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“I live in Mexico and the Spanish has helped me talk with plumbers, electricians, (something in the apartment I rent always needs fixing), and sales people”

Here's Bonnie using her Spanish buying fruit from street vendors in front of her house in Mexico.

I live in Mexico and the Spanish has helped me talk with plumbers, electricians, (something in the apartment I rent always needs fixing), and sales people.

I volunteer at a private school and help the students with their English. My Spanish helps me to understand their questions about English. It’s great fun.

– Bonnie Hotchkiss (Mexico)

 

“Thanks for providing a breakthrough in my longtime wish to learn Spanish”

Michael a Disneyland cast member on Main Street USA where he hopes to soon wear the Español bilingual badge

I love your teaching materials. I practice with my co-workers at Disneyland all the time and hope to earn an “español” bilingual badge there a year from now.

Thanks for providing a breakthrough in my longtime wish to learn Spanish. Yours is the only course that I’ve been able to stick with and actually start using socially and professionally. You are brilliant.

– Michael Pollock (California, USA)

 

“My speaking skills have increased 50 fold”

I Just returned from spending 10 days in Mexico and my speaking skills have increased 50 fold.

While having a conversation (in Mexico) with a waitress that we have known for several years, she asked me to please speak to her in Spanish so that she could better understand our conversation.

What a complement! Thanks to your course.

– Bill Gore (Maryland, USA)

 

“My Spanish fluidity has really improved and reached an all time high”

Kareem with his guide on a recent trip to Costa Rica

My Spanish has improved greatly. I have gone from being a large dictionary of vocabulary words to actually being able to put that knowledge into action…!

My Spanish fluidity has really improved and reached an all time high, and is improving everyday. (Acabo de regresar de Panama y Costa Rica durante Las Pascuas…Tambien,espero ir a España en el verano que viene).

Muchas Gracias a usted, su esposa, Jose Luis, y todas las otras personas…

Estoy muy agradecido a usted y gracias a Dios por la oportunidad para aprender un nuevo idioma.

– Kareem Cumberbatch (Bahamas)

 

“You are the best Spanish teacher in the world!”

Great course. I love it. You are going at the right pace, it is perfect for me. You are the best Spanish teacher in the world!

– Fred Strickland (Florida, USA)

 

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“For the last forty years, on and off, I have been trying to learn this language.
Fortunately, I have discovered your Synergy courses and things
are starting to gel”

Thanks for your Spanish courses – they are unique. They work! For the last forty years, on and off, I have been trying to learn this language. I have piles of books, tapes and disks to prove it. Yet, all I ever managed was some passive understanding of Spanish, I could not speak. Well, as you know well, there is not much opportunity to speak Spanish in Australian outback. Fortunately, I have discovered your Synergy courses and Apple iPod and things are starting to gel.

Last year we had a great holiday in Andalusia and finally I was able to speak “tourist” Spanish quite comfortably.

Once again thanks for your courses. There are the best in any language and I speak from experience (Czech, Russian, German, Spanish and finally English).

– Jorge Tlaskal (Outback-Australia)

 

“I have longed to learn Spanish all my life and finally I can understand”

I have longed to learn Spanish all my life and finally I can understand and say things in Spanish. This would not have been possible without Bola de Nieve. EXCELLENT!

– Evelyn Cawthorn (UK)

 

“It just seem to flow and I am excited at my progress. I can now speak very well”

I absolutely LOVE Bola de Nieve!!!!! I am sailing along great (I am amazing myself with how good I am going). I can now speak very well with Bola de Nieve. You have a really good idea of how to make it just seem to flow and I am excited at my progress!!

Please, please continue with the excellent course!!! Once again, I LOVE Bola de Nieve. THANKS

– Nelia Handley (Australia)

 

“Everything that you have has helped me become almost bilingual in 2-3 years”

Everything that you have done (Shortcut to Spanish 1 and 2, bola de Nieve, Spanish Ear Training etc) has helped me become almost bilingual in 2 – 3 years. Can’t thank you enough Marcus.

– Dave Buckingham (UK)

 

“The teaching of colloquial expressions has greatly expanded my comprehension because these are difficult to locate in dictionaries
or lists of idioms”

This course is wonderful! Hearing the language spoken in conversational rhythm has helped my ability to distinguish words and common phrases the way they are blended together by native speakers of Spanish.

The teaching of colloquial expressions has greatly expanded my comprehension because these are difficult to locate in dictionaries or lists of idioms.

– Lavon Chorba

 

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“I love the feeling of mastering Spanish!”

I love the way its set up. I have always thought (and been told by others) that learning a new language was easy for me. Then I enrolled in a Spanish class, where my confidence suffered a blow! Residing verbs and learning grammar was really not my thing. In fact, I have never learned a language by learning the grammar first, I’ve always imitated native speakers which has been enough for me.

By following this course, my vocabulary builds up slowly but surely, and I love the feeling of mastering Spanish! Thanks for creating all your courses, they’re really appreciated.

– Maggy Bjorgvinsdottir (Norway)

 

“I find this the best most immediately useful conversational course I’ve taken”

I find this the best most immediately useful conversational course I’ve taken for practical Spanish. I’m always eager to receive the next installment.

– Bill Montanary (California, USA)

 

“I communicate by email with Spanish speaking friends they have noticed a big difference in the way that I construct my sentences and my use
of more everyday language”

Like all of your courses Marcus (and I have done all of them!) Bola de Nieve helps me with my fluency and sentence construction. I also find the level of language and the collocations for example very useful.

I communicate by email with Spanish speaking friends and I write in Spanish and they have noticed a big difference in the way that I construct my sentences and my use of more everyday language so please please keep it coming. Many thanks to you, Elena & Jose you are doing a great job!!

– Rachel (last name withheld as requested)

 

“Bola de Nieve in particular for me is like one of those books that
once you start to can’t put down”

Thanks for creating this system of learning. I love it. What started out as an inquisitive “toe-dipping” into the Spanish language has now developed into what I know will be a lifelong learning quest!…

Not only with the language but with the culture and country of Spain; and is doesn’t stop with Spain there’s the a whole other continent across “the pond” to discover. Bola de Nieve in particular for me is like one of those books that once you start to can’t put down; admittedly I am running a little behind but that’s how things are with 3 young daughters a full time job AND a wife to keep happy!!

Thanks again for all your time and effort and PLEASE keep it going.

– Scott Hitchman (UK)

 

“Not only improving my fluency but is also a great confidence booster”

Loving the course Marcus, I like the fact that it is doled out in regular doses as this keeps me on my toes, making sure I keep up to date. All this regular practice is not only improving my fluency but is also a great confidence booster.

– Jo Madle (UK)

 

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“I can now say just about any thing I want in Spanish”

I can now say just about any thing I want in Spanish.

– Jerroll Fry (USA)

 

“Bola de Nieve is the best Spanish course available. I have learnt so much better than the class I was attending”

I’m doing great; Bola de Nieve is the best Spanish course available. I have learnt so much better than the class I was attending. The way you present the work is exactly the best way that I learn. I look forward to studying my Spanish every day, it’s a pleasure to learn. Thanks so much to you and all involved in its creation.

– Alison (New Zealand)
~first name only as requested by Alison

 

“My wife and I have just moved to Costa Rica
THE COURSE has helped me greatly”

My wife and I have just moved to Costa Rica and I am finally getting to practice my Spanish on a daily basis. I feel THE COURSE has helped me greatly.

The people in Costa Rica are very helpful and appreciate my efforts to speak to them in their own language. I have had numerous comments that I am speaking very well and my pronunciation is good! I am sure that is partly because the people here are very kind but also thanks to the excellent audio and practice provided by the course.

– Kenneth Spencer (Costa Rica)

 

“Without your method, I would have lost motivation due to the boredom and frustration built into traditional teaching methods”

This course is well thought out and practical. I appreciate your direct approach that focuses on conversation as opposed to language rules. Without your method of instruction, I would have lost the motivation to learn due to the boredom and frustration built into traditional teaching methods. Thanks for your assistance Marcus.

– John Knapp (Arizona, USA)

 

“I lost my confidence. Now, with Bola de Nieve, I am regaining the confidence I need to speak with my neighbours (I live in Spain)”

I love the course and have recommended it to my friends. I was getting nowhere fast at the local language school – that was all about conjugating verbs etc. There was a lot I didn’t understand but no-one answered my questions satisfactorily (not even about the personal ‘a’, which you explained in an instant). I lost my confidence. Now, with Bola de Nieve, I am enjoying learning and am regaining the confidence I need to speak with my neighbours (I live in Spain). I want to continue learning until I am mistaken for a Spaniard!

– Aileen Jayes (Spain)

 

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“Have improved considerably by following your “simple way” of doing it”

I joined your course as I hadn’t gained the fluency in speaking Spanish the way I would have liked it to be. Since joining I have improved considerably by following your “simple way” of doing it.

Felicitaciones con un curso que funciona tan bueno. ¡Qué tenga un buen verano!

– Ansgar Haakonsen (Norway)

 

“I like your step by step approach building on previous lessons”

I’ve been studying Spanish for about 2 years now (I was 59 when I started), and very soon discovered your Shortcut to Spanish and Synergy courses, so of course I jumped at the chance to enroll on your Bola de Nieve! I like your step by step approach building on previous lessons and it’s very convenient on my MP3 player as I can dip into it at all sorts of odd times, but most of all I like the way you present the lessons sharing bits of your life with us.

– Brian Heselden (Herne Bay, Kent UK)

 

“She speaks way fast but last time I was there she said she understood everything that I said to her”

It is helping me heaps. Living in a country where it is not easy to find Spanish speakers it isn’t always easy to practice. However, I now visit with my new friend, who is from Mexico, once a week usually and we speak Spanish.

She speaks way fast but last time I was there she said she understood everything that I said to her. I really appreciate what you are doing. Cheers and thanks again.

– Christine Buckley (NZ)

 

“I’ve tried other methods and they don’t work for me”

Bola de Nieve is great. I’ve tried other methods and they don’t work for me. Thanks!

– Cynthia Stemple (New Jersey, USA)

 

“I can communicate with my Peruvian friends fairly well, even by phone”

I really like to Bola de Nieve. I find it very easy to learn from this course. Right now I can communicate with my Peruvian friends fairly well, even by phone. I love it! Thanks.

– Debbie Blair (Washington, DC)

 

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“I think the course is great”

I think the course is great.

– Dianne Dilnot (Canada)

 

“The course is excellent”

The course is excellent. Keep it up. Many Thanks.

– Jacqueline Walsh (Spain)

 

“I feel much more confident now. The ENTENSIVE Audio is my favourite part”

I am learning much more than ever I did with formal Spanish course and exam. I am very happy with this method. I feel much more confident now.

THE ENTENSIVE Audio is my favourite part as I feel this is very lacking in many other more courses. Please keep it up.

– John McKay (UK)

 

“I wasn’t afraid to use some of my new skills on my vacation
in Mexico earlier this year”

It is so easy for me to learn in this format. Learning is such a pleasure with this teaching concept.

I wasn’t afraid to use some of my new skills on my vacation in Mexico earlier this year. I feel like I can actually communicate.

Please stay inspired to continue. Thanks.

– Mary Dailey (North Carolina, USA)

 

“My wife, a bi-lingual Mexicana commented, You are getting some great stuff”

I think it is the best course I’ve taken, and I taken several – both self-study and conversational. My wife, a bi-lingual Mexicana commented, “You are getting some great stuff.”

– Thomas McNear (Mexico)

 

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“I wish I could go back to Peru again since my Spanish is so much better now”

The course has been great to keep talking and thinking in Spanish.

I wish I could go back to Peru again since my Spanish is so much better now – thanks to your courses. Now I could really have a true conversation with the family members, especially the little girl in the blue sweater who so much wanted to talk to me and get me dancing at the fiesta.

As I’ve told you in the past, getting the words from my brain to my mouth was a major barrier, not so much for fear of saying it wrong but the inability to string it all together. The combination of oral practice and reading the words plus your clear explanations has completely removed that obstacle and I really enjoy being able to chat with people on a wide variety of subjects.

– Helen Middleditch (Canada)

 

“Its helped tremendously. Your teaching method is so simple to follow”

Its helped tremendously. Your teaching method is so simple to follow. Each new module I think, ‘this is going to get beyond me’ and it doesn’t! Thank you.

– Lesley Kew (UK)

 

“I love your course very very much”

I love your course very very much.

– Pauline De Champlain

 

“Native speakers are blown away that I speak with the degree of fluency I have achieved and speak “like them””

What I have learned is phenomenal to say the least and native speakers are blown away that I speak with the degree of fluency I have achieved and speak “like them”.

The greatest compliment for me is are you from Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and this from Central Americans…so thanks for getting me there / here.

– M Anderson (USA)

 

“When I go to Mexico, I know that I will be able to fully communicate”

Your program is an awesome one and I have learned so much.

I have taken so many courses and have always walked away more confused than before I walked in. With your course, I have been able to learn far more than I ever expected.

It is far easier than I ever expected and owe it all to you. When I go to Mexico, I know that with your course I will be able to fully communicate. Thank you so much!

– Lori-Ann Wojcik (Georgia, USA)

 

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“Best way to learn Spanish out there!”

I LOVE YOUR COURSES! They are the best way to learn Spanish out there! And I have tried many.

– Linda Sappington (California, USA)

 

“Your system works!”

I just returned from Honduras where I provide technical support to a medical mission team. After using your courses for the past few months I was hoping that my Spanish would be better than last year and after a few hours of getting used to the Honduran way of speaking I was delighted to find that I could communicate with our Spanish only drivers and others, at the stores, restaurants, and churches where we worked. (Your system works!)

I am now the guy who rides up front in the “micro bus” since “I speak Spanish” better than other team members. I have found your approach to be very effective. (Bola de Neive) I will continue to study in anticipation of another trip later this year. Thanks!

– Arnold LeMay (Kentucky, USA)

 

“I’ve never had such a dramatic success in my life”

My Spanish lessons are an important part of my day–we live in Costa Rica for 3 months of the year, and I am now able to communicate in an area where little English is spoken. I’ve never had such a dramatic success in my life. Thank you so much!

– Helene Hauser (Costa Rica)

 

“Your course has given me more confidence to speak the Spanish”

I now live in Spain for most of the time, and your course has given me more confidence to speak the Spanish. I realize your work is a labour of love, so please, please keep up the good work!!

– Barbara Deards (Spain)

 

“The Advanced Concepts puts the course way over the top”

I think the sequence of Bola de Nieve is outstanding, and the Advanced Concepts puts the course way over the top. Great Job!!!

– Eamon McColgan

 

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“I studied several other courses and have found this is the only one that has helped me to actually communicate”

I live in Panama. I studied several other courses and have found this is the only one that has helped me to actually communicate, so thank you!

– Harreson Mayers (Panama)

 

“Bola de Nieve is by far the best Spanish learning method I’ve experienced”

Bola de Nieve is by far the best Spanish learning method I’ve experienced.

– Reg Jackson (UK)

 

“Our architect walked off the job and I was able to take it over right to the finished casa”

I love it I love it I love it, we just built a house in Mexico I would have been lost without your course our architect walked off the job and I was able to take it over right to the finished casa.

– Carol Romain (Mexico)

 

“It feels so good to understand and be understood”

When I came to Honduras to teach at a bilingual school, I didn’t speak any Spanish. I was very uncomfortable when I would go to town to go shopping. The language barrier really prevented me from having an impact in the lives of the people around me. But, after about a year of studying under you, I can communicate quite comfortably in this Spanish culture.

A turning point for me was conducting my 2nd quarter report card meetings with the parents of my 23 2nd grade students all in Spanish. It feels so good to understand and be understood.

– Golden Preciado (Honduras)

 

“Bola de Nieve is the best course I have ever found”

Bola de Nieve is the best course I have ever found, and I’m doing extremely well.

– Mikael Eriksson (Sweden)

 

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“It doesn’t matter how old you are, with your method, any one of any age
can learn a language”

This course is helping me enormously. Learning another language was something I had always wanted to do, and even though we moved to Spain, I still didn’t think I could at my age. But with your method it doesn’t matter how old you are, any one of any age can learn a language.

I love how it makes Spanish so much easier to learn, I can at last go out with confidence and speak to my neighbours in Spain. Thank you.

– Sandra Mitchell (UK)

 

“Words or phrases in Spanish – are becoming instinctive”

Bola de Nieve has helped me to react quicker in Spanish. I often do not have to consciously think of the words or phrases in Spanish – many of them are becoming instinctive.

– Brian Murray (UK)

 

“Thank you for giving me the confidence to just go for it!”

I have been going to Tenerife on holiday for many years but have never really had much knowledge or confidence to try speaking Spanish. After completing Synergy Spanish and now working through Bola de Nieve I was eager to put my Spanish to the test!

On holiday in Tenerife earlier this month, I was delighted that I could order food and drinks in restaurants and converse with the locals, asking them questions about their lives and answering questions about my life. I even asked a local man for directions one day in the street – and was able to understand the reply!

I was complimented many times by Spanish-speaking people on my ability to speak Spanish! The Spanish people were delighted that I was making an effort to talk to them in their language and were eager to offer me advice when I went wrong.

In return, they were grateful to learn some Scottish colloquialisms which they could use to impress in their English conversations! Thank you for giving me the confidence to just go for it! Muchas gracias.

– Rhona McWalter (Scotland)

 

“I’m able to respond 85% quicker”

The methodology must have recoded my brain. I’m hearing and decoding the Spanish – and able to respond 85% quicker than I could at the beginning of December. Now, January 28, I converse with my Mexican neighbors and friends. By the end of March, I expect to be fluent enough to join Spanish speaking organizations, clubs and a Fashion Design Course. You have a terrific system that works.

– Luiza en La Paz (Baja California Sur, Mexico)

 

“I cannot believe how much Spanish I can now speak!”

Bola de Nieve is a great course and I am not only enjoying it, but cannot believe how much Spanish I can now speak! Thanks again!

– Aundria Humphrey (NY, USA)

 

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“Don’t let anyone think age is any sort of a barrier to learning another language”

Me gustaría decir que he disfrutado de sus cursos muchísimo; Mi español se ha mejorado enormemente, gracias a ellos y usted. Ahora puedo visitar a mis amigos en Costa Rica, y sentirme mucho más confiado en mis conversaciones con ellos.

I would like to say that I have enjoyed your courses very much. Mi Spanish has improved enormously. Now I can visit my friends in Costa Rica, and feel much more confident in my conversations with them.

Eddie later added

I would also like to say that in a couple of weeks I shall be 74 years old…so don’t let anyone think age is any sort of a barrier to learning another language….especially with your unique method of teaching.

Many, many years ago I left grammar school with a GCE certificate “O” level in French, but I have never been able to hold a conversation in French; ….. as I now can in Spanish!!

– Eddie Simpson (UK)

 

“My Spanish tutor is amazed at how my command of spoken Spanish has come on in leaps and bounds”

My Spanish tutor is amazed at how my command of spoken Spanish has come on in leaps and bounds ( I have kept you a secret )and I thoroughly enjoy the confidence the course has given me.

– Charlotte Hodgson (UK)

 

“I’m 78. I hadn’t heard a word of Spanish until I turned 75”

I had been learning Spanish online for a year; I had even walked the Camino de Santiago for two months in Spain. My survival Spanish served me well and I could make myself understood, but I couldn’t TALK Spanish.

That’s when I discovered Synergy Spanish. It was a refreshing new window on learning. I worked my way through, I think, all the Synergy products and onto Bola de Nieve. I thank you for how you taught me to speak.

By the way, I’m 78. I hadn’t heard a word of Spanish until I turned 75. I could have, should have written this in Spanish. But it is, after all, our mutual idioma materna and I wanted to be sure that you understood just how happy I have been with all you have done for me.

– Barry Seedsman (Australia)

 

“Thank you for you fantastic methods”

Thank you for you fantastic methods. I haven’t gone wrong since I started.

– Lawrie Norton (UK)

 

“I can understand more and more when I listen to the radio”

Me encanta las lecciones de español.

Todos los días, paso 1 hora aprendiendo con Marcus. Las lecciones son muy interesantes. Cada mes es muy agradable recibir nuevas lecciones. También me gusta el precio, es justo.

Solo tengo 5 meses y ahora puedo hablar, leer el periódico y comprender más y más cuando escucho la radio.

Estoy muy contenta con este curso. El método de enseñanza de Marcus es definitivamente superior a cualquier otro.

