Fluenz Spanish is a program that I respect . I’ve written about it quite a lot on this website and blog… my main review of Fluenz Spanish is here. I really like their commitment to language learning.
So I was quite interested to read an article about the company, “Fluenz Hopes to Help Users to Fluency,” in the Wall Street Journal recently. It tells about how the company got started and what its goals are. I was a little surprised to read in the article that Fluenz just had its official launch, since I’ve been writing about the Spanish program for over a year, but I guess an official launch is something else.
By the way, I blogged recently that Fluenz Spanish had gone from having two levels to having three levels. Now it is up to five, which makes it way more useful for moving beyond beginning skills.
In fact, here’s an example of what one could say by the end of Level Five:
“Last year, while I was working in Mexico, my work visa expired. I was very worried, but my friend was able to recommend a good lawyer to me that could help me understand the Mexican labor laws so that I could continue my work.”
That’s quite a mouthful.
I know I could convey that meaning, but I am quite sure a few of my verb endings would fall by the wayside. I didn’t get it quite right one time when I was trying to translate for a Mexican friend this quote from George Burns, “If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.” She got the drift but I didn’t manage to say it as elegantly or correctly as I would have liked!
Here is a link to the new version at Amazon: Fluenz Version F2: Spanish 1+2+3+4+5 (Win/Mac) with software DVDs, audio CDs, podcasts, and Navigator
