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Why Subscribe?Vocabulary Guides to Classic TV Shows![]() It's cool to be able to sit down, turn on the TV and flip over to a Spanish language station and understand what is being said--and to actually enjoy the content. It's also very difficult and can be overwhelming to try to decipher what is being said. But if, while you are training your ear and strengthening your vocabulary, you know ahead of time what words are going to be used, it's a huge benefit. We can help you build your vocabulary and have fun at the same time. Access to Spanish through Spanish![]() Only members are given access to all of Spanish through Spanish: Conversations in the Classroom, our program that will teach you the fundamentals of how to speak, read, and write Spanish. Based on the classic 1936 text by Estefanía D. de Chávez and updated for 2008 by the authors of the Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary, the program teaches you Spanish in 52 lessons using text and audio in Spanish beginning with Lesson 1. The program includes the on-line text and soon to be published audio, questions and answer keys. You Tube Vocabulary Guides There are many entertaining Spanish language postings on You Tube. You could take advantage of these dictionary in hand. Or you could use our vocabulary guides and really streamline the time you spend learning vocabulary while you watch and listen to You Tube. We feature songs (I Can Only Imagine, Te Quiero Tanto, Tanto, Tanto, Jesus Loves Me, songs terrific songs by the group Acappella) cartoons, Charlie Brown, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and more. It's just plain fun so learn Spanish while singing and watching cartoons.Vocabulary Guides to the New Testament Some have learned a foreign language just through studying the Bible. Because of their familiarity with the English version they were able to put together the pieces to a target language and learn the language. There are so many tools available today that you don't need to do that. But, what better way to build your vocabulary than to study the Scriptures? We make this easier to do by supplying vocabulary lists to passages from the Spanish New Testament, Dios Habla Hoy, a version written in everyday Spanish speech. Vocabulary Guides to novels and non-fiction. It was this reading and our frustration with having to look up words in multiple dictionaries--and sometimes still not come up with the right meaning along with the slow and tedious process of looking up words that led to our development of this service. Who wants to be slowed down by looking up several words on every page of reading? We help with that by anticipating what words you'll need to know and providing you with a list ahead of time, so that you can learn and review that list and keep the flow of your pace as you read. Our current queue includes books like C. S. Lewis' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Call it Courage, and more. Full-time Access to our Members' Forum While you are learning Spanish or strengthening your vocabulary, we offer a place to go to ask questions, make suggestions, ane encourage each other achieve the goal of Spanish fluency. You'll have the chance to participate with a fantastic community of like-minded students dedicated to learning Spanish.Access to the Core Vocabulary List One of the most interesting things we learned while writing our McGraw-Hill book Learn Spanish from Your Hollywood Favorites is that the most frequent 650 words account for 80% of all the words you will need to know in order to understand what is being said in Spanish. Think about it. Only 650 core words will give you 80% of the language. So, it's IMPORTANT to know these words. We make it easy in two ways. First, if you study Spanish using Spanish through Spanish, you will learn these words along the way. If you use another program or just want to make sure you know these words, we provide a series of lists organized for easy study to provide you with these words essential for understanding Spanish in reading, film, and television. And it's available only to members or to purchasers of Learn Spanish from Your Hollywood Favorites.Tips, Techniques, and Suggestions We do our best to give you the benefit of our experience as language learners, teachers, and authors of language books expressly designed to increase foreign language vocabulary. Our goals are not only to help you improve your vocabulary building in an efficient and entertaining way, but also to inspire and motivate you to achieve your goal of learning Spanish as quickly as possible.All this and more for only $249/year or $24.95/month. |