have a busy day ahead of me. I am not happy that I didn't sleep. It's going to be a miserable day for me. Hopefully I can catch a few minutes of sleep about 1:00pm today... 11/21/09 9:51am There is a new game called game 1.1. You can find in the "Spanish Menu" on the left hand side. 11/20/09 9;09pm There is so much I want to create, but I am only one person creating everything. It's frustrating because I have so many other techniques I want to put on the site to help you learn. Please tip the teacher, so I can hire some help... Thank you. 11/20/09 2:03pm It's been a tough week. I have been working between a lot of difficult times. My 34 year old cousin over dosed and passed away a week ago. I hope she is finally at peace. Knowing her she is upstairs laughing and having a good time with passed family members while everyone still here on Earth is mourning her loss. We had her funeral yesterday. Funerals suck. Ok, now back to life..... I have been working on rebuilding the Italian "body parts" with voice overs. I wish you would send me a testimonial about the site to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 11/19/09 4:30am Take notice that the Italian program is getting voice over. I just created a section in the "spanish menu" called, "verbs conjugated". You are able to learn different verbs and how they are conjugated. Going to sleep now. 11/16/09 8;18 If you notice I have been creating the Italian with voice overs. I am missing the female voice overs, but I am building with what I got. 11/13/09 2:44pm Thank you for the donations. Just finished up Italian voice overs. I was able to get about 11 programs voiced over. This is getting good. I won't have the Italian voice overs on the site until about Sunday. Have a great weekend everyone. 11/12/09 11:57pm It's time I stop for the day. I keep making new french programs and putting them up. The speed is quick, but it's because I don't have voice overs to set the timing. Making progress. 11/12/09 6:04pm The French is coming along. It's been a very long today working on it nad it's been three long days building. I just finished putting up some French programs and organizing the French site. I am taking a break right now to watch some movies with my family and eat dinner. 11/12/09 6;30am Good morning, I am tackling the French program. I can't wait to get to the English program and the Italian program. 11/10/09 11:15pm I am really glad to see people are sticking to the program. I give you a lot of credit because it's not easy to learn a new language. Keep up the good work. The more you do it, the more you hear it and see it. The more you hear it and see it, the more you remember it. The more you remember it, the more you will want to use the language. The more you use the language the better you will become at the language you are learning. This program gives you a great jump start to learn a new language. This program is created to make you confident to speak and think in your new language. 11/10/09 11:00pm I forget to write in here, because I am just swamped with building in this site. I went to the library all day today and worked there. I like going to the library and working. There is a lot of new stuff coming, but it takes time to build and generate. This is just a ton of work. 11/04/09 9:30pm I just completed an exam and a hangman game for "A qué hora? - At what time? " in chapter 6 program 2. 11/04/09 I am working on getting new voice overs for the Spanish program to complete programs that are not completely finished. Please send a tip to the teacher. The tips go to creating this site. 11/02/09 11:40 Ok.... I don't know what day it is. I don't even know what time it is anymore. I have been building so much and not sleeping. I didn't go to bed until 4am this morning. My wife came out and said, "it's late." closed the sliding door and went back to sleep. I got to bed about 4:30am. I woke up about 7:45am and got on the computer, but didn't do much until I got home from taking the kids to school. About 1:30pm I got a phone call for my first real editing job working for a television station. I am very psyched, because I interviewed for the job a year and a half ago and didn't hear from them. This morning they called me and asked me to come to work. Well, it's been tough because I haven't made money in so long I forgot what it was like. And surely a Free language site is not going to pay the bills. But it's been a great 13 years building the content and one year building the site. I love this site. I hope you do too. This site has kept me busy and in my right mind. It has seen me through some real bad times. I built these new exercises called "Games #1" and "Games #2". Try them out and if I get good feed back, I'll make more of them. Well it's 11:55pm and I am going to go back to work for a little while and then I am going to get some sleep. ¡Buenas Noches! - Good Night! 