I am writing my thoughts along this journey with the hope that I will elicit a dialog regarding the Fluenz Spanish system. As of yet, the only forum is the customer review section on Amazon, for this product.
My experience in using Fluenz Spanish has been excellent so far. I recently finished the first level of five and will be starting the second level this evening. I wrote out a few journal entries as I was going through level one, so I'll add those in at some time.
Before starting with Fluenz, I had taken a 16 year break studying Spanish. I took four years of it in highschool and don't remember a damn thing. What can you expect with no practice? Directly after highschool I actually went on an exchange program to Germany and had a fully immersive experience for a year. I lived with several host families, studied nursing at a hospital based school, and worked full time at the hospital. I achieved some level of fluency after that, breezed through some college level courses after getting back to the States, and left language studies since then. Spanish has been mostly deleted from my brain. When I attempt to remember a Spanish word, I say a German one.
So why Spanish now? I think it will improve my ability to take care of my patients. I am an anesthesiologist in the Boston area and I have a lot of Spanish speaking patients. Translators are great, but they can't always be around, and waiting for one to show up is time-consuming.
Waking up a patient from an anesthetic, can be challenging. Add the extra challenge of an inability to communicate, and the stress level rises logarithmically.
There are lots of good reasons to learn a new language. But why don't we just get started, shall we?
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