I Highly Recommend These Group Spanish Lessons
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Sorry, this is way off base. I'm a long-time serious student of Spanish, currently in a Spanish master's program. One piece of advice I am most confident in giving other learners is avoid group lessons like the plague. They are a waste of time and money. Yes, they may be significantly cheaper, but the amount you learn will be minuscule compared to what you'll learn with a good one-on-one tutor. Think of your teacher like a sports coach. Suppose you're trying to become an excellent gymnast or quarterback. You'll never get there in a group class where the coach is giving generalized instructions. You need a coach who is scrutinizing your individual weaknesses and can prescribe a lesson plan aimed at strengthening those weaknesses. Over my learning career I've been in many on-line programs with online tutors, in-country schools, and many group and individual lessons. I'm confident in saying you will learn four or five times faster with one-on-one lessons compared to group lessons. If you cost out what you learn versus price, you'll be way ahead with individual lessons. Plus, it's not all about price. Your time is worth more than money. If you spend a couple years in group lessons and get relatively nowhere, you've wasted a couple years. It takes thousands of hours of focused work to approach the level of a native speaker, and with group lessons you'll always be at the level of asking someone where the bus stop is and not understanding the answer. You can find excellent online tutors for $13 to $15 per hour. If you're serious about learning, this is the way to go.
Completely agree, Rob, and there are always students that dominate the class. Some teachers don't correct, either.
Rob, can you recommend a teacher who actually individualizes lessons based on weaknesses? I have never encountered one that does this. I’ve had many and they all have taught in a very unstructured, non-personalized way.
@@theresatomasello1843 Hi, Theresa. So nice to hear from you. I look for a super smart teacher who knows grammar well, with a good sense of humor, who is genuinely fascinated by language. My favorite teacher right now, who I've been working with for five years, is also a teacher of Esperanto and English. So, we have many in-depth conversations about the origins of words and how they relate. For example, I noticed last week that the word "sueldo" (salary) probably has a relationship with the verb "saldar" (pay off a debt). So, my teacher said, "Wow, I never thought of that. Bet you're right." So, we researched online together, and it turns out the two words come from the same Latin root.
Sorry, I don't want to put the name of my teacher out there for everyone. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to contact you individually and give it to you, but so far I haven't.
With this teacher, as with others, I take charge of my own lessons. I will tell him, for example, that I want to spend a couple lessons on the many uses of suponerse, so we look at examples I've found online, we try to draw general rules and observation about these uses, and we practice sentences and dialogues with them. Before the next lesson, I practice more. I often record my own exercises, similar to to those Pimsleur makes, but more focused on the particular thing I'm trying to learn. Every few months I ask him to note the types of errors I am consistently making, and then we focus on those together for a few weeks (for ten minutes or so per lesson), until I master the correct use. And I bolster this learning on my own between lessons.
BTW, one tool I've found super helpful for learning "correct" Spanish, as compared to street Spanish, is newsinslowspanish.com. I try to start each day listening to at least a couple of their news stories. I've learned a huge amount this way. You can set the news stories to beginner, intermediate or advanced, and to Spanish from either Spain or Latin America.
I agree with you
Agreed! I tried a group learning environment and ended up wasting so much time listening to other learners struggle through their own learning issues. I lasted 1 month then ditched it!
Thanks Paul! This is what I've been looking for. 💛
Happy to help. They really do a great job.
Sounds good and has possibilities!!!!
I like SpanishVIP, pero ojalá tengan clases en los fines de semana. Thanks for all the videos Paul!
Cuál idioma es "ojalá" amigo? Read first talk second. Next question what is the name of the person who narates the second half of Don Quichotte de la Mancha? Etimología es muy importante Cicero le dijo a Cato!
@@josedelnegro46ojalá means I hope. It’s in psalms
Thanks for the recommendation. I really enjoy your videos. Awhile back you mentioned a possible video about how to understand fast spoken spanish. It is the weakest part of my spanish learning journey. It would be much appreciated.
Yes, I was working on it today in fact.
Hey Paul. Great stuff as always... Any thoughts on Baselang?
I'm not familiar with it at all.
Gracias! Paul did you learn Spanish on your own or did you take any in person classes?
I learned on my own for work. I talk about my journey in this video: ua-cam.com/video/yBuq-QFT3_8/v-deo.html
I just finished a 12 week course called Spanish To Fluency (Bootcamp) and have signed up for the next class,very happy with it my conversation skills improved immensely the advantage it is run by a native English speaker who (like Paul) has learned Spanish and imparts her knowledge.All the conversations were with native Spanish speakers .I am thinking that between Paul and these classes I will continue to make gains.
