Gracias por la course. Es bueno modo por aprender español. I am now starting on Level 2 Verb module and am really impressed with it so far. Verb conjugation was something I was worrying about learning but I like the way it is presented in the course and am finding it much easier to remember the verb endings than I thought I would. Muchas gracias por todos. ¡Qué le vaya bien! Hasta luego.
~Joycielin
I have tried many different spanish programs, my husband is Puerto Rican, and I have always wanted to be very fluent in spanish, though he has not done a great job in teaching me. I think your program is excellent, It takes a great deal of determination because it is so much to learn, but the course is well worth the money!
~Mrs. Kevilyn Joseph
Podemos agradecemos por su ayuda con espanol. My husband and I are serving a mission for our church in Florida. We were assigned to help with the Spanish members. We have been very excited about learning the Spanish Language. I went on line last July and tried every Spanish program I could find. After trying several we decided that your program was the best one. I cannot tell you how your program has helped us. We teach a "free" English class to the Spanish people who live in the area. We are implementing your program in reverse. The class delights in helping us with our Espanol and we delight in teaching English to our wonderful class members. Needless to say our English classes are full all of the time. We have been studying Espanol for one year now and we are doing better all the time. Thank you for such a wonderful learning tool. We return to our home next month but we will continue to study and learn Espanol. You should see my little manual, it is worn thin from use. (It is indispensable, I carry it everywhere I go). Gracias, muchos gracias por su ayuda!!! Dios le bendiga!!
~The Stephens
Just a short E-Mail to inform you that I have already purchased the complete Visual Link Spanish Course based on your method of teaching Spanish which I think is much better getting your attention focused to learning than other programs out there. I really enjoyed the sample lessons you provided. I have also purchased your on line Advanced Verb Module as I will be sitting a Spanish Exam next year and I need this next level to help me progress to that standard. So here's hoping that I will enjoy the whole course and hopefully this will make my studying of Spanish more interesting and enjoyable.
~James S Robb (Scotland, U.K)
I bought your program awhile back and I really love it! I'm off to Costa Rica tomorrow to learn Spanish down there for two weeks. Your program has taught me so much. I've talk to others who have attended actual classes - and I think I know more than they do. Whenever someone asks me about learning Spanish - I always recommend your program.
~Samantha Liepner
I feel that I have made a good investment purchasing the Visual Link products for two reasons: (1) the course is very easy to understand which helps you to learn faster; and gives you the possibility to test yourself at the end of each lesson, Besides the audio CDs are very helpful in a way that you can play them as many times as you want as revison of what you have learned; and (2) It is an investment which I hope that my son will benefit from if he decides to learn Spanish as well. Please keep up the excellent work you are doing and I look forward to the new product.
~Magdalene Paris
I am SO MUCH enjoying the Visual Link Spanish lessons. I have just started working with the Verb Module and it's wonderful. Just for your information, I have looked at the trial offers of Rosetta Stone and the Pimsleur Course, and BY FAR I prefer Visual Link because it is enjoyable and less stressful to me than the other two, and that makes me want to keep on learning! I also find the voices of Rulon and Maria and Dave to be MUCH MORE relaxing and pleasing.Thank you again.
~Devvy
Buenos dias Dave, Yo estoy aqui en Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico por the 4th time..maybe 5th. Studying Espanol and this time with your wonderful Visual Link CD program! It has put fun and interest into studying. I am very happy with the program and to share it with others. While I am here I will do that with others whom I have met also studying espanol.
~Judy Wray, New Jersey
I can't tell you how impressed I am with your Visual Link Spanish program. It is easy, engaging, effective, and, most of all, fun. As a teacher myself (MA Secondary Ed - 35 years experience teaching HS and Jr.HS), I congratulate you on a superb program focusing on a most common sense way to learn a language. Sincerely,
~ David Steigerwalt - Venice, FL
I find your Spanish program the best I have ever tried. After only a week on the program, I feel that I can communicate several sentences and it has really increased my confidence that I may be able to speak the language fluently in the future. I had been working on the Rosetta Stone program for almost 6 months and had acquired a number of words, but could not put sentences together. I am just so happy that I found your program, and I hope that you will have advanced program in Spanish in the future. I am a long way from that, but please keep me informed. Thank you!