Everyday I spend 1 hour learning with Marcus. The lessons are very interesting. Each month it is very enjoyable to receive new lessons. Also, I like the price, it is very fair.

I only have 5 months(studying) and now I can speak, read the newspaper and understand more and more when I listen to the radio.

I am very happy with this course. Marcus’ teaching method is superior to any other. Muchas gracias Marcus.

– Daniella Kennedy (Canada)

 

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“I’ve had my mother in law home with us from Colombia and unlike last time she was here, we are communicating and laughing together!”

Your Synergy Spanish and Bola de Nieve systems have been Godsends. I’ve had my mother in law home with us from Colombia and unlike last time she was here, we are communicating and laughing together! Muchas Gracias mi amigo! Tu eres el mejor!

– Dr Tom Rifai (Michigan, USA)

 

“I am already speaking much more Spanish then many people who have been here for years”

I’ve been living in Spain now for 18 months albeit in a area populated by British ex-pats so don’t get to hear Spanish consistently as I would like. But I am already speaking much more Spanish then many people who have been here for many years. The course not only makes Spanish much easier but it is enjoyable as well.

– Derek Blevins (Spain)

 

“I had some Spanish speaking friends over this past weekendI was amazed at my ability to communicate with them”

I want to use this opportunity to tell you how very much I LOVE this program. I had some Spanish speaking friends over this past weekend and I was amazed at my ability to communicate with them.

– Carole Liantonio (USA)

 

“Thanks for rescuing us ordinary people”

Your system is amazing! It is so wonderful to be able to ENJOY Spanish, and not have to keep trying to wade through every fine point of the grammar, and pages and pages of verbs and tenses that are just totally overwhelming. Many thanks for rescuing us ordinary people who just want to speak the language fluently, – not do a university degree on the finer points of it!

– Yvonne

 

“Thanks for opening a world to me”

Today I had to call my phone company. The woman who responded began speaking to me in Spanish. I was able to keep up for awhile, and then told her I was still learning. She was amazed that I had no accent and that I had learned off of the net.

Marcus, I can’t tell you the thrill it gave me. And her assessment that I was correct and without noticeable accent is a tribute to your method. Thanks, for opening a world to me, and for making it possible for me to let others know that some Americans want to share their Hispanic language and heritage.

– Bob Carnes (New York, USA)

 

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“After ten years – your course is the only one that has enabled me to speak with some confidence”

After ten years of lessons with many different teachers and twelve years of living in Spain, your course is the only one that has enabled me to speak with some confidence. I am very much looking forward to starting Advanced Concepts Intensive after completing Bola de Nieve.

– Alison Morgans (Spain)

 

“I couldn’t put a sentence together. Then I discovered your course”

I have been living in Mexico for a while now, but I am very house bound looking after young children. for months I was studying grammar grammar grammar… verbs verbs verbs… had a good list of vocabulary in my head…………… but I couldn’t put a sentence together. Then I discovered your course………. now its all coming together… many thanks…..

– Richard Waring (UK (living in Mexico))

 

“I just returned from two weeks in Cuba”

I just returned from two weeks in Cuba. I spent one week with my boyfriend’s family (none of which speak English) and they all told me that my Spanish was much improved from last year. They said I spoke and understood a lot more. That is all due to Bola de Nieve so thank you for that.

– Kathy Hogarth (Canada)

 

“Nobody can even come close to me in speaking Spanish”

I started Spanish with 24 other people in a one night per week class maybe 4 months ago and nobody can even come close to me in speaking Spanish because of your course, well done marcus and keep up the work your doing.

– Dara Keogh (Dublin, Ireland)

 

“The Advanced lessons are really, really good. Useful real world stuff, not textbook trips to the zoo etc”

– Edward Moran (Arizona, USA)

 

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“I THINK IN SPANISH”

I just finished the Bola de Nieve!!

I loved it and definitely have learned how to speak spanish faster and better than i expected.
It is actually other people who comment on my improvements in a very genuine and very surprised way :)))

By the way, one thing which is happening to me is that since the last 5-6 lessons on the course my interest in studying went way high 🙂

While I always was interested and always enjoyed the lessons, the compound effect of the ability to speak and to assimilate the data towards the end of the course really excites me, and I want to keep studying more than ever .

So, in basically 6 month, with a slow start , and being 60 years old, I now have no problem having conversations with people far above the level of just ordering coffee. While I make many, many, many mistakes for sure, people actually have long and meaningful conversations with me – I love it :))))

The thing which I think is most remarkable and supper important is , that no matter how bad I speak – most of the time I do NOT translate from English to Spanish – I THINK IN SPANISH –

Personally I suppose I will start dreaming in spanish after this next course :)) Who knows ??

Thanks for such a great product.

– Helmut Falsch (California, USA)

 

“It really works”

I am so happy with your course! It really works. Thank you!!

– Ray Andrews (New York, USA)

 

“Living in Mexico full time and so pleased to have your course”

Greatly enjoying Bola Nieve, learning a lot. Living in Mexico full time and so pleased to have your course monthly.

Thanks for this great learning experience, I love your teaching method.

– ‘Jose’ Stevens, M.D. (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)

 

“I was provided with extra food, free of charge!”

Having worked through several of your Spanish courses I am currently three quarters of the way through your Bola De Nieve programme. I wake up each day eager to learn more.

I am continuing to achieve my personal goals each day and this includes; daily practice, completing courses, speaking with native Spanish speakers (face to face and via the telephone), writing letters and e-mails, reading (hard copy and on-line material) watching and listening to on line multi media.

My original goal for wanting to learn Spanish was achieved in September 2013 when I visited the people who invited me to to contribute to a professional conference in Pamplona, Spain in 1998. This year I met with some of the people that orgnaised this conference. In addition my wife and I enjoyed celebrating our 40th wedding anniverssary whilst there. I was able to order food, buy tickets, ask for directions and converse with people in a multitude of public arenas. Even at our hotel next to Manchester airport (England) I was able to converse with the young waitress who came from the Nevarra region of Spain. Several time when discussing food, in Manchester and Spain I was provided with extra food, free of charge!

When I returned from my visit in 1998 I felt frustrated at not being able to communicate freely with the very friendly and interesting people I met. This time I felt really pleased and much more content. My wife and I are already planning to re-visit next year with a view to meeting up with more of the people I met back in 1998.

So thank you for your knowledge, skill and understanding that you have of the culture, language and of teaching people of all ages and from all walks of life. Throughout all of your courses I have not experienced the curse of procrastination and I am looking forward to undertaking your course for developing listening skills in Spanish after I complete Bola De Nieve in about four or five months time.

– Colin Westerman (UK)

 

“¡Creo que el sistema funciona muy bien! I think the system works very well”

Muchas personas me preguntan cómo aprendí español. Aquí está mi respuesta:

Empecé a aprender español hace dieciocho meses. Cada mes recibo lecciones por internet de un hombre australiano que enseña inglés y español.

Él vino a México para ensenar inglés. Conoció a su esposa allí (¡Ella es mexicana!). Él trató de aprender español de la manera tradicional con la conjugación de verbos y la gramática. Pensó que debía haber una mejor manera de aprender y enseñar español. De su frustración, creó el método que él llama “sinergia español”

¡Creo que el sistema funciona muy bien! ¡Estoy muy contenta con los resultados!

Muchas gracias, Nancy Neal

A lot of people ask me how I learned Spanish. Here is my answer.

I started to learn Spanish 18 months ago. Each month I receive lessons by Internet from an Australian man who teaches English and Spanish.

He came to Mexico to teach English. He met his wife there. (She is Mexican!) He tried to learn Spanish in the traditional way with verb conjugations and grammar. He thought there must be a better way to learn and teach Spanish. From his frustration, he created his method that he calls Synergy Spanish.

I think that the system works very well! I am very happy with the results!

Many thanks

– Nancy Neal (Texas, USA)

 

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“They allow me to live in Spain, talk to the Spanish, converse with Doctors, Garages, Shops etc”

Your whole approach to teaching Spanish is quite simply ground breakingly wonderful – even if you have been going for some time. I have done the Synergy Spanish, Short Cut to Spanish, Bola de Nieve, Conversations etc. Found them all wonderful and they allow me to live in Spain, talk to the Spanish, converse with Doctors, Garages, Shops etc etc. The greatest bonus is the reaction of the Spanish to an Englishman speaking to them in their own language. It is friendly helpful and you can make new friends very quickly.

Quite simply – for the money (and even at any price) a wonderful tool to learn Spanish.

– Weeshus (Canary Islands, Spain)

 

“The words just come out of my mouth without doubt or hesitation”

I had become very discouraged before I found your courses, because although the months of study went by, my ability to speak was not progressing. Now I’ve totally absorbed Module 1 and I’m looking forward to Module 2 and the rest of the course.

What I really like about your course that is so different from the other approaches I had tried is that I find that I can really use the Spanish that I’ve learned from you. In conversations with my Spanish-speaking friends, the words just come out of my mouth without doubt or hesitation.

In the week leading up to Thanksgiving it was really exciting to have real, complete conversations about how we each planned to celebrate Thanksgiving, where we were going, who was cooking, etc. That’s the first time that has ever happened in my life and it was quite thrilling.

Thanks for sharing your excellent methods.

Kathleen added these comments after completing module 4

“I remain energized and excited”

Here I go with Modulo 4 – Synergy Spanish 2 – Bola de Nieve. I remain as energized and excited as I was with the first free sample lesson where I encountered your wonderful teaching method.

– Kathleen Spracklen (Oregon, USA)

 

 

“The results are astounding! No bells and whistles,- just a simple , well crafted learning system that works for me!”

I live permanently in the Dominican republic and the need to learn this language is compelling! I reviewed all resourses included a live teacher here in the DR, and decided to try B de N mostly because of my good results with Shortcut. The results are astounding! No bells and whistles,- just a simple , well crafted learning system that works for me!

– Myrna Michon (Dominican Republic)

 

“I found myself discussing topics with them that I never thought I’d be able to discuss in Spanish”

I’d like to tell you about my experience speaking Spanish in Guatemala after studying two of your courses.

I started Synergy Spanish at the beginning of last April and then went on to Bola de Nieve. I completed both courses in ten months

I stayed with a family in Antigua, Guatemala, for six weeks.

For the first three days I wasn’t very fluent as these were my first face to face conversations in Spanish. However, on day four something just clicked and I started making very rapid progress. A few days later I found myself discussing topics with them that I never thought I’d be able to discuss in Spanish on this visit.

I was in Guatemala to help out at two school projects for kids from some of the poorest families in the country. At one school I was given the job of helping out with a survey of the school students being conducted by the school. I ended up interviewing 200 of the school students in Spanish and writing down their answers.

At the other school I was given the job of helping very small children whose first language was Kaqchikel and for whom Spanish was a second language. Some of them were struggling with reading, writing and arithmetic and I gave half a dozen children one-to-one tuition in Spanish.

– Ian Swindale (UK)

 

“Synergy Spanish has helped me beyond my wildest dreams. Now, I can talk to my Mexican friends, the gardener and my housekeepers”

About two weeks ago I decided to purchase the entire Bola de Nieve 1 mainly because I could not wait for a month to receive the next module. It has been one of my best life decisions to date and has also stemmed a frustrating series of attempts to learn Spanish as a retirement hobby. I started just over a year ago and began naturally with the community college courses, a few tutors and some week long intensives – the community college was a disaster and made me seriously question my ability to do this. I felt just plain stupid and considered packing it in (understand I have had three very accomplished successful careers) but this brought me to my knees. The tutors were marginally better (except some serious attitude problems “my way or the highway”) and the intensives were fun but everything I tried was based on the same model of language study. This is a good time to tell you how much I appreciate your rant in one of the email blasts about “traditional” language study. After a little more than a year at it, I still could not talk.

Synergy Spanish has helped me beyond my wildest dreams. Now, I can talk to my Mexican friends, the gardener and my housekeepers. I’ve received many compliments and my confidence is high (not afraid to make a mistake). And, it is just plain fun!

Synergy Spanish has helped me beyond my wildest dreams. Now, I can talk to my Mexican friends, the gardener and my housekeepers.

– Jeffrey Artz (USA)

 

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“Invaluable for reinforcing the memory”

A splendid course. I agree with others; I’ve tried various courses but yours is definitely the best.

The design of the course is particularly well thought out. What’s especially important is that themes, words and phrases are repeated from time to time, which is invaluable for reinforcing the memory.

– David Burnett (UK)

 

“My Spanish for once is really coming together”

Thanks for the Bola de Nieve course, it really is excellent and I feel that my Spanish for once is really coming together and progressing at an excellent pace.

– Keith Bell (Spain)

 

“It is based on the most up to date leaning theory”

I love Bola de nieve -in fact I love all of Synergy -it is perfect

It is painless
It is well crafted
It is logically organized
It is based on the most up to date leaning theory
-teach in small steps
-follow instruction immediately with practice
-provide confirmation of the correct response with each practice
-follow with more practice
-move on only when substantial practice is done
-review material from previous lessons
-and with the new addition of video with existing audio lessons you are cross teaching the people who are either audio or visual learners
-I think you are a language genius

– William Tabacchi (Michigan, USA)

 

“I live in Mexico and this is making all the difference being able to speak easily”

– Tommy Gray (Mexico)

 

“I now spend 6 months a year in the Caribbean and almost never speak english while I’m here”

I refreshed my Spanish with your program starting a few years ago (maybe 5 or 6). I now spend 6 months a year in the Caribbean and almost never speak english while I’m here. As a matter of fact, I have to consciously order myself to speak english when I need it! My success is due to the courses you provided that gave me a solid foundation to build on. I will always be grateful for your assistance.

– Ed Rothery (Dominican Republic)

 

“You are transforming my life”

I just want to say that your course is fantastic and I love learning this way. It has helped me enormously.

You are transforming my life, so thank you so very much.

– Wendy Bates (Spain)

 

“Never too late to learn!”

I have now completed your Synergy Spanish Level 1 course. What a revelation! And so pertinent to my needs. My Spanish friends have complimented me on the improvement of my chatting. Never too late to learn!

– Geoff Woodward (Spain)

 

“I recently returned from Barcelona and was able to put into use so much of what I have learnt from these great courses”

I recently returned from Barcelona and was able to put into use so much of what I have learnt from these great courses.

Every day I feel like I am getting closer to my Spanish language learning goal. It’s like a giant jigsaw puzzle with a new piece being fitted each day. Great stuff – Keep the lessons coming!

– Peter Jones (UK)

 

“I recommend you to others that want to converse in Spanish”

I really appreciate all the work you’ve put into your system of education. It’s genius. I recommend you to others that want to converse in Spanish. Other Internet based approaches might help a person to read or write, but not listen and speak. I wouldn’t have got very far toward my goal of becoming conversational in Spanish without your system.

– Gary Russel (USA)

 

“I am much more confident shopping there and speaking to locals”

In summary a great way to learn Spanish. I have a holiday apartment in Spain and am much more confident shopping there and speaking to locals.

– Barry Savery (UK)

 

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“Opening my brain to Spanish”

Thank you for opening my brain to Spanish. I never thought that I would be able to do it.

– Gary Gomola (Mexico)

 

“High praise from a retired teacher”

Bola De Nieve is a brilliant course I am a retired language teacher so I know a bit about language teaching and this is the best course I’ve ever come across.

Saludos,

– Jenni, retired teacher of French and German (UK)

 

“I’ve learned more in the five months or so since I started it that the previous 5 years”

I have to tell you how much I’m enjoying Bola de Nieve! I’ve learned more in the five months or so since I started it that the previous 5 years. I’m actually beginning to believe that becoming fluent in this lovely language is possible!

– Grieg Chessor (UK)

 

“It is the best program I have found…love it!!”

I am in module 12 of your Bola de Nieve Course. It is the best program I have found…love it!!

– Claudia Wiseman (USA)

 

“He understands down-to-earth Mexican Spanish (I haven’t gotten there yet) ~ as well as the more – shall we say – distinguished Spanish of Spain, Castilian”

Marcus is a very good teacher, and I know he’s been through a lot in order to be able to teach so simply this beautiful language. He understands down-to-earth Mexican Spanish (I haven’t gotten there yet) ~ as well as the more – shall we say – distinguished Spanish of Spain, Castilian

– Vicky Putnam

 

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“The focus is on becoming conversational and it’s a bargain by any standard”

What you’ve done is genius and I appreciate all the work you’ve put in to it. An HR Director of a large business texted me last night. “Hello, Gary, hope you are well. Can you tell me the name of the app that you use to learn Spanish? Take Care.” My response was “Marcus Santamaria’s “Synergy Spanish” then there is a more in-depth course “Bola de Nieve” (the snowball effect) that takes your Spanish to the next level. The focus is on becoming conversational and it’s a bargain by any standard.”

– Gary Russell (Minnesota, USA)

 

“One of my life goals of understanding, speaking and interacting with Spanish is being realized”

What can I say but I’m very thankful for your course Bola De Nieve! I continue to enjoy speaking and learning Spanish. This month marks a year that I have been with the program and I am very thankful. One of my life goals of understanding, speaking and interacting with Spanish is being realized! Thank you again for your course which I have gladly shared with a lot my friends.

– Gregory Allen (USA)

 

“I am getting an A in the class”

The first time I took college Spanish 1 I got a D in the class. I have been using your program to teach myself Spanish for the last 3 years. I retook Spanish 1 and I am getting an A in the class.

– Shawn Case (USA)

 

“Speaking a good amount of Spanish with real confidence”

I have just finished Module 3 for the first time, and I wanted to just write to say that I am really enjoying Bola de Nieve and as a follow on from your other programmes I have bought. I already feel my Spanish expanding greatly. I really like the course content and the way it is structured. I am hoping to move to Costa Rica for a few months this year and I am really looking forward to speaking a good amount of Spanish with real confidence.

– Andy Henry (Great Britain)

 

“I ordered the entire meal in Spanish”

I went through a drive-through fast-food place today and, realizing that the mesera spoke Spanish, . The mesera was thrilled and so was I. I parted with “Que tengas una buena tarde,” and her eyes lit up again. after completing Lesson 7 in Bola de Nieve, I feel I have made more progress than ever after several years of piddling with other courses.

Your course is great and you really know what you are doing and as Steven Covey would say, “you have begun with the end in mind.” And you know how to get your students there.

– Les Jameson (USA)

 

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Bola de Nieve – Advanced Concepts Intensive

 

“I surprised myself by being able to speak a lot without having to stop and think about it”

I’ve just returned from my time in Guatemala. Everyone there was really impressed with how well I can speak and I surprised myself by being able to speak a lot without having to stop and think about it. Practicing with your audio has helped make much of my speech almost automatic.

Thanks, Marcus. I look forward to each month’s lesson. You actually make learning Spanish fun!

– Anndrianna John (Tennessee, USA)

 

“My adventure with a second language has been a life changing experience!”

Marcus, just a quick note to thank you for the continued quallity of your courses.

I have been through just about everything you have published. I first got hooked on your Shortcuts to Spanish, then moved to your Synergy Spanish, Bola de Nieve, and now Bola de Nieve — Advanced. In three year time I went from no Spanish to being able to speak confidently with my Spanish speaking students. (I am an ESL teacher for Latinos).

I teach a computer class in both languages! I get many compliments on my Spanish, thanks to Elena’s excellent examples. Although an Estadounidense (USAmerican) , I am very comfortable in our growing comunidad latina in North Carolina.

For me my adventure with a second language has been a life changing experience! Thank you so much for your great system for learning Spanish. Qué tenga un buen dia!

– Larry Eppley (Charlotte, NC USA)

 

“I can’t say enough great things about Advanced Concepts Intensive”

I can’t say enough great things about Advanced Concepts Intensive The lessons excite me. I learn a great amount from each and every subject. Thank you so very, very much.

Larry Later added these comments

Dear Marcus – I am writing you from Costa Rica where I am vacationing.

My purpose for writing is to send profound thanks to you, Jose Luis, Elena, and your brilliance in the design of your courses which I have been studying over the past almost 3 years.

This morning I was speaking Spanish to one of the Costa Rican citizens and he asked me if I was born here or in Mexico. I asked him why? His reply, “Because your Spanish is so very good.” KUDOS, KUDOS, KUDOS to you and the staff at Synergy Spanish.

There are times when I’m not sure how to say something and I think, “How would Jose Luis say this.”

I have had no problems anywhere with my Spanish. I am complemented frequently regarding its quality and particularly my pronunciation. I am a classical pianist so my ears have been trained over the years to not only hear the nuances of music but also that of the human voice.

