Because a language is much more than pictures and words, we go to the heart of the cultural experience across Latin America and the regions of Spain. And instead of treating you like a child, our program is designed for adults and teens who, like ourselves, can learn faster when the material comes with great explanations.
Nothing we know of can be learned by adults without understanding, which is to say without an explanation of how it works. And nothing good comes without effort. Cornell graduate and Fluenz Tutor Sonia Gil will show you how Spanish works and will give you strategies and tips to make it work for you, but she will never tell you something is "easy" or "natural" when it isn't.
We offer rock solid explanations showing how Spanish works and an honest approach that will guide you through high and low. Which is why we smile when the big companies tell us that learning languages is simple and easy--it doesn't work that way. To be fluent in Spanish is the most beautiful thing in the world, but you're going to need a smart approach and there is going to be work involved.
Greatexplanations make a big difference because we don't learn like children anymore.
We've spent years picking apart Spanish to create a path through the language that makes sense to English-speaking learners. Sonia Gil introduces each session and headlines an extensive tutorial where she explains how every element in the session works--from pronunciation tips to strategies on making your femenine and masculine endings right.
Our unique approach is currently being used by elite units of the US Navy, senior personnel at the UN and UNICEF, executives of Fortune 500 companies, and students at Harvard Business School and other leading universities.
Fluenz Spanish is organized around one-on-one tutoring sessions that each take up to two and a half hours to complete.
How Fluenz begins
Sonia begins each session with a brief introduction. This provides an understanding of how the new material will take you a step closer to fluency, while immersing you in the cultural context and the experiences of everyday Spanish.
Introducing useful, everyday language
This is followed by a realistic conversation between native speakers that uses all the words and structures to be learned in the session. These conversations place you in the most common, everyday situations right from the very beginning.
To inspire, great tutors need to speak your language.That's where
"natural immersion" falls short.
Immersive one-on-one tutorial
Immediately after the conversation, the tutor presents a full tutorial explaining in detail and in English how every single new word and structure works. Beyond in-depth explanations, these tutorials offer strategies, tactics and personal experiences that give you valuable insights.
Workout to fluency
After each tutorial, the program turns to over a dozen different types of increasingly challenging workouts that cover reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These workouts reinforce and expand your communication at the same time.
Coaching you forward
At the end of the session, the Fluenz tutor returns to offer a conclusion, along with the kind of inspiration only a human teacher can provide.
We are idealists about the power of technology to revolutionize learning, and we are nothing short of fanatics about the diversity of hispanic culture around the world. Our answer has been to bring the one on one tutor experience to your computer, but also to make sure that learning a language didn't mean forgetting thousands of years of culture, thousands of soccer matches, and hundreds of millions of pages of the world's best literature.
Spanish is much more than wordsand images. Our
tutors will take you
on an unbelievable journey of discovery.
Audio CDs
Spanish for Your Car or iPod
Moving beyond typically dry and hollow language learning tapes, the Fluenz team engaged two professionals who could communicate the richness and emotion of Spanish. Fluenz Spanish 1+2+3 comes with three audio CDs that feature the voices of Hollywood actor Edgar Ramirez, HBO Latin America star Ivan Loscher, and Fluenz tutor Sonia Gil.
Fluenz Podcasts
Download to Learn on the Go
Continuing a tradition at the Fluenz Lab, Fluenz Spanish offers exclusive podcasts made by the same team that created the interactive program. These downloadable podcasts supplement the training work offered by the audio CDs, while providing a more informal, relaxed window into the world of Spanish and the actual learning of the language.
The Fluenz Navigator
Your Essential Phrase Book
Fluenz Spanish also comes with the Fluenz Navigator, a useful quick-reference guide for travelers with all the most critical words and phrases for getting by abroad.
