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MASTER WORD CHECKLIST: Today's Tips and Techniques post is more of an announcement than a specific tip or technique.

We've been working for some time on the soon-to-be-published McGraw-Hill book Learn Spanish from Your Hollywood Favorites. For the 20 films that we are using for the book, some 600 words make up 80% of the total words used in the movies. So, if you know those 600 fundamental words, you'll go a long way toward helping yourself understand Spanish.

We've posted all the Top 600 words in Spanish that in 50 separate lists, with no list longer than 20 words in checklist format so that you can check your knowledge and progress. We've divided the lists into five separate groups which you can check below: Cognates, Nouns, Verbs, Pro/Adj/Adv, and Connectors.

The photo is of our favorite Mexican vacation spot, Xcaret, Cancún, México.

Learn Spanish from Your Hollywood Favorites - Phrases: Our most recent and soon-to-be-published book has the working title, Learn Spanish from Your Hollywood Favorites. We're developing Spanish vocabulary guides to several well known movies, so that you will be able to watch these movies and build your Spanish vocabulary at the same time. It really is a cool way to build your foreign language vocabulary.

One of the sections we are working on is a collection of common phrases that occur regularly throughout the films. We hope that by including the list here it helps you in your quest to learn Spanish.

See some of the most common phrases that occur in these films and in real-life.

Ten Items for your Spanish Learner's Toolbox: If you want to go to a foreign country, you can go by boat, plane, helicopter, on foot, car, or bus-there are a whole bunch of ways to get there. Some are faster than others, but they all eventually get you to your destination. The same is true if you want to learn a foreign language. You may attend a class, listen to CD's, read text books, follow a self-taught program on the internet, travel in a foreign country, watch movies or read books in your target language. There are a whole lot of ways to learn a foreign language. But, no matter which way you go, you need to have certain items in your tool kit. Here are the top ten items we recommend for your toolbox..

Find out which specific items we recommend for your Spanish toolbox. (Free access until September 22)

Cutting to the Chase: I recently read a blog article by Tim Ferris, author of The Four Hour Work Week, in which he discusses how to learn foreign languages more quickly. He suggests asking a speaker of your target language how to translate these six sentences because of how much they reveal about the language.

Find out what these sentences reveal about Spanish and get the link to his original post in this article for here.

Spanish through Spanish - Preface to the 1936 Edition (I)

My book does not represent an untried theory. It is the result of many years of successful teaching. As stated in the title, it is written to teach Spanish to beginners. I have named it "Spanish Conversations in the Classroom: Spanish Through Spanish." The aim is to teach Spanish in a very simple way...

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