~ Cheryle Slobodnik
I just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying the Visual Link Spanish program! I have learned so much since I have started using the program. It is fun to use and I feel like I have made friends with the speakers as the program is so interactive! Sometimes, it isn't easy to find someone to practice with, but with this program, I have friends just waiting for me to come and enjoy learning! No more useless games of solitaire on the computer now. I'm having just as much fun and learning Spanish at the same time! What a great program! Gracias!
~ Terri - Mississippi
I ordered your basic course quite a while back and benefited hugely from it. Now, I'm well into the Level II Verb Module and absolutely love the content and the format. Being able to repeat the exercises over and over firmly implants the conjugations into your subconscious in a very brief period of time. Like many others, I have tried a good number of different Spanish learning courses with but mediocre results. Yours, on the other hand, is simply fantastic! Thanks for all the trouble to which you have gone in order to effectively teach a beautiful language. Very best regards!
~ James O. Trotter
I have been meaning to send you an email about the course. DELIGHTED with the course content and epically how user friendly it is. My wife and I are from the "ser & estar" repetitive "teachers". Finally we have instructions as to how to bring all of these things together and make sensible sentences! We have Spanish neighbors and live in a small village. Suddenly, we both have more confidence to “speak out” & we have only had your course for just over two weeks. We are speaking Spanish in Spain! Already we are doing as you suggested in your email. We did before, but now with more confidence. All of those words and conjugated verbs suddenly begin to make sense. Muchas gracias
~ William
Two years ago I bought Spanish Complete from you. Since then I have been to Costa Rica twice. On my recent trip I spent one month in an immersion class in CRLA. You will be pleased to know that my instructors there, as well as many Ticos with whom I spoke all complemented me with great enthusiasm about my pronunciation. After testing me I was placed at once into their intermediate class. No one could believe that I had never taken lessons other than your CD course, nor had I ever been around Spanish speaking people before. I love working with your CD course and find it very useful in helping this 72 year old brain to absorb this new language. MUCHAS GRACIAS.
~ Loretta Fallon
My name is Allan F. Williams and I purchased both (Basic and Level II Verb Module) programs. I've completed the Basic program, but I continuously play the CD's at home and in my car so that it will remain in memory. With this program I am actually learning how to speak the language, make a sentence rather than just learning the grammar rules. As I said before, this is my fourth attempt at learning Spanish. This time I'm sticking with it and not asking myself "why" a sentence is said this way and not that way. This is a big problem when people take Spanish. Instead of asking "why?" ask "how?" I'm not only pleased with my progress, but also with the programs. Both programs are awesome. Also, I purchased the enhanced newsletter, which is a tremendous learning tool for those who are really serious about learning to speak as well as read the language. I truly recommend purchasing the enhanced newsletter. A big help to me is the Culture section with the weekly vocabulary word list. Thank you very much.
~ Allan F. Williams
Once again I'm just back from Mexico. I had fun talking in mixed Spanish and English to a young lady from Manzanillo. We are both learning the other's language. Anyway, I'm just one more person who continually uses your program and receives compliments on their pronunciation. It's very gratifying and all because you use native speakers and have a wonderful program to boot! Thanks again.
~ Val
Dear David Clark, Thank you for your follow up assignment. I must say that your program is the best I have encountered so far. It is straightforward and very user friendly. I have other programs, e.g. Rosetta Stone, but your program is by far the best. In such a little time I have learnt a whole lot of Spanish with your program. I work at a major city hospital in New York with over 90% native Spanish speaking staff and patients; and your software is proving to be very useful. Please let me know if you have the same kind of program for French. And keep up the good work. Thank you very much. Sincerely,
~ Ernest Bhabor
I was apprehensive about purchasing this program so I opted for the free trial online and the CD-ROM !!! I'm so thankful for those options after trying them several times- I figured, I would only gain more knowledge from the complete course and the monthly installment plan was a Wonderful incentive. My teenage daughter has been taking Spanish classes going into her fourth year and I have to say-since getting the complete course a little over 4wks and practicing when I can(single working mom of six)-I can actually ask her questions and respond in Spanish !!!! Also in my department at work a few co-workers have heard me practicing on my lunch and when we receive a Spanish callers they actually transfer the customers to me!!! I have gladly recommended the course to several co-workers and friends. Gracias.
