Hola Amigos
After I created Synergy Spanish, I quickly realized I was onto something special with this new approach to learning Spanish.
So many people wrote to me about their success and told me they now realize they really can learn to speak Spanish. Even people who had tried for years without success were finding they could actually speak the language.
When I started creating Synergy Spanish I never expected it to make such an impact and even change people’s lives, especially those living in Spanish speaking countries.
Once people got a taste of success and the confidence that they finally could communicate in this beautiful language, they just couldn’t get enough.
The requests to make the next level of Synergy Spanish were overwhelming.
Frankly, I could easily have cashed in and thrown anything out there to make money, like so many publishers do. However, I believe I have a gift to share. I don’t know where it comes from but my way of teaching brings out the best in people’s minds.
So instead I spent a long time researching.
Then I took a small group and started developing a follow up course that would build on the momentum of Synergy Spanish and lead towards fluency in Spanish.
I’ve been with that group for the best part of a year now. We’ve been creating not just a new course but a complete system to develop fluency in Spanish.
The course is called Bola de Nieve, which means snowball in Spanish, Your Spanish grows and grows, getting bigger as easily as a cartoon snowball rolling downhill.
I’ll be sharing parts of Bola de Nieve with you soon. However, for now I wanted to get back in touch with you and give you the chance to add some new momentum to your Spanish.
That’s why I am giving Synergy Spanish graduates the Informal Dialogs course free.
It’s an extra piece of the puzzle that will improve the way you interact with your amigos de habla hispana (Spanish speaking friends).
So, why not get started right now, as the saying goes, “a journey of a thousand mile starts with a single step”…
One last thing before you log in, please leave a comment here on the blog, I’d be delighted to hear from you.
Muchos saludos
Hola Marcus
Enjoying greatly your course Bola De Nieve have started the course 3 weeks ago and thoroughly enjoy your method of teaching. To hear the recordings in Spanish by Spanish speakers is very good and clear, and I can see and write the words so again helping with grammar and pronunciation. Your Mnemonics are also a clever way of visualising words easy to recall. Completed the first lessons already and looking forward to the next. Your website very user friendly and have also completed Life, Love , and Music and Football series. Great lessons easy to follow looking forward to those next lessons and I feel very confident I will be speaking Spanish soon. Kind Regards Marcus.
Hello Ava and Marcus.
Today I finished the Synergy 1 course <I enjoyed it a lot and am eager to learn more. So I look forward to receive the informal form of spanish course.?You really motivated me to continue.Thanks
Saludos Marit
Hola Marcus,
Have really enjoyed synergy Spanish although its taken a while but that’s what I love .You can
work the course around life .Am ready now to do dialogue lessons and synergie Spanish
Muchas Gracias for a great course.
Sally.
I will be 76 yrs old this Jan and this is my first attempt at learning another way of speaking. Living as I do in California I have a good reason for learning Spanish. I looked intp another Spanish course but didn’t care for the format or the price. I found your course surfing the web and tried a few lessons. Easy as pie. I talk to my wife in Spanish and she doesn’t understand a word I say but she is learning herself now. It’s fun, it’s easy and it’s great, at my age to be able to speak to people whom you meet and surprise them when they speak to each other and you answer them in their native tongue. Gets a big laugh and you become fast friends. It’s a kick. Looking forward to more from you.
Wonderful course. So much easier.
Well, I finished synergy Spanish and it was wonderful. I’m now ready for the synergy Spanish informal dialog course.thankyoufor making Spanish easier. Maureen
I am very pleased with SynergySpanish.I have found it to be very helpful in learning Spanish.
Thank you,
Thomas Robinson
I have been working on my Spanish for mas o menoso 3 years. I worked through Synergy Spanish in two weeks. My fluency has improved greatly. I am now able to speak in sentences and be understood. I still make mistakes, but I can now converse quickly enough to not bore my listeners.
