Visual Link Spanish(TM) Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 40

Current # of Subscribers: 204,229

This issue:
1. NEW - Cultural Spanish Recipes
2. Testimonial
3. Weekly Spanish Lesson - “Advanced”
4. Words of the Week
5. Ask Dave Section - “How Can I Help You - En Que Puedo..”
6. Culture Lesson - “El Correo y El Banco”
7. Responses to Past Newsletters

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===============================
NEW! - Cultural Spanish Recipes
===============================

We are excited to implement a cultural Spanish recipe section to our
newsletter. We welcome your tasty Spanish recipes including the
originating countries (if available), accompanying pictures where
possible without copyrights and any interesting notes or comments
about the recipe.

We appreciate this important cultural connection around the globe
celebrating the all-important food traditions of the Spanish-speaking
people.

Please email recipes and pictures to: mercedes@learnspanishtoday.com

=======================================
Visual Link Spanish(TM) Testimonial –
=======================================

Hola,

Todo está bien. I’ve been listening to the audios quite a bit. I
think your method of teaching is great. It’s very practical since you
learn how to say a few sentences right from the beginning. I think
that also builds confidence. I downloaded a some Spanish songs and
have been listening to them over and over. I remember when I first
played them it seemed like it was all one big word, but then I could
eventually hear each word- regardless if I knew what it meant I could
usually hear each word separately. Just the other day I was listening
to a song and then all of a sudden it hit me… Wow! I actually know
what a sentence or two means in this song! It’s great to have a
Spanish song stuck in your head, but even better when you know what
it means!

I’ve also found a few small children’s books online. It has been fun
trying to understand the really simple sentences. I’ve made friends
with a few free online translator websites. They help. Another thing
is that I’ve been going on PalTalk (on my computer) and going into
the chat rooms and listening and reading. There are even a few rooms
on there where you can practice your Spanish and Spanish speakers can
practice English. I remember the first time I went into one I noticed
lots of people saying “jejeje” or “jajaja”. I thought, “What in the
‘mundo’ could that mean?” I don’t understand 98% of what goes on in
the room but I didn’t even know where to start when I seen that. And
then it hit me that “j” has an “h” sound. Ah! They were laughing
about something!

Again, thanks for your program. It has helped me tremendously.

- Josh

=======================================
Weekly Spanish Lesson—Advanced Lesson
=======================================

This week’s lesson comes from the complete Visual Link Spanish™
course. Click below for Part V of your fun, interactive lesson
Sentence Building Lessons.

To check it out, click here:
http://www.spanishprograms.com/learn/advanced.htm

==================
Words of the Week
==================

Taken from our complete CD-ROM course —–

Monday / Where is? / ¿Dónde está?
Tuesday / Wall Street / la calle Wall
Wednesday / the park / el parque
Thursday / the mall / el centro comercial
Friday / the supermarket / el supermercado
Saturday / the store / la tienda
Sunday / the beach / la playa

Click Here to login and access your free membership and lessons.
http://www.spanishprograms.com/login.phtml

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The Official “Ask Dave” Section —–
=====================================

Question

First of all, let me say I love receiving your newsletter each week.
I am trying to find the spanish translation for the phrase: How may I
help you? or What can I do for you?

I sometimes have spanish-speaking customers who have very little
english or none at all & I am trying to find this phrase in spanish?
Can you help?

Gracias,

Agnes

Answer

Hola Agnes,

The phrase “How can I help you?” in Spanish is, ¿En qué puedo
servirle? This literally means “In what can I serve you?” It is found
in the telephone section (section 11) of the complete course. All of
the phrases on the bottom half of the page can be used in every-day
business as well as on the phone. Most of the phrases on the top of
the page can be used only while on the phone. For example, you can
answer the phone saying “aló” but you would never say “aló” in person
(while not on the phone). For more info, refer to section 11 in your
course.

Dave

==================================
Culture —– El Correo y El Banco
==================================

Before we get into this week’s topic, I just wanted to let many of
you subscribers know briefly about our Spanish course. Many of you
have asked if we recommend a particular course to learn Spanish. I
just wanted to give you a link to our website www.spanishprograms.com
where you can take a look at our course, see our free course demos
and get more information about our course. To give you an idea of the
effectiveness of our course, Visual Link Spanish™ has been taught to
thousands of people around the world, to major corporations and at
the university level for the past four years. If you have any
questions about it, please e-mail me personally at
dave@spanishprograms.com.