~ Candy
First I want to tell you how impressed I am with the Institutes product; and I am not one that is easily impressed. My life right now is quite busy and I have barely begun with the lessons that I have already purchased; but the little that I have done has made me comfortable about actually learning the language and becoming functional in Spanish...Your lessons are excellent; especially for a language dummy like me.
~AL~
Hola Dave, Thanks for following up. I just thought I'd let you know how things are going. I've been studying regularly and I am having so much fun I don't want to finish the program. I have taken formal lessons and tried many different tapes and computer discs. Your system is better than any other language tool I have encountered. Its makes sense. The material is presented in a way that stays in my memory. I'm not just memorizing a bunch of rules and phrases; I'm really learning how to speak Spanish. Nos vemos,
~ Mike
Dave, I spoke with the cleaning lady in our office who speaks very little English. She understood me!! I absolutely love this program, especially with my limited time. I was taking a Spanish class offered by a local church as part of their outreach program, as I live in a highly Hispanic area. I became very frustrated and was learning nothing. I take my time with your course and find I have learned more in just a few hours than I did in several weeks taking the class.
~ Terri Dempsey
Hola! ¿Cómo está? My husband is a native speaker from Mexico - I needed the course to link sentences properly. This is a great course. Thanks
~ Jill Rios
Gracias en todo por la program de computadora Visual Link, es muy bueno. [Spanish Version] Con Visual Link yo puedo aprender más espanol en una hora que la seis meses viajo en Chile Sud Americano. Visual link trabaja con enseñar a hacer oraciones y hablar, no hay mucha "grammar". Yo no aprendo a decir frances en ocho años de Canada escuela frances lecciones, pero en tres semana con Visual link yo puedo decirle a la gente espanol. Muchas gracias Visual Link. Thank you for developing the program Visual Link, it is excellent. [English Translation] With Visual Link I was able to learn more Spanish in one hour that in the six months I spent in Chile South America. Visual link works on teaching sentences and talking, without confusing things with a lot of grammar. I don't know how to speak any French at all with eight years of Canadian school system French (Which focuses more on grammar), but in three weeks with Visual Link I was able to have a simple conversation with Spanish speaking people. Thank you very much Visual Link. I have recommended to many people that they try your demo on the web site. Thank you!
~ Bonnar Beach, Ontario, Canada
Thanks, Dave. I received your Visual Link Spanish sample CD last week. I thought it was great. At the beginning of the year I signed-up for a beginning Spanish class, sponsored by a local college. For me, this eight-week class seems disorganized and difficult, while my progress with the language has been frustrating and discouraging. On the other hand your sample CD gave me the immediate impression that Spanish can be taught with classic organization, providing students like me with step-by-step, encouraging progress. I only wish I had spent the money on your Visual Spanish course rather than this class. Our class meets for just two more weeks, ending March 21. I only wish I had sample CD's for all fifteen students. I bet they all would be interested in your course. Thanks!
~ Jerry Kern
Hola Dave, I'm doing pretty well with my Español. I have a wonderful daughter-in-law who is Spanish. She lets me practice with her. I've been watching Spanish TV too. That's the way she learned a lot of English. I'm really amazed at your Spanish course. I've learned a lot in a short time. Gracias.
~ Nancy Land
I just wanted you to know that the reason that I bought this course was because I meet Spanish speaking people regularly in my job. I am a telephone tech, with Verizon Business and I often have to do work for Spanish only customers. It has been a struggle in the past because I would have to work through an interpreter over the phone. I knew that I needed to learn some basic Spanish in order to be more effective in my job and make it easier for my customers to relate their problems to me. I am slowly learning to talk with my customers without an interpreter. I have a way to go before I am truly conversant, but your course is helping. Thanks.