Thank you Marcus, you have inspired me to keep trying. Marilyn
Really u r perfect 🙂
Just completed the first course, cant’ believe I’m speaking Spanish and now being understood, after ten years living in Spain. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Your system really helps!
Bill
My Dad got synergy spanish for me, and I thoroughly enjoyed it and was sad to get to the end of the course. I learned so much, even boring old grammar, although I never realised it at the time. You have a very clever way of teaching. Thankyou Carol
Hola, Marcus
I just celebrated my 69th birthday. My goal is to make my 70′ my Spanish the major gain. December of 09 I decided to abandoned learning Spanish in the traditional format. The hours and hours of studying Latin earlier in my long ago hours of studying Latin earned me a fabulous basic vocabulary in English and Latin. Also, I developed a well trained ear for pronouncing Spanish. MY POINT IS: If you had decided to apply your method of teaching Spanish to teaching Latin, no doubt I would be bilingual in Latin and Spanish by this time. Thank you for discovering your gifts, but more importantly for your generosity in sharing that gift with those who are language challenged.
MOST IMPORTANT COMMENT: I was literally laughed at when I told my wife and a few friends that I was committing to leaning to speak Spanish (they didn’t hear me emphasize “speaking’) . They all gave the same reason why I was doomed to fail: YOU ARE TOO OLD!
The word Ignorant means: lacking knowledge. Your technique erases “too old”. Marcus I am deep into your Synergy Spanish…need more time, but moving forward. In need a snow ball push to get over the wall and really speak Spanish, please put me on your next list.
Sincerely
John McEvoy
Hi Marcus
I started studying Synergy Spanish nearly three years ago and made wonderful progress initially. Speaking Spanish was easy (or so I thought). The trouble was that I could not understand a word of what the Spanish speakers were saying. Most of the verbs were totally unrecognisable in the conjugated forms, countless nouns difficult to remember and a grammar complicated and very different to English. There are also hundreds of rules which are almost impossible to remember. I need to get back to listening to your tapes which somehow makes progress that much easier.
Regards, John.
tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!
Hey Marcus, My wife and I have been spending our evenings going through Synergy Spanish. I want you to know that we had tried a different and well known course that simply left use frustrated. I told my wife that if we could find a course that would teach us the verbs and how to use them in a sentence, then we could build our noun vocab. around that…By the grace of God, we stumbled onto your website and now we feel so confident with our ability to learn spanish. We’re now working on the informal lessons that you sent….we can’t get enough. Please hurry with more Synergy spanish!! Thanks, Terry.
Hi Marcus,
Can’t wait for the past tenses!! Keep it coming
Thanks
Joanne
Hi Marcus,
I am truly enjoying your lessons. I have been studying Spanish for some time but non of the courses I took tought me as much as I have learned from yours. You make the lessons easy and fun.
Thank you for providing this fantastic opportunity for your student to learn this wonderful language quickly. I am amaized at your generousity.
Looking forward to more lessons.
Joyfully,
Janet Yeremian
Hola Marcus,
I studied your course every day for 6 weeks then went to beautiful Valencia for a holiday and was able to communicate with the locals. It was fantastic I couldn’t believe at how well I had progressed as I did not know one word of Spanish before this. I have not had much time recently to keep up my studies every day but will start again as soon as possible. Marcus thankyou for making it so easy to learn this beautiful language you are a very special person.
Kind regards,
Take care
Gayeanne from New Zealand.
Thank you for these courses!
I have now been studying almost a year, both regularly and also irregularly but this way to learn makes it easy to continue all the time. I am not afraid of saying or writing in Spanish when needed and now I am looking forward our one-week-holiday in Spain in September.
Thank you very very much!
With kind regards,
Martina from Finland
Glad you sent this new chance. I hope this will get me going again.
Glad you sent this new chance.
It is a fantasitc course. It takes you so well along and you enjoy and learn in the process automatically.
It is a fantasitc course. It takes you so well along and you enjoy and learn in the process automatically.