11/02/09 10:00am I have been adding new Italian material. I have been setting up a new learning tool called "Game", but there are no points to the game, It's just see how you do. The first game is on verbs. It has 20 questions. I am going to develop more today to see how I can make them better. Not sure about it yet. I also cleaned up the site a bit, but that is also changing. I really want to work on the English section because I know people have been asking for more English material. Have a great day everyone. 10/31/09 8;00am Well today is one year since I started uploading the content. It has been a very productive year and the feed back that has been coming in has kept me motivated to keep going. I am determined to complete Spanish, English, Italian and French this year with voice overs, exams, and much more. The last three days I have been working on the Italian program. Have a happy halloween. 10/28/09 9:00pm I just fixed "Descriptions Eight" in the descriptions section in chapters 1 - 8. 10/28/09 8:00pm Just cleaned up some voice overs in "the animals" program. 10/28/09 2:36pm Just added more Italian and added a NEW Speed Vocabulary G.. More Speed Vocabulary videos are being added as the voice overs come in... t;div style="text-align: center;"> 10/28/09 10:23am Well I have been working for an hour and I just finished up one of the description videos for the Italian, but there isn't any sound. Trying to raise money for the voice overs.... 10/28/09 7:50am Well I woke up a little late today and I started doing a little bit of work, but I have to get the kids off to school and will be back later to work on more Italian. 10/27/09 2:42pm I forgot to come in here and do an update. I have been working the past three days and have been very busy day and night building the Italian and French programs. The voice overs are missing until I am able to raise enough money to hire the voice over people. I figured I would at least take the time to build the Italian and the French programs. 10/24/09 3:00pm I am working on the English exams for the vocabulary section. 10/23/09 9;30am ¡Buenos días! - Good morning! 10/22/09 10:15pm I am calling it quits for the day. Good night! - ¡Buenas noches! 10/22/09 7:22pm I am cleaning up the site, so in the last hour you might be experiencing hate issues, but it's just me working. I never shut the site down, I just work while you are learning. I haven't had a complaint yet, so that is a good thing. Maybe 10/22/09 6:00pm It was a long haul, but I just met the short term goal of correcting the English programs that needed fixing. The English program, as much as I could get done is going up tonight. I completed my goal, but there is so much more to do for the English program. So, if you know of anyone who needs to learn English, please let them know. I am struggling here and need help with donations. The work load is too much for just one person and the next leg of work will not get started or completed if I can't raise funds. Please help create the best free language website by donating what you can. Remember you would be paying a lot of money for a program like this. All I am asking is for a donation of any amount that fits your budget. This program is helping so many people from senior citizens to elementary school students. If you can help by donating, it's 100% appreciated. I have done my work and continue to do so, but I need help. Thanks 10/22/09 6:00am Good morning, I have a lot of work ahead of me today. I hope I can complete my goal that I set before myself. For the newbies, I hope you enjoy the site and if you can spare a dime and donate, it would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to raise the funds to hire the voice over crew and keep the content growing with new languages and more Spanish. ¡Tenga un buen día! - Have a great day! 10/21/09 Yikes, It's 9:00pm I am going back to work now. The Dodgers got clobbered. OUCH! 10/21/09 4:30pm I am now getting off the computer to get ready for dinner and to watch the Dodger game. Go Dodgers! 10/21/09 12:50pm I have been just pounding out the English program. I thought I was going to have it up yesterday, but I didn't make the deadline. I am trying to get it up tomorrow, but I don't know. I'll be working into the night. Can't wait until I get it up so I can start working on all the new content. 10/21/09 5:45am Good morning everyone, I am up and running. I am working on the English program all day. 10/20/09 9:05pm I am done for the day. I think I am on schedule to get the Basic English Program up on the site by Thursday. There is a ton of work to get done with it after I get it up and it will take a very long time to complete, but I am in this for the long haul. If you are just now finding this site, you missed the big surge over the past year, but you will see this site grow before your very eyes. I am still trying to raise funds, so if you can spare a dime please send it towards L4F. Thanks. 