~ Jim
About 3 years ago I purchased one of your competitor’s products. I used their product for about 3 months and could do no more than mutter a few works in Spanish. You product had me communicating in sentences within a week. It is amazing that after getting the jump start with your product I was able to go back to those CD’s and actually understand much more. The teaching approach you used in level 1 is by far the best and most effective I have tried. I have completed level 1 and I am now working on your level 2 course.
~ Todd
Hello David, I've had your Spanish "Visual Link" course for a couple of weeks now. I am very impressed to date. I've always known quite a few words in Spanish, but never had the ability to, as they say "put it all together". Your course has really allowed me to do that. I find myself thinking in Spanish quite a bit with a lot of things I'm trying to say in English, day to day. I'm really taking my time, as I've just finished the 5 sections associated with "basic needs". Your approach to grouping words in "basic needs" is brilliant. I feel really confident and don't require the manual as the instruction is so good. "Maria" has an excellent voice for learning!! I took a chance buying your product, as there are so many Spanish courses available. I believe I chose well and will recommend it to others. Gracias.
~ Don McLeod
Hi Dave, First I want to tell you how impressed I am with the Institutes product; and I am not one that is easily impressed. My life right now is quite busy and I have barely begun with the lessons that I have already purchased; but the little that I have done has made me comfortable about actually learning the language and becoming functional in Spanish. Your email address is in my address book and when I am less busy and closer to Belize, you will most definitely be hearing from me. Your lessons are excellent; especially for a language dummy like me.
~ Allen
Buenos Dias!!! I had to let you know how much I am enjoying my Spanish course!!! I am a Winter Texan, 6 months in Canada and 6 in South Texas. I have been visiting Texas for 21 years and have always wanted to be able to speak the language. I tried the Berlitz course and always found myself becoming bored very quickly. Obviously, I have the basic knowledge of Spanish, but was always unable to put sentences together. I received your course five days ago, and have spent a half hour a day studying. I am only on lesson 3 and already am able to communicate with my Spanish friends. They are absolutely amazed at how well I am doing in such a short time. Your course is nothing short of a miracle. Thank you so much.
~ Bev Bolianaz
Good morning, I purchased the complete Visual Link spanish program a couple of weeks ago and I must tell you, this is the best. I had started with Rosetta Stone but I returned it yesterday. I just have a question - do you offer a level II? Thanks!
~ Amir
Hi Dave! I love the program! It's working very well for my 9 year old son and I. We home-school and Spanish is our chosen foreign language, but I didn't speak Spanish until last year when I started getting your newsletters. I've now got the program and we're using the computer program as my son's curriculum. He actually sits down and does his lessons! I've become friends with a Mexican woman in our city and we exchange language lessons. We meet for 1 hour a week and she practices her English, while I practice my Spanish. It's working out well for all of us.
~ Kim
Mission accomplished... Courseware is very helpful with 'pronunciation' phonetics. The specific sounds were my main problem previously, along with basic verb usage. Thanks for putting together a relatively easy and simple course of basic instruction.
~ Charles Chambliss
I just read some comments on your home page and I agree with what they say. You people are the best. I wanted to take another course from another company but I would have had notebooks and books all over the place. The CD-ROMs are great and the best part I like about the course is listening to Maria and David speak Spanish and I can understand them. Muchas gracias!
~ Ralph
Hola Dave!I really appreciate Maria's diction, the actual word usage instead of some esoteric textbook approach, the ability to play something slowly if you need to and the advice on the phrase to let native speakers know you need for them to slow down! You've done an excellent job! Gracias!
