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muchas gracias for lessons 8 and 9 please keep up your amazing standard. I am going to Mexico in July and looking forward
Muchas gracias for lessons 8 and 9 please keep up your amazing standard. I am going to Mexico in July and looking forward to trying out all I am learning thanks to you.
Muchisimas gracias for your very kind words! Great to hear that you’re enjoying the course – and we’ll try to have some more material for you before you go to Mexico!…:-)
Wow, I’m surprised there hasn’t been comments more recently. I’ve tried 200 Words a Day, Linkword, Rosetta Stone, Michael Thomas and all sorts of audio books but this puts them all to shame!
Your learning method breaks everything down and makes the learning process so much simpler. I’ve just completed lesson 5 and still feeling extremely positive. Thank you for putting these up free of charge, I think you should put up a donation page if there isn’t one already. Wish they would adopt these methods at school!
Thank you so much for your extremely kind words, Simon – a real boost to us as we work our way through producing Course 1…:-) We hope very much that we’ll be able to share these materials more widely with schools, but we probably need to get a bit further with the course before that will become possible. If we can get enough interest, we’ll probably look at doing a Course 2 with other supplementary materials for a very low monthly cost – that’s what we’re doing with our Welsh course, and it seems to be pleasing people so far…:-)
Great first lesson! But every time I try and sign up for more by email the site won’t send me the confirmation e-mail
Thank you Lucy! Sorry to hear that – your email is on the list, so it should all be working fine – you might like to whitelist help[at]saysomethinginspanish.com – in the meantime, I’m going to email you directly and see if that works…:-)
I have jus finished lesson ten and cant believe how much spanish i can speak (very proud) excellent course!
Fantastic! Well done you, and muchas gracias for your very kind words! We’re currently working on recording lessons 16 to 20, so hopefully they’ll be with you before you finish with 15…:-)
Thank you so much for this course. I’ve tried to learn French (at school) and Italian (at uni) and it was the usual rote learning and writing everything down and mixing up the endings and finding it difficult to put my comprehension and written abilities into practice. Your course is the exact opposite and it is FANTASTIC.
I’m so pleased with how quickly I am picking the Spanish up and I’m surprised at what I can say after only three lessons. I don’t know how the next lessons go whether there’s practice of translating spanish back into english to help comprehension because I think that would be helpful (but you know best!!)
I’m just so grateful for how quickly your method is allowing me to put quite long sentences together and my confidence in speaking is coming along leaps and bounds compared to my previous attempts to learn a language.
Thank you, thank you, thank you and please keep the lessons coming
Thank you so much for taking the time to give us such brilliant feedback – it’s a huge boost to hear that the course is working so well for you, and I’ll look forward very much to hearing how it goes for you as you get further through it…:-) We’ve just started work on our Italian and French courses, so if you fancy revisiting them you should be able to have a go next year…:-)
I can’t get started. Right clicking on Introduction doesn’t get me to “Save as”. And I don’t understand this;” If you didn’t bookmark the download page, just fill in the form again – it will recognise that you’re already on the list, and take you straight to the download page.”
I have filled this in three times and I don’t get to the download page.
Help!
Please do you do courses in the same way in other languages, my grand daughter wants so much to learn some.
Hi Martin – sorry you’re having trouble – can you tell me what you see when you right click on Introduction? And can you tell me what happens when you put your email address in the sign-up form?
Hi Helen – we’ve got a few volunteers working on different languages at the moment – we’re hoping to have some more lessons for different courses available by the end of the year – and will definitely be releasing more next year…:-)
I’m up to lesson 8 and going well. I very much enjoy this style of learning. I’m also doing the saysomethinginwelsh course and appreciate the vocab access linked to the lessons. Are there any plans to do this for the Spanish course? I know we are meant to be listening and speaking. But sometimes I want clarity about the fs and ss and ds sounds. Also the to do word. Is it ago?argo? You see I am struggling!
Oh, yes, sorry – meant to do this a while ago, and it slipped my mind. I’ll try and get something ready for you before we go to the Eisteddfod on Thursday…:-)
Muchas gracias. Diolch yn fawr am y cwrs. Dw i wedi mynd ymhellach mewn tair gwers na dwi wedi neud o’r blaen – I ve gone further in three lessons than ever before. Diolch eto.