10/20/09 8:00pm It's been a very long day working on creating the English programs. I started at 6:00am and took a break at 2;45pm to pick the kids up and then I came back at 3:15pm and the kids played while I went back to work and now it's 8;00pm and I hope I get to stop soon. I am very burnt out. Watching the Angels lose and the Dodgers lose last night is just heartbreaking. Thought we were going to see a Dodger - Angel World Series. But I guess not... 10/19/09 7:45pm The pictures and videos that you see in this program were all taken by me. It was a very long scavenger hunt that took 10 years to complete. My hardest shot was lightning since I live in a place where lightning is rare. But don't think that I wasn't outside chasing it when it came along, I just couldn't get the shot. A little nerve racking too while waiting for the perfect lightning strike. I even drove to las vegas during the stormy season to caputure a lightning strike, but no luck. I was in Florida about 9 years ago and tried to get the shot, that was a very wet night standing in the rain in an open field with no luck. But finally after years of chasing, I got the lightning strike while I was at home. I put the cameras outside and went inside to wait. I waited for the lightning and let the cameras roll. I remember I was hoping the cameras were pointing the correct way, because I just didn't know where or when the lightning strike would happen. I am happy with the strike I captured that night, but I dreamt of getting something like you would find on the nature channels. The broken door that you see with the key that tells you that you need to log-in to the site. That door was my front door to the place I was living at about 10 - 11 years ago. That place was a nightmare. I came home one evening after work to find a note on the door saying that the bank repossessed the home. The landlord was taking my rent and not paying the mortgage. I was moving out all night long back to my mom's house. The worst part was that I just paid the months rent. 10/19/09 7:21pm I have been working all day on converting the english videos so I can upload them onto the site. I am going to be working very late tonight, so if you have questions or need help, send your questions to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 24 hours a day..... 10/18/09 7:28am Ok in Chapter 8, I have expanded the "Restaurante - Reestaurant" program. 10/18/09 4:30am I am working on the Chapter 8 in the the Spanish Section. I am mastering the sounds to the "Restaurante - Restuaurant" program. There will be voice overs missing. That is because I need to raise money to hire the voice over people. 10/17/09 5:48pm I have been working on languages4free.com all day long, but this time I created a "Fruits" program and decided I was going to also work on a new chapter. Now there are Nine Chapters in the Chapters 1- 8. So instead it's called Chapters 1 - 9. It was grueling work to put together the fruits project. It's not easy finding all the voice overs, mastering the voice overs, finding all the videos, editing the videos, then sizing the videos for the correct speed, then create the titles, place the titles on the timeline.Then I have to listen and watch it. Make adjustments and fine tune the video. Then I have to render the video, transfer the video from a quicktime file to an flv file. Then I have to upload and write the video into the program. Then I have to re-master the voice overs for the listening quizzes. Once that is complete, I have to write the listening quiz program. After that, I have to go on to the site for the last time to make sure everything is running correctly. After all that, I have to create the quizzes, hangman and vocabulary builders. All for just one program. Plus it was so hot in the house today not even open windows were helping. 10/16/09 11:30p.m I worked on the English program all day. 10/15/09 2:26pm After further review, the English Section will not be available until Wednesday October 21, 2010. 10/15/09 12:20am Well if you haven't noticed the "English" section is being built and is up on the site, even though it is not complete yet, it is up on the site for people who want to learn English, or improve their vocabulary as I build it. I am a certified/master teacher who is out of work, I stopped teaching two years ago so I could build this site and stay home with my kids. I needed to go back to work a year ago, but the economy turned so badly that L.A.U.S.D had tremendous budget cuts. I am not able to get a teaching job until the budget allows more teachers. I have a job waiting for me at the local college, but until the california budget allows for more teachers, I am pretty much ...........The nine years that I worked as a teacher I worked with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. I worked with children who were ESL students and with EO(English Only) students. In the time I was teaching, I had been building programs for the students to improve their English. I am now giving all the content that I worked on for free to help those who want to improve themselves. I have been struggling to make this all come to fruition because it takes a lot of time and money. I am really hoping that the people using this site will donate so I can hire the proper people to do voice overs and to do what else needs to be done to make this the best 100% free website for you and the world to use. I will bring you, more spanish learning, Spanish II, Italian I and II, French I and II and all the other languages. So please, if you can spare the time and send a donation, it would really be helpful. Thank you. 10/12/09 3:32pm I just completed the "Sujeto es/está - Subject is" in the Listen/Write activity. I am going to be working on the "Do you need" Listen/Write activity next. But I am done for the day.. Need to go for rehab in a couple of hours and my fingers and eyes need a break. But if you haven't done the "Subject is - Sujeto es/esta in Chapters 1-8. It's a good program to sink your teeth into. ¡Buena Suerte! 10/12/09 12:03pm I just completed "Qué está haciendo? #2 - What are you doing?" in the Listen / Write activity. 10/11/09 5:47pm I just completed "Qué está haciendo? - What are you doing?" in the Listen / Write activity. 10/09/09 Well, I am on a break. It's really called burnout. I can't get it together to work on the site. But that has happened so many times in thirteen years. I burn out and I never think I am going to work on the project again, and then I come back stronger than ever and start working again. Does anyone know how to write a grant? I need money to make this project really pop. I don't have the money to hire the voice over people to complete Spanish II, Italian and French. I need the money to move forward. If you can donate money that would be greatly appreciated. If you know how to write a grant and can do that for me, that would be appreciated. But anyways, I have learned that if you don't ever ask, you never get. So I am asking... : ) But then again I am not a sales person, I am just an artist. I am going to bet that you want to donate to the cause, but have no clue how to do it. If you would like to help the cause to make this an incredible site send me an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and I can help you with the details. The donations will only help you in the long run, and will help millions of people who can't afford to buy one of those televsion infomercial programs that cost 100's of 100's of dollars. : ) "Tenga un buen día!- Have a great day!" 10/06/09 11:14pm Well it took an hour and 12 minutes to complete "Week 5 - La Semana Cinco" in Spelling Exams. 10/06/09 10:02pm I am working on another Spelling Exam... and tomorrow I am going to tackle a few more videos and fix the "tener' conjugation videos. I know they are a little off. 10/05/09 5:08 I cleaned up the "Spanish Verbs" section. I completed another ten verbs in the "Spanish Verbs" Section. I completed up to 4 weeks for the "Spelling Exams". I may be starting on the Italian program in the next few weeks. I would be excited to work on a new language for a while. : ) 10/05/09 2:28pm Continuing to work on the Spelling Exams. 10/05/09 Just created the second week "Spelling Exam". I think the "Spelling Exams" are really good for listening, pronunciation, writing and reading. Let me know what you think of them. 10/05/09 12:30am I am creating a new component called "Spelling Exams", which can be found in the "Spanish Menu". It's a little challenging. 10/04/09 3:44 I have been building listen/write... making instructions and exams for "Tener - To Have". I have building exams and instructions for "Querer - I want". I have mastering voice overs so that I can build more programs. So this was a good working weekend. Someone said they hate the "Speed Vocabulary" I wish I knew why. How could someone not like learning words quickly. But that just shows there isn't going to be one program for everyone. Everyone learns differently. 10/02/09 5:04pm What a hellacious day doing the tener voice overs and instructions. "Tiene / Tienes" in the listen/write is ready for learning. Plus the "Tener Instructions" are ready and can be found in "Tener" chapter 7 lesson 1. 