Entries by Delfin Carbonell Basset

5 Language Games to Play With Your Children

All children need our coaching, affection, tender love and care… and that means they need our time. And when we spend an hour with them we relax, enjoy ourselves, feel positive, laugh and smile at their ways and quips. We also learn from them, mind you. To help children learn a second language, let me […]

10 Tips for Success in Life

Is there such a thing as a universal truth? Writer D.C. Basset presents his 10 universal tips for a successful life—rules to live by for career, relationships and personal and professional fulfillment. 1. The road to failure is paved with the blacktop of procrastination. To put things off until tomorrow is the surefire way not […]

10 Spanish Phrases for Professional Success

These common Spanish phrases help remind us to stay focused and stay committed, to be bold and be experts in our fields, and to forget about the naysayers—all surefire recipes for professional success! SIGN-UP NOW FOR FREE DEMO! Alabarse, denigrarse. Self-praise is no recommendation. No tratemos de impresionar a los demás alabándonos porque acabarán menospreciándonos. […]

Is Spanglish Killing Real Bilingualism?

Heraclitus of Ephesus, the Greek man of wisdom who lived five hundred years before Christ, said, observing nature, “everything is in a state of flux,” meaning that everything is forever changing and that no human ever steps in the same river twice because the water is ever flowing. The nature of the universe is change, […]

Why Spaniards Struggle to Learn English

[Mamiverse’s Bilingual Plus is an online channel devoted to bringing parents and educators the bilingual learning tools they need in the form of digital picture books, sing-alongs, and free curriculum-based family activities.] Two words come to my mind every time I consider the plight of Spaniards today: hubris and procrastination. Both terms define the personality […]

5 Tips to Help Make Your Child Bilingual

[Mamiverse’s Bilingual Plus is an online channel devoted to bringing parents and educators the bilingual learning tools they need in the form of digital picture books, sing-alongs, and free curriculum-based family activities.] In our fast-paced world, where humankind around the globe is in closer contact than ever before, it has become clear to educators and […]