Now onto this week’s topic. The postal system in Latin America is
very different from that here in the U.S. If you’ve ever lived in
Latin America and waited for a letter from another country you know
what I mean. When I lived there it would take anywhere from weeks to
usually months for letters to arrive from friends and family.

Needless to say, the postal system is very slow and quite different
from ours. When I would receive packages with coveted items like
cookies and candies from the U.S., usually they had been opened first
by a Latino postal worker to see if there was anything of value in
them.

I had an American friend who also lived in Latin America and wanted
his mom to send down his high school letterman jacket. She carefully
wrapped it and sent it through the normal mail system. He checked the
post office after a month and nothing had arrived. Then he checked
every week for the next few months and still nothing arrived. Finally
after quite a few months he went into the post office and noticed
that a postal worker was wearing his letterman jacket. He got upset
and claimed that the postal worker had taken his jacket! The postal
carrier denied that any wrong doing had happened and kept “his” new
letterman jacket.

Now for another humorous postal story. I had a different American
friend that also lived in Latin America for an extended period of
time. He lived in many of the lower-income pueblos where they didn’t
have many of the niceties of life. For example, there weren’t toilet
seats in any of the apartments in the cities where he lived. He
ordered a new toilet seat from his family in the U.S. a few months
before Christmas and it came through just in time. It was opened by
the postal workers but wasn’t “claimed” by them and went right
through to him. We laughed at him, but he was thrilled to get a small
part of his former life back.

Because the postal situation is somewhat less reliable in many Latin
American regions, as you can imagine, people don’t usually send their
bills or payments through the mail. Many of them take their payments
directly to companies where the payment is due and pay by hand using
cash.

Many pay bills by cash because of the bank situation. In some Latin
countries, inflation rates can be astronomical. If people keep money
in the bank, in the worst cases they can lose the majority of the
value of their money virtually overnight. Because of that, many don’t
have bank accounts and as a result, they don’t use checks or credit
cards either. I knew someone in Latin America personally who had
around $30,000 in the bank which was devalued to just a few thousand
in only a few days. OUCH!!!

To our international subscribers, what is the bank situation like in
your countries and how is the inflation rate? Is it common for people
to own credit cards or use checks?

Practical Life Lessons:

1. If you live in Latin America, putting large amounts of money in
their banks is not recommended. An account in your original country
is preferred and money can be transferred to you on a regular basis.

2. If you visit Latin America, many places don’t accept credit cards
or checks - cash only. Be sure to take some cash and get instructions
to ATM locations as there are fewer of them available.

3. If you are doing business in the U.S. and cater to many Latinos,
it’s important to realize that many will pay you with cash and only a
few will use checks or credit cards. It was amazing to me that, as my
company taught English classes to Latinos a few years ago, probably
over 98% of Latinos paid for the classes with cash.

Sneak peek at next week: “Spanish Punctuation, Dates and Capital
Letters”

¡Hasta luego! (”Until later”)

David S. Clark — President / Director
Visual Link Spanish(TM)
Fun, Interactive Spanish Courses
http://www.spanishprograms.com
dave_c@spanishprograms.com

=============================
Responses to Past Newsletters
=============================

Response #1

Hola,

I think I just saw those images of the Nazca shapes in the nueva
pelicula: Indiana Jones.

In your newsletter (periodico/boletin?) scientists pregunta, “How
were they built if the people didn’t have airplanes to see them from
above?” My guess would be that ellos utilizaron fórmulas
matemáticas… Ellos probably drew una pequeña versión primero, and
then figured out how to enlarge each sección to recreate uno mucho
grande shape!

Gracias por los periodicos/boletines interesantes,

Dora Crow

©2007 U.S. Institute of Languages
1893 East Skyline Drive Ste. 105
Ogden, UT 84403
1-866-977-2647

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Visual Link Spanish(TM) Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 40

Current # of Subscribers: 204,229

This issue:
1. NEW - Cultural Spanish Recipes
2. Testimonial
3. Weekly Spanish Lesson - “Advanced”
4. Words of the Week
5. Ask Dave Section - “How Can I Help You - En Que Puedo..”
6. Culture Lesson - “El Correo y El Banco”
7. Responses to Past Newsletters

========================
Complete Course on Sale
========================

>> At last, Be Successful with Spanish <<

Find success by learning sentence structure and communication skills
with the effective teaching format of Visual Link Spanish™. If you
aren’t conversational in 30 days, you get a full refund!

