One Year with Baselang: The Best Spanish Learning Program
2020 ж. 21 Қыр.
15 874 Рет қаралды
I have been using Baselang's Real World Program for just over a year now and I absolutely love it!
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Thank you for this review, Laura. I'm planning to start learning Spanish as I plan to move to a Latin American country in about a year from Canada.
Wow!!!! That was nice. You're Spanish has improved a lot. Now we may be able to communicate en Español
Thank you so much! Yes, it's all good practice!
Very good insight. I’m thinking of signing up for it. Thanks for sharing.
Muy bueno Laura 🌹
wow!!! I'm signing up
I just signed up using your link !
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I thought your Spanish was excellent. In fact, it speaks well for the program. Your pronunciation is spot on!
You've really mailed the accent! Congratulations 🎉
Thank you so much!
@@laura-bronner I was confused for a second because in the first few seconds, I thought that you were a native speaker.
Congratulations!!! Hablas muy fluido el español, tienes un 9!!
Tu español es bueno, me da gusto que te guste vivir en México. Veo tus videos para escuchar ingles. Saludos
Congrats. You sound great! I was studying with Baselang and enjoying it until covid wrecked my work life and I had to stop. Hope to start again soon.
Tu español es muy bueno, te felicito, continua así porque la verdad tu pronunciacion es muy buena.
Buen trabajo Laura! Uso Baselang tambien!
Gracias!
This was a fabulous review.. I really got a lot out of it.. i am looking to goto Medellin to learn in person, but maybe i would continue online after the initial in-person learning.. seems like a decently run company.
You sounded great to me!
Congratulations Laura Your Spanish is Getting Much Better You Are A Faster Learner.
Thank you so much! I'm working hard every day to improve!
youre amazing
I am very impressed with your Spanish. I would love to speak that well. (yes yes yes yes I know I need to put in the time). I can understand everything you’re saying but I couldn’t even get close to speaking as well as you, not even close. In fact I can’t imagine ever being that close! Great for you!!
Thank you so much! It's taken a lot of work and I'm sure you'll get there too! I hear people who have been in Mexico for many years and think the same, I'll never be that good! But here's hoping! haha
Very nice and neutral spanish you have... ¡¡Felicidades!!
Gracias!
You have a great Spanish accent. I'm teacher from Colombia. Congrats 👌🏾
Thank you!
@@laura-bronner O have been watching your shows and they are great great. My nfriend Curt and his wife yolanda plan on visiting Los Cbos in October this year . We would like to meet with you..
¡Buen trabajo! Estoy aprendiendo Español tambien. 🙂
Gracias! y Que padre que estas aprendiendo español tambien! Que programas estás usando para practicar?
Eternal Expat Yo tomé tres cursos enlinea con Powerspeak y estoy usando Duolingo para practicar vocabulario, pero no tengo una programa para hablando. Creo que Baselang parece una buena opción para eso.
Wow your Spanish is good not bad👍
I just started this week am loving it! I’m a spanish major looking to improve for a placement test. Su español es fantástico!
Erickson Films , are you saying that you started with baselang? I’m thinking of doing the same. Would love to hear your opinion
Brentwood620 hi! I did not start with baselang. I have been studying Spanish for years, and would say I learned the majority of it through the comprehensive input method. I started baselang a week ago and feel I have learned a tremendous amount!
No tengas pena (asi lo dicen en Mexico) No tengas miedo! I am impressed how well you are speaking and your accent is pretty darn good too! Well done!
Gracias!
Hi , good spanish accent , !!!! :-) Yo creo que en 3 o 4 meses dominaras el español, cuidense mucho, saludos,
Gracias! Espero que si!!
fyi: just signed up using your link.
I have been with Baselang since August of this year, first in Grammarless, now in Real World. I was assigned an excellent teacher for Grammarless and we are continuing together in Real World. I have been doing 30-minute lessons for conversation practice with other teachers, and that has been valuable in hearing different accents and acquiring additional vocabulary. i definitely recommend the program.
Hi Andrew! It's cool reading your experience. I'd like to know what language you are learning and also how often you have to use English in order to understand each other.
@@CarlosAMC96 I have two teachers in Baselang; one speaks English, the other doesn't. With my English-speaking teacher, we keep the English to the barest minimum but still occasionally need it.