Prior to your program I had had 3 college semesters of Spanish and had no facility in the language. I have been using your program almost every day for 1 1/2 to 2 hours for almost 3 years and above is my testimony.

Recuerdos. Nos vemos.

– Larry Tomaw

 

“The course has helped me in Colombia”

John Hynd from Colombia

I am currently doing the Bola de Nieve course, which I must say is an absolutely superb course. I have been living in Colombia for 5 months now and the course has helped me immensely.

– John Hynd (Colombia)

 

“Your lessons have made it possible to survive”

I live in Costa Rica for four months of the year, in a remote area–your lessons have made it possible to survive!!

– Helene Hauser (Costa Rica)

 

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“In a few weeks I shall be 80, but I intend to continue studying Spanish and taking trips to Spain”

In a few weeks I shall be 80, but I intend to continue studying Spanish and taking trips to Spain where I enjoy using the Spanish you have taught me.

– Reg Jackson (UK)

 

“I couldn’t imagine dealing with Spanish friends and businesses by telephone 6 months ago!”

I really cant believe how much this course has helped. I couldn’t imagine dealing with Spanish friends and businesses by telephone 6 months ago! and my neighbours are complimentary, I now berate the men just like their wives! Apparently they feel quite at home…. apart from Carlitos my Spanish son… he was brain damaged in a motorbike accident, his mum says he’s ‘muy triste’ cuando estoy en Inglaterra so I phone him and can feel his smile 3000 miles away!

Thanks

– Chris Hargan (Spain)

 

“Love ’em.”

I am an avid student of your courses. Love ’em.

Thanks

– Michael Mizenko (Pennsylvania, USA)

 

“I spent a glorious week just rambling away in Spanish”

It is absolutely incredible what you have done. I was in Tegucigalpa last month, I spent a glorious week just rambling away in Spanish.

– Fred Califor (Illinois, USA)

 

“A life time dream comes true following your method!”

Your method of teaching is simply great and absolutely works. let me explain why I am so thrilled.

I decided to enroll in a local immersion spanish class (no English) to help perfect my accent and become more fluent. in order for the lead teacher to determine which group (beginner, intermediate or advanced) I should study with she let me sit in a session with the intermediate group.

After one hour in the class there was a small break. The lead instructor approached me and asked how I liked the session. I responded that it was great. She asked me if I thought the class was challenging enough. I said I believed so but the session instructor would be better able to tell you since this is the first formal classroom Spanish class i have ever been in.

You see, I have never had to speak Spanish publicly especially in front of strangers. I only practiced by myself diligently with your lessons. I also listened to Spanish news and telenovelas every week day. The session instructor said I was doing great and perhaps I would benefit more from being in the advanced group.

Now the amazing thing is the advanced group is only for graduate and masters candidate level students.

A life time dream comes true following your method!

– Nate Copeland (USA)

 

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“Once in Mexico I found myself speaking the language. I was so excited I was almost beside myself”

Vicki Tyndall

I recently went to Mexico with some friends. We took the Copper Canyon Train Tour from Chihuahua to El Fuerte and back.

The country side was beautiful, the canyon breathtaking, the food excellent, and the people simply wonderful all along the way.

Up until this recent trip I had not spoken Spanish with anyone at all, just repeating the lessons as laid out.

Once in Mexico I found myself speaking the language. I was so excited I was almost beside myself, and to top it all off on more than one occasion Spanish speakers remarked on my excellent pronunciation as well as my spoken spanish in general. Never once did anybody hesitate before answering me.

Kudos to you and your “Spanish Language Courses” Marcus. I am forever grateful.

– Vicki Tyndall (British Columbia, Canada)

 

“It just keeps getting better & better now that I’m into Advanced Concepts Intensive”

My ability to speak Spanish has dramatically improved after completing Bola de Nieve, and it just keeps getting better & better now that I’m into Advanced Concepts Intensive.

For me, your method has been far more effective than anything else that I’ve tried for developing the ability to have spontaneous conversations in Spanish.

I hope that you experience success with your language instruction business. Your product is truly unique, and you deserve recognition for your contributions to the Spanish-learning community.

– Deborah Fitzgerald (Florida, USA)

 

“My Spanish has improved exponentially”

I have been studying Spanish for 3 years. I purchased many of the popular products you see advertised on radio and tv as well as many of the free and pay resources on the internet. After 2 years I realised I was not any closer to reaching my goal of becoming conversational. That’s when I found your product. My Spanish has improved exponentially and I now have a foundation I can continue to build on. Its like Christmas every time I find a new lesson in my inbox. Thanks!

– Trebor Allen (Oakland, CA)

 

“My progress fuels my enthusiasm”

Vicki Tyndall

I’m having a great time learning and at 69

What I find amazing is that I never get sick of it. I look forward to listening to your program day in and day out and my progress fuels my enthusiasm.

Off to study and it’s 5:30 AM. I’M OBSESSED!

– Collette Deneault (USA)

 

“My Spanish learning had hit a brick wall”

I have just completed the Advanced Concepts Intensive course and cannot believe the improvement in my Spanish. Until I joined Synergy Spanish my Spanish learning had hit a brick wall. The course has been both rewarding and so enjoyable, your teaching method is amazing. I will miss receiving the new instalment each month.

– Barrie Mitchell (UK)

 

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“I can speak very easily with my neighbors and new Mexican friends in Spanish”

He vivido en Mexico desde 2010. Durante los primeros años, trataba varias classes, grupos, y actividades para aprender español. Hice progreso, pero era difícil. Pero con los cursos de Synergy, puedo hablar muy fácilmente con mis vecinos y nuevos amigos mexicanos en español. Después de seis meses, con Bola de Nieve, tuve seguridad y pude defenderme en español.

Gracias

Tom Gray

Nunca puedo entender porqué muchos de los gringos de EU y Canadá, que viven en México por muchos meses cada año, no quieren hablar español. La vida es más rica con más conexiones a otras personas.

TRANSLATION

I have lived in Mexico since 2010. During the early years, I tried various classes, groups, and activities to learn Spanish. I made progress, but it was difficult. But with Synergy courses, I can speak very easily with my neighbors and new Mexican friends in Spanish. After six months, with Bola de Nieve, I was confident and was able to get-by in Spanish.

Thank you

Tom Gray

I can never understand why many of the gringos in the US and Canada, who live in Mexico for many months each year, don’t want to speak Spanish. Life is richer with more connections to other people.

– Tom Gray (USA)

 

“I would never have got started if it wasn’t for your courses”

They are great courses that you do – I would never have got started if it wasn’t for your courses.

– Philip Beck (Norway)

 

“The focus is on becoming conversational and it’s a bargain by any standard”

What you’ve done is genius and I appreciate all the work you’ve put in to it. An HR Director of a large business texted me last night. “Hello, Gary, hope you are well. Can you tell me the name of the app that you use to learn Spanish? Take Care.” My response was “Marcus Santamaria’s “Synergy Spanish” then there is a more in-depth course “Bola de Nieve” (the snowball effect) that takes your Spanish to the next level. The focus is on becoming conversational and it’s a bargain by any standard.”

– Gary Russell (Minnesota, USA)

 

“What you have done is so CLEAR”

I think you are great and tel everyone about Synergy Spanish every chance I see.What you have done is so CLEAR..perfect. I am enjoying like never before.

Thank you Marcus!!!!!!

– Judy Wray (Tepozlan, Mexico)

 

“For the first time, I’m beginning to understand and speak ‘real’ Spanish”

I just wanted to say ‘thank you’ so much for this course. Everything Marcus said about it is true. For the first time, I’m beginning to understand and speak ‘real’ Spanish.

Thanks

– Rosemary Mcbarron

 

“I confidently teach/train golfers in Spanish and they understand me perfectly”

This is just to tell you that I have been ‘following you’ for some time now and am so delighted with the format of your classes: just love the way you teach!

Although I still struggle with the Andaluz dialect I confidently teach/train golfers in Spanish and they understand me perfectly. I ask them, sometimes, to correct me if I say things incorrectly but they never do – not that I speak perfectly but they completely understand me. So a big ‘thank you’ for this.

– Peter Ballingall (Fellow of the PGA GB&I, Cartaya, España)

 

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Spanish Ear Training

 

“The Ear Training is very helpful for the most difficult aspect,
understanding someone talking in Spanish”

Your courses have helped me so much. Each one has built on what I have learned from previous ones and the Ear Training one is very helpful for the most difficult aspect, in my opinion, understanding someone talking in Spanish. Also, the collocations are particularly useful.

Another vital factor is that your courses manage to generate enthusiasm in me and I love learning through them. I think that a large part of teaching is having the ability to generate that enthusiasm from a pupil and I think you have that ability in abundance.

– Brian Murray (UK)

 

“I am now at the stage of understanding documentaries on Spanish TV”

I have tried many courses (classes/books/DVDs/CDs) but for me the Spanish Ear Training Course is unique in its teaching style. It has been great in giving me confidence to converse with my Spanish friends. I am now at the stage of understanding documentaries on Spanish TV.

I have nothing but praise and gratitude to you Marcus in devising what for me is the most successful course around. Your communication is excellent. Always generous in your support. Thanks.

– Julie Bruce (Scotland, UK)

 

“Now I can comprehend a lot of what is said, even on the first hearing
at normal speed”

When I started the Spanish Ear Training course, I didn’t think I would ever understand what was being said. However, after lots of repetition and practice, it slowly started to fall into place. Now I can comprehend a lot of what is said, even on the first hearing at normal speed.

– Jo Madle (UK)

 

“You’ve done a fantastic job of simplifying a lot of grammar I just couldn’t grasp
before hearing you explain it”

Your courses have helped my understanding of how the language is actually used and helped me understand phrases and grammatical structures that would otherwise escape me. And you’ve done a fantastic job of simplifying a lot of grammar I just couldn’t grasp before hearing you explain it.

– Rodney Prince (Florida, USA)

 

“I have lost all nervousness when speaking with someone Spanish”

You are my hero! You make learning Spanish so enjoyable. I have lost all nervousness when speaking with someone Spanish -even tho’ I make mistakes. They don’t bite my head off – they correct me! And my Spanish pen-pal says my Spanish is improving all the time. Gracias!

– Adrienne Ferguson (UK)

 

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“I now receive the words in Spanish, rather than trying to translate into English”

Spanish Ear Training is teaching me how to listen to rapid Spanish – I now receive the words in Spanish, rather than trying to translate into English. I can’t tell you how pleased I am about that – it seems such a big step.

– Aileen Jayes (Spain)

 

“Your course has been great for giving me lots of extra information which I constantly find myself using in conversation with people here”

I moved to Spain 2 years ago. I have been having lessons with a local teacher and am learning a lot.

However, your course has been great for giving me lots of extra information which I constantly find myself using in conversation with people here.

– Alison Tuohey (Spain)

 

“Have found a system that works for me”

Have found a system that works for me. I find your way of teaching gets me talking and that’s what I want to achieve.

– Sharon Jackson (UK)

 

“I love Spanish Ear Training”

I love Spanish Ear Training. It has helped my comprehension.

– Terry Vann (Maryland, USA)

 

“My Spanish speaking friends tell me I speak Spanish very well”

I use Spanish Ear Training frequently. I like the Collocations because they are “how they speak” and not just what you get from a dictionary. For example, to say “I realize” as “Me doy cuenta” – when I use a phrase like that, my Spanish speaking friends tell me I speak Spanish very well.

– Debra Matovich (Texas, USA)

 

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“It has really helped me to think in Spanish”

This course has been so helpful for me! It has really helped me to think in Spanish more, and also has helped my pronunciation.

– Michelle Coe (New York, USA)

 

“It’s fun to understand folks speaking Spanish”

I am a high school teacher in Connecticut. Our Spanish speaking population is growing and I use what I’ve learned for your courses to speak with students and parents.

It’s also fun to understand folks speaking Spanish when I’m in Hartford, the largest city in our area, or at the mall. As always – many thanks!

– Ray Campbell (Connecticut, USA)

 

“Your classes make sense of things that before were just rules”

Spanish Ear Training helps me with thinking and speaking like a hispanohablante. The lessons are like a friend that I carry along in my iPod. I have taken other classes and I find that your classes make sense of things that before were just rules.

– John Merk (Texas, USA)

 

“I was able to write for the first time with confidence”

I just wrote a letter to a friend of mine in Chaipas, Mexico I was able to write for the first time with confidence.

– Vicki Tyndall (Canada)

 

“I have taken a lot of Spanish classes, and this was the best”

I have taken a lot of Spanish classes, and this was the best. I learned more in these lessons than any other I’ve taken.

– William Dale (Washington, USA)

 

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“I could understand everything without any problem”

My teacher the other day give me a test and she was very surprised that I knew the answers, because she said it was hard.

She made me listen to a cd and I could understand everything without any problem. She said that all the other students complained that the Spanish was too fast.

– Pauline Dechamplain (Ontario, Canada)

 

“Everyone tells me that my Spanish has improved enormously”

I think this is the best program that I have used. Everyone tells me that my Spanish has improved enormously. Thank you for a great program.

– Shirley Foley (Massachusetts, USA)

 

“I am at last becoming a Spanish speaker”

Thank you so much for your absolutely brilliant series, Spanish Ear Training. It is so simple and a tribute to your excellent mind. I really feel that I am at last becoming a Spanish speaker, which is my greatest wish.

– Victor Young (UK)

 

“It has changed my life”

It honors me to tell you that I have become quite fluent in Spanish. And oh how it has changed my life. Its one of the best things I have ever done with my life so far, and I owe it all to you.

I respect you and commend you highly for all that you do. I consider it a blessing that I was able to be one of your students.

In a few weeks I will be departing on a two year mission for my church. I am going to be a missionary in Ecuador! I am grateful and feel so blessed that my extensive knowledge of the language will serve as a huge help and advantage for me while I am there.

I know that I have never met you in person, but I am honored to say that you are someone who has been a wonderful help and influence in my life.

Gracias por todo lo que hace. Usted tiene regalo maravilloso de Dios. Le deseo lo mejor con todo. Hasta la proxima vez

– Joseph Nelson (Arizona, USA)

 

“My understanding skills have improved even in my first month”

I do really love your program. I have studied Spanish and live in Iquitos, Peru but always the listening and talking just didn’t happen.

I am so thankful that I signed up for your Spanish Ear training course, my understanding skills have improved even in my first month. Thank you.

– Georgina Barboutis (Peru)

 

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“Your program gave me the confidence to record a puppet show for our Vacation Bible School mission team to take to Peru”

Spanish Ear Training was a HUGE help to me in every area – in fact, I would credit your program with giving me the confidence to record a puppet show for our Vacation Bible School mission team to take to Peru with them two summers ago. (It was a huge hit, by the way! :))

– Michelle Coe

 

“I’m learning in leaps and bounds with your style”

While in Mexico, I take weekly Conversation Spanish classes but there is not much conversation. In comparison, I’m learning in leaps and bounds with your style.

– Heather Leonard (Ontario Canada)

 

“Its the best money I’ve spent by far on learning Spanish”

Your Spanish Ear Training Course course is perfect and I must say its the best money I’ve spent by far on learning Spanish.

– William Sydnor (Florida, USA)

 

“Tu e-mail en español está muy muy bien, como una auténtica nativa!”

“I love your courses. My neighbour in Spain said last year how much my Spanish had improved.”

I also chat on Skype to practice speaking in Spanish with people who are learning English – I often send emails to arrange chats with my friends. I write in Spanish and ask them to correct it.

A recent email from Silvia from Madrid said: “Tu e-mail en español está muy muy bien, como una auténtica nativa!” (Your email in Spanish is very good, like an authentic native speaker). I put that all down to you teaching us word order and expressions that are actually used by Spanish speakers.

She also said recently when we were chatting that I had used quite a difficult and advanced expression that to me seemed quite an easy and obvious way to say something – again down to the way you teach us how to use authentic expressions.

– Eileen Trotter (Spain)

 

“Now I can talk and laugh with my Spanish friends”

Your Ear Training course has helped me so much that now I can talk and laugh with my Spanish friends that I meet at the gym or when shopping or at the school.

– Kirk Jorgensen (Utah, USA)

 

“Your courses have changed everything for me”

I went to Costa Rica and lived there for 6 months studying Spanish with a Spanish family. But I wasn’t getting it. I wanted to learn Spanish but I wasn’t fluent when I came back.

Your courses have changed everything for me. I now read “La Nacion” Costa Rica’s newspaper online almost every day. I watch “Premier Impacto” two or three times a week.

I’m getting much better at understanding the spoken language too. Anyway, to make a long story short, I’m getting it!

– Greg Gurnet (Washington, USA)

 

“Have spoken more in the last few days than I had in the previous two months”

I am thoroughly enjoying your course and have spoken more in the last few days than I had in the previous two months.
Thank you so much — absolutely loving the course and I’m making great strides.

– Lindsay Bullied (Mexico)

 

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Synergy Spanish

 

“Now, I can speak with my five new children. Thanks for helping us!”

Thank you so much for creating this program. My husband and I are adopting five children from Guatemala and really needed a quick way to learn Spanish. Your lessons have been a godsend! Other programs we have tried just haven’t clicked. Your method runs circles around all the others we have attempted!

Thanks again.

Ahora, puedo hablar con mi cinco nuevos ninos! Gracias por ayudarnos! (now, I can speak with my five new children. Thanks for helping us!)

– Renee and Scott Dean (Georgia, USA)

 

“Your Synergy Spanish class is the absolute best that I have EVER seen”

Your Synergy Spanish class is the absolute best that I have EVER seen to get someone up and SPEAKING Spanish quickly and more importantly efficiently. I teach now utilizing your course as the background of the course.

I have studied languages for years and I am truly and honestly impressed with the excellent method that you have devised. You’ve got a winner there. Keep on doing what you’re doing.

– Dennis Richards (Culture Cafe, USA)

 

“Our experience was due in large part to being able to communicate in Spanish”

My wife and I belong to Friendship Force International, which is an organization that sponsors home hosting. Late last year our club arranged to visit two clubs in Chiapas, Mexico (Tuxtla-Gutierrez and Comitan).

I thought that since Chiapas is so far south and off the tourist paths that I would enjoy the experience more if I knew a little Spanish when we stayed in our host’s homes. I went to the Internet and searched for courses. Yours caught my eye and I ordered your Synergy Spanish with the 14 Cd’s. I started my studies right after the first of the year, and we left for Chiapas March 12th.

!!Muchisimas Gracias!! I was able to communicate with our first family that spoke very little English. The Chiapas area is wonderful!! The people are great, the food was delicious, the drinks flowed freely, the music and dancing went on as long as you could stand. Those two weeks were the best vacation I can remember taking!

I could go on for several pages about our experience but it was due in large part to being able to communicate in Spanish. I am 69 years old, and if I can do it, anyone should be able to experience the thrill of speaking another language.

I particularly want to thank Elena for her work on the Cd’s. Her slow pace and clear pronuciation of every word made learning that much more achievable.

Keep up the good work and I will be ordering new courses as they become available.

– Bill Worthley (Fort Worth, TX)

 

“If it hadn’t been for your course I probably wouldn´t have been able
to meet my future wife”

First of all I want to say thank you for creating Synergy Spanish. It has been a tremendous learning experience for me. You make the whole thing so easy.

I am getting married next week to the love of my life. My fiancée is Mexican and doesn’t speak English. If it hadn’t been for your course giving me the ability to understand and speak conversational Spanish fast, I probably would not have been able to meet my future wife.

– Kyle Crawford (San Felipe Marina Resort, Mexico)

 

“It’s made an enormous difference in my ability to communicate
to the parents of my students”

Dear Sr. Santamaria, I am just on the third CD of Synergy Spanish, but it’s made an enormous difference in my ability to communicate to the parents of my students, many of whom don’t speak English. Your teaching methods are extraordinarily effective, and I’ve tried many of them.

– Jamie Roberts (Philadelphia, PA)

 

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“I can now communicate with the Spanish folk in the town in Orihuela Costa”

I have over the last 3 years attended 3 night school classes to learn this beautiful language. After which I still couldn’t string a sentence together. I am amazed at how simple you have made this and I can now communicate with the Spanish folk in the town in Orihuela Costa where I am planning to spend my retirement.

– Jan Woodhouse (Middlesex, UK)

 

“It is making a big difference to our confidence in talking to people
in our adopted country”

I have been very pleased with the progress I’ve made using Synergy Spanish. We are English ex-pats who moved to Spain, and have been trying to learn the language, seriously, for 4 years. However, in our 60’s learning a new language has been daunting. But we are making real progress now, thanks to your course.