- Click for Sale Info! -

-http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/complete_newsletter.htm

This offer includes the complete Visual Link Spanish(TM) Course with
free shipping and a free dictionary! Remember your 6-month Money-Back
Guarantee - you’ll learn Spanish Guaranteed or your money back!

* With 30-60 minutes a day, five times a week, you will become
conversational in 30 days or less guaranteed - or your money back.

===============================
NEW! - Cultural Spanish Recipes
===============================

We are excited to implement a cultural Spanish recipe section to our
newsletter. We welcome your tasty Spanish recipes including the
originating countries (if available), accompanying pictures where
possible without copyrights and any interesting notes or comments
about the recipe.

We appreciate this important cultural connection around the globe
celebrating the all-important food traditions of the Spanish-speaking
people.

Please email recipes and pictures to: mercedes@learnspanishtoday.com

=======================================
Visual Link Spanish(TM) Testimonial –
=======================================

Hola,

Todo está bien. I’ve been listening to the audios quite a bit. I
think your method of teaching is great. It’s very practical since you
learn how to say a few sentences right from the beginning. I think
that also builds confidence. I downloaded a some Spanish songs and
have been listening to them over and over. I remember when I first
played them it seemed like it was all one big word, but then I could
eventually hear each word- regardless if I knew what it meant I could
usually hear each word separately. Just the other day I was listening
to a song and then all of a sudden it hit me… Wow! I actually know
what a sentence or two means in this song! It’s great to have a
Spanish song stuck in your head, but even better when you know what
it means!

I’ve also found a few small children’s books online. It has been fun
trying to understand the really simple sentences. I’ve made friends
with a few free online translator websites. They help. Another thing
is that I’ve been going on PalTalk (on my computer) and going into
the chat rooms and listening and reading. There are even a few rooms
on there where you can practice your Spanish and Spanish speakers can
practice English. I remember the first time I went into one I noticed
lots of people saying “jejeje” or “jajaja”. I thought, “What in the
‘mundo’ could that mean?” I don’t understand 98% of what goes on in
the room but I didn’t even know where to start when I seen that. And
then it hit me that “j” has an “h” sound. Ah! They were laughing
about something!

Again, thanks for your program. It has helped me tremendously.

- Josh

=======================================
Weekly Spanish Lesson—Advanced Lesson
=======================================

This week’s lesson comes from the complete Visual Link Spanish™
course. Click below for Part V of your fun, interactive lesson
Sentence Building Lessons.

To check it out, click here:
http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/learn/advanced.htm

==================
Words of the Week
==================

Taken from our complete CD-ROM course —–

Monday / Where is? / ¿Dónde está?
Tuesday / Wall Street / la calle Wall
Wednesday / the park / el parque
Thursday / the mall / el centro comercial
Friday / the supermarket / el supermercado
Saturday / the store / la tienda
Sunday / the beach / la playa

Click Here to login and access your free membership and lessons.
http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/login.phtml

=====================================
The Official “Ask Dave” Section —–
=====================================

Question

First of all, let me say I love receiving your newsletter each week.
I am trying to find the spanish translation for the phrase: How may I
help you? or What can I do for you?

I sometimes have spanish-speaking customers who have very little
english or none at all & I am trying to find this phrase in spanish?
Can you help?

Gracias,

Agnes

Answer

Hola Agnes,

The phrase “How can I help you?” in Spanish is, ¿En qué puedo
servirle? This literally means “In what can I serve you?” It is found
in the telephone section (section 11) of the complete course. All of
the phrases on the bottom half of the page can be used in every-day
business as well as on the phone. Most of the phrases on the top of
the page can be used only while on the phone. For example, you can
answer the phone saying “aló” but you would never say “aló” in person
(while not on the phone). For more info, refer to section 11 in your
course.

Dave

==================================
Culture —– El Correo y El Banco
==================================

Before we get into this week’s topic, I just wanted to let many of
you subscribers know briefly about our Spanish course. Many of you
have asked if we recommend a particular course to learn Spanish. I
just wanted to give you a link to our website
www.learnspanishtoday.com where you can take a look at our course,
see our free course demos and get more information about our course.
To give you an idea of the effectiveness of our course, Visual Link
Spanish™ has been taught to thousands of people around the world, to
major corporations and at the university level for the past four
years. If you have any questions about it, please e-mail me
personally at dave@learnspanishtoday.com.