~ Terence
I really enjoy this kit. It is really a quick way to learn. Also these newsletters are very good and helpful. I had some doubts before buying this set but although I am very new to it, I am really glad. Thanks a lot for this great job. I am soon planning to go to Spain to make some practice and enjoy the time :)))
~ Esperanza
David, The VLS course in nothing less than incredible. What a fantastic technique. The pace and diction of Maria and the lessons are wonderful. The whole system is a fun and easy way to learn. You have certainly out classed the industry, and of course I will tell friends. Deservedly so. Sincerely,
~ Ron Muller
Hola Dave, Once again thank you for your wonderful newsletters every week. I have just returned from Costa Rica again and while there was told I speak very good Spanish, especially my accent. I was told it was very “proper” This is all with thanks to your online lessons. I could not speak one word of Spanish before starting your lessons and now, at least I can converse and make myself understood, mind you I still have a long way to go, but I am having fun learning. Hasta luego,
~ Christine
Dave, I have to tell you I have just about every learn Spanish book, tape, etc. and never could remember anything after studying forever. After finding your course! it hit the mark, even if I lag and don't keep up for a while, I seem to always remember everything I have learned from your course, never could do that with any other! All the others I had to always start on page 1 again, because I had forgotten it all almost by the time I put the book down, (it just didn't stick with me like your course does.) The others teach words and rules but no real life conversation. Thanks so much for creating a Perfect and fun, learning system for Spanish.
~ Anthony
Dear Dave, I have been enjoying my Visual Link Spanish CDs very much. I am using them to augment a 5-credit Spanish course that I am taking at the college. Our text book came with some CDs but yours are so much better, so I listen to them instead. I am learning Spanish so I can communicate better with my daughter-in-law's family. They are Mexican and have many family gatherings where I can practice my Spanish. Also, I'd like to help my grandsons (ages 2 and 3) to become bilingual. Nebraska has a large Spanish-speaking population, and I want to be able to keep up with what's going on in the conversations around me. I'm sort of an "old dog" and learning Spanish is a new trick, but thanks to your program I'm am getting an A in my class. Thank you,
~ Megan
Your course is the best! I learned Spanish ‘on the fly’ with two years of immersion in Colombia and your course parallels my ‘field course’. I think that your course provides the essential skills in the right sequence. It is the course that I would have liked to develop myself, but now that would be redundant. Your course, with a pocket dictionary and the use of informants (as you include), should enable anyone to succeed in communication. Thanks,
~ Frank Skee
David, The basic course arrived Monday. I think it is great. It is so easy to understand; I can go at the pace that is just right for me and review all I need to! I have confidence that on my next trip to Mexico, I will be able to converse a little without asking "Do you speak English?" first. Thanks for this terrific product!
~ Jon House
Dear Mr. Clark, My mother sent for your complete program recently and I had to write and tell you what I think of it. It is fantastic!!!!!!! I learned more in one night than I did in the two courses I took at a local collage. No kidding! Your lessons make it so easy to not only learn but retain what you learn with little effort. I also have other tapes I've used over the last few years and they can't compare with yours. Thank goodness I found your site online. Now I know I'll learn Spanish after many frustrating previous attempts. Thanks for a wonderful product that really does what it says it will! Yours truly,
~ Donna Lebo
Hi, I've been working at [the Visual Link Spanish™ course] for three weeks, now. Twenty minutes in the morning and in the evening. I had studied Spanish previously but had never been able to put a sentence together. Your course is simple but very efficient. Sometimes deceptively simple, too. I also subscribed to your Verb Module II. *This is a gem*. I had to tell you. I've never seen anything so well organized and well structured. This is really the key to mastering Spanish. Once the present and preterit are mastered, learning the other tenses will be a piece of cake. I extend to you my warmest congratulations for this Verb Module...on the whole congratulations. Kind regards.
~ Bernard Chevrier
I recently purchased your course. Thank you for this method of teaching Spanish. It is great!!! This is a very effective method and I am well pleased with the course. I have recommended the course to several other people trying to learn Spanish.
~ John
HI!! I would like to tell you that I received your full course and believe me I'm felling really fluent in just 3 weeks!! The secret is to spend just 30 minutes a day. Thanks a lot!!
