Review Rocket Spanish - Is This The Course For You?
By admin | May 28, 2009
In the six free lessons, which Mauricio calls a mini-course students learn some conversational Spanish. In the free lessons, students will learn how to order a meal in a restaurant and how to introduce themselves to others. Students will learn how to tell others how much Spanish they know. This helps Spanish speakers not to expect too carry on a long conversation with them because they are beginners learning to speak in Spanish.
What Is In The Free Mini-Course?
Those who sign up for the mini-course receive each of the six lessons by email over a period of seven days. Students click the appropriate links to connect with the Rocket Spanish website for the lessons. Students learn the Spanish in each of the sessions at their own pace. Many people complete the lessons in about eight weeks while others need additional time. Each lesson has six parts…
Part 1:Greetings in Spanish (an audio lesson)
Part 2: Explaining Greetings (a text lesson, required reading)
Part 3: Introductions in Spanish (an audio lesson)
Part 4: Explaining Introductions (a text lesson, required reading)
Part 5: Asking for what you want (an audio lesson)
Part 6: Explaining Ordering in Restaurants (a text lesson, required reading)
During each part of lesson, students listen carefully to the Spanish words and phrases. Then they speak the Spanish words and as they practice, they move progressively through each of the six parts taught during in each session of the mini-course.
One interesting bonus lessons is learning the numbers from one to ten. Amy Waterman, the program Editor and Mauricio Evlampieff, the program author teach this lesson together. Amy introduces the lesson aimed at building your number vocabulary. Amy will tell you in English what Mauricio will say in Spanish. Students repeat the words and phrases after him. Mauricio repeats the correct pronunciation for student hear the correct pronunciation for comparison.
Games And Interactivy Lessons For Easy Learning
The goal is to learn to pronounce words and phrases, as does Mauricio. Amy speaks words and phrases in Spanish for extra help and leads students through a simple Math lesson. Students start and stop as needed as they progress through the complete lesson. Students can download the lesson to MP3 player and take it with them and can practice anytime, anywhere.
Another bonus lesson among the many lessons in Rocket Spanish is a lesson teaching students the fine distinction between formal and informal greetings. Americans use the same greeting for everyone however, Spanish speakers of Latin America use formal and informal greetings depending status of person they are greeting.
Another distinction between the formality of Latin American, Spanish speakers and America English speakers is when greeting a small group of people. The Spanish traditionally greet each member of the group individually while the English speakers will greet the group as one, with a simple “hello, everyone” or a similar greeting.
Conclusion
Before long, students are saying things like the woman, who said, she surprised herself and her Spanish friends with all she learned. Go to the link above and sign up for the mini-course, today.
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