Want to use the internet to learn Spanish? Need to ease the mind of those doubters who say the internet is full of scams and find some peace of mind for yourself? I can help.
Up until fairly recently, the worldwide web was looked upon as a scam ridden unreliable, vulnerable vastness that couldn't be depended on to provide quality educational resources. However, that is true no more, and the internet has come into it's own and proven to be an excellent place to learn basic skills in almost anything imaginable. Sure, there are still dishonest merchants out there with poor products, but they are not as prevalent as they used to be.
Language learning is no exception, as a quick search through your favorite search engine will show you. Basic language learning materials abound, many of them free, and most of them high quality. So, really, staying off the internet to learn a language would put you at a distinct disadvantage.
It is indeed possible to learn Spanish online, and I would even venture to say that you can learn more from the online methods than you could from a standard classroom based method. This is of course not referring to any intensive programs abroad, because the best way still to learn a language is to be completely and totally immersed in it.
As mentioned above, online, or multimedia based stand alone language instruction, if of the right quality and used with the right understanding, can far and away produce better results than could a bland classroom full of greenhorn learners, and book based drills.
Though I have achieved a high degree of fluency by a variety of methods, I had some bad experiences early on, which left me for a long time without enough confidence to even use the skills I had garnered. What were these bad experiences? The same ones I am telling you to be weary of, which all revolve around the traditional approach.
After years of frustration that I understood, but never felt completely comfortable with my new skills, I knew their had to be a better way. Turns out, that the classroom and rote memorization approach of language learning truly is "old school" and there has been a large amount of research showing that there are better ways to learn any language.
As I mentioned earlier, experience abroad, and ideally a home stay experience is the absolute best way to learn any language including Spanish, however, when this is not possible, a combination dynamic immersion approach can be accomplished quite nicely through any number of online methods.
Up until fairly recently, the worldwide web was looked upon as a scam ridden unreliable, vulnerable vastness that couldn't be depended on to provide quality educational resources. However, that is true no more, and the internet has come into it's own and proven to be an excellent place to learn basic skills in almost anything imaginable. Sure, there are still dishonest merchants out there with poor products, but they are not as prevalent as they used to be.
Language learning is no exception, as a quick search through your favorite search engine will show you. Basic language learning materials abound, many of them free, and most of them high quality. So, really, staying off the internet to learn a language would put you at a distinct disadvantage.
It is indeed possible to learn Spanish online, and I would even venture to say that you can learn more from the online methods than you could from a standard classroom based method. This is of course not referring to any intensive programs abroad, because the best way still to learn a language is to be completely and totally immersed in it.
As mentioned above, online, or multimedia based stand alone language instruction, if of the right quality and used with the right understanding, can far and away produce better results than could a bland classroom full of greenhorn learners, and book based drills.
Though I have achieved a high degree of fluency by a variety of methods, I had some bad experiences early on, which left me for a long time without enough confidence to even use the skills I had garnered. What were these bad experiences? The same ones I am telling you to be weary of, which all revolve around the traditional approach.
After years of frustration that I understood, but never felt completely comfortable with my new skills, I knew their had to be a better way. Turns out, that the classroom and rote memorization approach of language learning truly is "old school" and there has been a large amount of research showing that there are better ways to learn any language.
As I mentioned earlier, experience abroad, and ideally a home stay experience is the absolute best way to learn any language including Spanish, however, when this is not possible, a combination dynamic immersion approach can be accomplished quite nicely through any number of online methods.
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