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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)

“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)

“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 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)

“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)

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“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)

“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)

“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 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)

“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)

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“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 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)

“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)

“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)

“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)

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“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 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)

“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)

“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)

“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)

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“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)

“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)

“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)

“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 think the course is great”

I think the course is great.

– Dianne Dilnot (Canada)

“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 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)

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