Learning Spanish Online With Videos (and Audios)
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Learning Spanish on the internet today is easier than ever, partially in part to increased bandwidth now available. In the 1980s, one had to learn by audio tapes, then CDs came out, and now a student can learn on the web. The Foreign Service Institute courses were available, but they were really made to accompany a classroom instructor. Pimsleur provided many improvements, and was great for learning in the car, since the course worked well without any book.
So today, with the internet, what has improved? Audios and videos can now be played online, or even downloaded. This wasn't feasible until high-speed internet became standard in most homes.
Due to the internet improvements, one of the "Cadillacs" of online learning is to take an online course with a live teacher. In this scenario, you might have a private lesson, or you might join 2 or 3 other students. This works great for people who can schedule the online class, but not work good for students who need a more flexible schedule. I call these courses the "Cadillac" because they are more expensive than other courses. Obviously, the company providing the course must deal with hiring and paying high quality instructors.
With an online class, another possibility is the ability to click on a word to hear it pronounced. The computer with patiently play the sound file over and over again, as many times as the students like. The student can also skip around, and click on words that are interesting or troublesome to him. This is a big advantage over tapes and CDs which both lacked true "random" access.
Recently, I decided to build my own Spanish course, offered as a membership with two lessons per month. Each lesson is based on a conversational dialog between two or three people. I found that many other lessons on the market often lacked some of the basic conversational skills needed to conduct "real-world" conversations. The dialogs include conversing about your profession, where you are from, where you have lived, your trip, brothers, sisters, children, and lunching while on a diet.
Each dialog is first presented in a short video. The goal is to listen once or twice, without understanding, then to go through the longer audio lesson that will thoroughly teach you all the words and phrases on the video. At the end, you should be able to listen to the video again, and understand it completely.
Following the audio, the student can review the vocabulary online by clicking on the words to hear them individually played. Each video and the longer audio comes with a complete PDF transcript. Other learning systems fail to include complete transcripts. The transcripts are needed to help the student with reading and spelling skills. The student often desires to print the PDF files, and use them for review when not at the computer.
So today, with the internet, what has improved? Audios and videos can now be played online, or even downloaded. This wasn't feasible until high-speed internet became standard in most homes.
Due to the internet improvements, one of the "Cadillacs" of online learning is to take an online course with a live teacher. In this scenario, you might have a private lesson, or you might join 2 or 3 other students. This works great for people who can schedule the online class, but not work good for students who need a more flexible schedule. I call these courses the "Cadillac" because they are more expensive than other courses. Obviously, the company providing the course must deal with hiring and paying high quality instructors.
With an online class, another possibility is the ability to click on a word to hear it pronounced. The computer with patiently play the sound file over and over again, as many times as the students like. The student can also skip around, and click on words that are interesting or troublesome to him. This is a big advantage over tapes and CDs which both lacked true "random" access.
Recently, I decided to build my own Spanish course, offered as a membership with two lessons per month. Each lesson is based on a conversational dialog between two or three people. I found that many other lessons on the market often lacked some of the basic conversational skills needed to conduct "real-world" conversations. The dialogs include conversing about your profession, where you are from, where you have lived, your trip, brothers, sisters, children, and lunching while on a diet.
Each dialog is first presented in a short video. The goal is to listen once or twice, without understanding, then to go through the longer audio lesson that will thoroughly teach you all the words and phrases on the video. At the end, you should be able to listen to the video again, and understand it completely.
Following the audio, the student can review the vocabulary online by clicking on the words to hear them individually played. Each video and the longer audio comes with a complete PDF transcript. Other learning systems fail to include complete transcripts. The transcripts are needed to help the student with reading and spelling skills. The student often desires to print the PDF files, and use them for review when not at the computer.
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