Learning Spanish Like CrazyI still like Learning Spanish Like Crazy. I’m kind of done with level 1. Kind of, meaning I need to go back and listen a few more times to the last five lessons to get more comfortable and quicker with my responses. Every lesson has the same format a conversation at the beginning, then smaller phrases along with new nouns and verbs are introduced. In the beginning only the present tense is introduced with new verbs. Later lessons introduce not only the present tense, but past tenses and other tenses of the verbs are not only introduced but interspersed throughout the lesson.

Usually at the end of the lesson there may be a little quiz, where you are asked a question in Spanish and told what to say in English and your response is to be in Spanish. Then the instructor repeats the answer and hopefully you were right.

There are 30 approximately 30 minute lessons. Plus several bonus lessons which include a couple of lessons from level 2. So, in level 1 you have a couple lessons from level 2 plus the insult lessons, a non-vulgar and a very vulgar insults lesson along with Spanish Idioms. Sayings that don’t really have a direct translation. With level 2 you get about the same format but more advanced of course and the bonus lessons include a couple of slang lessons and about five more regular lessons above and beyond the 30 normal lessons. Plus all of the video lessons, the user forums, pdf transcripts and weekly teleconferences. Learning Spanish Like Crazy is the best program out there.

The only lacking part is that I think there isn’t a review lesson. About every 5 or even 10 lessons I wish there was a review of the previous lessons without having to go through the entire 30 minutes of each lesson. If you only need a review going back the entire course is a much to listen to. To fix that I’ve started making my own review lessons. So far, I’m only taking the conversation at the beginning of the lesson and the little quiz at the end. In the later lessons I may go through and get some of the smaller phrases that are learned and worked on.

Get your free trial lessons, which are the real first 5 lessons to try it for yourself. Learning Spanish Like Crazy. If you can fully and easily understand the little snippet from lesson 30, you may want to go straight to Level 2, but there is still a lot of stuff in Level 1, especially in the later lessons, probably after lesson 13 it starts getting harder and it’s not just a matter of responding, it’s a matter of having to think and come up with your responses a lot quicker. Since they are on Mp3′s it’s easy to go back and even repeat the lessons several times, which most people have to do.
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Originally posted 2008-05-13 06:00:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter