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Visual Link Review: Spanish Language Course

What Makes Visual Link Spanish Language Course Unique?

Visual Link Spanish is a course that was designed by university level Spanish teacher called David Clark, who found that his students, although able to grasp the academic and grammatical aspect of the language were unable to hold down a competent level of conversation. Dismayed by this he took 8 years to develop a language program that concentrated on conversational Spanish rather than the grammatical aspects of it.

What David Clark realized was that the memorization of words wasn't effective and that building and learning sentence structure important to a specific conversational setting was far more effective at developing conversational skills.

The benefit of learning Spanish in this way is that because you spend all of your time assembling your own phrases, rather than memorizing a lot of vocabulary that you may not use, you will actually start to think in Spanish and be able to converse whilst you learn.

In short Visual link Spanish is a course designed to teach conversational Spanish concentrating totally on conversational requirements and spending very little time on conjugation, grammar and vocabulary that so many courses focus on and many language purists demand.

Details of the Course

Visual Link Spanish language course is a video based course that provides over 200 interactive Spanish lessons and activities. Each lesson will focus on one theme in particular and will concentrate on creating survival phrases, simple communication and basic needs.

As well as the video lessons there are 10 audio cd's that are great for supplemental lessons you could even load them onto an MP3 player and listen to them whilst driving.

This list covers everything on the course:

2 Computer CD-ROM's with over 220 interactive lessons and activities:
- 48 Interactive Learning Lessons
- 28 Vocabulary Review Lessons
- 37 Review Games
- 59 Verbal and Written Quizzes
- 28 Pronunciation Lessons
10 Audio CD's to review in your car or CD player
Conversation Manual
Travel Case for the CD's

What Can You Expect From Visual Links?

The type of lesson you can expect from Visual Basic is highlighted here:

The first lesson deals with the initial partial phrase 'I want to go' .

From the screenshot on the right you will see that the sentence or phrase you will be constructing is split into 3 section or groups.

Each group is changeable so as to develop different sentences and phrases.

Visual Link Spanish provides a very flexible array of methods for you to learn Spanish. So even though the main focus is on teaching you important phrases there is also a great deal of material included that will assist you with learning to write Spanish as well as pronounce it correctly.

The Verdict on Visual Link

Although my personal preference is with Rocket Spanish, which is both less expensive and looks and feels like a better course I have to say that Visual Link certainly fills a void in the marketplace. It is totally unique, completely different from the aforementioned Rocket Spanish in both the way it teaches the student and the speed at which the student becomes comfortable with conversational Spanish.

Again, one cannot argue with the popularity and success of this course, and if you are the sort of person who would prefer just to learn conversational Spanish without all the grammatical leg weights that many courses force upon the student then this may well be the course for you.

Price wise it is more expensive than Rocket Spanish, level 1 you can purchase for $134.99 and level 2 for $99.95 but you can purchase both levels for $199.99. However, Visual Link offer regular reductions and I believe at present you can get both levels for $134.99, which would still make it more expensive than Rocket Spanish but still a great deal none-the-less.

I have to say that the one area that Visual Link excels in is their refund policy. They are so confident in their product that they are willing to offer a 6 MONTH MONEY BACK GUARANTEE, now that is astounding! I can definitely guarantee you, that you will not find a better guarantee for a language program ANYWHERE on the net or in the shops!

My advice would be if learning conversational Spanish is what you are looking for then you should give this course a try and the best way to do so is by signing up for the ELEVEN FREE LESSONS on offer by clicking on any of the banners or links for Visual Basic situated on this page!

Before doing so however, make sure you sign up for your FREE SPANISH COURSE on the homepage, it's a great freebie that you won't be able to download anywhere else on the internet. I know, because I compiled it!