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Let's face it: learning a foreign language is not easy.
I learned that the hard way after I received an opportunity to spend a year living in South America. Since I had taken Spanish for years in high school and college, I assumed that I would be meeting people and making friends in Spanish in no time.
Boy, was I wrong.
After four months of living in South America, I was still barely able to have a basic conversation in Spanish. Although I could quote my grammar textbook's explanation of the use of the imperfect subjunctive by heart, I was still helpless when it came to actually conversing in Spanish.
Walking into stores or restaurants, I was mostly reduced to grunting and pointing at what I wanted. I was not able to make friends, talk to girls, or have any significant social interaction with the locals.
Finally, after significant trial and error, I stumbled upon a series of techniques that rapidly improved my ability to communicate in Spanish.
The most important thing I discovered was that in order to improve my ability to converse, I needed to spend most of my time speaking and listening. Once I replaced the time I was spending on flashcards and grammar drills with time actively listening and speaking in Spanish, I began to see dramatic improvement.
My next big discovery was that I could get by in many conversations using relatively little grammar. It turned out that it didn't matter if I sometimes used the preterite where I should have used the imperfect, or if I used the indicative instead of the subjunctive -- people could still understand what I was trying to say.
Changing my approach to account for these principles freed me from the "paralysis by analysis" that had been making my speech slow and stunted and finally allowed me to start speaking more fluently and more confidently.
One Month Spanish incorporates these principles into a step-by-step series of lessons designed to provide real-time practice listening and speaking and to get you speaking conversational-level Spanish in the shortest time possible.
But first a warning: this approach is not for everyone.
If you are looking for something that is "easy" and doesn't require much effort or attention, or if you want cute games or "apps" that require no more than clicking a mouse, then this isin't for you.
But if you are you are ready to finally learn how to speak (not just read) Spanish, and are willing to put in a bit of time and effort each day, read on to find out how you can quickly build your confidence and improve your ability to converse in Spanish.
About the course
One Month Spanish is an online course designed to teach you conversational Spanish over 30 lessons. Each lesson contains a series of mp3 audio exercises designed to train your brain how to listen and respond naturally in Spanish.
You'll work with live audio of native Spanish speakers conversing in common scenarios (e.g. going to the store, checking into an hotel), sequenced to progressively improve your ability to understand native Spanish conversation.
When you sign up, you'll get instant access to the member's area where you'll be able to start learning and practicing immediately!
- Dialogue-centered - Our dialogue-centric approach helps you to learn all of the necessary grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation within the context of real conversation - not flashcards or grammar books.
- Audio-based - by working with audio, you master the ability to speak and understand oral Spanish, not just recognize words on paper.
- Guided imitation - active listening and repetition of native Spanish speakers improves pronunciation and helps achieve fluency.
- Progressive learning - each new lesson builds upon prior material to constantly reinforce what you've learned.
Most language courses are designed for casual learners who are content to slowly improve their Spanish skills over months or years. One Month Spanish is designed for serious learners who are looking to rapidly improve their Spanish speaking skills.
Based on a proven methodology used to teach FBI agents, and diplomats, One Month Spanish is ideal for travelers, foreign exchange students and others who need to rapidly improve their language skills in order to survive in a Spanish speaking country.
“After months of
struggling to understand basic conversation,
I was finally able to make
Spanish speaking friends.”
One Month Spanish's dialogue-based learning approach helps you learn Spanish quickly through frequent exposure to native Spanish conversation. This approach allows you to learn naturally, with less reliance on rote memorization or abstract grammar.
Each lesson comes with reinforcing audio drills to help you master core skills and more easily recall what you have learned in real conversation.
- You're living abroad or about to take a trip to a foreign country
- You've tried other methods but still struggle with actual conversation
- You want the freedom to study on your own schedule
- You already know the basics but need to improve conversational ability
- You want to develop real-world language skills rather than memorize lots of rules
Tim Nolan, Mexico
Matt Hines, New York
Melissa Brooks, Buenos Aires
Sandy Kolesar, California
Unit 1
Lesson 1: Greetings
Lesson 2: Basic Sentences
- Introductory grammar - Spanish Demonstratives
Unit 2
Lesson 3: Asking for directions; exchanging currency
- Gender of singular nouns and adjectives
Lesson 4: Introductions
- Number in nouns and adjectives
- The verb Estar
Lesson 5: First day at work
- The verb Ser
Lesson 6: Having lunch
- Present tense –ar verbs
- Differences between Está(n) and Hay
Lesson 7: Looking for an apartment
- Present tense -er verbs
- The demonstratives ese, este, aquel
Lesson 8: Looking for an apartment (continued)
- Present tense -ir verbs
- Contractions
- 30 audio-intensive lessons sequenced to take you from beginner to intermediate
- Over 15 hours of MP3 audio featuring native Spanish speakers (to download or stream online)
- Full transcripts with English translations
- Itemized definitions of all vocabulary
- Complete grammar explanations and drills for the most critical items of Spanish grammar
- Advanced techniques that can cut your learning time by over 50%
- Online access from any device (including iOs and Android phones)
