Anxiety can affect a lot of people trying to learn a foreign language. Confidence problems, a reluctance to speak, and even insomnia can make it a lot harder to succeed. These problems seem especially more apparent for college students taking language classes. Elaine Horwitz, a professor of foreign language education at the University of Texas [...]

Let’s learn how to stress Spanish syllables and how different accents affect the sounds of the Spanish letters. Although your level of competence in pronouncing Spanish properly has very little bearing on your ability to be understood, you can follow some simple steps that should enable you to express yourself in a more acceptable manner. [...]