~ Christopher Grech
Hello, I ordered the Spanish Course from your site and have finished it. It is BY FAR the best Spanish course I have used -- and I have used several... Thank you for producing a quality product. I feel more confident in Spanish than I ever have.
~ Joan Turrentine
I purchased the course because I have married into a Spanish speaking family. I have found the course very easy to learn from. My mother in law has commented on how much my Spanish has improved. I have previously been attending evening classes to learn Spanish, but with only limited success. I feel much more confident in my Spanish now and feel that I am getting somewhere. Thank you for providing a wonderful course.
~ Peter Gillespie
Just wanted to let you know a few things. I purchased the CD-ROMs, outstanding, very easy to learn. It actually makes learning a new language enjoyable. I also enjoy receiving your newsletters.
~ Christine
Thank you so much for the Visual Link Spanish program. I am amazed by how much I have learned so quickly. I teach English as a second language. Right now all of my students speak Spanish. I can teach them English without knowing Spanish, but learning Spanish has helped me become a better teacher and friend to my students. Recently, I was helping the family of some of my students. I was in a situation where I was waiting with the mother, who spoke no English. She was very patient with me and I was able to understand most of what she said and express most of the things I wanted to say in Spanish. I am only on lesson 10, but I will soon finish all of the lessons.
~ Laurel Parmley
I've been using it and it is a great program! I've tried several Spanish learning programs, and this one is by far the best.
~ Jana Blanco
The manual was very simple and easy to understand. It was very user friendly. I really liked the layout and how each section built on the previous section. It was very methodical. The layout was very logical.
~ Louvonne Newman - Quality Department (E-Tech) Autoliv
Many thanks ... This CD-Rom system really works.
~ Maaike De Bie
The form that the course is in- with the subjects that you couple with the verbs and objects- is just so appealing to my mind's logic that it sold me on your course above all the others I looked at online.
~ Jeff Glen
I like the mini-manual the most because it demonstrates sentence construction and is the best aid for participating in actual conversation.
~ Catharine Wofford
The materials were organized in a manner that allowed us to begin conversing immediately and build our vocabulary from a basic foundation!
~ Laurie Clark - Manager FMC Jetway
I am half-way through the Level 1 Spanish Course and have nothing but praise for it. I have wanted to learn Spanish for Thirty Years. I am finally doing it with your program. . . . [Three Months Later, Jim wrote back.] My wife and I just spent 10 days in Cancun [Mexico]. I had just completed about 80% of your Spanish Level 1 course. My wife couldn't believe how well I did with communicating with everyone from bell boys to sales people to folks at the airport. I want to personally thank you again for such a great course.
~ Jim Schulz
"The program is simple enough to use for even the most inexperienced computer user. It is also fun to use, as well as an effective learning tool…I have had many positive responses from employees regarding the program."
~ Chris Ward – Weber County Government Offices
Just wanted you to know how much I am enjoying the lessons. I had previously tried learning Spanish from some audio tapes, and also had a Spanish grammar book, but your system is by far the best. It is wonderful to be able to hear and see the words and phrases at the same time.
~ Joy Outka, South Dakota
Hi Dave, I have recently received my Spanish program, it is very easy to learn from this format. I have been trying others but in the five days I have used this program I have already begun putting sentences together! Thank you. ..Again many thanks I feel I can finally learn Spanish.
~ Gail Wise
Dear Visual Link: My husband and I purchased the full set of the VisualLink Spanish program as well as the DLC, and I want to say that it has surpassed all the teaching methods that we have gone through to achieve a workable level of Spanish. Where we live in Rojales, about 40 miles south-west of Alicante airport, our neighbours are Dutch, German, French and English and so we only speak English as the common medium of communication. However, I do practise my Spanish at the supermarket, garden centre, hairdressers ˜ anywhere where I meet a Spanish person ˜ not as often as I would like, but I have found over the months that I am able to follow what is spoken to me. The greatest thing of all is to observe that my spoken Spanish is also being understood! Three cheers for Visual Link!
~ Mei-Ling Mackellow
I would like to say that I am extremely happy with your course and have found it to be a very good learning method.
~ Mary Synnot
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