We went for a holiday in Miami. It was a vacation to my sister in laws place. We thought this time we would just laze around but Greg so wanted to learn Spanish. I thought it to be an impossible proposition but finally he convinced me to learn it. He said it would be fun and he actually kept his words.

It was a “quick Spanish” session. I knew nothing about the language and found no reason as to why of all languages I should learn this. Nevertheless, I found almost everyone in Miami was speaking it. So just thought of trying it and know I realize that it was so much worth the effort.

Apart from just knowing an additional language, I also found that Spanish is an easy one to learn. On the other hand, maybe you can say, that this company which had got this “online programs” live to us in Miami, made the learning process easy.

The process was fun. They had this “guided imitation” approach. This approach divides the course ware in two parts. In the first part, they make you learn a small portion of Spanish. It is required to be revised and practiced. That makes the initial base strong. Singularly this is a called “over learning”.  You know it helps. Through over learning I summarized a good portion of Spanish. We kept practicing it and since Greg was learning it with me, it was very easy for me to comprehend the entire process very well.

The next step was next. Each one of us were given a disc and transcript. The rule was listen-see-listen-speak. We were listening to the disc, matching it up with my transcript and listening back again. We were allowed to speak after a certain interval.

After some time the trainer made it a point that we do not see the transcript even if we get stuck hearing the disc. We were asked to speak aloud the last sentence and that would help us to listen to the current one again and then saying it correctly.

It was fun. We were able to speak Spanish glibly after a considerable amount of time. What started as a just fun became a great addict. We were always conversing in Spanish. It was so fun that I remember anything that used to catch our eyes, we used to translate the same in Spanish. It worked and in a pleasurable way. Thanks to our Spanish lessons in Miami.