Fluenz Spanish 1 consists of 30 lessons designed to give you a strong grounding in basic Spanish. Today I will give you an overview of what is covered in the second half of the course. To read earlier blog articles in this series, just click on Fluenz Spanish under Categories in the sidebar.
These lessons continue to be set in locations a traveler would be likely to be in: hotels, taxis, city streets, shopping malls, restaurants. As before, each lesson has an introduction, a dialogue, an explanation, and a series of exercises to help you really remember the words and the ways they are put together.
In later lessons, you do a lot with numbers. Your Fluenz tutor, Sonia Gil, explains that they teach you a few at a time at first so that you will really master them. They drill you on them a lot too. Eventually you work up to challenges like the one this screenshot shows. Hey, better now than when you are buying several things at a street market and wondering if you are being overcharged!
Here’s another screenshot with some very useful words:
And here’s an example of an exercise where you match the words:
In the final lesson, Sonia Gil comments that you have learned some three hundred words. I was surprised – I’ve skimmed through all the lessons in the past few weeks, and while I knew practically everything already, it just seemed so easy to pick up a few words here and a few words there, that it didn’t seem that it would be so many words.
Of course you would be a long way from fully speaking Spanish at the end of this course, but I must say that you would have more mastery of Spanish than many foreigners I know who live here in Mexico! And there is Fluenz Spanish 2 coming up… I will review it soon.
In the meantime, you might enjoy my review of the whole Fluenz Spanish program or the Fluenz demo online at their website. Fluenz remains my favorite of all the introductory Spanish programs. I think they do a really good job of teaching you the Spanish you need when visiting or living in a Spanish-speaking country.
