How to Learn Spanish 2b

How to Learn Spanish (continued...)

The natural way that humans learn language

The way human beings become fluent in a language is through immersion. That's the way you acquired your first language. You were immersed in it and your brain automatically learned. The process was completely effortless on your part - in fact, you had no choice in the matter.

Until now, the most common way for Spanish students to become fluent was to spend an extended period of time in a Spanish speaking country interacting with the local people (i.e. immersion). That's what Spanish language majors at universities do. Classes, tutoring, books, CD's and computer programs all help, but to achieve fluency with all its benefits requires immersion.

Learning languages is not about 'intelligence' or 'studying hard'

The obvious fact that all human beings become fluent in their native language (with extremely rare exceptions) is enough to tell us that we are 'wired to learn language'. Some people may like learning languages more than others, but we all became fluent - and we did so without needing to study or work at it. Acquiring language is so fundamental and easy (under the right conditions) that hundreds of millions of people around the world are fluent in more than one language.

So if intelligence and study are not necessary for learning a language, what is? Our human brain is wired to learn automatically, but what it learns and how easily and fast it learns depends on several conditions that we're pretty sure you don't yet understand (otherwise you'd probably already be fluent and would have no need to visit our web page).

Those conditions were present when you acquired your native language growing up. Knowing what those conditions are and creating or optimizing them can save hundreds, even thousands of hours of study and can mean the difference between reaching fluency or reaching an elementary or intermediate level and than abandoning further study.

"The human brain is powerful, but the brain needs legs"

Our brains learn automatically and rapidly - depending on the environment they're in. We were born into an excellent environment for acquiring language. But as adults now wanting to learn Spanish we are surely not in such an excellent environment. That's why we say, "the brain is powerful, but the brain needs legs". In other words, the brain can't really exercise its power unless it 'moves itself' into a new environment suited to acquiring (the Spanish) language. You, as an adult, function as those 'legs'.

The ideal language acquisition environment for adults is not the same one we had as children. When you understand what that ideal (adult) environment is, you can 'walk your brain' into to it and begin to experience your brain's true power to acquire language.

So, how to learn Spanish?

As an adult, the way to learn Spanish is to understand how to become fluent and then put your understanding into practice. Fluency requires that you have a very large vocabulary - on the order of 10,000 words or more. And you won't get that vocabulary through simple drills, learning games and memorizing dialogs alone. Achieving that kind of vocabulary (plus all the associated grammar and usage 'rules') takes time. When you understand how to become fluent you'll know how to use your time wisely and you'll find that the path to fluency is not really a difficult one.

The next section is about Designed Immersion™ - which is a method for establishing and optimizing the conditions that allow adults to progress to fluency as rapidly and easily as possible - regardless of their level or of what classes or programs they have taken or will take.

Designed Immersion™ has one purpose:
getting you to fluenc y in Spanish

Over the past 30 years we have perfected a method we call Designed Immersion™;. With Designed Immersion™ you get the immersion you need for fluency, but you don't have to move to another country. You can take advantage of Designed Immersion™ in your own home or through one of our classes, or while you are taking a class elsewhere or even while you are living in a Spanish speaking country. Designed Immersion™ will fit into almost anyone's schedule.

Designed Immersion™ makes it practical for you to become fluent in Spanish without forcing you to move to a Spanish speaking country. We say practical because the Designed Immersion™ program eliminates all of the following reasons people usually abandon their study before the become fluent:

Takes too much personal time
Costs too much money
Is boring or otherwise causes stress
Learning progress is too slow
Belief that an immersion program abroad is the only path to fluency
Not knowing the best way to reach fluency

Spanish Fluency Membership is how you use Designed Immersion™ to become fluent

Spanish Fluency Membership is an annual paid subscription (Lifetime Membership after the second year) that includes the following:

Tutorial that trains you in Designed Immersion™ and how to use it to reach fluency in Spanish. (Windows app, Mac in future)
Phone consultation with one of our instructors (on completion of the Tutorial)
4 Additional Desktop apps to help you implement crucial parts of your Designed Immersion™ program (don't worry - most of your Designed Immersion™ time will not be spent at the computer)
Regular e-mail newsletter featuring new audio content
Online Forum for Members and staff
Online content including free and paid resources available from sites around the world (all vetted to be compatible with Designed Immersion™)

What you'll get...

with Spanish Fluency Membership

Spanish Fluency Membership Guides You To Fluency
without You Having to Change Your Lifestyle

Terms: 2 payments of $150 *.
Payment 1: pays for first year Membership.
Payment 2: pays for Lifetime Membership starting with the second year.
Cancel at any time. For more information see Cancellation and Refund policy.

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Some features may not be available until 2019

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The low-cost,
practical way to reach fluency

Reaching fluency will require calendar time, but needn't be a hardship because with Membership you won't mind spending just a few few hours a week that are thoroughly enjoyable and effective...