Thanks for Synergy Spanish which really is making a big difference to our confidence in talking to people in our adopted country.

– Steve and Mair Harper (Spain)

 

“My Mexican friends are more than impressed with my progress
in a little over a month!”

Synergy Spanish was absolutely excellent. It was easy to follow and the learning just flowed naturally. My Mexican friends are more than impressed with my progress in a little over a month!

– Neil Ellson (USA)

 

“It is so easy to practice and learn Spanish”

In a few words, Synergy Spanish is excellent. I like very much the CDs of this program because it is so easy to practice and learn Spanish.

– Edmund R. Donoghue (Chicago, Illinois)

 

“You concentrate on the basics of effectively communicating”

Hello Marcus, I wanted to let you know I am enjoying your course. It is exactly what I was looking for to put things together for me. You concentrate on the basics of effectively communicating, the audio is the kind of practice I wanted to find.

– Marcia Dietrich

 

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“I spoke Spanish for the 5 days in Columbia and was interviewed
for the TV and the newspaper totally in Spanish”

You will be pleased to know on a Medical mission to Armenia, Columbia I spoke Spanish for the 5 days in there and was interviewed for the TV and the newspaper totally in Spanish.

– Donna Fox PhD (Texas, USA)

 

“These lessons have been very helpful for me”

I am glad that I came across these lessons. It has been very helpful for me. I am using them in conjunction with a private tutor. Invaluable.

– Pam Klein (Joshua, TX, USA)

 

“Your Program is probably the only reason that
I have stuck with my Spanish”

Your program is by far the best! It’s probably the only reason that I have stuck with my Spanish. You got me out of memorizing words, and not being able to say anything, to actually constructing sentences, and being able to say something.

– Catherine Watt (Florida, USA)

 

“Thanks for a great course”

I am enjoying Synergy Spanish. Thanks for a great course.

– Joan Peters

 

“Your courses are trully are the best learning aids out there”

Thank you so much for all that you’ve giving me with your courses! They trully are the best learning aids out there!

– Sammy Baldwin (South Carolina)

 

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“Such a good way to build a foundation for learning the Spanish language”

Thanks so much for providing such a good way to build a foundation for learning the Spanish language.

– Mary Dailey

 

“I learned a lot of Spanish from your course; more than all my past classes”

Me gustaria decir gracias por escribir el curso, “SynergySpanish”. Aprendí mucho Español desde su curso; mas que todas mis clases pasadas. Otra vez, muchas gracias y saludos!

I would like to say thanks for writing the course “Synergy Spanish” I learned a lot of Spanish from your course; more than all my past classes.

– Craig Dow

 

“Your way of teaching is so different, and I never knew it was so easy!”

I’m at synergyspanish lesson 16 now, and already I understand so much more! I have lots of other audiocourses, schoolbooks, PC-programs etc, but after 1 1/2 year of studying I still didn’t understand much. I could say a lot of sentences, but nothing I really could use in conversation. And I was not able to make sentences of my own.

But now I can! Your way of teaching is so different, and I never knew it was so easy! So thank you!

Next month I’m going to Barcelona to practice what you have taught me.

– Torunn B. Hansen (Norway)

 

“I now find it much easier to communicate with my neighbours
in Majorca, Spain”

I live in Majorca and have neighbors who speak no English. After four years of trying and barely succeeding, I now find it much easier to communicate with them and feel far more confident.

– Rosemary Bull (Majorca, Spain)

 

“The learning almost seems to happen as if by magic”

I just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying your Synergy Spanish course…you have a real gift for making it easy to learn to speak a foreign language. I love the way your course is structured…as you described, the learning almost seems to happen as if by magic.

Great instructional design on your part (that’s part of what I do for a living–courseware design–so I know effective training when I see it!)!

– Carole Pivarnik (Castleton, Virgina, USA)

 

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“I have tried other courses but your method is by far the most effective”

I have tried other courses but your method is by far the most effective. I have enjoyed especially your CD’s, they are exceptional.

– Joe Heneghan (Ireland)

 

“A few weeks ago my knowledge of Spanish was zero and now
I am confident enough to speak the language”

I am virtually at the end of your wonderful “Synergy Spanish” programme and in less than the 25 days have acquired a remarkable level of competence in basic Spanish. In fact a few weeks ago my knowledge of Spanish proper was zero and now I am confident enough to speak and read the language.

Your whole approach to learning in your “Synergy Spanish” programme exemplifies par excellence what is at the very cutting edge of successful teaching and learning.

Marcus, you really are on to something very important and exciting with your “Synergy Spanish” system and already I have recommended it to various friends. Best Wishes.

– Dr. Michael Patrick Collins (United Kingdom)

 

“I have learned more in a few weeks than in the previous 12 months”

Synergy Spanish is fantastic. The audio and test are first class. I have learned more in a few weeks than in the previous 12 months.

– Bryan Dobson (United kingdom)

 

“I never imagined myself picking up Spanish at such a rapid rate!”

Your course is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I never imagined myself picking up Spanish at such a rapid rate! Thank you.

– Eamon McColgan (Sharon, Ma, USA)

 

“I have been trying to learn Spanish for about five years, I have learned
more in the last month than all that time”

First of all, I want to thank you for the excellence of your Spanish teaching method.

I have been trying to learn Spanish off and on for about five years, but I have to admit I have learned more in the last month than all that time.

– Denzil bell (Lockerbie, Scotland)

 

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“It’s a fantastically effective way to learn”

I have been successfully learning Spanish with your courses. I am now finishing the synergy course – all is great, it’s a fantastically effective way to learn. Keep up the good work. Saludos.

– Dave Buckingham (UK)

 

“Your approach is the best approach to learning the language”

I really do think your approach is the best approach to learning the language. It is a very logical approach.

– Brian Kenna (Oregan USA)

 

“This is bringing what I have learned to life”

I have been in a Spanish class for 32 weeks, and this is bringing what I have learned to life. The Synergy Spanish is working great, it is coming fast now.

I tell people that this man has got it together, he has figured it out. Here is a picture from the Dominican Republic.

– Tim Dortch

 

“My fiancée has noticed a big difference in my ability to communicate”

I really like how you get down to business right away and teach stuff I can use from day one, instead of gato, perro, etc…its really good if you need to learn asap.

Later, David wrote to me again, after finishing the course

I’m almost finished with course. I’m putting sentences together now more than ever. My fiancée has noticed a big difference in my ability to communicate. This is great!

– David Beals (Colorado, USA)

 

“1.5 weeks to significant communication”

I think Synergy Spanish is hot, hot, hot!

Synergy Spanish is truly amazing, in 1.5 weeks of intensive study my colleagues have noticed significant social intercourse.

To me the creators of Synergy Spanish are utterly genius, bravo to everyone involved. Awesome job.

– Matt Razo (USA)

 

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“Especially easy to actually say a lot”

I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to create such an easy method. I find your method very easy to follow and especially easy to actually say a lot.

– Erika Lloyd (Australia)

 

“Extremely fast learning”

I am zooming along with your course. This is fantastic and is so amazingly efficient and fun that I look forward to doing the lessons each day. THANKS so much for putting this all together. I am amazed at how you have figured out how to teach so well and make it all so enjoyable. In short, the more I do your program, the more I love it and I am learning EXTREMELY rapidly. Your program is, without a doubt, the best “cost value” that exists for learning Spanish. Thank you not only for creating it, but for allowing people to get it at such a reasonable cost.

– Dave Barbara (USA)

 

“Your course is really enhancing my ability to communicate”

I wanted a course that I could use in my car to help me maintain the Spanish I have already learned. Your course has done much more than that. You teach from a different perspective. Consequently, your course is really enhancing my ability to communicate with the Spanish I already know. Also, I’m learning some new words and techniques as well. In short, you course is helping me ‘Synergize’ what I already know. Thanks.

– Mark Trippe (Georgia, USA)

 

“This is a great course”

Thanks, this is a great course. I am a professional pilot for a major airline. I fly often to Mexico and South America. The course is providing me with useful Spanish.

– Dave Illig (Texas, USA)

 

“I am very much enjoying learning Spanish with your courses”

Good morning Marcus, I am very much enjoying learning Spanish with your courses. I completed the Shortcut to Spanish course and thought it was wonderful.

Before this I knew a few words and phrases but when I tried to put them together it was not going too well. By the time I finished Shortcut to Spanish I was making sentences up in my head to translate into Spanish while walking to the bus to go to work.

I have since bought Synergy Spanish and I’m really “cooking” now. I’m almost finished the end of part 2 and thoroughly enjoying the experience.

I am travelling to Costa Rica at the end of this month and hopefully will be able to put my Spanish to good use.

Thank you for all your efforts in producing these programs.

– Robin Brown (Ontario, Canada)

 

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“Just finished your course and loved it”

We have just finished your course and loved it! Thanks so much!

– Gerald Rice (Georgia USA)

 

“I can’t imagine learning as much so fast with any other program”

I have just completed your Synergy Spanish course and am thrilled. I can’t imagine learning as much so fast with any other program. It perfectly matched my learning style. I’m going to Mexico next week and will be able to put what I’ve learned to good use right away.

Judith later wrote:

I just returned from Mexico and am sending you a picture taken on my trip. I was amazed at the amount of Spanish I was able to speak, even having several get-acquainted “chats” with people.

– Judith Bond (USA)

 

“I am learning to say actual sentences”

I took several courses of Spanish in college several years ago and could hardly speak at all and with your course, I am learning to say actual sentences.

– Jacqulyn Nelson (Washington, USA)

 

“I don’t even notice the traffic in Los Angeles while driving home”

I have never seen anyone more interested in helping people to speak a foreign language than making the dollar.

I love the program; I am progressing well through the program now and can not wait to listen to the CD on the way home. I don’t even notice the traffic in Los Angeles while driving home.

– Curt D. Johnson (USA)

 

“I would never have believed it was possible”

It’s magic. I cannot believe how well I am reading Spanish as well as translating English to Spanish. I would never have believed it was possible.

I have reviewed Rocket Spanish, Learn Spanish Like Crazy, Pimsleur and I didn’t feel the emphasis on audio was the best method of teaching people who are visual learners.

I am so excited about this course. We are going to Peru for two weeks in November of this year. I am looking forward to speaking to the people I meet in their language.

Thank you again for producing a course that really works.

– Jeff Shifman (Ohio, USA)

 

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“It’s BRILLIANT!”

It’s BRILLIANT! The combination of audio and written materials is perfect and the whole Synergy/Brick verb structure has really helped me to get to grips in record time.

I’ve found it such a pleasure to use. I feel I’m making huge progress already :-).

– Paul Smithson (UK)

 

“This surely must be the best!!!”

I am doing your course and it is exellent !! This surely must be the best!!!

– Dr. Nic Burger (South Africa)

 

“I am wowing my friends”

I love the program and I am wowing my friends.

– Jimmy Edwards (Washington, USA)

 

“Its incredible, I am absolutely delighted that I found the course”

This truely has to be the most exciting thing I have yet experienced, I must confess though that I have not been able to fully apply myself, as I am working and at Ulpan learning Hebrew at the same time, I also teach english on weekends, so I have very little spare time..However in the 3 hours that i have applied myself, I learned more spanish than 1 month of hebrew at ulpan…

Its incredible, I am absolutely delighted that I found the course.

– Kate

 

“Synergy Spanish allowed me to communicate with her very quickly”

I really enjoy your lessons. When I met my Mexican girlfriend, I spoke no Spanish and she spoke no English. Synergy Spanish allowed me to communicate with her very quickly. Thanks again for a great learning tool.

– Charlie Wood (USA)

 

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“Your course and process is fabulous and in my mind you are a genius”

WOW WOW WOW It is exactly what I needed. It is exactly what I hoped it was going to be. BRAVO

I have just started your course and I am thrilled with it, absolutely thrilled. I am writing from work. My business takes me around the world.

I have needed Dutch, Russian, and now I cringed at the thought of Spanish as well. Your course and process is fabulous and in my mind you are a genius. My boss studied 9 languages and started the Swedish course at Harvard and I got him mesmerized with your course.

– Nancy Turcotte (Massachusetts, USA)

 

“The easiest program to actually learn conversational Spanish that we can utilize”

My wife and I have deeply enjoyed “Shortcut to Spanish”. Out of the four Spanish language systems that we have purchased yours is the easiest and most complete program to actually learn conversational Spanish that we can utilize.

– Howard Bushnell (Louisiana, USA)

 

“I am a lot more confident now that I can communicate
with the Argentinean Staff”

G’day Mate ! and Hola from Melbourne ,Australia.

I just want to let you know that I am truly enjoying learning to speak Spanish thru Synergy Spanish. I have been attending my Spanish Class for the last three months but I found that I it doesn’t sink into my head fast enough. Thank God that I decided to surf the Internet a few weeks ago to find some ways to learn Spanish and came across to your website.

– Nene Abajero (Noble Park North Victoria, Australia)

 

“I have never been very good at languages, but I have breezed
through this course”

Well done, I am not usually given to writing letters of praise but on this occasion I feel I have to. I have never been very good at languages, but I have breezed through this course (and enjoyed doing it) in two weeks and now I cant wait to practice during my vacation in The Dominican Republic. Best Regards.

– Terry Bromley (United Kingdom)

 

“Your courses are challenging at times, but never out of reach,
and never boring!”

I love your work! Your courses are perfect for the way I like to learn. The audios and workbooks complement each other well. Your courses are challenging at times, but never out of reach, and never boring! I get a real sense of satisfaction the second time I listen to a lesson and find myself quite able to do it!

Steve later added….

“You course helps me at home and at work”

I have four children, and they all are taking Spanish in school. It’s nice for me to be learning something that I can share with them — something we are all in together. But your course is the difference between learning academic Spanish and actually using it. My oldest daughter took four years of high school Spanish and earned A grades, but she and her friends can’t communicate verbally as well as I can after a month or two with your audios and workbooks. At work, I manage literacy outreach programs here in Indiana. We have a growing Spanish-speaking population, so most of our outreach is bilingual. I feel like I can relate more to folks who are confronting a new language, which improves my work and will give me added credibility in my career.

– Steve Cebalt (Fort Wayne, Indiana)

 

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“For ten years I have struggled to learn the language. In the last 2 weeks I have
learnt more from this (and faster, and easier) than I have in the last 10 years!”

The Synergy Course is helping me more than anything else I have tried. For ten years I have struggled to learn the language. In the last 2 weeks I have learnt more from this (and faster, and easier) than I have in the last 10 years!

Thanks again for your help, it’s worth every cent! Saludos”

– Nigel Crooks (UK)

 

“If people only realized what a sense of accomplishment I felt
the whole world would sign up for your courses!”

Two of my friend will be subscribing any day now…. Both of them are soooo impressed with the way I’m conversing in Spanish that they pestered me until I fessed up that we’re studying with you.”

SUNNY LATER ADDDED

“Last Sunday we took a little Mexican girl (and her parents) to a water park to celebrate her graduation from kindergarten. In the 3 years we’ve known this family, I have always dreaded spending time with them due to not being able to converse with them.

Eureka!!!!

I doubt that I missed more than a couple of words and was able to make myself understood with only a few hesitations. If people only realized what a sense of accomplishment I felt the whole world would sign up for your courses! And, the best part of it is, I had only completed lesson 17 of Synergy. At this rate, I’m sure I’ll be yapping with the best of them by the time I’ve completed your program. You’re the BEST!!!”

– Sunny Bowes (Mexico)

 

“It’s helped me to speak with my Spanish girlfriend much more easily”

I’m very happy with the Synergy Spanish course, it’s helped me to speak with my Spanish girlfriend much more easily. She’s so surprised with my rapid progress.

– Peter Ashmore (Ireland)

 

“Comfortable & relaxed conversations with my Canarian friends,
even though I have reached the age of 81”

There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind your approach to teaching the Spanish language is way ahead of the three courses I have taken in the past, the result being a comfortable & relaxed conversation pattern with my Canarian friends no problem even though I have reached the age of 81, keep up the good work.

– Harry Bracewell (Canary Islands)

 

“I am going to be sorry when I blast through this course and the party is over”

I travel in Mexico frequently and am going to Cuba for a month this December. I appreciate your course and things I struggled with doing university Spanish by correspondence (brutal!) are coming easier.

I have tried soooo many courses and for the most part they are bloody awful. I am going to be sorry when I blast through this course and the party is over.

Thanks for providing an excellent practical beginner course… Muchas gracias profesor.

– Marjorie Greaves (Campbell River, BC Canada)

 

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“My co-workers can notice the progress I’ve made already”

I am writing this e-mail to tell you that I love your course, and my co-workers can notice the progress I’ve made already. Thanks.

– Victoria Osborne (Washington, USA)

 

“Your way of teaching verbs is so good, as I can now make sentences”

I have been going to Spain for three months every year for about 20 years, last year, an emergency came up, and I couldn’t deal with it at all, so I decided to try and learn some Spanish, not before time , as I am 78.

I am most impressed with your system of teaching, your way of teaching verbs is so good, (as I can now make sentences). Your very enthusiastic pupil.

– Jane Noble (UK)

 

“Your method of teaching is fantastic”

Your course is with no doubt the best I have seen. Your method of teaching is fantastic.

– Rami Oved (New Zealand)

 

“I am now moving past the fear that stopped me from speaking Spanish before!”

First, let me say that your Synergy Spanish course has been amazing for me! I am the son of a Cuban father and an American mother, but was raised in an environment where I never used Spanish. Consequently, I lost all my speaking abilities early on and was always too shy and self-conscious to practice speaking when I had the opportunity.

I am now in a relationship with a woman with limited English capabilities, and with this inspiration, and your course, I am now moving past the fear that stopped me from speaking Spanish before and finally having real conversations! Thank you!!!

– Michael Rodriguez (Florida)

 

“My effort was recognised and when I returned I noticed
how my bill was cheaper!”

I would like to thank you for creating such a great course.

I signed up just 2 weeks before I was due to holiday alone in San Pedro de Alcantara. I took great delight in going into a Spanish bar/restaraunt and ordering in Spanish. I had been there a few weeks before and they were surly buggers. But this time it was different. I was actually smiled at and chatted to and helped a little with my Spanish.

My effort was recognised and when I returned I noticed how my bill was cheaper.

– Anita Mikolaites (UK)

 

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“Oh my Gawwwwwwwwwwd!! How you have made the Spanish language
so simple is beyond me!!!”

Oh my Gawwwwwwwwwwd!! How you have made the Spanish language so simple is beyond me!!! You have achieved what no-one else seems to be capable of achieving!!!

– Catherine Cunningham (Ireland)

 

“It really is amazing! You have encapsulated the Spanish language
in a very easy to assimilate series of lessons”

I bought your course online and I have found it to be quite brilliant in it’s concept and I am quickly learning not to sound like such a “gringo” to my Colombian girl friend.

It really is amazing! You have encapsulated the Spanish language in a very easy to assimilate series of lessons that should be taught to people that don’t have a lot of time and need to have a working command of the language! Thanks again for making such a wonderful course!!!

– Michael Roskoski (Florida, USA)

 

“I have learned more from your programs than all the different programs
I’ve bought including all three Pimsleur programs”

I have learned more from your two programs than I did from all the different programs I’ve bought over the years including all three Pimsleur programs.

– Jerroll Fry (Texas USA)

 

“After living in Tenerife for 3 years I was beginning to despair”

After living in Tenerife for 3 years and trying many different teachers and classes I was beginning to despair of ever finding a way to learn the language properly. Since receiving Synergy Spanish last week my ability to converse with my neighbours has almost doubled over night…..they are as overjoyed as I am.

Your course really is the easiest way I have found to make sense of all the Spanish I knew but didn’t know how to put together. Many many thanks from Los Abrigos.

– Venita Ball (Tenerife, Spain)

 

“I thoughly enjoyed every minute of it”

I’ve just finished your course and I thoughly enjoyed every minute of it.

– Nick Carter (United Kingdom)

 

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“It proves that even this “senior citizen” can learn Spanish”

Excellent course–well worth the modest price! It proves that even this “senior citizen” can learn Spanish. Your course is well-thought-out, student-friendly, and it offered everything your advertisement stated! Me encanta!

– John Weismiller (Arizona, USA)

 

“I am 71 years old it has boosted my memory ability greatly,
both for learning Spanish and for everyday living”

Your approach is truly wonderful. I am 71 years old & thought my memory was starting to go. Your approach has boosted my memory ability greatly, both for learning Spanish and for everyday living.

