Learn Spanish - Rocket Spanish Minicourse
Learn Spanish - a Minicourse
¡Hola! ¿Cómo estas?
And yes - right again! The above expression means "Hello! How are you!"
I've just embarked upon the Rocket Spanish 6-day minicourse and I'd like to give you my initial opinions. Obviously, I've only just started so I can't tell you so much, but nevertheless there's enough already to get a good "feel" as to the quality and how it's likely to progress.
The course is created and presented by Mauricio Evlampieff who comes from Chile and is therefore a native Spanish speaker. Now, this course is both written and audio, with apparently much emphasis on speaking. So the audio component is very important.
The first part of the course comprises about a quarter of an hour or so of very thorough drilling in basic greetings. We're introduced to a very small amount of vocabulary - but presented very clearly with much repetition and places where you can repeat it yourself and then hear the correct pronunciation immediately afterwards.
Throughout the audio Mauricio is heard in conversation with the program's editor, Amy Waterman, a young North American lady by the sound of it, but who seems to achieve the necessary clarity of diction so the listener can easily follow the conversation.
I think that this pairing is realistic. I imagine that most users of this course will be North American, so Amy will give them a point of reference. As for myself, of course, I'm European, so the American accent is very evident. No problem!
The audio recordings are available to listen to online, or you can download them to your computer, possibly even later onto an iPod or similar device to listen to in the car. If find that courses such as this make ideal driving companions!
A comment I must make is that the audio is first rate. So full marks for what sounds like professional studio quality audio. This is really very good, since in such a course, clarity of the audio is of paramount importance.
I can't wait to find out what's in part 2 of the course. Why not join me? The minicourse is free, so you've nothing to loose. Here's the link again: Rocket Spanish
Now go learn Spanish !
¡Hola! ¿Cómo estas?
And yes - right again! The above expression means "Hello! How are you!"
I've just embarked upon the Rocket Spanish 6-day minicourse and I'd like to give you my initial opinions. Obviously, I've only just started so I can't tell you so much, but nevertheless there's enough already to get a good "feel" as to the quality and how it's likely to progress.
The course is created and presented by Mauricio Evlampieff who comes from Chile and is therefore a native Spanish speaker. Now, this course is both written and audio, with apparently much emphasis on speaking. So the audio component is very important.
The first part of the course comprises about a quarter of an hour or so of very thorough drilling in basic greetings. We're introduced to a very small amount of vocabulary - but presented very clearly with much repetition and places where you can repeat it yourself and then hear the correct pronunciation immediately afterwards.
Throughout the audio Mauricio is heard in conversation with the program's editor, Amy Waterman, a young North American lady by the sound of it, but who seems to achieve the necessary clarity of diction so the listener can easily follow the conversation.
I think that this pairing is realistic. I imagine that most users of this course will be North American, so Amy will give them a point of reference. As for myself, of course, I'm European, so the American accent is very evident. No problem!
The audio recordings are available to listen to online, or you can download them to your computer, possibly even later onto an iPod or similar device to listen to in the car. If find that courses such as this make ideal driving companions!
A comment I must make is that the audio is first rate. So full marks for what sounds like professional studio quality audio. This is really very good, since in such a course, clarity of the audio is of paramount importance.
I can't wait to find out what's in part 2 of the course. Why not join me? The minicourse is free, so you've nothing to loose. Here's the link again: Rocket Spanish
Now go learn Spanish !
posted by Antonio at 1:46 PM
1 Comments:
Bravo for jumping into learning a new language. If you want more free resources you can goto parlo.comto find articles to read, music with lyrics, and a good collection of internet radio links. Of course the reasonably priced courses are very good too. ;) Read, listen, talk (even badly) and we can hack our way to fluency.
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