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Should you practise LESS to speak better Spanish?: How laziness might help you become a more natural speaker - £50 voucher inside (Crafting the Spanish Brain - a Trip into Neurolinguistics Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Aran Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.3 3.3 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
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Based on new research from the University of Chicago, a small number of language learners started some unusual experiments.

In this brief but detailed account of their experiences, you'll find out:

- how Louis spent 14 months without using any Spanish at all, and what he did that gave him 80% of his Spanish back in 30 minutes,

- how Aran managed to survive being stranded with his 4 year old daughter in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands after a single day of learning Dutch, and

- how what they discovered will make learning Spanish easier, faster and more enjoyable for you.

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This edition includes a £50 voucher for almost 3 hours of Spanish audio training - no further purchase necessary.
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    July 1, 2014
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00M0T5HUC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ SaySomethingin.com Ltd; 1st edition (July 1, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1946 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 11 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.3 3.3 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

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3.3 out of 5 stars
3.3 out of 5
27 global ratings

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Harry
1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T FALL FOR IT!
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2016
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Very annoyed. This is not really a book. It's very, very short. It is an ad to lead you to purchasing access to some audio files. (It gives you a link to a voucher for some "free" access. If you follow the link, you have to either use Facebook or provide an email address to get the voucher. I did neither, but I am sure it will then try to sell you access to more than the 5 audio session the voucher is supposed to give you.

I love books about language learning, but this one is not really a book about language learning. It has no substantive content.

Don't pay to get an ad! I want my 99 cents back!
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M. W. Ellwood
5.0 out of 5 stars Do more with less, but do it more effectively.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 24, 2014
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I've studied Aran Jones' original beginner and intermediate Welsh courses fairly thoroughly (and the advanced one more superficially), and am quickly whipping through the new version of the beginner course before tackling the advanced one more thoroughly.

So I know that the "Say Something In ..." method works very effectively.

Now the temptation is to repeat each lesson over and over until you are sure you know everything, and that's what I tended to do in the beginning, as an almost complete beginner in Welsh. However, I did find that, as I went along, confidence in the method grew, and that sometimes I'd move on to the next lesson without needing to repeat.

While I might not have gone as far as Aran describes in his book re: Dutch, I did occasionally have longer sessions of 2 or 3 lessons back to back, and usually didn't have to repeat them next day.

Aran and Louis seem to have taken it to the next level, and have demonstrated that our subconscious seems to be a lot cleverer than we might think.

All this does of course depend on having the right method of learning to start with, and I'm sure the Say Something in Spanish courses will be just as effective as the tried and tested Welsh ones have been for so many learners.

So you can do more with less, but you have to be doing it in the right way, and "Say Something In ..." is the right way, or at least the most effective way I've found so far, of getting you speaking and understanding from day one, and doing so confidently.
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Mark Edward Rasmussen
1.0 out of 5 stars I feel pretty misled, and to be honest I think Amazon ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2014
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I feel pretty misled, and to be honest I think Amazon should remove this 'book' from their listings. It consists of approximately 7 or 8 pages of spiel aimed at selling the reader his full course. Basically you're paying to read an advertizement, which you could read for free on the company website. Yes it's 0.77p, but it's a complete con.
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Carl
4.0 out of 5 stars Great little book. Well worth a quid and a bit of reading time.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2017
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As a long-time language learner, I think I already knew, or at least suspected, what Aran reveals in this little book. And I don't think it just applies to languages, but to other academic disciplines as well. However, with the publication of this small book, I have somewhere to point people who would like to see scientific evidence beyond the mere anecdotal. I love Aran's work, BTW.
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Ianto
5.0 out of 5 stars More than well worth the money.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2014
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This short booklet is a brief explanation of some of the thinking behind the course Say Something in Spanish, written by the author, along with a voucher for five half-hour audio lessons in Spanish (the voucher referred to on the cover). I know from experience that the teaching method is effective and the lessons are, in my opinion, excellent.

The main evidence provided in this booklet is a link to a study by the Illinois University (an interesting study, included with the booklet) which implies that acquired language skills do not deteriorate over time, and may actually increase slightly even if no further practice is done with them, together with two real-life examples of using the implications of this with the language course.

The basic idea of the booklet is that this implies if you have proper teaching, (such as the course lessons provided) you will probably be able to spend much less time learning than you would otherwise.

This booklet, together with the lessons provided, which as I say I know from experience are effective, is in my opinion worth a great deal more than seventy-seven pence.
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chri
1.0 out of 5 stars really
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2014
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This is not for me.
I prefer to study in the conventional way using textbooks and tutors; my personal view.
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