– Bob Eisenberg (Arcadia, CA)

 

“Before I took your course I would not have dared to approach a Spanish speaker for a date”

Since my last testimonial to you I now have a Mexican girlfriend. Without Synergy Spanish, this would not have been possible.

Before I took your course I would not have dared to approach a Spanish speaker for a date, but the course helped me to speak Spanish with confidence. Thanks again.

– Neil Ellson (Texas, USA)

 

“We would do nada más que estudiar espanol if we didn’t have
anything else to do but duty calls even when retired!!!”

My husband just retired from 43 years of teaching high school in May and we decided to learn Spanish and have been studying your course for the past 6 weeks. We are just finishing leccion once (11) and are amazed how much we have learned already.

We are really enjoying taking your course together. We would do nada más que estudiar espanol if we didn’t have anything else to do but duty calls even when retired!!!

– Clair Weismiller (Tucson, AZ)

 

“Our daughter is a Spanish Education major, studying abroad in Seville.
We plan to visit her and ASTOUND her with our Spanish!”

I just had to write and tell you how very much we are enjoying our course. Our daughter is a Spanish Education major, studying abroad in Seville. We plan to visit her on November 21st. We will have completed your course by then and plan to ASTOUND her with our Spanish!

I have some Spanish knowledge but my husband is a beginner. He loves the cds and keeps them in his truck, listening and practicing to and from work.

Thanks so much for “skipping the conjugations” and getting to the “real Spanish”. Wishing you much success with your course

NELSON AND VICKY LATER ADDED

It was a wonderful, wonderful trip and your course helped us immensely. A note from our daughter:

Que sorpresa cuando mis padres vinieron a vistarme y hablaban espanol tan bien! Gracias por darse la oportunidad a hablar conmigo y mis companeros en Sevilla. Era una sorpresa y es una memoria preciosa.

TRANSLATION:

What a surprise when my parents came to visit me and they Spike Spanish so well! Thanks for giving them the opportunity to speak with me and my pals in Sevilla. It was a surprise and it is a lovely memory. Con carino.

– Lydia Wayne (Sevilla, España)

 

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“I have tried everything and no success, but with your course it’s wonderful”

I am 65 and living in Panama, I have tried everything and no success, but with your course it’s wonderful. Thanks and regards.

– Ramesh Bhojwani (Trustee University of Santa Cruz CA. Panama)

 

“I have spent hundreds of dollars on books, and audio lessons
Synergy was the best”

I purchased the Synergy Spanish and I absolutely loved it.

I have spent hundreds of dollars on books, and audio lessons. I took a Spanish class last semester of college and pd $820.00 for the class and didn’t learn anything from it. Synergy was the best. Thanks.

– Stephanie Mills (West Virginia, USA)

 

“I have recommended your program to many friends and others
as the best way to start learning Spanish”

I am a regular Synergy Spanish user and have recommended your program to many friends and others as the best way to start learning Spanish.

While I have the full Transparent Languages Now program, I seldom use it as I find your system to be much easier and more productive.

– Ken Stark (Canada)

 

“I learned more from this course than I have
from any formal course I have taken”

I just finished your Synergy Spanish course and thought it was great. I learned more from this course than I have from any formal course I have taken.

– Larry Bassett (Washington, USA)

 

“I am over joyed with your method, it is incredible value
and so easy and useful”

I have completed both SynergySpanish & ShortCutToSpanish 1 and have loved them both. I look forward to doing more of your courses. Having spent nearly a year with Rosetta Stone and getting nowhere with it, I am over joyed with your method, it is incredible value and so easy and useful.

– Chris Fry (Washington, USA)

 

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“My men that have worked for me 20 years are very impressed
at my new ability to talk to them”

I want to thank you so much for your program to learn spanish! I have spent 7 months using other methods that have taught me a lot of words, but I could’nt really say anything in Spanish. Now thank’s to you I can!

My men that work for me, after having them work for me 20 years I decided to learn there language, are very impressed at my new ability to talk to them.

– Steve Clark (Texas, USA)

 

“I have owned time share in Spain on the Costa del Sol for about 10 or 11
years, it always embarrased me a little that I only knew a few polite words
in Spanish. I can’t wait until the next time I go there!”

Now on lesson 11, really getting a lot out of your course, it has pulled a lot together that I already knew, and feel a lot more confident than just one week ago. I am even communicating by e-mail to my brother-in-law in Spanish! He is a Spanish teacher living in the Isle of Man (uk). He was totally amazed to receive a letter by me in Spanish (not as amazed as me by writing it!) and forwarded it to his Spanish learning girlfriend to give her inspiration! I passed on your website details so she can check it out herself. I cant believe that Ive been studying your synergy for only 11 days. Gracias!

– Ian Dawson (Liverpool, UK)

 

“True to what your website claims, it wasn’t boring at all.
I really enjoyed learning Spanish”

I’ve been learning Spanish for the last 7 months, but progress was slow. When I took your lessons though, I was able to not only remember but also apply what I had learnt. And true to what your website claims, it wasn’t boring at all. I really enjoyed learning Spanish.

– Shravan Rangarajan (India)

 

“I am usually very critical of language programs”

I am a former ESL teacher and am usually very critical of language programs, but I really like yours. Thanks – I think you are great!

– Anne Dodge (Massachusetts, USA)

 

“I love the Synergy Spanish lessons”

I have just finished the synergy Spanish course and enjoyed it very much.
Me encanta las lecciones de español y me gustaria aprender mucho mas. I love the Synergy Spanish lessons and I would like to learn more. Cheers!

– Terry O’Donoghue (Australia)

 

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“I enjoyed every minute!”

I have finished your wonderful Synergy Spanish and enjoyed every minute! Saludos.

– Dee Baxter (West Sussex, UK)

 

“Easy to understand, and interesting”

I thought your Synergy Spanish course was outstanding. The way you presented the material was not only easy to understand, but it also was interesting and lent itself to solid retention of material.

– Larry Franz (Illinois, USA)

 

“I learned more in a few weeks than I have with any other method”

I enjoyed your course very much. I learned more in a few weeks than I have with any other method. Best regards.

– Gary Caskennette (Canada)

 

“It helped me out this year in Spain”

I am really pleased that you have nearly finished part 2 of Synergy Spanish. Part 1 helped me out this year in Spain. I can`t wait for your new lessons.

– Roger Whitfield (UK)

 

“I think it’s a brilliant way of learning”

I am enjoying the course so far. I think it’s a brilliant way of learning. Gracias, Hasta la vista.

– Natasha Serventy (Australia)

 

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“The Spanish I picked from your course was useful and helpful”

Last Mar. My wife and I spent a month in the Yucatan the Spanish I picked from your course was useful and helpful.

– Wes Myles (Canada)

 

“Your approach is the best I’ve seen for helping them learn some
useful Spanish quickly”

I am recommending your courses to members of a local medical mission team, they visit Honduras each year, (me too), and I think your approach is the best I’ve seen for helping them learn some useful Spanish quickly. Thanks!

– Arnold LeMay (Kentucky, USA)

 

“Your approach is incredibly effective and so encouraging”

I am appreciating your method immensely!

It took me so many years to learn Italian the conventional way and I swore there must be a way to learn to communicate without all the conjugations and vocabulary lists.

Your approach is incredibly effective and so encouraging. Thank you for providing all your works and efforts at such a reasonable price- For anyone who sincerely wants to learn the language your course is a GIFT.

– Jason della Valle (New Jersey, USA)

 

“I am now beginning to initiate conversations and finding that
I really can communicate well”

I am now beginning to initiate conversations at the gym, in the sauna, ordering in restaurants and finding that I really can communicate well. Last night, I could speak Spanish better than the waiter could speak English, so it was really great.

The obvious dedication that you and your wife have put into it. I am humbled really, and wish you all the continued success in your ventures as you really understand the marketing value of providing EXCEPTIONAL value. “Always give the client more than they expect” is a well known, but not well practiced aphorism, but you, dear Marcus have done just that. Bravo!

I heartily recommend your brilliant, innovative style. It really works!

– RB (Las Vegas, Nevada) ~Name withheld by request
but available by email if requested~

 

“I was able to go into the Bank today and converse in Spanish”

I was able to go into the Bank today and converse in Spanish (a little stilted perhaps, but with a lot more confidence than previously).

Many thanks again for such an enjoyable course. I have recommended it to many of our friends.

– Gill Davies (Spain)

 

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“It’s great to be able to see the real Spain, and to be able to
communicate with the locals, shop in small independent shops”

Synergy Spanish has meant that I can now holiday in Spain without thinking in English. I don’t have to worry about having a phrase book to hand, and after several years of learning the language with different providers, it’s Synergy Spanish that has helped me most. And when I want to refresh my memory, it’s there on my computer.

Our daughter has a 7 month placement as a language assistant in Marbella, so we are able to visit her and it’s great to be able to see the real Spain, and to be able to communicate with the locals, shop in small independent shops, without asking her for help!

– Margaret Ratcliff (UK)

 

“I see a huge difference in my interaction in the community here”

You are a language teacher genius!

I’ve been living in Costa Rica for 17 years teaching Suzuki Piano, and I know the most effective way to learn a language is the same way I teach music; but I couldn’t find it in print and sound until your amazing work was introduced to me. I’ve had hundreds of classes, private tutors, books,, books, tapes, and on and on, and I can read, write, translate it very well on paper, and fully communicate in my studio; but much more communication skills are needed to function in all areas of life when living in a Spanish speaking country.

I appreciate your excellent work so much. It has all of the elements to guarantee success, and automatically lays a firm foundation upon which to rapidly build excellent communication and written skills for life. I decided to start at the very beginning no matter how much I learned before, and it is really working! I’ve only had it a few days now, and already I see a huge difference in my interaction in the community here. Phone conversations are much better too. You are a language teacher genius to say the least.

– Carol Wunderle (Costa Rica)
http://www.pianopathway.com/

 

“You have given me more than I ever expected when I bought your lessons.
I am so impressed with the whole package”

Marcus, Marcus, Marcus… you just never stop “GIVING”. You are a very special person who “truly” cares about helping others to learn to speak Spanish. I feel very privileged to have found you in my journey to learn to speak Spanish.

Debbie later added

You have always answered my letters, thank you. You have given me more than I ever expected when I bought your lessons. You have said that you would be available for “coaching” and you have kept your word. I am so impressed with the whole package.

– Debbie James (Canada)

 

“I am in Peru putting into practice your Spanish lessons
– they have made a big difference”

I am in Peru putting into practice your Spanish lessons. Friends of mine took a more traditional Spanish class with a well known local teacher at the same time I took your audio course, my friends now know a lot more grammar than I do but they can’t speak much Spanish, where as I can actually use what I know.

– Ian Higginbottom (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)
Managing Director, SonarData Pty Ltd

 

“I am too excited to sleep!”

I am so excited! Voy a hablar mucho mas en espanol con mis amigos pronto! I am too excited to sleep!

– Viola Harris (South Carolina, USA)

 

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“Your Spanish Course has really helped enrich my travel experiences
here in South America”

I am in South America – Nazca, Peru to be exact and I am delighted that what I have learned has helped me to make myself understood in Spanish.

Last night we stayed in the homes of families living on Amantani Island. It was a wonderful cultural experience enhanced by the fact that I was able to communicate with our host family.

Your Spanish Course has really helped enrich my travel experiences here in South America.

– Marie Buzan (New Zealand)

 

“It leaves out the irrelevant stuff that bogs down the learning process”

I have studied Spanish off and on for years in classes and studying books but never found the retention very good.

I was very happy when I found your web site. Your content, organization and style of teaching is what makes it work – because it focuses on the useful words and phrases for the real world and leaves out the irrelevant stuff that bogs down the learning process.

– Kris Augello (California, USA)

 

“The lessons are presented in such a way that it would be impossible
not to learn the language”

I have spent a lot of money in the past on recordings, vocabulary and verb conjugation books, but I have to say I have learned more in one day using your method. I only wish I’d known about it sooner. The lessons are presented in such a way that it would be impossible not to learn the language.

– John Maxwell (Great Britain)

 

“Synergy Spanish has given me a completely new direction to my life”

For about three years I have been trying to learn to speak Spanish…Church Classes, Spanish in 10 Minutes a Day books, a few quarters at the local Community College, and many hours of “complete frustration”…. BUT Synergy Spanish has given me a completely new direction to my life.

– Jeanette Bridgewater (Charlotte, N. C.)

 

“Synergy Spanish has made a huge difference to how fast I’m picking up Spanish”

Firstly I can honestly say you,re course is by far the most usful I,ve ever done. I’m living in Madrid Spain now and synergy spanish has made a huge difference to how fast I’m picking up the Spanish language.

– Conor Newman (Madrid, Spain)

 

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“I will finally start to think in Spanish!”

I have been trying to learn Spanish for years, I am glad that I ran across you on the Internet, I feel like this is it, I will finally start to think in Spanish! I want to thank you for offering such an innovative course at such a fair price.

– Choen O. Jackson (Illinois, USA)

 

“It is helping me get around Cabo – and especially to talk to the people
that take care of our place”

Your method is great – I am learning much faster than other times I have tried to learn Spanish and it is helping me get around Cabo – and especially to talk to the people that take care of our place.

– Janis Huggins (Colorado USA and Cabo San Lucas Mexico)

 

“Your course is helping me to remember the richness and the beauty of my Hispanic heritage”

I spoke Spanish to the cashier at our local Mexican supermercado. It was great! She knew exactly what I was saying. Now have a first-hand, real-world experience using your method and I know it truly works.

P.S. I am of Mexican-American descent. Your course is helping me to remember the richness and the beauty of my Hispanic heritage.

– Alfredo Ochoa (USA)

 

“Your Spanish program works great”

I’ve been to Mexico twice on Missionary trips… Your Spanish program works great.

– David Franklin (Mississippi, USA)

 

“I am communicating in understandable Spanish”

I absolutely love the Synergy Spanish course that I bought several weeks ago. I am communicating in understandable Spanish……. finally!!!!!!!!…. for the first time in years!!!

– Chuck Pearson (Florida, USA)

 

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“I am 62 years old and didn’t think I would be able to learn a new language,
but it all came so easily”

I just completed the Synergy Course and loved it. I am 62 years old and didn’t think I would be able to learn a new language, but it all came so easily, thanks to you.

I am looking forward to more courses! What a great job you are doing! I have recommended your courses to several people from this area, and will continue to do so.

– Joanne Wickenburg (Arizona, USA)

 

“I always wanted to learn but found it a chore. Now, I am really enjoying
learning spanish for the first time”

I wondered if this course would just be the same as what I have already had but amazingly it has reinforced what was in your other courses as well as making me realise what has not “gone in” (my head) therefore it was excellent.

I always wanted to learn it but always found it a chore rather than a challenge. Now, I am really enjoying learning spanish for the first time.

– Evelyn Cawthorn (UK)

 

“I am 65 years young and I have learned more in a couple of months
from your course than I did in a year with a private teacher”

I am about half way through your Synergy Spanish course and I have been very impressed with the way the course is put together. I am 65 years young and I have learned more in a couple of months from your course than I did in a year with a private teacher.

The amount of material I received is well worth much more than what I paid for it. I cannot believe how many free lessons you give away and how great your support is. Anyone should be able to learn Spanish from your Synergy Spanish course.

You have put a lot of effort into this program and it really shows. Keep up the good work.

– Jim Rollins (Texas, USA)

 

“Your action guide is big enough for you to see the words without having
to use a hand-held magnifying glass”

I love your Synergy Spanish Level 1 course. I am particularly impressed with how you prepare us to speak in the action guide with the “pronunciations” on the right-hand side of the page. Another thing! About your workbook. It’s generous. It’s not some 6X9 inch (almost credit card size) book. It’s big enough for you to see the words without having to use a hand-held magnifying glass but not so big you can’t carry it with you, as I carry mine to work and study on my lunch hour. Gracias.

– Penny Covington (Michigan, USA)

 

“I really believe that if I had not found you I might well have abandoned
the whole project of learning to speak Spanish”

Last summer my son, who lives in Mexico, married his sweetheart who is Mexican. Although she speaks excellent English I decided, in that moment, to learn to speak Spanish beyond the ‘Hello, where is the bathroom level?’

I looked around, even took a summer series of classes – but eventually found you on the Internet. Since then I have been working my way through your lessons, listening to each as many times as I need to before moving on to the next. I even took a break and then picked you up again without losing anything that I could detect – I merely backed-up a few lessons to get warmed up.

I just returned home from 8 days visiting with my son and daughter-in-law in Mexico. I thought it would be fun to create an ‘immersion course’ for myself and, therefore, spent a total of 10 hours with a private tutor – it was both fun and useful – but only because I had done all the work with your material!!

My teacher found me fascinating because I could actually speak much more, with better pronunciation, than she expected. We addressed issues of grammar only as they were useful to my progress in understanding.

By the way – I’m 68 years old and a retired physician – I had, and have, no wish to take any more formal lessons,or worse still, any more evaluation tests ( been there- done far more than my fair share!)

Thank you for all your work – I really believe that if I had not found you I might well have abandoned the whole project of learning to speak Spanish.

– Dorothy Haswell (Canada)

 

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“Other retirees (who are older, of course) can know that it is never to late to learn
a language if it is taught correctly”

I am about 1/2 way through the Synergy Spanish and it is really reenforcing my previous training. It is also making me more comfortable speaking, which is what I bought it for.

When I wrote to Dave to ask his permission to add the comments from his email to my website… he added the following comment

I am happy to endorse you. Please use the following. I added my educational background and the fact that I am retired so that other retirees (who are older, of course) can know that it is never to late to learn a language if it is taught correctly.

– Dave Cartier (Virginia, USA)
Retired Electrical Engineer, Ph. D.

 

“My wife Erika, a citizen of Peru, and I have been slowly breaking down our
language gap and that has been in large part due to the ingenuity of your program”

My wife Erika, a citizen of Peru, and I have been slowly breaking down our language gap and that has been in large part due to the ingenuity of your program.

“I have tried to learn Spanish in many differents formats prior to using your “Synergy Spanish” and have found it to be the most effective. I think its effectiveness is in its simplicity. It starts with a basic list of the most used words (Palabras Basicas) that allows a student to learn hundreds of simple phrases. It is a logical building sequence that sets a foundation for further learning.

The important thing for me, unlike previous Spanish courses, is that these lessons/words stuck. I can remember them and draw upon them. My wife Erika, who is from Lima, Peru and speaks fluent Spanish, has complimented me on my progress. While I am quite a ways from be fluent in Spanish, I feel that most of my progress is due to the fact that your course makes learning Spanish fun and interesting. I thank you for the work that you have done with your Synergy Spanish course.

I will continue to use your materials, quite simply, because learning Spanish is now an essential part of my life. One day my wife and I plan to relocate to Lima, Peru. At that time I may teach English. I told my wife that the least I could do before starting to teach English in Peru is to learn to communicate in Spanish.” Thanks again Marcus!

– Mark, Erika, Rafael Biberg (Tuluksak, Alasaka)

 

“I tried several other courses but never felt the confidence to actually
speak Spanish until after completing Synergy Spanish”

I just finished your course & loved it. I tried several other courses & even completed the Pimsleur Course to nearly the 3rd level but never felt the confidence to actually speak Spanish until after completing Synergy Spanish.

– Harreson R Mayers (Florida, USA)

 

“I will be the first to say that I was very skeptical about your course”

I will be the first to say that I was very skeptical about your course.

However,I am now forming sentences in Spanish which with all the other programs I was just learning words. I for one am a fan of your system.

– Larry Gross (North Dakota, USA)

 

“We find it so much easier to learn and practice sentences which have
meaning rather than other courses where the content often has
no relevence to everyday life”

We would like to send a big thank you for the Synergy Spanish course. We find it so much easier to learn and practice sentences which have meaning rather than other courses where the content often has no relevence to everyday life.

After I emailed John and Sue for permission to use their comments, I asked if there was anything they would like to add…they asked me to add the following…

We are English and live in mainland Spain and find that there is very little difference between Spanish Spanish and South American, so any prospective clients can be assured of the benefits no matter what their requirements are.

– John and Sue Stent

 

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“I’m returning from Patzcuaro, Michuacan, and can truely say I was able to
communicate with Mexicans on a much higher level”

Great program – you’ve cleared up MANY questions. I made it to lesson #17 so far. I’m returning from Patzcuaro, Michuacan, and can truly say I was able to communicate with Mexicans on a much higher level.

