| No other language is growing as fast in United | | | | form of inductive learning and much of the |
| States and the world today as Spanish. Today | | | | research in higher education demonstrates that |
| the popular language courses like Rosetta Stone | | | | the inductive approach is one of the best |
| and Rocket Spanish use a process called dynamic | | | | approaches for long term retention. As we |
| immersion to help students to learn language. The | | | | progress in our learning we begin to add other |
| question is does it make sense to learn Spanish | | | | senses to learn language. After a student gets |
| using this approach? | | | | visual mastery of word, the other senses of |
| The process that many of the popular language | | | | sound, smell and touch help us to learn language. |
| courses teach Spanish is called Dynamic | | | | Why learn Spanish using the dynamic immersion |
| Immersion. The goal of this approach is to learn | | | | process? Quite simply you will be able to pick up |
| how to speak Spanish and become relatively | | | | the language through a series of courses in a |
| fluent in a short period of time. Most researchers | | | | very fast period of time. On the computer, we |
| believe that the best way to learn Spanish is to | | | | are able to associate sound and sight with words |
| replicate the way in which we originally learn | | | | very quickly and this is in essence the dynamic |
| language. As children we learn any language by | | | | immersion process. Using this process you should |
| using all of our senses: sight, touch, smell, and of | | | | be able to pick up the language in a mere 3-6 |
| course hearing. Association with words comes by | | | | months. This does not make you a native |
| engaging all of our senses around the word. For | | | | speaker, but does allow you to communicate with |
| example, think of the word silk, you can almost | | | | others who speak Spanish. Let us face the facts; |
| feel that sensation against your skin. The process | | | | with over 30 million Hispanics the importance of |
| is not one of pure memorization. | | | | speaking Spanish is all too clear. |
| The dynamic immersion process of learning | | | | Learning to speak Spanish will help a person to |
| Spanish can be broken down into several | | | | become a well rounded individual, more |
| components that are based on one or more | | | | marketable, and be able to communicate with the |
| forms of sensory abilities. The first step I the | | | | fastest growing population in the United States. |
| dynamic immersion process is to learn how to | | | | The dynamic immersion method to learn a |
| associate pictures with words. The process when | | | | language recreates an environment similar to |
| we were children was done by trial and error. In | | | | when we were children learning languages. This |
| today's computer based learning approached this | | | | process accelerates the learning curve and helps |
| process is easily duplicated with the computer. | | | | an individual to learn a language in a very efficient |
| Making mistakes and learning from them is the | | | | way! |
| fastest way to learn anything. This approach is a | | | | |