Gwych – wrth ein bodd cael clywed fod o’n gweithio’n dda i chi hyd yma – diolch yn fawr iawn am eich geiriau caredig…:-)
Me encanta su curso de español. Muchas gracias. Please, please add more lessons as I think they are fantastic. I specially like the use of 2 spanish speakers. In fact I would be gutted if you didn’t cover the remaining grammatical constructions (I’m hooked). I also think it would be useful if you could use both the Latin American and the european Spanish versions of some phrases e.g voy a manejar mi carro and voy a conducir mi coche. I have tried other courses and they ony deal with Latin American spanish and as I live in Spain it drives me nuts. The use of regresar and volver is another example. Again many thanks. Saludos Cordiales.
Muchisimas gracias por sus palabras tan amables…:-) Great that you’re enjoying the course – we should have Lesson 15 ready in a week or so, and then several more before too long. We’re thinking of doing some stuff focusing on American/Peninsular differences as a set of supplementary lessons, probably a little further down the line!
I have just started the course and find it much easier to learn than other spanish courses taht I have used in the past.
Just out of interest how many spanish lessons do you plan on producing
Richard
Great to hear you’re off to a good start!
We’ll definitely produce 25 lessons and then 10 vocab lessons on top of that all for free – and then we’ll see where we go from there – perhaps like our Welsh course to a very low cost monthly membership for a second course, depending on what the numbers are like…:-)
I think your lessons are Fantastic, i’m moving to Madrid in the new year and this has been a great way to improve my Spanish.
Thanks very much!
Brilliant! Delighted to hear they’re helping so far – and I promise we’ll have more available soon. I hope you have a fantastic time in Madrid…:-)
Fantastic course, muchas gracias! I’ve finished the first 8 lessons, completing them on my commute to and from work. I really look forward to them as you make it all so easy and such fun. I’m learning with a colleague so we can practise together and we spur each other on. Really looking forward to going to Marbella next year and being able to speak properly with the locals. Any thoughts of turning your skills to Indian languages? I could do with improving my Punjabi and/or Hindi! Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much for your really kind words…:-) Setting up a learning pair is a great idea, and will make a huge difference. Let us know how you get on in Marbella! We’ve got a bunch of volunteers working on other languages – if we find any Punjabi or Hindi speakers who’d like to give it a go, we’ll be very happy to…:-)
When will there be more lessons?
Don’t seem to have had a new one for some time ?
Thanx
Rick
We’re dependent on (our wonderful) volunteers, so we can’t promise a fixed schedule – having said that, the next lesson should be ready this week (or next week at the latest) and we’ve got several others in the pipeline that should be ready before too long…:-)
Thanx Admin, looking forward to them
Hi
I’m on lesson 2 and I think this is a great way to learn Spanish. I have picked up all of the first lesson very easily and I like the way the you continually build on what you have been taught. Thanks!
Question – I notice that the course didn’t start with the basic greetings is there a reason for this?
Thanks very much for your kind words! Great that you’re off to such a good start…:-)
Yes, a couple of reasons, actually…:-) One is that most courses focus on these, so most learners have come across them in some form or other – or if they haven’t, they can be found on the net pretty easily – see: http://www.espanol-ingles.com.mx/phrase_book/spanish/greetings.html or http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/basic-greetings-in-spanish/682.html for example.
But more importantly, set phrases don’t work very well with our approach, which is to try and give you the building blocks to get used to creating your own sentences. By the time you’re confident in using your Spanish, you’ll find that you just pick up the greetings naturally, if you haven’t already by that stage…:-)
I am enjoying the Spanish course (Which is really a refresher course for me.)
I feel I can keep up well with the responses but I do wonder whether I could manage it, if I were a complete beginner: it seems very fast! I find the vocabulary very interesting.
May I just ask why the 2 Spaniards say “Aggi” for “Alli” although I notice that they have changed back to “Ayyi” (Pronunciation spelling) in Lesson 6. We were wondering if the “Aggi” pronunciation is something peculiar to S. America?
My biggest problem is that “Yfory” is fixed in my head for “Tomorrow”!
Diolch am Gwrs ardderchog.
