Learn Spanish Using the Dynamic Immersion Method
Is This the Right Approach?
by John R. Olson 

No other language is growing as fast in United States and the world today as Spanish. Today the popular language courses like Rosetta Stone and Rocket Spanish use a process called dynamic immersion to help students to learn language. The question is does it make sense to learn Spanish using this approach?

The process that many of the popular language courses teach Spanish is called Dynamic Immersion. The goal of this approach is to learn how to speak Spanish and become relatively fluent in a short period of time. Most researchers believe that the best way to learn Spanish is to replicate the way in which we originally learn language. As children we learn any language by using all of our senses: sight, touch, smell, and of course hearing. Association with words comes by engaging all of our senses around the word. For example, think of the word silk, you can almost feel that sensation against your skin. The process is not one of pure memorization.

The dynamic immersion process of learning Spanish can be broken down into several components that are based on one or more forms of sensory abilities. The first step I the dynamic immersion process is to learn how to associate pictures with words. The process when we were children was done by trial and error. In today's computer based learning approached this process is easily duplicated with the computer. Making mistakes and learning from them is the fastest way to learn anything. This approach is a form of inductive learning and much of the research in higher education demonstrates that the inductive approach is one of the best approaches for long term retention. As we progress in our learning we begin to add other senses to learn language. After a student gets visual mastery of word, the other senses of sound, smell and touch help us to learn language.

Why learn Spanish using the dynamic immersion process? Quite simply you will be able to pick up the language through a series of courses in a very fast period of time. On the computer, we are able to associate sound and sight with words very quickly and this is in essence the dynamic immersion process. Using this process you should be able to pick up the language in a mere 3-6 months. This does not make you a native speaker, but does allow you to communicate with others who speak Spanish. Let us face the facts; with over 30 million Hispanics the importance of speaking Spanish is all too clear.

Learning to speak Spanish will help a person to become a well rounded individual, more marketable, and be able to communicate with the fastest growing population in the United States. The dynamic immersion method to learn a language recreates an environment similar to when we were children learning languages. This process accelerates the learning curve and helps an individual to learn a language in a very efficient way!

John Olson is an owner of several niche websites. He enjoys world travel and communication with people around the world.
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John Olson is a professor at a major univesity in Minnesota. His specialty is business startup, operations and supply chain development. To date he has developed several successful companies including several niche websites. Success = Hard Work + Motivation

By John R. Olson
August 18, 2008

John Olson is an owner of several niche websites. He enjoys world travel and communication with people around the world. For more about how to learning to speak any language visit Learn Language Fast For help learning how to speak Spanish visit Spanish Rosetta

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