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What Is Fluency?

In our Spanish Fluency Membership program we define several levels of fluency, but the most basic one and the one that is the main focus of the Membership program is Practical Fluency, which is described below:

What Can you do?
How does it feel?

When you are learning Spanish, especially until you get to an advanced level, it's likely that your experience when you try to understand or speak Spanish in real life situations is one of effort - it often feels like work.

One of the hallmarks of Practical Fluency is that your speaking and understanding of Spanish has now become automated; it feels effortless. By 'automated' we mean that your brain unconsciously, rapidly and automatically feeds up Spanish to your conscious mind so that you can enjoy effortless communication in Spanish. You now are thinking in Spanish just as you think in your native language when you speak it. We call this automatic, effortless and satisfying experience flow - and it is very close to the flow often referred to by athletes. The words fluency and flow are different forms of the same word.

Designed Immersion™
Dr. lozanov
Dr. Krashen

Designed Immersion™ is a method of language instruction based on the research and theories of Dr. Georgi Lozanov, Dr. Stephen Krashen and on our own teaching experience at Pars Omni over many years.

At Pars Omni we have taught Spanish and English to thousands of students and delivered dozens of language programs for companies and government departments in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Malaysia, Japan, South Africa and Austria. We worked directly with Dr. Lozanov for many years and we're very familiar with Dr. Krashen's theories as well.

All of our classes are delivered by instructors trained in Designed Immersion™ and our latest offering (the Spanish Fluency Membership) includes a special training for Members in Designed Immersion™.

Membership Desktop Apps

All Membership Desktop Apps run on Windows 10 (Windows 8.1 or later).

Membership Desktop Apps for Mac are under development. Until those are released you can run the Membership Apps on a Mac through any of several popular methods: Parallels, VMWare Fusion, Boot Camp, and Crossover Mac and others.

And in the planning stage are mobile and tablet versions of some of the Membership Apps.

Tutorial
Portal
Voices
Flashcards
Voice Coach

Tutorial App

The first important step of the Spanish Fluency Membership is the How to Learn Spanish Tutorial which is delivered to you through the Tutorial app.

The Tutorial takes you, step by step, through text, audio and video lessons as well as interactive tests and questionnaires. It trains you to understand and apply Designed Immersion™ in all the Membership activities as well as in any other classes or programs you may take.

The Tutorial takes only a few hours to complete but can easily save you hundreds of hours of study time and mean the difference between reaching fluency or not.

Refund Policy for Membership

Spanish Fluency Membership is sold as an annual subscription with two payments. When the Member makes the second payment, at the end of the first year, the subscription becomes permanent and requires no further payment. During this first year, a Member may cancel Membership which will end further billing and also cause the Membership to become inactive after the first year.

Refunds are handled as follows:

Phase 1: starts when Membership starts. The Member then downloads the Membership Desktop apps and completes the Tutorial using the Tutorial app. The last step of the Tutorial requires that the Member request a phone consultation appointment with a Pars Omni instructor. The request for appointment marks the end of Phase 1. Users are entitled to receive a 50% refund of the first-year subscription fee when they request a refund during Phase 1.

Phase 2: Phase 2 begins when the Member begins the phone consultation and ends when the instructor grants the Member access to all of the Membership apps and content, which usually occurs within two days of completing the phone consultation. When a Member requests a refund during Phase 2 they are entitled to receive a 35% refund of the first-year subscription fee.

Phase 3: starts when the Member when the Member is granted full access to all the Membership apps and content and ends with the end of the first year of Membership. There are no refunds for Phase 3 requests for refunds.

Phase 4: starts with the start of Year 2 of the Membership. A Member is entitled to a 75% refund of the second-year subscription fee when they request the refund within 10 days of the second year billing transaction.

Requests for refunds must be made by email request to Customer Support and refunds will be remitted by check or credit card within 45 days.

5.5 hours?
Can you Afford the time?
inevitable success

If you've read this far, it's very likely that you do value becoming fluent in Spanish. And in the Designed Immersion™ training you'll learn how (and how easy it is) to make your Membership time highly enjoyable and satisfying.

Just as it was inevitable that you become fluent in your native language (as it was with virtually everyone you know), Designed Immersion™ shows you a path to fluency in Spanish that is also inevitably successful. During the training you'll learn about this important point of 'your inevitable success at reaching fluency in Spanish'.

Once you start the Designed Immersion™ Membership, the only thing that can keep you from reaching Practical Fluency is not putting in your time on a regular basis. And the only way for any of us to be willing to devote several hours a week - indefinitely - to anything is that we must find that time to be very valuable and rewarding (e.g. like an enjoyable hobby). The success of Designed Immersion™ is grounded on this premise.

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