Now onto this week’s topic. The postal system in Latin America is
very different from that here in the U.S. If you’ve ever lived in
Latin America and waited for a letter from another country you know
what I mean. When I lived there it would take anywhere from weeks to
usually months for letters to arrive from friends and family.

Needless to say, the postal system is very slow and quite different
from ours. When I would receive packages with coveted items like
cookies and candies from the U.S., usually they had been opened first
by a Latino postal worker to see if there was anything of value in
them.

I had an American friend who also lived in Latin America and wanted
his mom to send down his high school letterman jacket. She carefully
wrapped it and sent it through the normal mail system. He checked the
post office after a month and nothing had arrived. Then he checked
every week for the next few months and still nothing arrived. Finally
after quite a few months he went into the post office and noticed
that a postal worker was wearing his letterman jacket. He got upset
and claimed that the postal worker had taken his jacket! The postal
carrier denied that any wrong doing had happened and kept “his” new
letterman jacket.

Now for another humorous postal story. I had a different American
friend that also lived in Latin America for an extended period of
time. He lived in many of the lower-income pueblos where they didn’t
have many of the niceties of life. For example, there weren’t toilet
seats in any of the apartments in the cities where he lived. He
ordered a new toilet seat from his family in the U.S. a few months
before Christmas and it came through just in time. It was opened by
the postal workers but wasn’t “claimed” by them and went right
through to him. We laughed at him, but he was thrilled to get a small
part of his former life back.

Because the postal situation is somewhat less reliable in many Latin
American regions, as you can imagine, people don’t usually send their
bills or payments through the mail. Many of them take their payments
directly to companies where the payment is due and pay by hand using
cash.

Many pay bills by cash because of the bank situation. In some Latin
countries, inflation rates can be astronomical. If people keep money
in the bank, in the worst cases they can lose the majority of the
value of their money virtually overnight. Because of that, many don’t
have bank accounts and as a result, they don’t use checks or credit
cards either. I knew someone in Latin America personally who had
around $30,000 in the bank which was devalued to just a few thousand
in only a few days. OUCH!!!

To our international subscribers, what is the bank situation like in
your countries and how is the inflation rate? Is it common for people
to own credit cards or use checks?

Practical Life Lessons:

1. If you live in Latin America, putting large amounts of money in
their banks is not recommended. An account in your original country
is preferred and money can be transferred to you on a regular basis.

2. If you visit Latin America, many places don’t accept credit cards
or checks - cash only. Be sure to take some cash and get instructions
to ATM locations as there are fewer of them available.

3. If you are doing business in the U.S. and cater to many Latinos,
it’s important to realize that many will pay you with cash and only a
few will use checks or credit cards. It was amazing to me that, as my
company taught English classes to Latinos a few years ago, probably
over 98% of Latinos paid for the classes with cash.

Sneak peek at next week: “Spanish Punctuation, Dates and Capital
Letters”

¡Hasta luego! (”Until later”)

David S. Clark — President / Director
Visual Link Spanish(TM)
Fun, Interactive Spanish Courses
http://www.learnspanishtoday.com
dave_c@learnspanishtoday.com

=============================
Responses to Past Newsletters
=============================

Response #1

Hola,

I think I just saw those images of the Nazca shapes in the nueva
pelicula: Indiana Jones.

In your newsletter (periodico/boletin?) scientists pregunta, “How
were they built if the people didn’t have airplanes to see them from
above?” My guess would be that ellos utilizaron fórmulas
matemáticas… Ellos probably drew una pequeña versión primero, and
then figured out how to enlarge each sección to recreate uno mucho
grande shape!

Gracias por los periodicos/boletines interesantes,

Dora Crow

©2007 U.S. Institute of Languages
1893 East Skyline Drive Ste. 105
Ogden, UT 84403
1-866-977-2647

If you no longer wish to receive communication from us:
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Visual Link Spanish(TM) Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 39

Current # of Subscribers: 199,182

This issue:
1. NEW - Cultural Spanish Recipes
2. Testimonial
3. Weekly Spanish Lesson - “Sentence Building II”
4. Words of the Week
5. Ask Dave Section - “Spain and Latin American Differences”
6. Culture Lesson - “Horse-n-Buggy Spanish of Old vs. Technology of
Today”
7. Responses to Past Newsletters

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Guarantee - you’ll learn Spanish Guaranteed or your money back!

* With 30-60 minutes a day, five times a week, you will become
conversational in 30 days or less guaranteed - or your money back.

