OnTheBrink Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 So, would book 1 be one school year's worth of Spanish? The website's not very helpful. Is it a good program for independent learning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trafal Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 On the Brink, I am currently using The Learnables Spanish for 12 yr old dd. I agree that their website stinks! I do , however, generally like the program. If my memory serves me the product description at Rainbow resource is actually a better guide about how to use the program than what you can find on The Learnables site. I believe the program is set up this way. Year 1 / Level 1-The Learnables (ie the cartoon book with no writing) then Basic Structures, then the first supplemental grammar book . After that you would continue on with Level 2. My daughter takes a class with a native speaker every week for an hour. We use The Learnables to reinforce the material. My goal is for her to be bi-lingual and I like all the "ear" training that The Learnables does. I have seen comments on the board that it is considered to be somewhat of a light program but it serves us well. Currently , she has completed 8 of the 10 lessons in The Learnables book. I have her listen to each lesson for 5 days before going on to the next lesson. I do think we are on track to finish the first level in about a year. I took French for 3 years in high school and 90% of what we did was written book work. Essentially, French remained a dead language for me and 25 years later I have retained almost nothing of what I learned. I remember we had a verb notebook *shudder* with 101 verbs that we had to conjugate . I would never do that to my kid! So, that's why I like the emphasis on the spoken language. HTH Trafal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheBrink Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 Thanks! I'll go look at RR's write up of it. I liked what I saw in the examples on the Learnables website, but I wish they'd lay out how it works a little better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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