@@AAbshier Thanks, man. 🤓
Sorry to bother bro but I'm super curious to try baselang but also I've tried so many programs and haven't learned anything, I guess my question to you would be is this program any different, was the grammarless helpful? And how much has your Spanish improved? Do you just talk in Spanish all class and she explains what you're talking about or do they just teach you phrases all day like the apps do?
@@juneclark7321 Neither. You do learn some idiomatic phrases, but for the most part you are talking as much as possible. This is what makes their program different, and for me, at least, so effective. You can spend all day on a language program memorizing phrases, learning grammar and vocabulary, etc., but that does not prepare you for conversation. What Baselang is doing is starting with conversation out the gate, because when you get down to it, you're going to be out in the world with Spanish speakers, and you're going to have to be able to talk on your own, as much as possible. IT CAN BE DONE! I'm 61 and I'm speaking better Spanish than I ever have.
Hi there Eternal! Would Baselang be a good idea for someone who is absolute beginner? How often is English language use? Or do teachers speak the target language all the time?
Today is my Day 12 in Baselang (7 "free" days and 5 on the monthly plan) and I have done 90+ classes (at least 45 hours) already. In this time my Spanish has skyrocketed. I actually had proper conversations (albeit with many grammar and vocab holes and me totally using wrong tenses and Spanglish) with 2 different tutors both for 1 hour each in the past 2 days and have had other decent conversations in broken Spanish as well. I did not start from Ground Zero but I do know that I have a looooot to work on but Baselang Real World is an AMAZING resource that I would recommend to the world! PS Your journey, articles and tips are very inspirational. Thank you.
Was it hard to find an instructor when you wanted?
@@robertbetancourt2855 Absolutely not. In fact, I just booked a class at 10pm for 10pm. It is more of a challenge to book "popular" teachers. Unless you make them a favourite, there are quite a few teachers that are always booked.
@@RoscoeStar wow. Thanks! I may give it a shot.
@@robertbetancourt2855 It is totally worth it! In my 1 week trial I took at least 25 hours of classes. Last month I took almost 90 hours because I had the free time. I am glad I did because something serious came up so I cannot take much classes so I take 1 hour a day now. Overall, my ability to communicate and understand have shot up in those 5 weeks. The curriculum is excellent and the teachers are as well. Once you are committed to learning, you will benefit.
@@RoscoeStar 25 hours?? That’s like an immersion class. Exactly what I need. I was going to sign up for a class at a community college but this one sounds much more convenient
Were you able to find teachers from Mexico? So far I have only found from Venezuela, and there a few things that they say dramatically different than what i have heard in Spanish (Mexico).
I heard it’s really hard to book lessons with your favorite teachers now
Laura tienes un excelente español , no se te nota el acento americano !
Muchísimas gracias!
For someone at beginner level, would you recommend real world or grammerly?
What is your honest opinion for grammerless class? I was thinking of going straight to grammerless. Seems like that would be better even though the price seems very high.
Eres muy bonita laura 😍🌹 and i like your videos!
are you wearing a Pounamu from New Zealand around your neck? I found that cool to see since I am from NZ :)
Yes I am! I lived in New Zealand many years ago, such a magical country ❤️❤️
I'm looking to learn Spanish too. So Baselang is really good?
Good job! I speak Spanish but I don’t think my Spanish is that good. Lol I may need to try it out.
Thank you! I highly recommend it if you want to practice speaking, it's been so great for that!
You did great! I thought it was much less than $150. That's a lot.
Best review I have seen about Baselang. It at least seems to be honest and not sponsored. How many teachers are from countries other than Venezuala? If I wanted to learn a particular accent, such as Argentinian/Uruguyan, could I find enough available teachers to make Baselang worth the money?
At one point there were quite a lot of Argentinian teachers. I don't think you can sort by where the teacher is from, so it's hard to know until you speak to them, but maybe you can message the team (there's a little chat box option once you log into your Baselang account) and ask if they can recommend the names of some teachers from Argentina. There are also quite a lot of teachers from Colombia. I've had a few from Mexico, two or three from Ecuador and one from Chile. So they are definitely expanding the pool of teachers available.
Great video! For beginner do you recommend doing granmarless first then moving to real world? Or do you think a beginner can progress as fast putting in the same time in real world.
Wondering the same.