===============================
NEW! - Cultural Spanish Recipes
===============================

We are excited to implement a cultural Spanish recipe section to our
newsletter. We welcome your tasty Spanish recipes including the
originating countries (if available), accompanying pictures where
possible without copyrights and any interesting notes or comments
about the recipe.

We appreciate this important cultural connection around the globe
celebrating the all-important food traditions of the Spanish-speaking
people.

Please email recipes and pictures to: mercedes@learnspanishtoday.com

=======================================
Visual Link Spanish(TM) Testimonial –
=======================================

I’m already halfway through the course! I love the set up of the
course the way it’s divided into sections. It is making it so much
easier for me to form sentences and remember the words. I’m amazed
that I am able to remember the words as I have memory problems and
can’t remember day to day things!

Anyway, thanks again for your help!

Kristina

============================================
Weekly Spanish Lesson—Sentence Building II
============================================

This week’s lesson comes from the complete Visual Link Spanish™
course. Click below for Part II of your fun, interactive lesson
Sentence Building Lessons.

To check it out, click here:
http://www.spanishprograms.com/learn/spanish_sentence.htm

==================
Words of the Week
==================

Taken from our complete CD-ROM course —–

Monday / I’m going to / (Yo) Voy a
Tuesday / He is going to / (El) Va a
Wednesday / She is going to / (Ella) Va a
Thursday / You are going to / (Usted) Va a
Friday / to practice / practicar
Saturday / the day after tomorrow / pasado mañana
Sunday / next week / semana

Click Here to login and access your free membership and lessons.
http://www.spanishprograms.com/login.phtml

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The Official “Ask Dave” Section —–
=====================================

Question

Dear Dave,

The last news letter made a big point of correct pronunciation being
of great importance, but we are going to Spain and there seems very
little emphasis on Spanish as the Spanish speak it. There are hints
on how Mexico differs to South America, but very little reference to
how Spanish people speak it. For example there is no mention of the
“th” for “ce..” or “ci..” words.

What else is there we should know?

Apparently (according to the CD) some parts of Spain lisp the “Z”,
but which parts?

If this likely to be such a big issue can you please help us out.!

Best wishes,

Peter

Answer

Hola Peter,

The main differences between Spain and Latin American pronunciation
are the “ce”, “ci”, “z” and “s”.

In Spain, the “ce”, “ci” and “z” all make the English “th” sound. For
example, the word “entonces” would actually be pronounced
“entonthes”. The word “cita” would be pronounced “thita” and the word
“zapatos” is pronounced “thapatos”.

The letter “s” in Spain is pronounced with a little different accent.
It has more of a hissing sound.

Those are the main differences in pronunciation between Latin America
and Spain.

As far as vocabulary goes, there are a few differences similar to the
difference between words in England, the U.S. and Australia.

Our course has carefully chosen the words that are most universal no
matter where you go. There are a few rare exceptions where words that
may be a little more region specific, however, in general we have
tried to choose vocabulary that will work in every country.

Hopefully that answers your question,

Dave

==================================================================
Culture —– Horse-n-Buggy Spanish of Old vs. Technology of Today
==================================================================

I’d like to start off this week’s newsletter by saluting all of the
public-school Spanish teachers of today. You are so dedicated and do
such wonderful work usually on a shoe-string budget. Many of you use
so much energy while teaching, and put on “performances” each day for
your students to get them to learn Spanish. You do great work and
should be commended!!

If our teachers are so great, why do so many students finish Spanish
classes without being able to converse in Spanish? That is the issue
I want to address in this week’s newsletter.

In my opinion, one of the major problems with learning Spanish today
is that the resources available for people and school classes to
learn Spanish are over 100 years old — the manual and the workbook.
The same horse-n-buggy approach of 100 years ago is still used today,
with an occasional low-budget CD.

Another problem is that most of the textbooks available are designed
to teach students how to be Spanish teachers and not how to speak and
converse in Spanish. In other words, when students finish a course,
they have a lot of grammar rules memorized and can regurgitate them
and even conjugate different verbs but can’t actually communicate in
Spanish.

What does this do to the average person? The problem is that most
students that finish taking Spanish classes have the idea that
Spanish is very difficult because of all of the rules and
conjugations. Many of you have probably built mental blocks against
learning Spanish because when you finished Spanish at school, you
couldn’t speak it and much less with a native speaker. So many people
I talk to think that they were just not “made” to speak Spanish. They
also think that they were the only ones that didn’t get much out of
Spanish in school. If you feel this way, don’t worry, you’re not
alone, a majority of people that take Spanish in school feel the same
way.

