Audio Spanish lessons are one of the simplest methods to learn Spanish or to bone up on your command of the language.  With audio Spanish lessons you can learn or refresh your Spanish language talents while you do other stuff; something which is very appealing to those with a small amount of spare time.

Myself, I’ve listened audio Spanish lessons on audio tapes, CDs, and Mp3 files to learn Spanish while traveling to work, jogging, gardening and doing all sorts of other stuff.  You can put most of these audio Spanish lessons on an iPod or other MP3 player and learn on the go.

Using audio Spanish lessons lets you do more things at once, so you can learn Spanish while you do nearly any standard activity.  You can learn Spanish while working out at the gym, cooking dinner, gardening or almost anything else you like.

Naturally, not all audio Spanish lessons programs on the market are similarly helpful.  I have attempted some that do not more than rattle off a listing of Spanish phrases with no sort of context.  When separated from their standard place in conversational language, this is next to useless.  This is the approach taken by many of the cheaper programs that don’t truly help you to learn the language; in truth, many of these programs actually make it seem a lot harder to learn Spanish than it truly is.  There are a number of better options than these rote memorization style programs.

A couple of the better programs to come out recently are Learning Spanish Like Crazy and Rocket Spanish.  Both of these are available on CD or can be downloaded from the Web for immediate access.  Both use modern South American conversational Spanish as their basis, instead of being primarily based on the kind of formal Spanish that Cervantes would have used.

Besides the audio part of the program, Rocket Spanish also includes MegaAudio, MegaVerbs and MegaVocab.  These interactive games help individuals to learn and as importantly, remember what they’ve learned.

Both Rocket Spanish and Learning Spanish Like Crazy involve you immediately in conversational Spanish.  There are no long vocabulary lists to memorize but instead you get to use the language in context instantly.  You learn the vocabulary and verb tenses as you go.

Rosetta Stone is another well-liked series of language instruction software which makes a great way to learn a new language interactively, building a mastery of language over a period of time.  However, the Rosetta Stone system won’t allow you to begin employing a new language in conversation swiftly.  Combined with one of the audio Spanish lesson courses however that gets you into conversational Spanish immediately, it could be a strong methodology for learning Spanish very quickly, acquiring conversational talent, vocabulary and a grasp of the mechanics of the language concurrently.

Thanks to the popularity that Rocket Spanish and Learning Spanish Like Crazy have accomplished, there are a growing number of the older language learning programs that are trying to adopt their more interactive approach to learning.  The scholar of Spanish is smart to avoid the cheaper foreign language instructional programs — they tend to either use the rote memorization style or are poor imitations of Rosetta Stone’s system; in either case, less than effective and unquestionably not pleasant to use.

The audio Spanish lessons offered by the Pimsleur Spanish language programs are also superb if enhanced with Spanish language games and Spanish language reading lessons.  Regardless of the claims made in their adverts, Pimsleur doesn’t teach you how to read Spanish while the 3 programs I mentioned above include reading Spanish as a part of their programs.

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