@@crosenth5217 i signed up and I’m not sure but I’m really enjoying the lessons. I went with Real World and i don’t regret the decision. Grammar lesson would have been way too confining. And I’m choosing to follow the curriculum
If anyone can help … I’m new to base lane and prefer Mexican teachers , I’d there anyway for me to do that ?
did you mean to say $150 US dollars per month for lessons?
Hola soy de ecuador , y mi idioma materno es el español , y estoy aprendiendo ingles , si te interesa podemos intercambiar idiomas, saludos
Wow! I think your spanish sound great! I've been doing Italki for six weeks (spending considerably more!!:() and am off to a good start, but hope to have your skills eventually!! Are you still studying Spanish now? Still on baseline or using another program? Muchas gracias por tu video!:)
Italki sucks
-People who spraks Spanish is more than people who speaks French or Arabic ,even English if we count the number of espanique who lives in the USA . -I 'm really interesting in learning spanish but I can't ,I 'm getting old , and spanish has very diffecult grammar . Spanish is a romantic language like Italian
Woah I thought you were a native. o: Congrats
i am at a1 right now spanish can baselang take me to b2? i am looking for a program that can do that and your spanish sounds great you are my goals !
For sure, with time and classes at least a few times a week. I would say when I started with Baselang I was A2 and now I feel pretty confident speaking - somewhere between B2 and C1.
@@laura-bronner great how many hours did you do per day? its a big sturggle to find something cheap and effective that can really teach you the language in detail i tried rosseta stone and pimsluer before.
"Baselang" sounds great for intermediate students
I used it as almost a complete beginner and it took me to a conversational level in only a few months 👍
how large is the difference in accent between Mexico and Colombia or Venezuela? i mean... even in Mexico alone, the accent varies from one area to the next. Is the accent radically different to the point that it would confuse someone just beginning to learn? I won't be selecting anyone from Spain or Argentina or Peru initially.
The accents of Venezuela and Colombia are some of the most neutral Spanish accents. Living in Mexico City I also felt the accent was quite clear and easy to understand. They are good places to start and then once you have a solid foundation of the language you can start challenging yourself with different accents using podcasts or KZhead videos as well 🤷♀️
@@laura-bronner i currently have an instructor who is half-venezuelan and half-colombian ....and I have a co-worker who I chat with who lives in Mexico. sounds like I'm in a good place. Thanks for the response!!
At what point in one’s study do you recommend taking baselang lessons? Eg absolute beginner, beginner, intermediate
In my opinion, beginner. You want to have at least a little exposure to Spanish (going through the first checkpoint in Duolingo should be enough) to be prepared for the lessons. If you don't even know how to say "hola" or "coma estás" then I wouldn't start with Baselang.
Im trying to get my 2 kids to learn English can u help me out
I always though you are a Chicana speak fluent Spanish.. you are actually a gringa who learned Spanish
Wow. Tu Espanol es muy bonito y claro! Ni Siquiera acento tienes. Animo Habla mas videos en Espanol! Alguien me dijo un dia. Solo los grandes lideres se atreven a cometer errorres. Los triunfos y exitos. Estan llenos de grandes errorres. Nadie hablara de esos errores. Porque el exito. Sera superior. Te recomiendo maestros que no pierdan el tiempo en gramatica. la mayoria de hispanos. no sabemos gramatica. Solo sabemos hablar espanol. Bien!
Muchas gracias! Tienes razon, necesito practicar hablar mas, especialmente cuando no estoy frente a una camara jaja. La mejor práctica es hablar el idioma! Creo que voy a hacer un video solamente en español en unas semanas!
So you learn to speak Spanish ,but do you learn to read and write as well?
So you did a year at $150. A month? That’s pretty stiff price. Now your living in Mexico. ? Good for you. Good luck
I've been doing it for a few months. Share your favourite teacher's name...DM it if it's awkward lol
I don't know if people would be willing to do that. It's normally a fight to the death for the availablility of good teachers lol. Don't need more competition for those spots ;)
@@cody4004 lol I've seen you ask before, buddy. Share the love. We end up supporting the teachers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wished I had a girl like her
Se olle muy natural, ni parece que no sea tu idioma natal
A better way than the accent to blend in with the natives is vocabulary, and knowledge of pop culture. Just try to sound like yourself and speak well.
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