I have kept my Spanish alive for many years, but I have never advanced it so well as with your cds in my car. The simplicity of your format forces me to speak up before the woman speaks it, and no other studies have aided my enunciation as much.
Keep up the good work,
Marty
Enjoyed the informal dialogs.
Looking forward to Bola de nieve.
To a teacher ‘muy simpático.
Hoi Marcus
I really enjoy these courses. Every day I study a lot and fortunately I am making.prgress.
Next week I am going to Alicante in Spain.
I hope to practice the knowledge of all the words you teached me.
my daughter has a house in Javea, and she invited us to see her.
With many thanks for your splendid courses,
your sincerely,
Arnaud Voragen.
Rotterdam. August 12
Hi Marcus,
Thanks for all of your help, i have been learning with your free lessons and have really progressed, what i want to know is What extra benefit will i get by signing up to the member program. I am thinking that if the free stuff is so good i must be missing out big time by not becoming a full member. I am going to Spain for a month at the end of Aug and can’t wait to practice all i have learnt on my poor unsuspecting Spanish neighbours.
Thanks again
Hola Marcus I am absolutely delighted with your courses and welcome every extra addition you send , I really love learning the spanish language particularly as I have a Argentinian daughter-in-law Ihave a long way to go yet ,but Iam able to communicate a little better now THANKYOU MARCUSi could not have doneit without you keep up the good work .your course is by far the best and I,ve tried several .good luck ellen
¡Hola!
Buenas tardes.
Hoy dia es Martes, y cuarto dia de Beijing Olympic Games 2008.
Un mundo, un sueño!
Olé, China! Ole, España!
Started your Synergy Spanish course last year and then visited Spain in October. Initially, faced with having to use what I had learned I promptly forgot everything. Later things got better but I am now more determined than ever to strive to be able to converse more fluently, especially with regard to “rapido Espanjol”. Have found your courses to be most helpful. Many thanks.
I listen to Synergy Spanish while I drive. Over and over again. Even though I know the material, I grow more proficient with each listen. I am desperate to become fluent, so you probably can’t name a Spanish Course I haven’t tried. Many are good, but I prefer your teaching method. If there is anyway you can ease us (Synergy Spanish students) into “reflexive”, “past” and “future”. We would be eternally grateful. :-). You rock. God Bless.
Hola Marcus,
it is so good to hear from you again. I am so glad you continue with the courses, as the synergy Spanish is such a great idea.
Have found the Informal dialogs of significant help to me. Keep up the good work!
I am a new student in Spanish and look farword to becoming far more proficient. Marcus ,I am very excited about your new programs.
I am not having a problem receiving the information via the internet, other than finding time to do the course. Summer is a busy time, with travels and obligations! I am enjoying the dialogs and the written work. Thanks for all your efforts.
Moira
Hello Marcus!
I’m a little confused as to when your next course will be available. I noticed the announcement dated November, 2007, and of course it is now August, 2008.
At any rate I, along with many others apparently, await the next course.
hello marcus,
We ,my husband and I , have been hard working students of yours for what seems a very long time ,we started out thinking we would learn Spanish over this winter and then hay ho have a chat with our new neighbers , but alas soon found out it was going to be harder than first we thought, since starting on your course just over 3 years ago. We have visted Mexico three times as well as the USA. As we live in Spain, where we have had a lot of field experance we feel it is going to take a little longer even with the invaluable help of your input as well as the courses themselves. We all know how good your methods are but what I ,we would like to say to your other students that are finding the going slow and a little difficult , dont give up , keep at it, you are not on your own and believe me it is ,vale la penna, worth the trouble.
yours sincerely john and susan stent.
I have loved the SS course – the best and I have looked at quite a few. As mentioned above would like to see more on verb conjugation – past and future – thank you for your course.