Is there hope? Don’t worry, you’re not less intelligent or lacking a
“Spanish gene”; in school you were simply trained to memorize grammar
rules and verb conjugations but not to speak Spanish! Whew! I can
already feel a sigh of relief from many of you who thought you were
sub par or damaged intellectually for the rest of your lives because
of your experience with Spanish. Think of all of the wasted worries
you could’ve put to rest had you known that you were simply learning
with the wrong methods!

In my opinion, textbooks, even current “up-to-date” ones generally
teach you Spanish backwards. Within the first few months of class,
you learn numbers, colors, days of the week and many verb
conjugations. Then the real hope is that you’ll later pick up
conversational skills.

That is why we at Visual Link Spanish™ have done nine years of
research and development to create our courses with modern technology
and in a format that actually works. We teach you Spanish like
children learn their own language but tailored to adults. First, you
learn vocabulary words with computer pictures. It is done in a way
that stimulates the brain and teaches you to build sentences. You
also learn conversational skills like asking and answering questions.
We don’t teach you in-depth grammar at first just like children don’t
have grammar lessons when first learning a language. However, you do
learn to speak and converse correctly with correct grammar!

When we took English in our later school years, we finally started
learning grammar rules. But most of us don’t even remember the
grammar rules we learned in school. Does that make us less effective
English speakers? NO! The fact that we don’t remember what a
prepositional phrase is or the past participle of the word “swim”
doesn’t mean we can speak English correctly.

In learning Spanish, there is a little difference however. Verb
conjugations are a major part of advanced Spanish. They do have to be
learned and practiced to achieve an advance level of Spanish. As you
are probably aware, Visual Link Spanish™ Level I is available for the
beginning student which takes you from a beginning to an intermediate
level and gets you conversational. We also have our Level II verb
course that is similar in style to our Level I course but teaches you
the ins and outs of verb conjugation. I have lived in foreign
countries and taught Spanish personally for three years at the
university level and have never seen anything as complete as our
course will be for teaching verb conjugations.

Moral of the Story: Our goal and passion here at Visual Link
Spanish™/U.S. Institute of Languages® is to help you learn Spanish
using the most modern and technologically advanced methods so when
you are finished, you can actually speak Spanish. We are not like
many companies who just throw together a Spanish course to make money
at your expense and you gain nothing from it. We’ve had many
customers say they’ve wasted hundreds of dollars trying to learn
Spanish, and finally with our course they were able to learn and
communicate in Spanish.

Responses for next week: Please write us and tell us about your
experience learning Spanish in school as well as with our Visual Link
Spanish™ course.

Sneak peek at next week: “El correo - the Latin American Post Office
and Bank Syndrome”

¡Hasta luego! (”Until later”)

David S. Clark — President / Director
Visual Link Spanish(TM)
Fun, Interactive Spanish Courses
http://www.spanishprograms.com
dave_c@spanishprograms.com

=============================
Responses to Past Newsletters
=============================

Response #1

In spite of what you say is the sound generated by dogs the most
common sound I hear generated by them in the middle of the night is
“¡Cállese, usted maldijo perros!” but it usually has an english
accent because native spanish speakers never, ever hear their dogs
barking.

Response #2

The other side of the question is: In what language do animal hear? I
live in Mexico with a native-born cat. One day while having friends
for comida a ten year old heard me talking to Brindlito (my cat´s
Spanglish name!) in English and said to his mom, “Cats understand
English?” I tell people that he is bilingual: he doesn´t pay
attention to me in either language. Food and the squirt bottle are
our common language!

Thanks for a fun colunm.

Linda en México

©2007 U.S. Institute of Languages
1893 East Skyline Drive Ste. 105
Ogden, UT 84403
1-866-977-2647

If you no longer wish to receive communication from us:
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Visual Link Spanish(TM) Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 39

Current # of Subscribers: 199,182

This issue:
1. NEW - Cultural Spanish Recipes
2. Testimonial
3. Weekly Spanish Lesson - “Sentence Building II”
4. Words of the Week
5. Ask Dave Section - “Spain and Latin American Differences”
6. Culture Lesson - “Horse-n-Buggy Spanish of Old vs. Technology of
Today”
7. Responses to Past Newsletters

========================
Complete Course on Sale
========================

Stop wasting hundreds of dollars on Spanish courses that don’t work.
Learn faster and better — Guaranteed!