– Chuck Hurst (Idaho, USA)

 

“I am now speaking with the Spanish speaking people in this area”

My name is James Cagle. I purchased the Synergy Spanish course from you a month of so back. I have learned so much in such a short period of time. I am taking a Spanish course at the community college too, but with your system, I am more advanced than anyone in the class. Thank you for your system.

I am now speaking with the Spanish speaking people in this area and have found that they are so willing to help when the find out that you are trying to learn. Gracias otra vez.

– James Cagle (North Carolina, USA)

 

“Wow – you have a great gift to make difficult things easy!!
I can’t wait to go back to Spain”

I bought your synergy course at the beginning of the week and I’m delighted to say that I have finished it this morning! Wow – you have a great gift to make difficult things easy!! I have no problem speaking Spanish to Spanish people – yes I will make some mistakes but no panic. I can’t wait to go back to Spain and they better watch out!! I also hope to visit Mexico (when I win the lotto esta noche!!)

I just can’t believe you made it so easy for me to learn another language since the beginning of last November. I know that I have a lot more to learn but we’re always learning.

Please let me know of any further courses when they come on stream. Good luck to you and su familia.

– Bruce Belyeu (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

 

“I am amazed over my rapid progress in understanding and speaking Spanish.
You have demonstrated profound insight in the structure and presentation of your Spanish lessons”

I am amazed over my rapid progress in understanding and speaking Spanish from studying the lessons in your Synergy Spanish course. Your lesson format perfectly complements my learning style.

You have demonstrated profound insight in the structure and presentation of your Spanish lessons. I look forward to more of your expert guidance in my pursuit of excellence in speaking Spanish. Thanks for your help.

– John Bour (Arizona, USA)

 

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“After spending literally hundreds of pounds on Lingaphone
and Micheal Thomas CDs…”

Am finding your course very good after spending literally hundreds of pounds on Lingaphone and Micheal Thomas CDs.

– Chris Holding (Great Britain)

 

“We have fallen in love with one another”

Your lessons are priceless, I use my mp4 and listen to them over and over time and again.

I am an American from Atlanta Georgia, came to Spain to visit a lady in Granada, fortunately we have fallen in love with one another, she is very impressed with the amount of progress I have made. Thank you not only for your program and your emails are too priceless.

– Evelyn Kenny (Ireland)

 

“I feel more confident learning Spanish than the 5 or 6 Spanish courses
I attended over the last 10 years”

A great ‘Thank You’ for your wonderful Spanish course. I feel more confident, hence excited about learning Spanish than the 5 or 6 spanish courses I attended over the last 10 years. It’s as if I spoke a proper sentence without question marks for the first time… Well done and thanx again.

– Mecky Westermann (USA)

 

“My girlfriend, who lives in Managua, Nicaragua and her family
can understand almost everything I say”

I would like to give you many thanks for your course. it is truly remarkable that my girlfriend and her family can understand almost everything I say.

I was on the phone with her mom the other day, she lives in Managua, Nicaragua, and my friend was with me and he could not believe I was able to have a five minute conversation with her completely in spanish!

– Tommy Sanson (Medford Lakes, NJ)

 

“Our maid and gardener have told me that my Spanish has greatly improved”

I am so happy with how this structure has moved me forward in my Spanish. I knew all these words but did not know how to put them together. It was so exciting being able to say more and more.

We live in Panama and love it here. For us it is like living in a dream. Our maid and gardener have told me that my Spanish has greatly improved.

Thanks again. Your layout works so well. Going through the written part and then really enforcing it with the audio helps to get you talking right away.

– Micheline Fallis (Panama)

 

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“I wish your method of teaching the language would become
the norm in the formal teaching of all languages”

This course has been fantastic, and I have recommended it to many, many friends. I often travel to Cuba on missionary work, and, thanks to your program, have made so many close friends there among our Christian brothers and sisters in Cuba — many of whom cannot speak any English.

I wanted to tell you is that you have demonstrated a real care for the people who’ve signed up for your courses, far beyond what I would expect. This is so heartwarming! Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate it, as I’m sure so many of your students do!

I wish your method of teaching the language would become the norm in the formal teaching of all languages. What a world of good that would do for communication between individuals and groups on a global basis. So in closing, I think what you have done with your courses is noble and deserves the highest praise and respect. Again, thank you so much — and have a great day!

– Birgitta Wilson

 

“I was beginning to think it was impossible for me”

Your synergy spanish way of learning has really transformed my understanding of the language. I have been trying to learn spanish for about five years now and could never retain or remember what I had learned from one week to the next and was beginning to think it was impossible for me.

I visited Ecuador with just a smattering of Spanish with a friend of mine who is fluent, and thought that I would be able to manage. I was wrong and felt like an alien with them not being able to understand me and vice versa. With your help I now feel that I could visit Ecuador again and be able to mingle with the lovely people we go to see there. Thank you with all my heart.

– Josephine Robinson (UK)

 

“My husband and I are going to be in Mexico for our 40th wedding anniversary
this February and I can not wait to practice what I have learned!”

Thank you so much for being such an amazing Spanish teacher. I am now on lesson 23 of Synergy Spanish Level l and am so happy to learn from your 25-day course. The way you have organized the material is wonderful.

You do not overwhelm me with too much material at a time and you reinforce what you do give in such a creative simple way with the different excercises. I think you are a genius! I have tried some other courses and none have been as helpful to me as yours. Thank you again.

My husband and I are going to be in Mexico for our 40th wedding anniversary this February and I can not wait to practice what I have learned! May God richly bless you and your wife and your children.

– Grace B. Frazier

 

“I have learned and retained more from your program than with any other”

I want you to know that I have learned and retained more from your program than with any other I’ve used, including Rosetta Stone. Thank you sooooo much for creating this program!!!

– Lacey R (Texas, USA)
Lastname withheld at Lacey’s request

 

“I recently had a short conversation with him in Spanish and he was blown away”

I should take this opportunity to say how much I am enjoying your lessons. I was quite amazed that in the first hour of learning I could master 40 sentences, both verbally and written.

I did a lot of research into different courses available before settling on Synergy Spanish. My daughter lives in Buenos Aires with her Argentine partner who is also learning to speak English. I recently had a short conversation with him in Spanish and he was blown away.

– Judy Smith (Melbourne, Australia)

 

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“It has transformed my ability to learn Spanish”

Kudos on a magnificent learning system with Synergy Spanish. It has transformed my ability to learn Spanish.

– Brian Conley (New York, USA)

 

“I think your method is brilliant”

I’ve been living in Mexico for awhile. I spent my first 3 years looking for and using all sorts of resources to learn Spanish. I finally found your course and frankly I think your method is brilliant. I homeschooled and I’ve been teaching in a missionary school so I appreciate good teaching methods and yours is great.

– Carol Taylor (Mexico)

 

“It is so simple and straightforward! I cannot wait to get to Spain
and try out my new found ability to speak in sentences”

I have been ‘learning’ Spanish for almost a year now……. I have a weekly personal tutor and go to a weekly class also……. I am bogged down with verb learning and vocab work and can hardly string a sentence together.

I am intelligent and keen to learn Spanish for travelling in Spain and South America so I was becoming really frustrated at my seeming inability to make progress.

I bought Synergy Spanish a few days ago after seeing it advertised online and having read all the testimonials….

Already I have grasped the use of the personal a and can use the lo and la after verbs….. why has no one explained this to me before????? It is so simple and straightforward!!!! I have been driving my husband to distraction this week-end going on about how fantastic this course is 🙂

I am totally sold on your course and know that at the end of it I will be proficient and will have learnt far more than I have done over the last year.

Thank you so much for thinking this through and then passing your skills onto those like me. Cannot wait to get to Spain and try out my new found ability to speak in sentences!

Looking forward to continuing with the course and making more progress. Thank you, thank you, thank you

– Charlotte Hodgson (UK)

 

“Wonderful stuff and fun”

I must tell you that this is the best course in Spanish and is a “I can stick to this and do it” course. Wonderful stuff and fun..

– Jim Hatch (California, USA)

 

“I feel as though my brain cells are suddenly increasing
which isn’t a bad thing at my age (64)”

My husband and I have a property ten minutes drive from Alicante City, and so we pay frequent visits to Spain throughout the year.

Because of your Synergy Spanish, I feel as though my brain cells are suddenly increasing, instead of decreasing, which isn’t a bad thing at my age (64).

Thank you very much for boosting my confidence to use Spanish, and for all the extra free lessons you give. Also, thank you to your wife Elena, who is obviously a massive help with pronunciation.

Penny later added

I am definitely had more confidence to use the language since learning Synergy Spanish, Whilst away. I was able to understand the Spanish people much easier when they spoke to me, and more importantly they understood me, and carried on speaking in their language, instead of switching over to English.

– Penny Butt (UK)

 

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“I am six weeks shy of turning 69 years old, and I am going to be
pretty fluent in Spanish thanks to you!”

I took Spanish in my small home town in eastern New Mexico in 1957. (I really knew lots of playground talk, mostly cussing, and it all came easily con mi amigos). Then two years in the classroom left me tongue tied and nervous.

I am a retired college instructor (English) and I must admit that your program is superior. I downloaded it Sunday and today is Thursday. I have learned more in four days than in two years in high school and am excited and motivated. It is fascinating how some individuals, like you, are natural teachers. Keep it up.

I am six weeks shy of turning 69 years old, and I am going to be pretty fluent in Spanish thanks to you! I believe it this time!

– Sam Turner (El Cajon, CA, USA)
Professor Emeritus, Cuyamaca College

 

“Your program has made the most impact on my ability to speak Spanish”

Thank you for an outstanding Spanish language program. I have tried many and your program has made the most impact on my ability to speak Spanish. Plus, it’s the most fun and practical!

– Patti Shannon (Hawaii, USA)

 

“I have tried several other courses and have always given up,
but your style of teaching is amazing!!!”

I am amazed at just how much I have learned after only a few months. I have tried several other courses in the past and have always given up when the going got tough, but your style of teaching is amazing!!!

Not only am I able to understand fully all that I have learned, but I also find myself practising putting my own sentences together.

– Suzanne Hawthorn (UK)

 

“I’m 78. I hadn’t heard a word of Spanish until I turned 75”

I had been learning Spanish online for a year, I had even walked the Camino de Santiago for two months in Spain. My survival Spanish served me well and I could make myself understood, but I couldn’t TALK Spanish.

That’s when I discovered Synergy Spanish. It was a refreshing new window on learning. I thank you for how you taught me to speak.

By the way, I’m 78. I hadn’t heard a word of Spanish until I turned 75. I could have, should have written this in Spanish. But it is, after all, our mutual idioma materna and I wanted to be sure that you understood just how happy I have been with all you have done for me.

– Barry Seedsman (Australia)

 

“I’ve been so frustrated! Now I really believe I can pull it all together”

Your method is soothing, practical, and fun!

I have had grad-level courses in Spanish, including two grammar courses taught entirely in Spanish, and yet I can’t understand much of what the Spanish-speakers say when I’m volunteering at a women’s help center!

I’ve been so frustrated! Now I really believe I can pull it all together at last by working with your programs and tools.

– Diane Lamoureux (Jacksonville, FL)

 

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“The only Spanish course I ever completed from start to finish without giving up”

I have taken several Spanish courses over the years. Yours is the only one I ever completed from start to finish without giving up and restarting. With just a lesson a day I felt I was learning a lot. Very well done.

– Wayne Clark (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

 

“They should in all classes in the USA and I bet in 6 months
all kids will be fluent in the language”

It is a great course you have. It is genius to have figured this out. So simple and yet fantastic. Your course makes learning language a child’s play.

Languages were difficult for me until I discovered your method. They should use it in all classes in the USA and I bet in 6 months all kids Spanish or non Spanish will be fluent in the language.

– Dr. Joseph N Aquilina (Michigan, USA)

 

“I have helped my daughter more than the teacher in her school”

I am a Norwegian. I am very, very pleased with Synergy Spanish. My daughter is having Spanish in school, which is an endless journey of grammar. I have actually understood and helped her more during my 3 weeks of reading your course than the teacher has in school.

– Knut Braa (Norway)

 

“I expected that in middle age it would either be a losing battle
or a difficult struggle”

Your Synergy Spanish lessons are brilliant! I run a (nature) conservation organization and a lot of our work is in Latin America. I have been procrastinating Spanish lessons for years as I expected that in middle age it would either be a losing battle or a difficult struggle.

Instead, with your lessons, it has been fun!! Your lessons are perfectly paced, with new words introduced at just the right rate and repeated in later lessons to solidify them. Somehow your classes are very motivating and enjoyable. I guess it’s partly learning words in the context of sentences, which really builds confidence, and the way you structure the lessons. I expected I’d have to “make myself” listen to the lessons; instead I find I’m rewarding myself with them after getting work done at my office.

– Anne Lambert (Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada)

 

“I find it so easy to put my thoughts into understandable sentences”

Let me tell you about my experience with your course ………. It is Great! It works. I get better daily. I have recommended it to my friends and family If I can learn this at my age anyone can!

I find it so easy to put my thoughts into understandable sentences and its just getting better all the time.

– Allan Stickel (Canada)

 

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“I believed I couldn’t learn a language”

After numerous language courses, I believed I couldn’t learn a language. But I wouldn’t give up. I felt there must be something out there! And yes, there was your course.

I can’t believe a language course can deliver what it says, but yours does. I know that I can learn and will be able to speak a 2nd language fluently.

I can’t thank you enough for giving me this gift…………..a gift where I really can learn a language

Once again thanks for opening doors for me, that I thought could never be opened. May God Bless YOU !!!

– Wanda Brown (Arizona, USA)

 

“A confidence building technique which helped me immensely”

Just finished the Synergy Spanish Course and thoroughly enjoyed the journey. It was well structured, and used a confidence building technique which helped me immensely. This has been a tremendous start for me, Thank you so much.

– Richard G. Nash (United Kingdom)

 

“Your courses are so superior to my college education”

I can’t begin to express sufficiently my gratitude for your classes.

When I was in college a long time ago, my major was French. I only wish I could have had your courses then. It was the traditional way of studying a foreign language, i.e, memorize 50 words a day, use French in the classroom and a bunch of exercises in my textbook for homework. After graduation, I still wasn’t fluent in French. I went to Togo in W. Africa with the U. S. Peace Corps. That is where, frustratingly, my French education began. Then I lived in France for 3 years.

Your courses are so superior to my college education. The only correct French I heard was from my professors. Only one out of three were native speakers.

So I compliment you and your staff for my wonderful Spanish training. I go to Costa Rica often for dental and medical care, and as an ecotourist. I am always complimented on my pronunciation of the Spanish language, and recently, the usage.

– Larry Tomaw

 

“The audio is FANTASTIC, it makes speaking so easy”

I have tried other courses and have my head so full of grammar, grammar, grammar but after 5 years realised I needed more speaking practice, the audio I have downloaded from your course are FANTASTIC and make speaking practice so easy.

– Ann Rooney (Spain)

 

“It made a big difference and gave me more confidence”

I thought it was so original and easy to follow. it made a big difference and gave me more confidence. It kept me interested and gave me that little push I needed to continue.

I have been trying to speak Spanish for some time and your Synergy Spanish has done more for me than all the grammar lessons I have sat through.

– Les Whalley (UK)

 

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“Thanks for your life changing methods of learning Spanish”

Marcus, thanks for your life changing methods of learning Spanish.

– Joe Thompson (Virginia, USA)

 

“I find it very comprehensive and encouraging”

I live in Costa Rica And I would like to say how much I’ve enjoyed your Synergy Spanish course. I find it very comprehensive and encouraging.

– Terry Quinn (Costa Rica)

 

“She threw her arms around me and said “you’re speaking Spanish””

Marcus, your classes have helped me more than anything. My husband and I were asked to do a service mission by our church for the hispanic people in our area. We’ve been working with the hispanics 10 months, and I’ve been discouraged with my ability to learn the language.

After starting your course, for the first time I’ve been able to express myself using simple sentence structure. Last night when I said “Voy a viajar con mi esposo la proxima semana,” a woman ran up to me and threw her arms around me exclaiming, “You’re speaking espanol!!!”

– Alison Selfridge (Utah, USA)

 

“I shocked my son(who is very fluent) with my new ability”

Never before have I enjoyed learning anything like I have enjoyed using your course.

Your method is incredible! I lay there at night with my earpiece on listening to the audio lessons and with each lesson I am stunned at the quickness in which I learn new words and phrases.

I shocked my son (who is very fluent) with my new ability. He was skeptical at first when I told him of your method but when he heard me able to converse fluently with him, he was thrilled and encouraged me to continue!

– Carole Liantonio (USA)

 

“I have learned more from you in one month than all the rest in total”

I am 73, was raised on an orange grove with Mexican workers, have traveled a lot in Mexico, am now living in Puerto Vallarta.

I have taken Spanish in high school and college. I have learned more from you in one month than all the rest in total.

– Gary Graham (Puerta Vallata, Mexico)

 

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“It’s like hitting passing gear on the highway; the acceleration
of the learning is instant”

Thanks for your frequent clues and taking an interest in your customers. It’s refreshing to purchase a product today and get all that is promised and a little more.

I’m glad you pointed out quickly to utilize the guide book and to do the exercises. It’s like hitting passing gear on the highway; the acceleration of the learning is instant.

You have put together a well thought out and indispensable tool for anyone wishing to speak and understand the language.

– Dewey Rosencrans (Michigan, USA)

 

“It makes it so easy to remember”

After years of Spanish lessons with the hard sell on verbs. I have found your course most interesting and so easy to understand. Gradually building on phrases and introducing the conjugation of the verbs in normal conversation makes it so easy to remember.

– Les Bradley (UK)

 

“I have learned more in a couple of weeks than I could have learned
in a semester of school classes”

I can honestly say that your approach to teaching Spanish is easy (well, mostly) and fun. I have learned more in a couple of weeks than I could have learned in a semester of school classes.

– Ron Tetreault (Florida, USA)

 

“I laughed because I knew it was Synergy Spanish, not the beer”

I am in a PhD program where I am required to learn a foreign language. I choose Spanish. I worked with a tutor from Spain for a year and a half. Then with a tutor from Venezuela for about 6 months. They taught me a lot of grammar but to be honest I still could barely string a sentence together.

Now, I am an lesson 7 of your program and I am thrilled so far. I know how make sentences!!! Woo-Hoo!

It’s really cool because you are not necessarily introducing me to new words but the best is that you are showing me how to use the words I already know to make sentences, useful sentences!!!!

I have an online language exchange partner. He told me my Spanish was better the other day. I was drinking a beer. He said maybe it was the beer. I laughed because I knew it was Synergy Spanish, not the beer.

Muchas Gracias!

– Dorothy McClester (Pennsylvania, USA)

 

“Our Spanish friends could not believe the progress I made in 1 month”

We have just returned to the UK from Spain, but a month before we left I downloaded your program Synergy Spanish and our Spanish friends could not believe the progress I made in 1 month, thanks a million Marcus.

– John Bell (UK)

 

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“I could understand 75% of what the hospital receptionist said and she appeared to understand me perfectly”

On Wednesday I made my first ever phone call to Spain from England and this was also my first telephone call made in Spanish. The call went well and I could understand 75% of what the hospital receptionist said and she appeared to understand me perfectly as she provided the information that I required without having to ask for clarification.

I am feeling really good about the experience.

– Colin Westermann (UK)

 

“Synergy beats anything I’ve heard to start using Spanish verbally”

I’ve been using audio Spanish courses for some years, and Synergy beats anything I’ve heard to start using Spanish verbally. Most of us adults want to use it for travel, and Synergy is terrific.

– Alan L Goodman (Pennsylvania, USA)

 

“I’m learning much quicker and actually having more fun, which makes the learning easier”

I think your courses (I own both Shortcut, and Synergy) are fantastic. I also tried the Pimsleur method, and while it was effective and a good course all in all, I prefer yours much more. With your course(s) I’m learning much quicker (especially with the Synergy lessons)and actually having more fun, which makes the learning easier.

– Malcom Lacy (Indiana, USA)

 

“Hispanic people understand me”

I have tried so many different courses and the one that has worked best for me is your courses. I have been using your course for awhile and already I speak better Spanish than ever before!!

Hispanic people understand me and help me when necessary and are happy to help. I am a 65 year old professor, also wish I had not waited so long to learn, but it is progressing so well that I cannot express my appreciation enough for what you do.

