I’ve already done the Core course, so I can say all that I need to say, why do I need to do the Spoken Spanish Practice Lessons online ? Why are they so important?
Some who have purchased only the 50 JSS core Lessons believe that the Spoken Spanish practice lessons must occur in the classroom or as Zoom lessons. This is not true, as it shares lesson time. With JSS Spoken Spanish practice lessons online, students do not have to share time, hence progress is significantly faster.
Everybody, when they come into my classroom, they say: “When we get to the Spoken lesson, it’s gonna be so hard to speak”
No, it’s not. Speaking Spanish is incredibly easy. I can teach anybody with half a brain to speak Spanish very quickly.
Speaking is the least of your problems, trust me, speaking is very simple. It’s hearing and understanding what comes back, which is the very, very hard part.
That’s what the pre-recorded spoken Spanish practice online lessons are all about. I give you many scenarios in which I’m constantly talking to you in Spanish, and you must try to tune your ear to understand what’s being said.
Do I do them the other way around? of course I Do!
Do I have interactive lessons where you have to answer? of course I do.
Most importantly, the scenarios are because all my students are guilty of doing this, and if you’ve done some Spanish before, will agree you’re guilty of doing this:
When you go to a shop, you prepare a script of what you will say: “I’m going to say this, and this is what they will answer, and I will say back.”
Then, the balloons will come down from the ceiling, but it never works.
You go in and say your bit, and then they come back to you with something different, leaving you blank.
Even simple things that when you go to the chemist and you say, ‘Hola yo quiero dos paquetes de paracetamol por favor’ and you think they’re now going to say: thank you very much. Here you are. That’s 4.80
Instead they say very fast and you are not expecting it ‘Lo siento. No tenemos paracetamol, porque el camion con los materiales no ha venido. ‘
And you’re like, what did they say?
That’s why you need as much listening practice as possible.
Speaking is very, very simple. Anybody who finishes my 50 core lessons can say virtually anything in Spanish.
You can go into a shop and deliver your script, but when they come back, you’ve really got to be prepared, and that’s what my spoken Spanish practice lessons are all about.
You can revisit these repeatedly, but you will never remember all of my sentences because thousands of sentences are structured in multiple ways to test you in every way possible.
So, the Spoken Spanish practice online course is the way to go because you will need this listening practice.