- Click for Sale Info! -

-http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/complete_newsletter.htm

This offer includes the complete Visual Link Spanish(TM) Course with
free shipping and a free dictionary! Remember your 6-month Money-Back
Guarantee - you’ll learn Spanish Guaranteed or your money back!

* With 30-60 minutes a day, five times a week, you will become
conversational in 30 days or less guaranteed - or your money back.

===============================
NEW! - Cultural Spanish Recipes
===============================

We are excited to implement a cultural Spanish recipe section to our
newsletter. We welcome your tasty Spanish recipes including the
originating countries (if available), accompanying pictures where
possible without copyrights and any interesting notes or comments
about the recipe.

We appreciate this important cultural connection around the globe
celebrating the all-important food traditions of the Spanish-speaking
people.

Please email recipes and pictures to: mercedes@learnspanishtoday.com

=======================================
Visual Link Spanish(TM) Testimonial –
=======================================

I’m already halfway through the course! I love the set up of the
course the way it’s divided into sections. It is making it so much
easier for me to form sentences and remember the words. I’m amazed
that I am able to remember the words as I have memory problems and
can’t remember day to day things!

Anyway, thanks again for your help!

Kristina

============================================
Weekly Spanish Lesson—Sentence Building II
============================================

This week’s lesson comes from the complete Visual Link Spanish™
course. Click below for Part II of your fun, interactive lesson
Sentence Building Lessons.

To check it out, click here:
http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/learn/spanish_sentence.htm

==================
Words of the Week
==================

Taken from our complete CD-ROM course —–

Monday / I’m going to / (Yo) Voy a
Tuesday / He is going to / (El) Va a
Wednesday / She is going to / (Ella) Va a
Thursday / You are going to / (Usted) Va a
Friday / to practice / practicar
Saturday / the day after tomorrow / pasado mañana
Sunday / next week / semana

Click Here to login and access your free membership and lessons.
http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/login.phtml

=====================================
The Official “Ask Dave” Section —–
=====================================

Question

Dear Dave,

The last news letter made a big point of correct pronunciation being
of great importance, but we are going to Spain and there seems very
little emphasis on Spanish as the Spanish speak it. There are hints
on how Mexico differs to South America, but very little reference to
how Spanish people speak it. For example there is no mention of the
“th” for “ce..” or “ci..” words.

What else is there we should know?

Apparently (according to the CD) some parts of Spain lisp the “Z”,
but which parts?

If this likely to be such a big issue can you please help us out.!

Best wishes,

Peter

Answer

Hola Peter,

The main differences between Spain and Latin American pronunciation
are the “ce”, “ci”, “z” and “s”.

In Spain, the “ce”, “ci” and “z” all make the English “th” sound. For
example, the word “entonces” would actually be pronounced
“entonthes”. The word “cita” would be pronounced “thita” and the word
“zapatos” is pronounced “thapatos”.

The letter “s” in Spain is pronounced with a little different accent.
It has more of a hissing sound.

Those are the main differences in pronunciation between Latin America
and Spain.

As far as vocabulary goes, there are a few differences similar to the
difference between words in England, the U.S. and Australia.

Our course has carefully chosen the words that are most universal no
matter where you go. There are a few rare exceptions where words that
may be a little more region specific, however, in general we have
tried to choose vocabulary that will work in every country.

Hopefully that answers your question,

Dave

==================================================================
Culture —– Horse-n-Buggy Spanish of Old vs. Technology of Today
==================================================================

I’d like to start off this week’s newsletter by saluting all of the
public-school Spanish teachers of today. You are so dedicated and do
such wonderful work usually on a shoe-string budget. Many of you use
so much energy while teaching, and put on “performances” each day for
your students to get them to learn Spanish. You do great work and
should be commended!!

If our teachers are so great, why do so many students finish Spanish
classes without being able to converse in Spanish? That is the issue
I want to address in this week’s newsletter.

In my opinion, one of the major problems with learning Spanish today
is that the resources available for people and school classes to
learn Spanish are over 100 years old — the manual and the workbook.
The same horse-n-buggy approach of 100 years ago is still used today,
with an occasional low-budget CD.

Another problem is that most of the textbooks available are designed
to teach students how to be Spanish teachers and not how to speak and
converse in Spanish. In other words, when students finish a course,
they have a lot of grammar rules memorized and can regurgitate them
and even conjugate different verbs but can’t actually communicate in
Spanish.

