What we’re about
This group is for people wishing to learn Spanish to a high level of competency, especially if they have had trouble progressing in the past and are looking for a new way to improve.
Here are some of the common blocks people face.
What do the common blocks look, feel and sound like??
-> It feels like not being able to keep up and understand when listening to a real native speaker speed conversation.
-> It looks like everyone looking at you and waiting for you to reply when you have lost track of what is going on in the native speaker conversation.
-> It sounds like disjointed delayed speech as you are hearing something in Spanish, going up into your head, translating it to English, thinking of the reply and only then coming back down out of your head to respond.
The 3 Step Process:
Step 1: The 12 Sounds.
In order to achieve fluency it is important to be able to make ALL of the sounds used in Spanish.
In Spanish there are 12 new sounds that do not exist in English and most students do not know what all of these are and have never specifically focused on practising them.
These sounds must be learnt to a high level in order to reach fluency.
Step 2: Native Speed Phrases and Translation in our Heads.
Very often Spanish learners learn to speak with someone who is slowing down the conversation for them and speaking artificially.
Unfortunately when the learner is presented with a native level conversation they cannot keep up. This makes sense as they haven't been practising the real things that people say at the required speed.
Very commonly there are two things that are going wrong in this step.
Reason 1. The 12 new sounds in Spanish have not been learnt and therefore the fundamental building blocks required are not there.
Reason 2. The student cannot recognise the Native Speed Phrases used as they do not know them and have not practised recognising them.
What are Native Speed Phrases?
There are combinations of words that are used so commonly in a language that they are squeezed together into a whole new faster sound.
Think of the way someone might say “What do you want?” to their friend if they are in a drive through. It’s more like “wadayawan?”
It’s exactly the same in Spanish, there are many native speed phrases native speakers say every day and practising to recognise these at speed is crucial in order to understand real conversation.
Step 3: Native Speed Conversations.
The third step is to practise in native speed conversation.
This step is where almost all Spanish students get stuck. It is very common for a student to spend all their time practising on an app and almost none speaking with a real person.
This is where an immersion course is so useful.
But if the proper preparation in terms of the 12 sounds and native speed phrases has not been done an immersive exchange conversation can be more of a frustration than useful.
This is why we built our free workshop and our more in depth paid immersion courses with these 3 Steps in mind.
The free workshops covers all three steps.
The more in depth paid immersion courses cover the first two steps in greater depth as well as providing enjoyable immersive interactions with native speakers five days a week during the course.
We help people to become fluent by teaching them the skills needed to keep up in native speed conversation.
Here are all of the things taught in the free workshop.
- Learn what the 12 sounds are and how they are produced using about 160 muscles which are activated at a rate of approximately 1,400 neural commands from the brain per second!
- How these muscle movements can be precisely trained in order to produce these 12 new sounds.
- What native speed phrases are and how they function.
- Understand how native speed phrases interact inside of real native speaker conversations.
- We then learn how the sounds create a unique sound signature for each native speed phrase.
- Listen to real native speed audio conversation and hear this process in action!
Finally we will provide a PDF brochure with information on our more in depth paid immersion courses.
Remember these free workshop cover all three steps and our paid immersion courses cover the first two steps in greater depth as well as providing enjoyable immersive interactions with native speakers five days a week.
The workshop is taught by Francis Collier fluidoo's program manager.
He has been through this exact process and is now fluent and lives in Mexico with his wife and two children.
To sign up for the workshop find an event with a time that worksh and click the "Attend" button.
Good luck and we hope to see you soon,