10/02/09 12:27am Tener is finally ready for you to learn. I worked on it all day today and just finished uploading it. The exams, hangman and listen/write activities will be created tomorrow. This program will reinforce the vocabulary that you have seen through out the program. There is a lot more to come so keep on learning. 10/01/09 9:40pm I have been working all day on building the "tener - to have. It's coming out really well. I should have it up by tomorrow. I can't wait until it is uploaded. I haven't left the computer all day. .. 10/01/09 10:30am Ok, So I just got back from surgery and it went well. I started working on "tener - to have". 9/30/09 9:20pm I worked on "tener - to have" all day today and only got 1/6 of the work completed. I accomplished a lot but I did not make the full goal, but at least the lessons are started and I even completed some. I was hoping to get the entire "Tener" program uploaded tonight, because I have knee surgery tomorrow and will be out of commission for just a bit. So I will complete another day when I am not knocked out. 9/30/09 3:05pm I just finished the "Yo tengo - I have" in the Listen/Write activitiy. Now I am going to attempt to get the videos up with pictures and color coded vocabulary in Chapter 7 Lesson 1 in Chapters 1 - 8. I hope you are all enjoying this program, because I sure am having fun building it and watching everyone use it. If you have any suggestions, my goodness I would like to hear from you. Going back to work to complete my goals for the day. 9/30/09 1:52 I just finished the "Yo tengo dolor - I have pain" in the listen/write activity. I am dreading the work that I have to do to create the "tener - to have" program. 9/30/09 9:48am I just added the "yo necesito" in the listen/write section. I am now going to create the "tener - to have" today. I should have created it eleven months ago. I was wondering when I was going to create this program. Well, today is the day, and by the end of the day the "tener" program in Chapter 7 lesson 1 and "yo tengo - I have" in the listen/write section will be completed and uploaded today. It will be a monkey off my back. 9/30/09 12:15am I just completed the pre-work to building "yo necesito" for the listen/write activity. It will be up and running tomorrow. To build exams, activities, videos, hangman or vocabulary builder or speed builder, there is a lot of pre-work before any of these latter items get built and uploaded on to the site. It's 100% exhausting. 9/29/09 10:27pm I just completed a new "animals" video in Chapter 5 Lesson 1. It's been a long time since I created a video like this, There are more Animal videos to come with new Animals, but I have to get my camera out and shoot the videos. Every video and picture you see, I have taken myself. I hope you are enjoying the program, because it's not only a language program to me, it's an art piece as well. 9/29/09 11:42am Just finished putting up the Exams for "Speed Vocabulary" B - T. I will finish U-Z later tonight. Working on something new today. 9/29/09 3:30am My daughter woke up and got me off the computer. I have been writing all the exams for the speed vocabulary since 12:30am. I am now going to go put her back to sleep and fall asleep myself. I will post the new exams sometime today. 9/28/09 9:45am Just finished "¿Cómo se siente? - How do you feel?" Listen/Write activity. 9/28/09 8:02am Speed Vocabulary "F" is now completed with Exams. Good luck. 9/27/09 8:06pm "Speed Vocabulary "E"" Exams 8 and 9 are complete. This now completes Speed Vocabulary "E". Speed Vocabulary should be the last lesson you always do before you log off. It's just a great way to build vocabulary. Plus there are lessons to be found in the Speed Vocabulary Answers. Which means after you take your Speed Vocabulary exam, the answers show up so you can check to see how you did. Go through the answers and check your answers because there are notes that get your mind thinking about ideas you might not have thought about. 9/26/09 9:00PM There are more exams ready for "Speed Vocabulary "E"" #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. 9/26/09 6:10PM Group Six and Seven Spelling Exams are ready to be taken in "Spanish Verbs". 9/25/09 11:30pm I just finished making three new "Speed Vocabulary "E" Exams", Good luck!! 9/25/09 1:04 pm Finally completed the "Qué quiere hacer - What do you want to do" hangman. 9/25/09 12:15pm Just completed the First "E" Speed Vocabulary exam. Good luck with that. 9/25/09 1:00 am I just completed an exam for Speed Vocabulary H. 9/24/09 4:28pm I put the voice overs in the Hangman "Me Siento". Ok. well, it's time to clean the house. It's a bloody mess and it has to get done. We lost our dryer, so the clothes are backed up, and the kids ran a muck so there is stuff all over the place. I am hoping to get back on tonight to continue this obsession. If I do get on tonight, I will be creating the "Listen/Write, Me Siento". I can't wait to start creating new videos and new speed vocabularies. This is never going to end.. 9/24/09 2:38pm I just finished making the Listen/Write activity "adjetivos/adjectives #3. 9/24/09 8:11am I just finished making the Listen/Write activity "adjetivos/adjectives #2. 9/23/09 9:30pm I just finished making the Listen/Write activity "adjetivos/adjectives #1. I like this activity because you get to hear it and then you need to write it. Plus the voice overs sound really good and it's a great listening activity. 9/23/09 1:00pm I just finished making the Listen/Write activity "Saludos, 1 and 2" 9/23/09 11:54am I am building the "Saludos" Listen/Write activity.