Margaret
Thank you very much for your kind words, Margaret…:-)
There are (and will be) variations in pronounciation throughout the course – we’ve had speakers from Galicia, Cuba, and second-language peninsular – which all helps people understand a range of possible accents when they start using their Spanish in the wild…:-) I don’t hear ‘alli’ as ‘aggi’ but more (in some cases) as ‘azhi’, which is certainly more American…:-)
Good course, but I cant seem to find the free practise sessions you talk about at the end of lesson 7. I wrote in the web address but it sent me to this page… Is there a different link to this???
Hi Anita – glad you’re enjoying the course – the practice sessions are on the same download page as the lessons, down at the bottom – they get changed every week (well, almost every week!)…:-)
Let me first of all say what a brilliant course you are delivering. My spanish has come on leaps and bounds in just a few short weeks.
I do hope that you are able to continue with more lessons than the 25 that are planned because I think you will only be able to cover a limited range of vocabulary in that time.
Richard
Thank you very much indeed for your kind words, Richard – it’s great to hear that the course is going well for you…:-)
We’ll definitely have some extra vocab lessons – and we might produce some more material for free (possibly an alternative Course 1, as we continue to work on improving the technique) – in the medium term, if there’s enough interest, we’ll also look at producing a Course 2 for a very low monthly subscription…:-)
Finished Lesson 15. I found that I had to give alot more thought and concetration to
this leasson than previous ones. Maybe thats because there is more to remember as
we progress throught the course.
Anyway I still very much enjoy this course’s techniques of listening and speaking.
Regards Ian
Really interesting – with our Welsh course, we’ve found that people find different lessons easier or harder – it isn’t a progression, so don’t worry that they’ll all feel harder from here on! If you find that you get stuck on a particular lesson, it’s usually a good thing to leave it and carry on with the next lesson (we’ll have 16 and 17 ready soon!) – or to go back a couple of lessons and kind of have another ‘run up’ at it…:-)
Hi I have a limit on my download Is it possible to save the lessons on to my computer so that I can practice without going over my alocate down load?
If so can you tell me how to do this ?
Thank you
Eileen
Hi Eileen,
It might be a good idea to check your computer to see that you haven’t already downloaded the lessons – they’re meant to download to your computer when you click on them, so it may be that you are just repeatedly downloading them when you already have them on your hard disk.
If you’re at all uncertain about that, make sure that you do a right click on the lesson files and then choose ‘Save as…’ in order to download them.
Hope this helps…:-)
Excellent course! Are the weekly practice sessions only available that week? Can only see 9th September.
Hello Margot, and thank you very much for your kind comments. The weekly practice sessions are usually updated ever week, but there was a glitch last week, which is why the 9th September practices were still there. However, if you check now, you’ll find a fresh pair of practices! I hope you are finding them as enjoyable as the rest of the course…
Hi I have just played the second lesson and I can not foind it anywhere on my computer I did right cick whie it was running as you advised
HELP
Regard Eleen
Hi Eileen,
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean you to right click while the lesson was running – but to right click on it before you do anything else. Please try doing that, and then following the ‘Save as…’ option, and keeping an eye on where you’ve downloaded it. If you’re not very familiar with downloading things from the internet, it might be a good idea for you to ask a friend or family member to help you get the hang of it to begin with…:-)
Thanks for all the work you’re doing to give us this fantastic course FREE. What an incredible way to learn, I can listen to my download while I’m preparing dinner or cleaning my house. It puts me in a good mood. I live in Gran Canary in the winter so I knew quite a lot of spanish before I began this course, but now all my conjunctions are falling into the correct place, and its fun…thanks. Cant wait for the next lessons!!!
Thank you so much for your really kind words, Anita…:-) Sorry for the slight break – we’ve had a tough time as a family, losing an unborn baby recently – but after being away for a while, we’re back on track now, and should have some new lessons ready in the next couple of weeks. Knowing that people are looking forward to them is a huge help to keep us working away!
I am on lesson 11, and am enjoying the lessons soooo much! I am getting anxious to learn more verb tenses just because I want to be even more flexible with conversation. Is the past tense coming up any time soon? One idea that I can pass on – I checked out some children’s spanish books on c.d. from the library and play them while I wash the dishes! Keep making more lessons, I definitely want to keep learning!
I am sorry to learn that your family has had a tough time. I am sure all our thoughts and prayers are with you at this sad time
Richard