– Bill Spickard, Professor of History (Florida, USA)

 

“Your method is fantastic”

I have just finished Synergy Spanish the first time. Really enjoyed it and think your method is fantastic.

– Ian Telfer (Guatemala)

 

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“I have learned 10X más español in this short time than in the past whole 2 years!”

On June 4th I will have been here in Uruguay for 2 years now. During that time I lamely tried to study Spanish, with no resources here where I live, and definitely no classes. A month ago I was listening to one audio a day consistently for 2 weeks and I have learned 10X más español in this short time than in the past whole 2 years!

– Laurie Barboza (Uruguay)

 

“My conversations with people in markets in Ecuador and Bolivia are my fondest memories”

Finding Shortcut to Spanish and then your Synergy Spanish , Informal Spanish and the many free lessons you make available was a life saver – it is the most awesome way to learn a language.

I am 65 and last year I went to South America for 4 months travelling and volunteering.

After 8 weeks of a Spanish night class i.e. one class a week, where we only got few chances to speak I had learned just enough to order a beer and not much more I knew I needed to do much much more.

A brief search of the Internet turned up your course and with your try before you buy sample lessons I knew I had found a great gift.

The difference in your course to many others was that it started at a totally basic level which is just what I needed and you are so encouraging.

I liked the way you didn’t start with lots of grammar or verb endings which I had bumped into and my heart had sunk with the enormity of the task.

For me the repetition of the words with sufficient time to remember what I had to say was great i.e the audio – some other courses had too little time to marshall my brain and do the repetition.

I liked the range of the course – the audios were awesome – the repetition was great – the revision in each session was grand. I also liked the way you built the lessons up to three chord sentences. I enjoyed the flip cards and related easily to your little catch phrases and the work book was excellent.

In the days before my trip I was always plugged into my MP3 player doing the house work, travelling by bike or car listening and saying the words and phrases out loud.

When I went to South America I just used the Spanish I had learnt. People were really happy to help and I could make myself understood. I did lots of travelling on my own.

Some of my conversations with people in markets in Ecuador and Bolivia are my fondest memories.

People couldn’t believe that I had only learnt Spanish for thee months.

I really liked the encouraging emails that came from you almost weekly with funny interesting and useful information.

It is true that 138 common basic words give you a vast range of useful phrases. I so liked it that you have built a course that gave me the building blocks in a structured way of a new language. I have recommended your course to many people including our correspondence school .

I very much appreciate that you make the course available at a very affordable price and thus make a contribution to the world.

Kia Kaha ( Maori for stay strong and go well )

– Jan Nisbet (Paekakariki, New Zealand)

 

“I’m surprised at how much I can understand after only 6 weeks”

I find that your Synergy Spanish course is excellent and I’m surprised at how much I can understand after only 6 weeks of studying. It surpassed my wildest expectations.

– Ralph Tallman (Ontario, Canada)

 

“I am married to a Spanish person with a family that speaks no English”

I am really happy with your program it is helping me more than you know as I too am married to a Spanish person with a family that speaks no English and I am living in Spain.

– Sandra Davis (California, USA)

 

“A unique and fantastic program that makes learning Spanish so fun and easy”

You really have created a unique and fantastic program that makes learning Spanish so fun and easy. Congratulations!!

– Debbie Diaz (Australia)

 

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“I am a new missionary to Camotan, Guatemala. Your program is much superior to the school here”

I am a new missionary to Camotan, Guatemala. I’m also, 67 years old. I am in language school in Honduras. During my time here, I discovered your Synergy Spanish program. I was so surprised to find that Your lessons are designed to build upon the previous lesson. I’m advancing quickly in my comprehension and ability to speak correctly.

Thank you so much for developing a systematic and comprehensive system of teaching this material. You have 5 Stars from me!

– Tim Setliff (Guatemala)

 

“With other teaching styles, I would give up”

Happy to be learning Spanish with your easy to follow lessons. You’ve simplified it for me and I appreciate that. Love the way you present the material. With other teaching styles, I would give up because I was getting bogged down in too much grammar perfection.

– Kathy Dillon (Canada)

 

“I am already having social events with Spanish friends.”

I have been living in Spain for 8 months now and really wanted to interact with the Spanish community, so I started having lesson twice a week which I can honestly say, once I had left the classroom I had to think hard about what have I actually learnt that day?

I decided to teach myself at home and came across your course and I have enjoyed every bit of it and now I am already having social events with Spanish friends. I now feel more confident to talk within a group.

I would recommend your course to anyone who wishes to learn Spanish.

– Jacqui Jordan (Spain)

 

“It is a great way to keep our brains active, learning Spanish”

David and Joan Piekarczyk

My wife and I already use the Pimsleur method for learning Spanish. However, we find your course has the benefit of being able to see lessons in print with your action guide. In our 70’s, it is a big benefit because it’s harder to remember things than when we were younger.

I am also learning Polish, one of the hardest languages to learn, and learning Spanish is so much easier for this native English speaker. It is a great way to keep our brains active, learning Spanish.

We like the fact that each lesson is a short time in duration putting the video lessons on an external drive allows us to sit in living room and see the lessons on a large screen television.

The cost of your lessons are much less than Pimsleur and, being retired on pensions, it is also a big benefit. Thank you very much for the work it took you to produce this method.

My wife especially likes that the method is not bogged down with grammar rules.

– David and Joan Piekarczyk (Poland)

 

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“I was very disappointed when I visited Spain” – “now I am so happy I can understand and speak so effortlessly.”

Congratulations for your fantastic Spanish lessons.

I had learned some Spanish when I was studying in California …37 years ago.
I was very disappointed when I visited Spain 3 times in the last two years and discovered I could barely speak or communicate.

I started your course only three weeks ago and now I am already in the middle of level one and I am so happy I can understand and speak so effortlessly.

Learning through your courses is so easy, entertaining and of substance.

I would like to thank you for your great work, making learning a language fun again.

– Paris Papaellinas (Nicosia, Cyprus)

 

“Holy cow, what a difference!!!”

I wanted to tell you how amazing I think your Synergy Spanish is—it’s usable immediately!

I am a volunteer with Operation Smile. On three occasions I have traveled to Spanish speaking countries on medical missions. This last time, I had the benefit of having completed Synergy Spanish before going!

The Synergy verbs get you out of any situation. If i was stuck trying to think of how to say something, all I had to do was run through those verbs and I could come up with a way to say what I wanted. I loved being successful SO MUCH! At first I was nervous, but right away I was able to get my point across. And by speaking Spanish, the locals connected with me, sought me out, engaged in silliness, became friends like I was never before able to experience!

I sang my praises of Synergy Spanish with all the other volunteers. It’s just so logical, so applicable, so usable!! I’d studied Spanish online before but they taught in the most boring, plodding, non-usable method.

Gracias, mi amigo.

P.S.: Just the other day i was in a store and a Spanish speaking woman was trying to communicate with the English speaking salesperson. I jumped in and translated! How cool was that?! Very, very cool!

– Ruth Kaiser (USA)

 

“Thank you so much for getting rid of all the grammar lesson and making this so accessible and enjoyable.”

I absolutely love that I am getting to speak more Spanish thanks to your simple and informative course.

When I first embarked upon your course I had a lovely new notebook and pen to hand to make notes. This has become obsolete now because I am thrilled how easy I remember the words

Thank you so much for getting rid of all the grammar lesson and making this so accessible and enjoyable. Sorry for the lengthy email but I just love it.

Regards,

– Jane Smith (UK)

 

“My Argentinian wife and I are happily married and talking in Spanish for 2 years now”

Hello Marcus, My name is Ross Parry, Australian aged 57 from Melbourne Australia. Your system helped to kick start my Spanish, and my Argentinian wife and I are happily married and talking in Spanish for 2 years now.

– Ross Parry (Australia)

 

“The small fee you charge is insignificant to the big changes you make to my life”

I am 60 years old not a fool and very active I would just like to say that your Spanish course is the best course I have come across. It is easy to follow and I disbelieved you when you said you would be speaking straight away and for that I apologise.

The small fee you charge is insignificant to the big changes you make to my life, I have just moved permanently to Spain.

– John Kidby (Spain)

 

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“I thought I was a lost cause until I found your course”

My name is Jean Gagnon currently residing in Canada. Last year I went to Lo de Marco in Nayarit Mexico with friends in a motor coach caravan. We were residing in a beautiful RV park by the sea. We were over there for 6 months. We felt in love with the small village and with our Mexican friends. We are going back this year and we are renting a beautiful house instead of an RV

My wife is fluent in Spanish up to the point where people think she is from a Spanish speaking country.

But me I thought I was a lost cause until I found your course. I am shocked by how much Spanish I have gained in 18 lessons. Thank you very much for your course somehow it clicked for me and I enjoy the course.

We made some good Mexican friends last year and we got close to a family. My sole regret was I could not speak with them at all without the help of my wife. Now this is all change because of your course.

So again thank you for having done a so wonderful course which without I could not learn as I had tried in the past and nothing was working. I am 60 year old and retired.

– Jean Gagnon (Canada)

 

“I had become so disappointed and frustrated because I had not been able to learn the language in any meaningful way”

I have lived in Spain since retirement (10 years ) and had become so disappointed and frustrated because I had not been able to learn the language in any meaningful way despite going to classes and buying any number of courses.

Synergy Spanish has changed all that.

My son who speaks fluent Spanish and is married to a native Dominican girl, cannot believe how my Spanish has improved since I purchased your Synergy course in April.

I have found it is like reading a book. It does not feel like doing a course, it is relaxing and so easy to follow that my ability to speak and understand Spanish is increasing rapidly.

Many thanks for such a very different way of learning Spanish.

– Roger Clark (Spain)

 

“The speech patterns are developing”

I have been studying Spanish through DuoLingo for 5 years but have not been successful at speaking Spanish. Now that I have enrolled in your classes, I also appreciate the explanations you give as they are straightforward and easy to remember.

– Susan Erickson (USA)

 

“You’ve made a real contribution to this world”

Thank you Marcus ,for a job well done. I feel that this is money well spent on a good app. you’ve made a real contribution to this world.

– John Almasy

 

“Thank you for helping me to chase my dreams!”

I took synergy spanish about 8 years ago. I am an ER nurse and it is so useful.

I have decided to pursue my Spanish so I can help more and more people and when I retire, I dream to move to Honduras (where my husband is from) and to provide basic care for those who are unable to afford it otherwise.

Without your course and my husband’s support, I would never be able to do this so thank you for helping me to chase my dreams!!!

– Leanne Lopez (USA)

 

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“Have learned and been able to communicate so much”

We have a house in Mexico and are on our way there in July.

Love your program and have learned and been able to communicate so much because of it.

– Linda Miller (Colorado, USA)

 

“Starting to feel more and more comfortable in communicating with my Spanish friends”

I just wanted to thank you for your ground breaking course, Synergy Spanish!

For the first time I’m actually getting the bigger picture and starting to feel more and more comfortable in communicating with my Spanish friends and acquaintances. You have made learning Spanish easy, fun, exciting and exhilarating!

Thank you is putting it lightly!!!

Su amigo

– Greg (USA)

 

“I challenge anybody in the whole world to find a better teaching method than yours”

I have come to the conclusion that you are a genius.

With all due respect, I would like to say that your method should be taught to all schools, high schools, private schools, universities etc around the world.

People should be able to be taught foreign languages THIS way, your way, and stop wasting time using the “traditional” way of learning, because it simply does not work.

I am grateful to follow your classes and I challenge anybody in the whole world to find a better teaching method than yours. Thank you for being such an amazing teacher!

I am on Synergy Spanish, Lesson 15 and the more I study the more excited I get because of your teaching method.

– Pieras Fitikides (Cyprus)

 

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Shortcut to Spanish

 

“After spending hundreds of pounds/dollars learning Spanish, I have found that
the methods you use yields far greater results”

…. after spending hundreds of pounds / dollars on other methods of learning Spanish, ie Traditional Language courses, books, even expensive private tutoring, I have found that the methods you use yield far greater, and more importantly, lasting , memorable results………

– Dave Buckingham (UK)

 

“Your course has convinced me I’m not hopeless after all”

I just finished the first level of Shortcut To Spanish, and it was outstanding. I have tried everything from Barron’s, to Spanish Now, to Spanish is Fun, to Speed Spanish, to Berlitz, and even the Idiot’s Guide to Learning Spanish, to name a few. Your course has convinced me I’m not hopeless after all.

I learned more from your course than any of these others, but what’s more, I am able to retain the information and put into practice thousands of sentences I never thought I’d ever be able to speak. I’ve always loved Mexico, the Spanish language, the culture, their people, but only now am I able to truly embrace them.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

– Elaine Lopez (USA)

 

“I was speaking Spanish with all of my old Cuban friends in no time”

I must say Marcus…YOU ARE A GENIUS! I called one of my friends in Cuba last night and just blew them away. It was an awesome feeling!

Once you get the basic formula down, everything is smooth sailing from there. I just needed someone to lay that formula out for me in a simplified manner. You couldn’t have made it any easier. Again Marcus…you are genius! YOU ROCK!

Rachael wrote me again a couple of months later to tell me how delight she was with her success communicating in Cuba.

I thought I’d let you know how fantastic I did on my last trip to Cuba. I could not wait to test out everything I had learned with your course. I was a little hesitant at first but once I had a few Pina Coladas, I was speaking Spanish with all of my old Cuban friends in no time. They did correct me on one or two things but were very, very impressed. I had visited with them only two months ago and knew nothing but “hola, si and gracias”. They were thrown right off! I was even translating for the tourists downtown, it was great!

I felt all tingly inside whenever I had finished a whole conversation in Spanish. My Canadian girlfriend who came with me, just sat back in awe. Wow did I feel good. I have no one else to thank but you Marcus. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.

– Racheal Smith (Canada)

 

“I’m living proof that it’s effective, easy, enjoyable, unforgettable, user friendly,
and most importantly, quick”

I live with a friend who is from the Dominican Republic, and it gets very frustrating not being able to have a proper conversation with him, but that was before I saw your work.

I am visiting the Dominican next month and I feel I’m going to be confident enough to converse with people and have more fun.

I want to thank you so much for making such an easy way to learn Spanish, but not only that, in a fun way too, Thank you once again, you are a true legend.

Tim wrote again 3 weeks later, delighted to be making solid progress and communicating with his Spanish speaking sister in-law for the first time

I speak to my sister-in-law online in Spanish now, whereas before we were not able to communicate properly at all which was very frustrating.

– Tim Thomas (England)

 

“If we had had that text in school all of us would be speaking Spanish by now”

Marcus It was more than I expected and my Spanish is so much the better for it. I really think you did a great job and interestingly you managed to have that sense of ‘humaness’ throughout. I felt like you were there with me encouraging me on. you are right it is quite a departure from the usual textbook fare which require such Herculean effort with less result.

I am from Jamaica in the Caribbean and if we had had that text in school all of us would be speaking Spanish by now.

– Meridian Kohler (Jamaica)

 

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“I now have more confidence when speaking to my husband’s family”

I live in Menorca with my Menorcan husband and I have found this course very helpful. I have now been on the island for 6 years and have always had difficulty in creating Spanish sentences. Your course has helped me to understand the language better than anything I have tried before, and I now have more confidence when speaking to my husband’s family.

– Mandy Peacock (Spain)

 

“I had almost given up learning Spanish. Your style has inspired me once again.
I have found a new confidence in speaking the language”

I had almost given up learning Spanish I found, trying to learn all the verbs straight from a grammar book, difficult and was finding it increasingly hard to keep my motivation up. Your style has inspired me once again and I am enjoying it very much.

I’m only spending 30 minutes a day with your course and each time I come away feeling I learn something every time, and best of all I have found a new confidence in speaking the language! Thank you so much for giving me my motivation back.

– Trudy Britton (UK)

 

“I already find myself realizing that I can actually put sentences together.”

Thanks……your course is WONDERFUL ! I have researched and bought numerous Spanish courses over the years and yours is the first I have found to be truly ‘user friendly’.

I do have some basic knowledge and vocabulary under my belt…..but have never been able to converse in Spanish. After only reading the first few chapters of your course I already find myself realizing that I can actually put sentences together.

– Kathy Davis (USA)

 

“I have never enjoyed learning something new as much as
I have enjoyed this course”

I have completed your Shortcut to Spanish I can’t say I have ever enjoyed learning something new as much as I have enjoyed this course. Your teaching method is so good, that I actually miss it.

– Eamon McColgan (Sharon, MA, USA)

 

“I am very impressed with your course. It’s an excellent way of
gaining a large vocabulary in a short time”

I am a retired E.S.L. teacher and would like to have had a program like yours , based on learning English, to use with my Chinese, Mexican, and Slovakian students..

I am very impressed with your course. It’s an excellent way of gaining a large vocabulary in a short time..

– Claude Campbell (Canada)

 

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“Words and sentences you can use right away!”

Love your quick easy and very comprehensible lessons, with words and sentences you can use right away!

– Sandra Shelton (USA)

 

“I never get bored playing the cd’s. In fact I look forward to making
a long drive when I can practise”

I am truly delighted with the course. It is well worth the money and I never get bored playing the cd’s while driving. In fact I look forward to making a long drive on my own when I can practise.

I am currently attending an adult education beginners Spanish course at the local centre and am finding it very easy thanks to your course. keep up the good work!

Thank you also for your very rapid replies to all my emails.

– Wendy Jones (England)

 

“It has also enabled me to read Spanish online newspapers”

Just finished your excellent course. I had learned a reasonable background vocabulary before but had nothing to “glue” words together in phrases that I could produce. I still have a long way to go but I found that your course gave me a fantastic grounding in everyday phrases that I could relate to and remember with relative ease.

It has also enabled me to read Spanish online newspapers and have a good idea what the stories were about.

I found that I looked forward to each lesson and it was the first thing I did when I got home from work. It was very pleasing that the lessons are structured in such a way that you don’t get bogged down and maintain your enthusiasm throughout the course. I found it very satisfying after every lesson, feeling that I had definitely learned something that I would hold on to.

As soon as I send this e-mail I’m going to check the Spanish papers to see what they are saying about FC Barcelona(soccer).

– Brian Murray (UK)

 

“My Spanish is now coming on very well with your course”

Thanks for an excellent course. I live in Tenerife and have been to Spanish classes here but have found the grammar made it very difficult. I have found that my Spanish is now coming on very well with your course.

– Sheila Thomas (Tenerife)

 

“My Latin American friends are amazed at my progress”

My Spanish is coming along wonderfully. Investing in your course is the best investment I made. I have a few Spanish speaking friends (Latin Americans) and they were amazed at my progress.

– Ornell Bedasse (USA)

 

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“I plan on speaking Spanish fluently in the next six months. Thanks to you
and your incredible learning system”

Me and my family are having much fun with the lessons you provide. I plan on speaking Spanish fluently in the next six months. Thanks to you and your incredible learning system. Thanks for making it so easy.

– Frank Burns (USA)

 

“They were amazed at how much Spanish I knew…I was communicating
in Spanish with no difficulty”

I LOVED YOUR SPANISH COURSE. I HAD BEEN STUDYING OTHER BOOKS, BUT YOUR COURSE MADE IT SOOOOO MUCH EASIER TO LEARN SPANISH.

LATER MELINDA WROTE TO ME AGAIN AND ADDED

I’ve been studying your course like crazy, because I knew I would be seeing my Spanish friend last week. I had dinner with 2 friends and they were amazed at how much Spanish I knew…I was communicating in Spanish with no difficulty… you make learning FUN!!!

– Melinda (USA)

 

“I took the course to relate better with my Spanish speaking soldiers”

Your course has been so helpful and there are so many things that I can say but none would fit better than THANK YOU.

I am a Military Officer (Army) and I took the course to relate better with my Spanish speaking soldiers and I have learned more from this course than in two college course.

– Clifton D. Bass
CPT – US ARMY

 

“I think you are performing a valuable service in helping people understand Spanish”

Your material is excellent, I think you are performing a valuable service in helping people understand Spanish.

– Roger Lamb (USA)

 

“What a wonderful world you have helped open up for me”

I have been in Cuernavaca for two days and am learning so much. Your instruction has allowed me to ask questions and have myself understood. After the conversation is initiated I am able to ask for help in my construction of words and am learning super fast. What a wonderful world you have helped open up for me.

– Douglas (Diego) Miller (USA)

 

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“It’s so easy to follow”

I’d just like to say you’re a great teacher, I’ve had a look at your teaching style and it’s so easy to follow. Thank you for all your help with my Spanish lessons!!

