Access to Avancemos 3?

[Andrea C]

Hello!  I've never posted before but Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is giving me the worst runaround on this!  We have finished Avancemos 2 and are ready to start Avancemos 3 (we have another 12 weeks of school left so we can still get a good start on Spanish 3 this school year).  As anyone who has been using this curriculum probably knows, Lamppost Homeschool no longer offers it.  HMH customer service says their homeschool sales will be handled in the future exclusively by Rainbow Resource.  Rainbow Resource does not answer email, or have anything Spanish-related by HMH listed on their website.  When I emailed HMH customer service again to ask about that, they didn't reply.  Someone said here on the WTM forum that Avancemos will no longer exist/be supported after this school year, but I can't find any information anywhere on what's coming next from HMH.  I'd like to stick with the same curriculum if possible to maintain continuity from year to year.  We certainly can just use the textbook and workbooks that I have already bought, without the little videos or the tests - but we do enjoy the little videos and find them helpful for hearing native speakers with various accents from all over the world.  And of course, I'd rather not make my own tests 😞  I think there are printed packets or books of the tests available online various places without the answers but it was nice before to just pay one price of $50 or so and get a year's access to the videos and digital stuff plus the tests as well.  Does anyone have any info or ideas??  

TIA 🙂 

[cintinative]

My friend teaches using Avancemos and she said HMH will no longer be selling it and also they do not intend to replace it.  They are leaving the foreign language market. She spent a lot of time downloading all the audio files because she knew she would lose access.  I don't believe she uses Avancemos 3 for her Spanish III though.

Other than the digital subscription, I don't know how to get the Avancemos tests and audio files unless you can buy a CD-Rom off Ebay or Amazon.  For example:  https://www.amazon.com/¡Avancemos-Audio-Program-Level-Spanish/dp/0618725032

 https://www.ebay.com/itm/404810380473?itmmeta=01HVE6TRBJJHZTDDYGDCECY1V1&hash=item5e409434b9:g:LmwAAOSwG1Rl1VCW&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwJ0sWTF00c2A2FPAtfPSeuKj8wl5akxfz57uY44jGhwHxuGqg%2F1R4yrrgv4ej3eR%2Ba19JWvToYqN5s3w8FD7%2BMk4LOtT65Z0Fi1xTboZYclNCzCIWJJkSTOdC2APinGhiQZiMHCtP%2BZHumCPOLM1BCZSJA47W%2BsWGXkTZ3B0bq5XjKJg3Qei9byZ90CzrhRSn5f9pMF8VkFYR2n30vf2jDCMrS1v3VAQ%2BFEot7qx%2F77RJE3uuptq5q8EklA%2Ba8394g%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR_aF68bbYw

A couple of people are selling the video program on Ebay also.

 Kolbe offers their own tests  https://books.kolbe.org/products/course-plan-tests-spanish-3   that correlate to Avancemos. I did order these when I started Avancemos 1 but I ended up liking the HMH tests better because they had a listening section. 

 

 

Edited April 14 by cintinative

[cintinative]

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[Andrea C]

OK that is super helpful, thank you so much!  That explains why their customer service has been so uncooperative, too 🙂

Appreciate your taking the time!  I'll see if I can get the audio files and tests, or maybe start fresh with something else.  

[ByGrace3]

oh my! I guess I need two download everything for Avancemos 1 and not sure what to do about Avancemos 2 next year. 🫣

[cintinative]

21 hours ago, ByGrace3 said:

oh my! I guess I need two download everything for Avancemos 1 and not sure what to do about Avancemos 2 next year. 🫣

You might want to see about buying the CD of the audio tracks and/or DVD of the video ones.

[cintinative]

@ByGrace3 sent you PM but it appears that the Avancemos 2 audio files are here. I would not wait to download them.

http://mcweb.mccracken.kyschools.us/etext/avancemos2/osp/

Update! And Avancemos 1!!  Hurry and download!!!

http://mcweb.mccracken.kyschools.us/etext/avancemos1/osp/

Edited April 15 by cintinative