9/23/09 11:46am The voice overs for Hangman "Saludos" is complete. 9/23/09 9:30am The voice overs for Hangman "Mas o Menos" is complete. 9/23/09 1:17am Hangman Voices that are now fixed. 1.¿Cómo está? 2. Saludos 3.Colores Speed Vocabulary Part D Exams are available. 9/23/09 12:15am Just finished the Voice Overs for the "Colores Hangman". 9/22/09 11:32pm I just fixed the voice overs for the "¿Cómo estás? Hangman". I also fixed the "Saludos Hangman" so that is works properly. 9/22/09 9:30am Working on the Speed Vocabulary Exams in Part D. 9/20/09 8:39am Just finsihed the start of Speed Vocabulary T. 9/18/09 4:42pm Ok, I just finished "S" in "Speed Vocabulary" and I wrote the "¿Cuál es su trabajo? - What is your job?" listen/write activity. 9/18/09 1:50pm I took the day off yesterday, but I felt like it was two days. Now that I am back working, I guess it feels that way because I didn't work yesterday or in the early morning of the day like I usually do. It looks like from the time on the 17 - 18th is almost exactly 36 hours rest. I am reved up to put up the next letter in Speed Vocabulary. I am listing to Dave Mathews and i am going to get into the groove of editing. 9/17/09 1:48am Boy I made a lot of new Speed Vocabularies tonight. I got up to "R". Can't wait until I reach "z". When I reach "z" i'll start making exams again. There is just so much more coming. Watching people come on and off this site, motivates me to create more content. My fingers are hurting pretty badly. I am going to sleep now. 9/16/09 9:15 Working on more speed vocabulary, I am getting the letter 'O' up. should be up in the next few minutes. But I have more to go on letter "o" later. There are so many speed vocabularies, I am just getting one up for each letter and then I will start adding more and the exams for each set of 10 speed vocabulary words. 9/16/09 7:12pm I want to do so much on this site. As I see more and more people using the site, I wish I had all my content on the site. I am constantly creating and uploading the content. There is so much content waiting to be uploaded, but I can only work so fast. I wish I had another person like myself to work on this site with me, I need to slow down, but I don't know how to slow down. This obsession is good for you, bad for me... 9/16/09 5:37pm Well, this was the first day I didn';t work on the site in a very long time. I was in a fog all day long from being "summamente cansado - extremely tired". I thought of a new section about 10 minutes ago. It's called Spam E-mail. The spam e-mail are spam e-mails sent to me in Spanish. I will display the e-mail for people to translate as an activity. It's difficult but you can learn a lot from translating spanish letters. 9/16/09 12:37am L in the Speed Vocabulary is available. I will add more later. I will do M in Speed Vocab. next. 9/15/09 10:49pm I just fixed the "colores" exams. The first two quizzes are much better. Good luck with those. Try Colores Exams 3 and 4. 9/15/09 5:48 I finished working on Speed Vocabulary J. I'll add more later, because I want to get the whole alphabet before adding. The speed vocabulary is a a quick way to hear and see the vocabulary. 9/15/09 2:03 I just built speed vocabulary H and I. There are many more speed vocabularies under H and I to come. My neighbor just came over and decided we need curtains on the front door window and brought over fabric to make it for us. 9/15/09 10:00am I just got back from dropping the kids off of their first day of school and now I am back at work. 9/15/09 12:36am I am off too bed. I will have a full day of work tomorrow. Going to finsih the ¿Qué quiere hacer" hangman.. There is a problem with it, I can't figure it out, and I was just losing more and more energy trying to figure it out to the point where I was forcing myself to keep going. 9/14/09 11:53pm I am now working on the hangman game "Qué quiere hacer? - What do you want to do?" 9/14/09 11:47pm I just finished working on the hangman game "¿Qué quiere comer? - What do you want to eat?" which can be found in the ¿Qué quiere comer? program in Chapter Three. 