That's great. That sounds like a very intense course. It says a lot about your level of dedication that you completed it. Congrats. :)
Who offers this course?
Jim, could you send me a link to your course? I can't seem to find it
you won’t find the course online and I can’t send you the link because it is a paid for course But as I was saying she has several videos on u tube that is how I found her not sure if I can send that link look for Spanish To Fluency I can try to forward you a link via email?
@@QrooSpanish Thank you Paul and thanks for all the great information you continue to help immensely
I have a question for anybody who can answer (including Paul) -are the classes in SpanishVIP exclusively in Spanish or are they similarly run the way Paul runs his lessons. I'm asking because I'm considering these classes for my two daughters ages 12 and 14 who are just starting to learn Spanish with me their father who is looking for some greater support. Some information would be greatly appreciated.
They mix English and Spanish like I do.
@@QrooSpanishThanks, Paul. I've been using your lessons for months now with my two daughters 14, and 12. We all really like your approach. I'm a math teacher, so I want to use this free time I have right now to put them through an intensive program of learning before we all start school again in August. That comment from @robpeters14 about the advantages of individualized learning really resonated with me, though...
I use Baselang for unlimited classes 24 hours a day and loved it! Its $199 per month. I'd rather do one on one than a group class. If that's not in your budget it is better to be one month on and one month off for unlimited classes or pay $15 bucks a class for 1 class a week and get a language partner than a group class.
Is $199 a typo? Holy shit. If it works for you and you can afford it though, that's great.
I gotta see those goggles now 😅
Haha
Don't agree. They advertise unlimited lessons. In fact, they're are very time-limited, which makes scheduling with them also very... limited. Limited AM, PM, weekend hours, even with their 1:1 classes.
Here is the problema that Paul rightly responds too. Primero ustedes es correcto "por qué es más fácil a aprender un idioma en la cama o hablando de maternidad sustituir la cama por la cuna.". Paul, who Is from Florida worked in a community where he had fréquent interactions with Méxicanos. Next Paul is married to a walking, talking dictionnaire and grammaire sometimes called a wife. Sée the importance of close interaction in the Spanish saying above. You on the other hand are in a université. Ok. I claim in a comment that the first 300 primary words of any language costs 25 to 50 USD per word. Your matriculation in said université confirms that cost range. Paul's wedding, dates, and social interactions not to mention the cost of relocation to México also confirm that cost range. Why does it cost so much? Here is why. In Texas, a place where Spanish is the majorité language but not the legal language, a student, outside of spécial schools...once again cash, take Spanish in the first year of high School. Second the Spanish book offered has about 160 words and may not cover all 168 regular conjugations of a verb like Amar and do not cover an illregular transitive verb like Dicer. Not to mention that the student starts when the Corpus callosotomy seperates the two haves of the brain. In Texas the teach around 160 words in four years. That Is a 140 base word short fall. The level of instruction is so questionable that every material Spanish speaker O have asked about the course have said they failed the course or even if the did well that the course was of no practical application. The called it book Spanish. Paul is trying to get the cost down for someone in Duluth Minnesota (A place where English Is still spoken with a Nortic accent buy aint got a hell of a lot if Spanish speakers to interact with). Lastly one must read first then Speak. paul also would love to prove that not to be true as Butt's A New Référence Grammar of Modern Spanish is dog eared on the night stand. Paul has good reason for going conversacional over read first speak second. From the North Pole to México City there are few or in the United States no hard back and paper back book for even a maternal Spanish reader. The city off Nuevo Laredo México has as its goal to have a Spanish book in every home. They have not reached thier goal and I feel they never will. Paul is trying to tell someone who cannot read their way around the problemas how to still get the job done at a low cost without saying move to a place where Spanish is the majorité language or without saying learn your Spanish in the bed Room! There are those who will say I cannot be right ? Ok. 68 percent of the population in thé US are of German extraction. That being the case when you tell me how wrong I am please post a hard copy photo of this book Kinder- und Hausmärchen in the old Germanic script. Every one in the US knows what is in that book but one does not know one is telling a tale from that book. The 68 percent Germânica Population still shines because those Germanic tales dominate American culture. Read first then try to Speak but the 25 to 50 USD range for the first 300 words of any language cannot be over come by anyone. Even a guy as smart and as popular as Paul. (Ohhh if you do find away arround the impossível the Mórmons, the US Army, ever other Army, and every intelligence agency and dipmomatic core want to know and will pay a few billon for the technique just as the did upon upon the advent of Google.). Got to run I will fix this later. Every thing I own spell ckecks in Spanish, Italiano, Português, German, and French. I think I am smart enough to check the English with the help of Google. As you can read Yo soy Sancho Panza.