Hola Marcus,
thank you very much for all the matterial that you have send so far. I have been attending many courses of languages, but nothing compares to yours. It is so easy to learn Spanish this way. I wish you spoke more languages and could do this type of the course in yet another languages. As I work as a cabin crew, any language I learn is plus in my job and also personal life. Iam looking forward to the next course:)
Hola Marcus, your Audio worked fine for me so I downloaded on my iPod and listen, listen and listen….it’s good practice. But I am still waiting for Synergy Spanish Level 3 here. I don’t feel I finish after SS 2, there are more to learn. What about he/she, they/we in past tense & future.
On the other hand, with your S 1 & 2, I actually be able to make sentences, I just have to mix and match and practice with some and each time I speak English, I translate that in Spanish in my mind by using your knowledge and ……..presto!
I even created Spanish for non spanish speaking monthly meeting, get together and speaking Spanish while having lunch or coffee. I also bring Spanish speaking person to help.
Voy a ir a Mexico el proximo dos anos. Hope to see you there.
Hi Marcus,
I think all of your courses are wonderful. I studied at night school for 1 year and was extremely muddled. I came across your courses last february starting with shortcut to Spanish and now I am doing Synergy Spanish which I think is excellent. I have a daughter living in Spain who is married to a Spaniard and I want to be able to Speak to my son in laws parents as they speak no English. Each time I go back they can understand me more, and I can u;nderstand them.. The Spanish people love it if you try to learn their language, and almost always try to help you. I enjoyed Informal Spanish, thank you, and I am looking forward to any new lessons you may provide.
Many thanks again
Christine
Marcus,
I bought Synergy Spanish in the hope of learning a few words of Spanish prior to going on vacation to Argentina which we are now currently enjoying. Thanks to your well structured course, I learned a lot more than I expected in 5 or 6 weeks. I am really looking forward to your subsequent course, Bola de Nieve when it’s available.
I’ve had no trouble down loading the Informal Dialogues audio.
Thanks very much for making this learning so enjoyable.
Regards
Rob Graham
I just love all the lessons.
I could not wait to get each lesson with synergy, lots of my friends are also enjoying and improving their Spanish really fast .I am now looking forward to this course .
Many thanks for your lessons and great look new site
Hello Marcus,
Many thanks for the S/S Informal Dialogs, it is really good and easy to understand, and our Spanish friends and neighbours are pleased we have stopped being so formal with our USTED.
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT COURSE…….AND SPANISH EAR
Hello Marcus,
Many thanks for the S/S Informal Dialogs, it is really good and easy to understand, and our Spanish friends and neighbours are pleased we have stopped being so formal with our USTED.
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT COURSE…….AND SPANISH EAR
Dear Marcus
How much my wife and I appreciate Synergy Spanish. We can now speak to our Spanish neighbours and they understand us OK. We find that the words (palabras) we have learned we often pick up in the course of listening to them BUT where we have not heard a word before it often causes us to lose the context. I think your informal Spanish will also assist on that.
We look forward to progressing on to Bola de nieve and that is not bad for two octagenarians!!
Have lived in Spain for nearly four years but the last year saw our linguistic ability soar – thanks to you.
Keep up the good work and how about a supplement of words that are different to LA Spanish?
Yours sincerely BILL LISTER
Hola Marcus, Wow am I impressed. My husband Mike and I spend an hour a day learning synergy spanish and we are really enjoying it. We retired from our jobs last February and spent three months in a mountain village in Spain. The only way to converse was in Spanish as there was no English spoken by the locals. When we came back we decided we had to learn and came across your course and we are so impressed with it. We are going back to the same village in Spain in October and looking forward to being able to converse with the locals. Well done and thanks.
Hola Marcus
Thank you for your lessons. I have struggled for 7 years and, being an older person, could not find my ‘Spanish ear’! Your audio lessons have helped so much. The latest Bola de Nieve audio lessons are excellent.
Gracias, Barbara
Marcus,
Forgot to put my name on the above message….lo siento
Marie