– Jodi Willis (New Zealand)

 

“These warm and loving people embrace me as one of their own
and they fondly say I have a Latin soul!”

Thank you for this wonderful course! I am delightfully surprised by your innovative approach to “actually” speaking another language.

Many of my friends are Spanish speaking people. Puerto Rico, others include Mexico, Panama, Cuba, Columbia, Venezuela and the list goes on. I wish to speak with them in their native tongue. These warm and loving people embrace me as one of their own and they fondly say I have a Latin soul! Being an American, I am honored.

I have gone through the first part of the course, and I am already speaking in coherent sentences to my friends.

– Suzanne Piazza (USA)

 

“A lot faster than my books”

I’m a real basic beginner for Spanish Your lessons really do allow me to learn a lot faster than my books.

– Elizabeth Ballantyne (London, UK)

 

“My rate of learning has vastly accelerated”

I started using your course and I must say it is brilliant. It does what you say . Although I have an excellent native Spanish teacher my rate of learning has vastly accelerated: particularly verbs where I had a blockage.

– John Rees (New Zealand)

 

“You are a genius, this course is terrific”

I am really enjoying my Spanish course. I have approx. 1 hour each day and feel more comfortable all the time. You are a genius, this course is terrific.

– Joyce Misch (USA)

 

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“I feel much more confident in my Spanish”

I have really enjoyed your course and feel much more confident in my Spanish. It is a lot easier than the text books I have been working on.

– Denise Todd (UK)

 

“I have started communicating with my Hispanic friends within two weeks”

I have tried several “at home” methods of learning Spanish over a course of several months and was unsuccessful…the lessons did not hold my attention. With your lessons I have started communicating with my Hispanic friends within two weeks. My friends are very proud of me.

– Lisa Clausel (USA)

 

“I’ve learned more in five hours of your course than I learned in ten four-hour days of their course”

I am writing to you to thank you for the absolute best Spanish course around.

I recently returned from a two week “intensive Spanish” course in Costa Rica and I’ve learned more in five hours of your course than I learned in ten four-hour days of their course.

The course is fabulous and worth many times more than you charge.

– Bob LaFortune (USA)

 

“I am able to make complete sentences in one hour of listening to your CD”

The book with the CDs are wonderful. I am learning so fast to put actual sentences together.

I was able to make complete sentences within one hour of listening to your CD and my teenage son listened in the car also and was saying sentences.

– Marla Spring (USA)

 

“I have learnt more in 2 days with your course than I have learnt after 100’s x £ and months of other courses”

I live 4 months a year in Spain and have bought every CD and book and just got tangled up in indigestible words and lessons – all totally unconnectable and disheartening. I have learnt more in 2 days with your course than I have learnt after 100’s x £ and months of other courses. I love it. Great product.

– Colin Bond (UK)

 

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“Thanks for giving me a chance to learn a new language that I have wanted to learn for so long”

I tried learning Spanish by reading books and listening to audio tapes but nothing compares to the method in your program. Thanks for giving me a chance to learn a new language that I have wanted to learn for so long.

– Ron Stone (USA)

 

“I have to say whilst skeptical at first I am amazed at how
quickly things are changing”

For about a year now I have tried to learn the basic rudiments of the Spanish language. I can only describe my efforts as an unmitigated disaster. However it is now almost six weeks since downloading your shortcut 2 Spanish, I have to say whilst skeptical at first I am amazed at how quickly things are changing.

– Ian Duffin (UK)

 

“Now I am actually learning to speak Spanish”

This course is by far is the best Spanish course that I have had and I have had several over the years. I will certainly recommend this course for anybody interested in learning Spanish. Now I am actually learning to speak Spanish.

– Brad Vigansky (USA)

 

“I thought your lessons were brilliant”

I really enjoyed your lessons. I thought they were brilliant! I am a Australian girl travelling in Spain who loves to learn Spanish quickly and efficiently. Thank you so much for your time… Did I say I thought your lessons were brilliant? Yes I think they are brilliant.

– Keri Light (Australian in Spain)

 

“I wish I had found you a few years ago when I first started taking holidays
in Spain”

Just wanted to let you know my Spanish is coming along great. I wish I had found you a few years ago when I first started taking holidays in Spain, I have battled with the language for so long, I just couldn’t remember the words no matter how hard and long I studied them, with your course its so easy. I recommend you to everyone.

– Doreen Parkhurst (Great Britain)

 

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“I find your way so much fun and a lot easier”

I have lived in Lanzarote in the Canary islands for the past 8 years and have tried many different ways of learning Spanish and found it very hard. I find your way so much fun and a lot easier.

– Dawn Harris (Canary Islands)

 

“He speaks very little English and we are communicating much more
these days. Thanks to your program”

I knew como esta and gracias back in June, just 3 months ago. After using your program, I now am pulling sentences together.

My new “Novio” boyfriend, who is Spanish, is very impressed. He speaks very little English and we are communicating much more these days – Thanks to your program. This has helped me to see how romantic the language is – I love the language!

– Tina Sprayberry (USA)

 

“I now feel confident in speaking Spanish to the locals when I next visit Spain”

I have studied Spanish some years ago, I went to evening classes & yes it wasn’t easy & I found it all so confusing.

Just wanted to let you know how easy I have found your way of learning the Spanish language! Thanks to you I now feel confident in speaking Spanish to the locals when I next visit Spain.

– Ann Robinson (England)

 

“I can highly recommend your course to anyone who feels daunted at the
prospect of learning a new language”

I have just completed your Short Cut to Spanish and think it is excellent and an easy way for this slow learner to learn the language. I would also add that I can highly recommend your course to anyone who feels daunted at the prospect of learning a new language.

– Tom Carswell (UK)

 

“What was a daunting task has now become fun”

Thanks for making Spanish so easy. What was a daunting task has now become fun. I am so loving this course as you can manage it on your own. I can’t wait to go Cuba now. I am now talking up a Spanish storm.

– Oswy Gayle (UK)

 

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“I thank you and your wife very much for making your easy to understand conversational Spanish courses”

Your book is just the ticket to help me converse with my new Mexican friends at the Camino Real restaurant and others who I come into contact with.

– Harry Fanning (USA)

 

“Shortcut to Spanish was great”

Let me congratulate you on the fantastic course. Short cut to Spanish was great. Thanks again for a wonderful course.

– Neil Ellson (USA)

 

“Your material is very comprehensible, easy to use, and rich in information”

Thank you so much for your support with Spanish. I use it at work, and I found your lessons to be very well structured. From a teacher’s point of view I can add that your material is very comprehensible, easy to use, and rich in information.

– Simona Solomon (Romania)

 

“Makes it very easy to both learn and remember the words and to speak them
right away, even in sentences!”

I find that the audio files are most helpful to me because those who are speaking, (both in English and in Spanish) pronounce their words very clearly and there’s no background music or any other noise to distract me from hearing and understanding what is being spoken. That is very important to me, because I have significant hearing loss, but it will benefit anyone!

As well, the way the material is presented makes it very easy to both learn and remember the words and to speak them right away, even in sentences!

– Jane Rema (Canada)

 

“I am learning at a fantastic rate”

You go to so much effort to prepare the lessons and additional help. I cannot thank you enough. I am learning at a fantastic rate.

– Ben Sheehan (Australia)

 

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“Your course is exciting and rewarding”

Your course is exciting and rewarding. I am really thrilled by it.

– Curt Ersson (Sweden)

 

“You simply have us speaking, effortlessly”

The genius of your course is the ease with which we slide into conjugations. Instead of sitting and memorizing, you simply have us speaking, effortlessly. You have us using: I, you, she, he, we, they, through sentences, with no intimidation. It couldn’t be better.

– Harriet Raitano (Tampa, Florida USA)

 

“I have been amazed at what I have been able to learn and more importantly
remember in such a short time”

Thank you for your guidance and info on this fantastic way of learning Español. So far I have been amazed at what I have been able to learn and more importantly remember in such a short time. I think these methods you have discovered are truly fantastic.

– Surika Lott (Perth, Western Australia)

 

“Learning far more than any other courses I have tried”

I very much enjoy this course and I am learning far more from doing it than any other courses I have tried.

– Jeanine Honour (USA)

 

“I have been advancing rapidly thanks to your teaching”

Your course has been very valuable. I have been advancing rapidly thanks to your teaching.

– Timo Holkeri (Finland)

 

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“I’ve learned more Spanish in a few short days
than in three month of other courses”

I think your course in Spanish is great. I’ve learned more Spanish in a few short days than in three month of other courses.

– Mark Denton (USA)

 

“I have learnt more in 7 weeks than in the previous 5 years”

Your course is terrific. I have learnt more in 7 weeks than in the previous 5 years. Can’t wait to know where to go next!

– Yvonne Harvey (Australia)

 

“It is one easy way to learn a language”

I just finished lesson 31. It is one easy way to learn a language.

– Dr Al Standen (USA)

 

“I’m learning a lot of Spanish and it’s fun”

Excellent program. I’m learning a lot of Spanish and it’s fun.

– Marlon Mark Khan (USA)

 

“This is the best course I have seen its superb”

Anyone who is looking to learn Spanish need not look any further this course gets 110% from me. the course is easy to follow , you WILL learn fast. This is the best course I have seen its superb.

– Billy Clark (USA)

 

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“The grammar is taught in a clear way that is not at all painful to study
nor difficult to learn”

I just finished your course, and really feel that it was a good way to learn a lot of Spanish. The grammar is taught in a clear way that is not at all painful to study nor difficult to learn.

– Phyllis McBride (Canada)

 

“Your method goes beyond simply translating and memorizing, it teaches
how to think. When you are able to think of how the words are made,
you can master the language”

I have had the desire to learn Spanish for two years, but most methods I looked into did not fit my casual learning approach. I found the repetition of audio lessons to be boring, while the books tended to be complicated and somewhat intimidating for a beginner. Even the simpler programs focused too much on the tourist and had little value.

Your program has been ideal, it is exactly what I was looking for.

Your method goes beyond simply translating and memorizing, it teaches how to think. When you are able to think of how the words are made, you can master the language.

My only disappointment is that I finished the lessons. I wish all study material could be this easy and rewarding.

– Tom Gugel (USA)

 

“I can tell you that I’m amazed how I can write Spanish sentences already”

I spent two semesters in a college level Spanish class here in Davis – and couldn’t write or speak at all! I made A’s in the class but couldn’t put a sentence together – incredible!

I think I’m on ~leccion 11. I can tell you that I’m amazed how I can write Spanish sentences already.

– Sheryl Flocchini (USA)

 

“I’ve already learned way faster than when I used other programs”

Everything looks great and I’m very excited to use your product. I’ve already learned way faster than when I used other programs.

– Bob Grove (USA)

 

“My most difficult part of learning Spanish has been the verbs and conjugation
but after listening to your recordings, it seems effortless”

I must tell you that after downloading the Audio lessons I found your teaching style to be easy and sooo effective.

My most difficult part of learning Spanish has been the verbs and conjugation which at times, I’ve simply ignored or given up. But after listening to your recordings, it seems effortless. Muchas Gracias, for an incredible teaching tool.

– Laura Rigoni (USA)

 

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“The short audio lessons are especially good”

The short audio lessons are especially good- not too time consuming, no boring grammar and very interactive.

– Ian Lancaster (Suffolk, UK)

 

“You are such a Blessing”

You are such a Blessing, and we mean that very much! We Thank God for your assistance in teaching us Spanish in an easy to learn way.

– Kelly King (USA)

 

“I thank you and your wife very much for making your easy to understand
conversational Spanish courses”

I thank you and your wife very much for making your easy to understand conversational Spanish courses. I am enjoying them immensely.

– Shelly Davis (USA)

 

“I’m finding it effective and useful!!”

I just wanted to say a quick thank you for creating your course. Already I’m finding it effective and useful!! The mnemonics are a very useful way to remember the words and phrases.

I’m glad to have finally found something that doesn’t cost ridiculous amounts of money that I can’t afford to pay for at my age!

– Kimberley Low (UK)

 

“Your course is really very good indeed”

Let me say that your course is really very good indeed. All of the resources you provide are really useful and I am continuing to improve daily. A fantastically easy and intuitive course.

– Tim Finch (UK)

 

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“I am learning more each day”

Learning Spanish through this program has been very helpful. I am learning well with this Spanish program.

1. It is set up very well with the lessons #1 to 31 sessions to learn and know the written words and their use.

2. The flash cards help me become familiar with the Spanish words, with the English equivalent.

3. The audio lessons are an essential part in learning to hear and understand to be able to speak the language.

I am making a trip to Columbia later this year and I want to be able to communicate in Spanish. I am learning more each day.

– Len Johnson (Canada)

 

“I agree with your approach to using real world/practical Spanish”

I thank you for the hard work and effort that you put into developing this user friendly guide to real world Spanish. I agree with your approach to using real world/practical Spanish versus what is taught in most courses.

– Antonio Lucas

 

“I read you spent the last six months putting what you have together.
That was a short time for such a program”

I read in one of your mails that you spent the last six months putting what you have together. That was a short time for such a program. Good work!

– Jonathan Koh (USA)

 

“Much easier than other lessons I have tried”

Thanks for the Spanish lessons. They are much easier than other lessons I have tried.

– John Herring (UK)

 

“Your program is the best I have tried”

Your program is the best I have tried. Thank you so much for your efforts in putting this together. I must say I am immensely impressed with your response time to questions problems.

– Linda E Wagner (USA)

 

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“I am looking forward to the vacation my wife and I have planned
for Cozumel, Mexico”

Your course is working well for me, I am 66 and enjoy the challenge of remembering things. I am looking forward to the vacation my wife and I have planned for Cozumel, Mexico in October.

– John Ashfield-Salter (USA)

 

“I think the way you show people how to learn is very good
and easier than other methods

– Jacqueline Hart (England)

 

“Thanks for presenting this material so logically

– Denise Ras-Arvidson (USA)

 

“Its exactly what I needed and have been looking for for 9 months”

I loved your course. Its exactly what I needed and have been looking for for 9 months. I am using it in combination with the Pimsleur audio course. Your course filled some gaps that Pimsleur didn’t cover.

– Chris Orton (USA)

 

“I’m telling all my friends…”

I’m telling all my friends that your courses are the best I have encountered, from tapes and books, to CDs, and videos.

– Mari-Lou Rowley (Canada)

 

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“Unbeatable in terms of value for money”

I thought your Shortcut to Spanish course was first class and unbeatable in terms of value for money…………a rare compliment these days…………..

– John Bogle (UK)

 

“It is a big journey trying to learn and improve your Spanish”

I have bought and used quite a few of your courses, and would recommend them to anyone. It is a big journey trying to learn and improve your Spanish! but your courses have been so helpful.

Thank you for a marvellous courses. They are the best I know

Kind regards

– Maureen Lamberth (UK)

 

“Therapeutic and better for one’s mental health than crosswords or suduku!”

I am almost 70 and am immensely enjoying your language course which I practice one hour day. It is also beneficial in keeping the little grey cells stimulated – very therapeutic and better for one’s mental health than crosswords or suduku !

My fluency will be put to good use when we revisit Majorca again in October.

– Alan Davis (UK)

“I talk to Hispanic people all the time and they are happy to help me with the language”

My wife and I travel a-lot and I was tired being in the dark not knowing how to speak español.

You make learning Spanish so much fun and the best part is I’m speaking it already!

I talk to Hispanic people all the time and they are happy to help me with the language.

I will be going to the Dominican Republic in January and I will be able to converse with the people there and I am looking forward to it.

Your course is the best and I am recommending it to anyone who wants to learn español.

Keep up the good work!

– Roger Pihl (New York, USA)

“Your course is the best I have seen in 43 years for those needing to learn from a scratch”

I have enough background and experience living, working, and doing business in Spanish to recognize that your course is the best I have seen in 43 years for those needing to learn from a scratch

I recommend it to any gringo I see that needs a course.

I wish I had seen it 40 years ago as I am sure my Spanish would be much better now.

– Robert Baum III (Panama)

 

“The speech patterns are developing”

I have been studying Spanish through DuoLingo for 5 years but have not been successful at speaking Spanish. Now that I have enrolled in your classes, I also appreciate the explanations you give as they are straightforward and easy to remember.

– Susan Erickson (USA)

 

* This is an update letter from Joseph who has made Spanish an everyday part of his life

“Marcus’s courses really were the start to something great”

I started my Spanish learning journey back in 2006 when I was only 15 years old! I came across Marcus’s Spanish courses and I was amazed at how quickly I was able to progress!

When I turned 19 in 2010 I volunteered to serve as a missionary for my church in Ecuador and was there for 2 years! Marcus’s courses definitely helped me get a huge head start to my Spanish and returned home in 2012 fluent.

Now in 2019 I am a business owner and use my Spanish in my business on a weekly and sometimes even daily basis and has helped me expand and reach out to more prospects and customers that I wouldn’t have been able to if I had not learned Spanish. Marcus’s courses really were the start to something great and I highly encourage ANYONE of ANY age to use his courses. You will not be disappointed!

Thank you so much Marcus!

– Joseph Nelson (Arizona, USA)

 

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Synergy Spanish 8x

 

“You are hands down the best way to learn Spanish”

I love everything that you do and how you do it. You are hands down the best way to learn Spanish. Keep up the good work. I have told many people about you and your course.

– Gary Gridley (Nebraska, USA)

 

“I can get around and function in Chile”

Your teaching definitely helps me with learning verbs I wouldn’t be where I am today without your program. I can get around and function in Chile

Thank you again and keep up the good Work

– Sander De Jong (Chile)

 

“I felt SOOO far beyond the rest of the class”

I just wanted to say thank you so much for this program. I started with Synergy Spanish, moved on to 8X, and now I am almost finished with Bola. I started almost one year ago. Years ago, I tried Pimsleur, Rocket Spanish and Learning Spanish Like Crazy. Those programs really did not get me anywhere; certainly I did learn some, but it never really came together in a way that I could actually have a conversation.

Anyway as proof of the effectiveness of what you offer: I started a local Spanish class to get practice with real people. I skipped the beginner class and signed up for Conversational Spanish 1. In the first class, we all introduced ourselves, in Spanish of course. We said just a bit about ourselves; where we are from, how long we have lived in the area. Most of the students had taken the teacher’s introductory Spanish class previously. After I introduced myself, the teacher said that I “spoke very well,” and assumed it was because I used to live in California. I told her (in Spanish) that my only instruction was with Synergy Spanish, listening and speaking in my car. She was impressed. And just to be clear, I was the ONLY one she complimented on “speaking well.” I felt SOOO far beyond the rest of the class. I almost want to jump to the Conversation 2 class.

Anyway, I just wanted to acknowledge the effectiveness of the program and thank you for all the work involved with putting it together.

Thanks again!!

– John Dahlinger (California , USA)

 

“I just want to say what a great teacher you are and how much I am enjoying your Spanish classes”

Solo quiero decirte que gran maestro eres y cuánto estoy disfrutando tus clases de español. Me emociono tanto cuando veo artículos / Publicaciones de FB en español que puedo traducir.

I just want to say what a great teacher you are and how much I am enjoying your Spanish classes. I get excited when I see FB articles/publications in Spanish that I can translate.

– Lesley Bowers

 

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Synergy Spanish Conversation Accelerator

 

“I can travel alone to any area of Spain where little or no English is spoken and I get by very comfortably”

It is due to your really excellent courses that i can now speak well in Spanish. A friend of mine who is Spanish and lives in Madrid says that she thinks I am 1 in 1000 in the level of Spanish that I speak and understand.

I can travel alone to any area of Spain where little or no English is spoken and I get by very comfortably and most people also help because you are learning their language.

I owe you a massive thank you for the pleasure and ability I did not know I possess to enable me to sit talking late at night over a drink with local business men and millionaires in Majorca who speak with me because I made the effort and was very lucky to meet an accomplished teacher of Spanish.

Thank you once again for giving me much pleasure after retirement (I am 72)

– Davis Clark (UK)

 

“On a recent trip to the Dominican Republic, I communicated very well”

The beauty of your (very affordable!) programs is that they all have a tremendous amount of material and I learn more (and become a much better Spanish speaker!) every time I review them.

On a recent trip to the Dominican Republic, I communicated very well with the native Spanish speakers and they were excited to help me learn more.

– Blair Rodney

 

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Fearless Fluency Conversations

 

“I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying Fearless Fluency Conversations”

I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying Fearless Fluency Conversations. I would only emphasize that there is no one, but no one, who is in your league when it comes to teaching Spanish.

– Mike Robinson (Spain)