9/14/09 8:53pm I finished "Me Duele" in Listen/Write section. I am now working on a hangman game for the "Qué quiere comer? - What do you want to eat?" program. 9/14/09 So far this has been a good work day. I have created "De qué color? in the Listen/Write section. 9/13/09 11:38pm I am done for the night. I created the Listen/Write exam "De que color" . If you attempt to take the Listen/Write exam, let me know how it went. Thanks. 9/13/09 10;17pm I just found the most awesome voice overs that I forgot even existed. I remember doing them and not even liking them. But now that i have listened to them, hey they are not bad at all. I remember doing some voice overs last year, and I couldn't even stand listening to the 2 hours of work I did for those voice overs. But I am going to listen to them again because they might just work for this part of the program and it will give you(the learner) many different accents. So that has to be helpful. This is getting better and better everytime I turn on the computer and work on the project. The information I have collected in the last thirteen years is unreal to me. It is going to be so helpful to those who are learning Spanish. What is more amazing is to find a forum like the internet to display the collection of information. Well, if you are using the program I could use a donation. : ) but if you don't donate, I am happy that you are enjoying the program. Good luck with your language acquisition. 9/13/09 10:00 Just put my 4 1/2 year old to sleep and I am back to work. 9/13/09 8:48pm I am now on the computer going to continue with the logging of voice overs for the listen/write exams. I ate dinner. Wife made great pork chops and mashed potatos. My kid is making me fix cards while I am trying to write this. I fixed the cards for him. Now I am working for about 15 minutes and then it's brush teeth time and bedtime. 9/13/09 6:00pm Have to stop working and take the kids to the neighbors to go swimming. 9/13/09 5:30pm Wife came home with groceries, I put them away and now I am working. 9/13/09 3:30pm The 2.5 year old woke up. Have to go play. 9 -13-09 2:00p.m. I am working on voice overs for the "listen/write" exams. 4 1/2 year old went to birthday party with mom. Uninterrupted work time. 9-13-09 12:35 For the last few hours I cleaned and cleaned. The house looks good, so i was going to get onto the site and start working, but it wasn't that simple to get on to the site to start working on it. I had my 2.5 year old trying to figure out what he wanted to eat. Oh boy that was a chore and time consuming. I made tuna fish with pickels. That wasn't good enough. I offered, corn dogs, mac and cheese(who turns down mac and cheese?) grilled cheese, peanut butter and jelly. He started to cry on the floor, I kept trying to figure out what he wanted to eat. He asked for peaches. I gave him peaches, He took a few bites and then gave them to his 4.5 year old sister who was working watching televisin. Thank goodness mom came home to take over. She came home with him his first lunch box for his first day at school on Tuesday. Very exciting for him. A matter of fact, he just came up to me and showed me his new lunch box. I know for sure in the next 45 minutes he is going to eat and then fall asleep at about 1:15 and I am going to have uninterrupted blissfulness to work and listen to music. For the time I get today I am setting my goals to complete many "listen/write" exams. 9-13-09 5:30am Wow, I actually got some sleep last night. It's 5:30am and I am up, a little groggy, but moving. 9-13-09 7:00am I answered some e-mails this morning and started working on some voice overs that were about 5 years old and unused. I am going to use these voice overs to build the Listen/Write Exams. 9:55am - I finished mastering "Me Gusta" which can be found in the "Listen/Write" in the Spanish Menu. I am really close to having "Me gustaria" up too. I have to stop now because I am told I need to clean the house. I get very neglectful when I am in work mode. So off I go... 9-12 - 09 11:00pm I kept falling asleep in my chair but I was determined to finish the first listen/write exam. Check it out by clicking on the link and please send me feedback at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . thanks. NEW CHALLENGE! CLICK HERE TO TRY IT! 9;00pm 9-12-09 I just sat down to work. I am going to start creating some listening/writing exams. 