Complete Spanish Step-by-Step

By: Barbara Bregstein

Narrated by: Rachel Story

Length: 59 hrs

Publisher's summary

Complete Spanish Step-by-Step is a top-selling Spanish book on all of Amazon! With more than 1,000 four- and five-star reviews, the reviews speak for themselves. Now, it’s your turn to learn Spanish with us! This audio course is designed to help you learn Spanish as quickly and as thoroughly as possible.

Note: Complete Spanish Step-by-Step includes Easy Spanish Step-by-Step as its first 15 chapters. The subsequent chapters, 16-30, provide a deeper dive into learning Spanish.

No one wants to spend effort and hours learning a language, and still not truly, authentically, be able to speak it. Well - no se preocupe (“don’t worry”) – with years of experience and thousands of success stories, we’ve got you covered! No matter your reason, once you’ve committed yourself to learning this beautiful language, you want to be sure you do it right. Right?

Here’s what you can expect from your Easy Spanish Step-by-Step course:

• Be ready to listen and speak - a lot! This is the way that each and every one of us learned our first language, and the number one way that our brain actually learns and remembers information. You will be speaking Spanish out loud within your first few minutes with us.
• Learn correct grammar and be able to apply it to your communication. This audio course is the product of a fusion of two methods: comprehensive grammatical understanding blended with authentic, child-like acquisition through listening and speaking.
• Actively engage in your learning with dynamic practice activities! This course is not a podcast or a lecture to simply listen to. You are going to be interacting with us the entire time: responding to questions, filling in the missing word, giving your opinions, and more. 
• Tune your ‘Spanish ear’ to an authentic, native Spanish-speaker accent. Your new Spanish teacher, Rachel, is accompanied by Jorge, a native Spanish speaker. Adapt your listening skills to the “real” Spanish you will hear out in the community and across the world - not only the slow, clearly-enunciated Spanish you would hear in a classroom setting. 
• Make meaningful connections between newly introduced words and concepts and your own life, further increasing your brain’s ability to remember them thanks to the personal connection. 
• Develop your skills through a natural mix of language structure and fluid, conversational-style listening.
• Listen to original stories and poems in Spanish and demonstrate understanding through interactive questions. 
• Receive consistent encouragement to recognize your growth, and to always take the course at your own pace.

Easy Spanish Step-by-Step is designed in such a way that each section builds upon the last to help your brain progressively create lasting and meaningful connections to each new word and grammar concept. Simply by listening and speaking out loud with us, you will naturally progress, step-by-step, toward Spanish communication and fluency.

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Review - 1/1/22 - Complete Spanish Step By Step

I have Ms. Bergstein's textbooks and they are terrific.

I purchased this companion audio from Amazon / Audible and during the 5th, 6th and 7th chapters the audio file begins to skip so that the listener (student) will have trouble discerning what is said in the audio -- especially during the quiz sequences.

I haven't listened to the complete audio which is about 50 hours in total, which I intend to do, but I hope that the technical people at Amazon / Audible listen to each chapter and find out what these glitches are and fix them. They occur more than a few times during the program.

Audio quality is poor

Although the audio has been cleaned up in post processing, when the instructor is speaking it sometimes sounds like she is in a call center or kitchen. In the first chapter, When she is first teaching plural nouns, for example, there are background noises that sound like a bowl and spoon clattering in a kitchen sink in addition to what sounds like the frequent background noise of many people or a crowd engaged in lively conversation.

This is a pretty expensive audiobook published by McGraw-Hill so I expected it to be of professional quality. Instead, it is one of the lowest quality recordings in my library.

Mispronounces words

This Spanish course is terrible the audio cuts off and you will have a much harder time learning the words I’m very disappointed I want my money back

Absolutely NO recording and listening problems!

The female performer is exquisitely wonderful! Speaks so clearly, friendly, supportively and correctly BOTH English and Spanish! I've completely fallen in love with her! The author's text is top-notch teaching. Explaining everything and encouraging the right amount of listener practice. It is very thorough and advances only after I master every step. The technical recording quality is perfect contrary to some surprising reviews. No mispronounced words. Well, ok, me personally, I just hate the Cuban guy. Badly recorded and equalized unprofessionally in my humble opinion. He pronounces so lazily and leaves out so many letters. Real street latin american, I doubt. Why he was chosen I wonder all the time. Fortunately I have to listen to him quite seldom. I so appreciate this audiobook.

Excellente!

I'm just beginning my Spanish journey and this audiobook is perfect. The content is great so far and Rachel Story's performance is stellar. Her voice is very pleasant and make listening a very enjoyable experience.

Sucks

You need to already speak Spanish to use this and then you don't need it. They give you a million vocab words and don't review them. They give you stories to listen to and comprehend. By the 3rd one, I didn't understand shit. They tell you to just go back and review. Who has time for that? The only reason I got to the 3rd story is because I already knew some Spanish. This is not for learning on the go. You have to use flashcards. It says you dont need them. BS. I dont know anyone who can memorize 100 vocab words per lesson without flashcards.

Amazing book and have the fix for the skipping

I LOVE this book but the skipping is really bad. I tried redownloading, changing the type of download to high quality, changing the download into parts. THE FIX: You have to 1. delete the book from your library 2. LOGOUT of your account 3. LOGIN and redownload the book.
I ordered the book so that I could have a physical copy to read along with and do the tests on my own. I consider this to be one of the most important books in my library and highly recommend it. Having moved to South America to a country that speaks very little English, people are truly impressed with my speaking ability. Someone told me the other day that I sound natural and not like I learned from a book or an app. While this has not been my only source for learning, it seems to be the best at putting all of the pieces together and answering most of my questions.

Satisfecho

Dear audiobook reader,
This material seems the best among many other languages sources available. I’ve tried many to quickly learn Spanish and end up this long course, so far having repeated five times, spending almost 300 hours. Now I could speak Spanish in public place. Thanks to Babara y Rachel!!!

Thanks for the Very long course

I really appreciate those who created this course. It must have taken a Long time and a lot of hard work and dedication-to-task. I learned more in this course, about grammar mostly, than I have been able to find in other “complete” courses. The readers were sweet and gentle. Thank you so much!

Exactly what I was looking for

I’m an advanced beginner or early intermediate Spanish learner. This program is perfect for me.
Really great explanations of the language rules and concepts with lots of examples and practice.

Thank you, David

Excellent teacher

I am very impressed with this course – I have tried many online courses without books, and this is by far the best one I have come across.