What does this do to the average person? The problem is that most
students that finish taking Spanish classes have the idea that
Spanish is very difficult because of all of the rules and
conjugations. Many of you have probably built mental blocks against
learning Spanish because when you finished Spanish at school, you
couldn’t speak it and much less with a native speaker. So many people
I talk to think that they were just not “made” to speak Spanish. They
also think that they were the only ones that didn’t get much out of
Spanish in school. If you feel this way, don’t worry, you’re not
alone, a majority of people that take Spanish in school feel the same
way.

Is there hope? Don’t worry, you’re not less intelligent or lacking a
“Spanish gene”; in school you were simply trained to memorize grammar
rules and verb conjugations but not to speak Spanish! Whew! I can
already feel a sigh of relief from many of you who thought you were
sub par or damaged intellectually for the rest of your lives because
of your experience with Spanish. Think of all of the wasted worries
you could’ve put to rest had you known that you were simply learning
with the wrong methods!

In my opinion, textbooks, even current “up-to-date” ones generally
teach you Spanish backwards. Within the first few months of class,
you learn numbers, colors, days of the week and many verb
conjugations. Then the real hope is that you’ll later pick up
conversational skills.

That is why we at Visual Link Spanish™ have done nine years of
research and development to create our courses with modern technology
and in a format that actually works. We teach you Spanish like
children learn their own language but tailored to adults. First, you
learn vocabulary words with computer pictures. It is done in a way
that stimulates the brain and teaches you to build sentences. You
also learn conversational skills like asking and answering questions.
We don’t teach you in-depth grammar at first just like children don’t
have grammar lessons when first learning a language. However, you do
learn to speak and converse correctly with correct grammar!

When we took English in our later school years, we finally started
learning grammar rules. But most of us don’t even remember the
grammar rules we learned in school. Does that make us less effective
English speakers? NO! The fact that we don’t remember what a
prepositional phrase is or the past participle of the word “swim”
doesn’t mean we can speak English correctly.

In learning Spanish, there is a little difference however. Verb
conjugations are a major part of advanced Spanish. They do have to be
learned and practiced to achieve an advance level of Spanish. As you
are probably aware, Visual Link Spanish™ Level I is available for the
beginning student which takes you from a beginning to an intermediate
level and gets you conversational. We also have our Level II verb
course that is similar in style to our Level I course but teaches you
the ins and outs of verb conjugation. I have lived in foreign
countries and taught Spanish personally for three years at the
university level and have never seen anything as complete as our
course will be for teaching verb conjugations.

Moral of the Story: Our goal and passion here at Visual Link
Spanish™/U.S. Institute of Languages® is to help you learn Spanish
using the most modern and technologically advanced methods so when
you are finished, you can actually speak Spanish. We are not like
many companies who just throw together a Spanish course to make money
at your expense and you gain nothing from it. We’ve had many
customers say they’ve wasted hundreds of dollars trying to learn
Spanish, and finally with our course they were able to learn and
communicate in Spanish.

Responses for next week: Please write us and tell us about your
experience learning Spanish in school as well as with our Visual Link
Spanish™ course.

Sneak peek at next week: “El correo - the Latin American Post Office
and Bank Syndrome”

¡Hasta luego! (”Until later”)

David S. Clark — President / Director
Visual Link Spanish(TM)
Fun, Interactive Spanish Courses
http://www.learnspanishtoday.com
dave_c@learnspanishtoday.com

=============================
Responses to Past Newsletters
=============================

Response #1

In spite of what you say is the sound generated by dogs the most
common sound I hear generated by them in the middle of the night is
“¡Cállese, usted maldijo perros!” but it usually has an english
accent because native spanish speakers never, ever hear their dogs
barking.

Response #2

The other side of the question is: In what language do animal hear? I
live in Mexico with a native-born cat. One day while having friends
for comida a ten year old heard me talking to Brindlito (my cat´s
Spanglish name!) in English and said to his mom, “Cats understand
English?” I tell people that he is bilingual: he doesn´t pay
attention to me in either language. Food and the squirt bottle are
our common language!

Thanks for a fun colunm.

Linda en México

©2007 U.S. Institute of Languages
1893 East Skyline Drive Ste. 105
Ogden, UT 84403
1-866-977-2647

If you no longer wish to receive communication from us:
http://visuallinklanguages.net/app/r.asp?ID=1020733575&ARID=0&D=

To update your contact information:
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