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Sonrisas Spanish and the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning The National Standards for Foreign Language Learning were first published […]

Language Learning—We’ve Got It Backwards By now it has been clearly established that learning a second language promotes substantial cognitive […]

homeschool Spanish curriculum

One of the most frequent questions we get regarding the Sonrisas Spanish Curriculum is, “how long are the lessons supposed […]

In our last post we wrote about the importance of establishing a consistent routine for your Spanish class. Once you […]

The Benefits of Learning Spanish in a Group

Education research demonstrates the importance of routine for young learners. Benefits of having a predictable daily routine include a sense […]

In second language learning it is evident how important repetition is. We have written a lot in this blog about […]

The Sonrisas Spanish lessons are designed to create an immersion environment in which students have lots of opportunity for meaningful […]

Music and verse are a big part of the Sonrisas Spanish Curriculum. In Sonrisas Levels I and II, during the […]

In the last several posts we have been looking at what characterizes the three phases of our Acquire, Develop, Learn® […]

Our last two posts discussed how our Acquire, Develop, Learn® methodology gives elementary students the opportunity to naturally acquire Spanish […]