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Michael from English Spanish Link says: "Some of the techniques used in this Spanish course I use in my own language teaching. The language material and approach is refreshing and stimulating."

What Power Glide says about their Spanish course for young children:

Who is the course for...?

The Junior Adventure Course is designed for your child's success in developing a love and appreciation of Spanish. This course, built around a fun adventure theme, gives your child an introduction to the Spanish language and prepares them for the "Ultimate" language experience.

The Power-Glide Spanish Junior Course was designed for children Pre K - 6th grade. Course activities are designed specifically with these learners in mind and include matching games, story telling, speaking, drawing, creative thinking, acting, and guessing - all things which children do for fun.

A better methodology for learning Spanish for children...

With few exceptions, language learning methods have not changed much in the past 50 years. What you typically find today is the old "listen-and-repeat" methods done with new technology: tapes, CDs, computers, etc., and packaged and worded to make them seem new. But they usually aren't new at all. They are the same old "uglies" of language learning repackaged to look new. The essence hasn't changed.

But occasionally a few creative geniuses have made breakthroughs in language learning. For example:

Caleb Gattegno - THE SILENT METHOD

James Asher - TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE

Dee Groberg - MNEMONICS/ PHONETIC APPROX

Tracy Terrell - THE NATURAL APPROACH

Robert Blair - DIGLOT WEAVE/ADVENTURES/ETC

Each breakthrough added something to language learning effectiveness, but each focused almost exclusively on its own approach. Then one linguist, Dr. Robert Blair, took the most revolutionary step of all. He put the best of them together into a systematic learning process, added his own innovations, and tested and validated it with thousands of students. The result is now known as the POWER-GLIDE method.

Only once in a while do major breakthroughs in language learning occur. Power-Glide has made such a breakthrough. The creator of this methodology, Dr. Robert Blair, has studied virtually every type of language learning process around the world and has selected the very best ideas from among them. Thus Power-Glide programs do not limit themselves to one type of learning strategy but have the best of all worlds. Most developers of language training have one primary strategy that they use. It might be listening and repeating, or role playing, or mnemonics, or games, or diglot weaves, or any number of other approaches. While these methods might be good for certain situations, the Power-Glide programs use each strategy for its best application. Thus the overall learning is accelerated.

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