Once you’ve had the chance to try a few of the lessons, we would very, very much like to hear what you think of the course.
Like it, love it, loathe it – anyone who takes the time to give us feedback is an absolute star as far as we’re concerned!
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Brilliant ! cant get enough of the say something courses,its easy ,its fun and im pretty sure its addictive
Thank you so much, Carol! Delighted that you like it so far…:-)
Very nice course! I like it so far after doing the first 2 lessons. In the past few years, I’ve done 3 levels of Rosetta Stone Spanish. Your course certainly does something they don’t do well, in terms of getting the student to translate a phrase in real time before hearing it in Spanish. That skill is key to speaking, at least for me, in real life, since I will think of something in English first that I would like to say in Spanish. It would be great to think in Spanish, of course, but that’s asking a lot.
One small comment – the visual bar was narrow on my screen so it was a little tricky to hit the pause button. I can probably change that by changing my browser settings so fonts are bigger, but maybe the bar could be bigger to start with.
Also, I found that some of the English prompter’s pronunciations of Spanish words to sound different from what I was expecting. For example, the way he says the “o” in “no” sounds very different from how I would attempt to say it (with my feeble attempt at a Spanish accent). It may be because I am American. In any event, it’s not a big deal, but I just thought I would note this, since I understand you are looking for feedback. The Spanish speakers sounded just like what I was expecting.
That is extremely helpful input, Debby, thank you very much indeed! We really appreciate you taking the time to let us know what you thought in so much detail, and it will be very helpful indeed in the process of trying to improve the course…:-)
The bar isn’t set by us – it’s purely a matter of browser settings, I’m afraid, so we can’t make it larger to begin with – sorry about that.
Thank you for the lessons. I listened to all six over the weekend and they are fantastic.
I’ve worked through Pimsleur, Michel Thomas and various Teach Yourself book/CD courses in the past and, in my opinion, those language learning methods are not close to being as good as this.
When will you be able to post more lessons?
Thank you so much for your extremely kind words, which are an enormous encouragement to us…:-) I was hoping to have Lesson 7 up today, but it’s been a busy day, and will now have to wait until tomorrow. Then it may be a couple of weeks before we get 8, 9 and 10 up – but we will try very hard to bring out a new lesson if not every week, then every other week…:-)
Have not started yet but if they are like Say Something in Welsh, I have no doubt that they’ll be good.
However, how do I download the lessons? I can play them, but find nothing which indicates that the lessons are also download-able.
If you do a right click on the lessons, you should get an option saying something like ‘Save file as…’ – then you just choose where you want to save, and it’s job done…:-)
I have just listened to lessons 1 and 2. Just as I expected. They are similar in format to SSiW, and if they continue like that it will be brilliant. I’m at lesson 17 of course 1 in SSiW and making steady, if not spectacular progress in that. I’m going down to Cardiff this weekend to say farewell to ‘ickle Shane’ and may have the chance to exchange a few words in Cymraeg. Why do I want to follow the SSiS course? Well I have done a number of years of Adult Education classes in Spanish. You know–once a week, books, grammatical rules, homework etc.. And a bit of conversation. If the SSiS course will be as good as I expect based on my experience of SSiW, it will be great.
If I haven’t olvidado too much over the past 2 or 3 years, I think I’m going to enjoy it very much. Buena suerte con el curso.
Muchisimas gracias, Will! If you’ve got to Lesson 17 with SSiW, you probably don’t realise just how spectacular most evening class students would find your Welsh – you’ve done extremely well…:-) Hope you have a good time in Cardiff, y buena suerte con el espanol!
So far it’s shaping up to be as good as SaySomethingInWelsh, which sets the bar pretty high. The only problem is that I’m so excited about having learned to speak Welsh in nine months (yes, these courses are that good) that I can hardly tear myself away from it to do the Spanish lessons – pero tengo que hacerlo er mwyn puedo hablar Español cyn fynd i’r Islas Canarias yn mis Mawrth! Help!
(No problems with the course itself so far, just a moment of confusion due to the differing pronunciations of the “ll” in llamar – I never realised it could be that sound.)
Fantastic feedbak, Peter, diolch o galon/muchisimas gracias! I’m thinking we’ll need to explain a little more about the pronunciation variation for two or three things – but as you know already, the answer is ‘Don’t Worry’…;-)
Thanks a lot for the SSiS course which is wonderful. I’m working on the SSiW again, (having lost the plot for a while!) and am studying Spanish with the OU so I appreciate all the practice I can get. I really liked the format of SSiW and it works just as well with the Spanish.
Muchas gracias a tod@s.
De nada, y thanks a lot for that, Alan – really great to hear that the courses are going well for you…:-)
Fantastic, where is lesson 8, 9, 10 please
Working on them…:-)
I have learned more from the course than any of the books and CD’s that I have paid for. Gracias, por favor guarde la llegada de lecciones si usted puede
Really appreciate your kind words – we’re currently working on recording lesson 8, and finalising the scripts for 9, 10, 11 and 12…:-)
I am really enjoying doing your Spanish course. I like the format as its the same as your Welsh for beginners which I started learning. With the Spanish course I know most of the words from previous Spanish courses but never felt confident with the language and I struggled to understand it. With your course by repeating the sentences helps me to listen and speak and understand the language.
Thank you so much for your feedback, Ian – it’s a real help to know how you’re finding the course. I hope it carries on being useful for you…:-)
I love this course! I’ve tried a few different courses before, but I’ve always had a problem with turning the lists
Of words I memorized into working sentences. I’ve been going through your lessons for about two months, and I’m amazed at the progress I’ve been able to make! Thank you for making such an excellent course available!
Thank you so much, Miriam – it’s a real boost to hear that the course is helping you! We’ll try and have some new lessons ready before too long – once Marisol’s throat is a bit better (she’s got a very bad sore throat at the moment and needs to see a specialist, so she can’t record right now)…:-)
I have just gone through 2 lessons and I am very impressed at your method – it’s very good, and I look forward to the next lessons.
Many thanks!
Delighted to hear you’re liking it so far, Mike – thanks very much for your feedback…:-)
Do you know when lesson eight will be online? I finished lesson seven a few weeks ago, so I’m really excited about accessing the next lesson
Hi Miriam – well done for getting so far! I’m afraid we’re battling a slight problem at the moment – Marisol has got a problem with her throat and is under doctor’s orders to speak as little as possible – so we’re looking for another voice, and will have Lesson 8 up within a few days after we find a good voice… sorry for the delay!