Regional Series 2- Lesson Design????

[djthyberg]

Hello everyone,

This is David, head editor with Spod101.com

I would like the feedback of you, the students, as we are in the process of preparing a new Regional Series 2!!!

Currently, Regional Series 1 consists of Iberian, Costa Rican, and Peruvian Spanish segments that all correspond to Newbie Lessons.

Now, for season 2, we are looking at adding Mexican and Argentinian segments.

What we would like to know is this... Would you prefer that the new season correspond to sequential lower intermediate lessons in terms of topics and level of difficulty for the material, just as the first season did with Newbie level topics?

Or would you prefer to have some of the segments correspond to Newbie level, others to Beginner, others to Lower and Upper intermediate levels. This option is less sequential, so it would not be possible to reference lessons with each other as we have been doing in the first season. You go into less depth on each individual topic. However, it would provide a more broad range of topics and levels of difficulty.

WE WANT TO DESIGN OUR COURSE TO YOUR NEEDS!!!
(That's why learning Spanish with Spod101.com is so unique and effective)

Let us know what you think about the NEW REGIONAL SERIES SEASON 2, and we will do our best to meet your language learning needs. Wink

Mil gracias,
-David T.

[el estudiante]

Fantastic! I just signed up this week, and I really like that section. Actually, the regional dialect used in the intermediate sections is why I signed up. I think that the use of the formal as well as the regional is incredibly important to any serious language learner. My suggestion would be to have a menu off to the side at some point organizing the lessons by regions. Just my two cents. Love this place, you guys are incredible!

[jpv206]

Hola el estudiante!

Welcome to sp101! I'm glad you enjoy the regional series! Currently, our New York team is publishing Absolute Beginner Season 1, Beginner Season 5, Lower Intermediate Season 3, and Refresher Season 1, and due to the make up of the team, the regional bent that we currently have is decidedly Mexican. You'll find that our dialogs are written according to level, and then the lesson is built around the dialogs (and not the other way around). In fact, I'm happy to say that I'm learning something new about Spanish all the time thanks to these new lessons, because of the priority we put on authentic language.