9-12-09 , I was woken up by my kid about 5:00am. My son wanted to get up, but there was no way. 4 hours sleep for me was not going to cut it. I picked him up and put him back to sleep as quickly as possible. If he wasn't going to go back to sleep, I was going to be on the computer working and I had no energy whatsoever for that. I was able to get him back to sleep by handing him over to my wife in our bed, but it had to be a careful transfer because my daughter was already in that bed sleeping. So I put him in that bed too and crawled in bed next to them for a little bit. Not a very good sleep. I got up and I crawled off to sleep in my daughter's bed because there was just no more room for me with three people in this bed. I was woken up at 6:30 am with my 2 year old kid talking about his hunger. I got up to feed him breakfast and to get on the computer to start working, I only had from 7 - 9 to work on this project, because at 9:00am I was taking my 4 year old to her first time ever soccer practice. 1:30 - 3:00 I didn't take my rest. I wrote I was going to take a break, but I caught up preparing voice over titles so that I could take the raw footage, master the footage and then turn the aiff files into mp3 files. I am now going to take a break and then I will come back tonight and upload the sounds to where they belong. Then I am going to create that listening activity. Between 7 - 9am I worked on voice overs and I am going to create a whole other section called "listening tests". I hope people will use it. I can't wait to build it. I am going to start building tonight. I am going ot take a break today and give myself a rest. 9-12-09 12;46am I almost completed the first hangman game of "¿Dónde está? - Where is?. I have to finish mastering the voice overs for the game to complete it. The game is available to use, but the voice overs will be working by Sunday night. I worked on labeling voice overs that haven't been labeled and was working on some new ideas to help people learn. Well, I am tired and I am going to sleep. 9-11-09 11:12pm Starting on "Dónde está - Where is" Hangman Games. Do you like the hangman games? or are they too disturbing? There is a poll on the right side of the page you can voice your opinion. The count as today is 6 yes, 1 disturbing and 1 don't like. There is another poll that asks if you like this site. as of today 81 people like it, 18 people want advanced spansih, which will eventually come, but in time. 9 people are disappointed, 8 people are confused. Confused? Ok, I can accept it, but I haven't heard from one of those eight people to tell me why they are confused. I would really have liked to heard from them. I would have learned a lot if they would have told me. Ok. It's 11:16, got to get to work... 9-11-09 Well, it's 9:30pm and I am burned out on building this site and I am way over tired. I started trying to create a program, but it is a lot of work to do. It's a good program, but I am just not up for doing the work tonight, so I closed it. I cleaned up my desk top finally, it was a bloody mess. It was full of so much uncecessary stuff. It's always great to clean up. For me the mess is the work and the clean up is the satisfaction that I must have done so much work to get it to look like this. I am going to listen to music and stroll around the site for awhile to see if there is something that I can create. I know there is something to create, but I just don't know what I will create tonight. 9-11-09 I am working on the voice overs for the animals hangman game. I am missing a couple of voice overs and trying to figure out how I am going to get them so I can put them into the game. I was up at 7am and still tired, but I couldn't wait to get on the computer to start working. I have been creating more hangman, and exams. Since the site is so big and I am working on projects all over the place, once in a while I have to stop building and start cleaning up. Late Last night I reworked the site so that it was neater. For those of you who have been here since oct 31st 2008 have seen huge changes in the site. So for all you newbies who are just seeing the site for the first time. Keep coming back because it is constantly getting better. If you have any suggestions for me, send them and I will try to implement them. I will continue to grow out this site and make it as user friendly as possible. I went to bed at 1:30am. 9-10-09 I was woken up at 3:30am, I couldn't go back to sleep. So, I slipped away to the computer and started working on the site and building hangman games and quizzes. Nobody was on the site at 3:30am and I was alone, sitting and working, listening to music. Then at 4:30 I didn't feel alone anymore, people started using the site. I never went back to sleep and worked on the site all day and all night. I took a break for dinner and went out for yogurt. Came back home and started working again. I didn't go to bed until 2:00am. I have been living this way for 13 years and I am now starting my daily diary. I wish I would have done this a long time ago, but I guess it's never too late. I built 7 exams for "the body - el cuerpo" and created the hangman games for "animals - animales." I also cleaned up the site. |