Hey Bob, Cuéntamelo, my new four week Spanish course, is open for three more days. It teaches you to say what you actually think in Spanish, using an original mystery you read two short chapters of a week and then discuss live with an expert teacher and a group. Click here to see the full course and enrol Now you might be thinking: four weeks sounds good, but I have started courses before and not finished them. Fair. So let me show you exactly what a week looks like, and you can decide whether it fits your actual life rather than an imaginary version of it. Early in the week: read chapter one. About 500 words, written for your level, with audio if you would rather listen. Roughly ten minutes. Then glance at the chapter's vocabulary list. Five to eight words that genuinely keep coming back. Not a list to memorise. 
Then the first live session: Conversation & Story Club. This is where the course actually happens. You and the group talk about what just happened in the story. Summarise it. Predict what is coming. Make the case for who the crossed out name belongs to. Defend a theory and then change your mind when somebody makes a better point. No grammar drilling. Communication is the priority. 
Mid week: the second chapter, then one task. Another 500 words, another glance at the words, then one piece of real output. A short written answer, a voice recording, or your reading of why a character did what they did. Sentence starters if you want them. One task, not five. 
Then the second live session: the Language Lab. Now the Spanish. Your tutor Dave Pinto works with what actually turned up in your two chapters: the past tenses, sequencing, cause and consequence, the expressions you kept meeting. Never a disconnected grammar syllabus. Instead of "today we are studying the imperfect", it is "why do we see hacía frío but Antonio abrió la puerta?" The grammar arrives with the context already attached, which is why it sticks. 
That is the whole week. The reading is kept deliberately light, and that is the design rather than a shortcut. It means you actually arrive at each session having read the chapter, which is the difference between a conversation class where the room has something to say and one where it does not. That rhythm also means that on the week work explodes, two short chapters is still something you can do. Every session is recorded, with full replays, so missing one puts you behind on nothing. You should never look at this course and think "I have five things to finish". You should think "I need to read the next chapter." Everything else grows out of that. Click here to see the week laid out in full Enrolment closes end of day Tuesday 1st September, and the first chapter is waiting for you when you join. Enrol now and get started on Chapter 1 today See you on the inside, Olly |