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La Casa Rojas
La Casa Rojas is an on-line Spanish Language Learning system created by Luis and Joan Rojas. Peruvian Luis and Minnesotan Joan, model Spanish Language teaching and learning through encouraging the use of a student’s personal life context as the primary language laboratory. Luis takes this authentic material and guides the Spanish Student to experience the Hispanic perspective.
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El Teatro

Theater
Expectators
Select Spanish Language Videos by grammar topic; tenses, parts of speech, common expressions, pronunciation, etc. By sorting in this way, a more advanced student can get an easy tune-up by reviewing concepts gone by and a beginner can gain more insight by reviewing what’s ahead.
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Día a Día

Day by Day
Something to learn for each day
Start at the beginning and move numerically through the videos to help you build, step by step, your ability to speak and understand Spanish. You’ll see that we've started at the beginning and are working up towards some pretty advanced stuff and at only 10 minutes a day, this program can function as a stand-alone Spanish learning system, a great refresher, or an amazing supplement to what you are learning in another class.
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La Revista

Spanish Magazine
Something important to read
This is where the rubber hits the road, why you want to learn Spanish at all. Reading and listening to articles written and voice-recorded by native speakers of a variety of Latin American countries will help you stay grounded in the real Spanish-speaking world. This is how Spanish is written, spoken and sounds. This is what these Hispanic contributors think, what is customary in their home, what they’d like you to know about them and their culture.
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Podcast

Podcast
Life among and with Hispanics
Luis is a storyteller and there is nothing that gets him going like an audience. It seems there is no end to what interests him. He’ll do his best to captivate your attention while giving you the opportunity to hear Spanish as it’s really spoken. Three main line of thoughts: the stories of students of Spanish, the Hispanics in their counties and the immigrants.
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El Blog de Joan

Joan's Blog
The challenges
Joan knew NO Spanish and Luis, just a bit of English when they met. Since they chose to live and work in MN after they married, Luis’ English had to get up to speed first. Only then could Joan begin to tackle Spanish. And once they could understand one another, they had to deal with all of the cultural difference that loomed between them. This Blog is Joan’s therapy and she’s invited you to the sessions.
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Plaza Principal

Our Community
More than just students
Our blog called Viajando en Español contain posts on a broad range of topics that revolve around the process of learning Spanish. It can be invigorating, frustrating, satisfying, hysterical. The process is as human as a process can be and it helps a lot to share the ups and the downs and the sideways.
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Sólo Español

Only Spanish
El mundo real
Muy bien. Después de todo este esfuerzo para aprender a hablar y comunicarte en español, ¿cuál es el resultado? Aquí nos juntamos a comentar tus intentos de comunicarte en español. El material aquí en su mayoría es de libre acceso, sin embargo, tendrás el “feedback” constante de Luis y otros de nuestros escritores y colaboradores. ¿Has visto el video, o el artículo que se presenta aquí y tienes problemas con el vocabulario, ya sea una expresión o palabra? Intenta comentarlo, en español, y te contestaremos en español.
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En Vivo

Live
Un momento para todos
So Luis and I were sitting around one evening with nothing to do (Ha!) and we were thinking … wouldn't it be cool if we could invite ALL of our Students from all over world to our place – all at the same time so that we could sit around the kitchen counter for a cozy chat about Spanish? So we asked ourselves, why not do a LIVE Call-in Show? Cool, huh?
  • Highly Recommended
    "Completely Useful"
    Everett
    San Francisco CA 
    YMCA
    Joan and Luis have been so helpful thus far. Thank you both for your prompt responses and for your time! It is important for me personally and professionally to be able to communicate with everyone with eloquence and efficacy.
  • Excellent Program
    "A Fun Way to Learn"
    James B. Stewart
    Dpto. of History
    Macalester College - St. Paul MN
    Never before have I found an instructor and a method of teaching more closely attuned to my own particular interests and personal goals. And best of all, making rapid progress turns out to be enormous fun!
  • Strongly Recommended
    "Learn Spanish Naturally"
    Litswallow Lin
    China
    What is the best way to learn Spanish? To be honest, I don't know. However, I figured out when I, all of sudden, spoke out a sentence in Spanish or I answered a question in a Spanish conversation. I strongly recommend Rojas Spanish Language. I learn Spanish as learning my mother language.
  • Strongly Recommended
    "Learn Spanish Naturally"
    欣燕 林
    China
    什麼是最好的學習西班牙文方法呢?老實說, 我從不知道. 但當我突然說出一句西班牙文或是在一段西班牙文對話中自然的回答了問題. 我推薦Rojas Spanish Language因為他讓我學習西班牙文猶如學習第二個母語一樣自然. 每個句子都是很自然的生成. 這就是Rojas Spanish Language的魅力及祕密.