Most people start out to learn spanish word and phrase variations when speaking Spanish. Fifteen years ago, if you walked into a Spanish classroom at your local high school you would see rows of desks facing a chalkboard and a woman in a jumper and clogs preaching to her students, O, AS, A, AMOS, AN, over andover again. The students in the classroom would undoubtedly be pounding their heads on against the wall, hoping to somehow knock the clock down, change the time, and convince Mrs. Diaz de Alvarez López that class was over.

Slightly exaggerated but you get our point, Spanish classrooms fifteen years ago were not effective. There are several reasons why their approach to teaching a language was ineffective, but let's just focus on a few biggies. The goal of Spanish language instruction used to be simply learning the language. Teachers wanted their students to be able to produce sentences and paragraphs in Spanish. If they were able to do this, they knew the language.

Being able to teach students how to write Spanish sentences requires very tailored and basic instruction. First, you must memorize some key verbs. In Spanish, just like in all languages, a few useful verbs will allow you to express yourself in various situations, although isolated. Second, you must learn how to conjugated this handful of verbs. This is where students are introduced to the lovely chant of, O, AS, A, AMOS, AN, and if your teacher is ambitious,you will be required daily to repeat and memorize, O, ES, E, EMOS, EN.

Once you have some basic conjugation down, all you need is a few nouns, let's say we pick to teach you the words for "school", "house", "car","apple" and "dog", and you will know the language in no time. Right? Wrong. This approach to learning a language was created decades ago when traveling was more difficult and most people who wanted to learn a language wanted to do so because it was novel, not because it was useful. Learning a language in this manner is not learning a language at all.

Being able to say that you know a language means that you are able to carry on a conversation without restraints, you can read and write with ease, and you can hear the language being spoken and understand what is being said. Learning how to construct basic and, let's face it, useless sentences does not prepare you for actually using a language.With this type of instruction, all you are prepared to do is entertain a few strangers at a cocktail party with your ability to say, my dog eats apples- and even they will lose interest soon.

Marcos Soriano and Olivia Wacek, founders of Spanish Classroom Revolution (a multimedia Spanish coaching program online) have put together some amazing content and an amazing video coaching that will dramatically increase your spanish skills and conversational abilities; you'll finally be able to speak spanish confidently and naturally so you can travel the world, have more fun, and ultimately open up the doors to whatever path your Spanish will lead you down. Spanish will open up a world of opportunities for you.

So where does one start? Great question. An good Spanish learning website should start by building your foundation and teaching you the alphabet, vowels, and pronunciation of each alphabet, word, phrase and sentence. You should also be able to learn about Spanish numbers at the site. The site should have regular tutorials and tests to check if you have really understood what has been taught to you before you proceed any further. The site should also have interactive tutorials that respond positively when you have any trouble in understanding any word. If a site has audio and video tutorials to help you with your vocabulary then that could really be helpful to you. Some sites like the one we're about to tell you about provide a Spanish tutorial DVD that can be played at your convenience.

One of the best parts about the video training in Spanish Classroom Revolution is that it's broken down in a week by week training and it's actually proven highly effective.The weekly video coaching will allow you to clarify your doubts by clicking on a particular section as many times as you want. In addition you can always log on to your tutorial when you are free of your commitments. These features are not possible if you hire a home-tutor, which anyway would be quite costly or in actual classes, where you might find yourself in the midst of several other students and might not get any personal attention. You would also have to spend a lot of money and time in communicating between your home and your classes. The weekly video coaching and beginning Spanish lessons offer you a cost-effective way to learn this wonderful Mediterranean language very quickly. You can also visit earlier lessons to re-check specific words or sentences with just a click of your mouse instead of searching through your notes.

If your like most people and you just want to get started, you should also start to read Spanish newspapers and watch Spanish movies that have English subtitles. There is another method that Marcos and Olivia talk about and it's call the "INTERCAMBIO" - which mean "exchange" or real live interaction to practice your Spanish real time. It's by far the best way to learn the language and retain the information. These methods will help you to practice and have fun when you are not in your online virtual classroom. You should certainly try to communicate with other Spanish people in your neighborhood so that you can polish off your verbal skills before you visit Spain on a holiday or on a business trip. Also take note that translation can be a great career. Whatever your desire or passion for learning the language, just take action and the rest will take care of itself.