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Real Spanish Listening Challenge
Understand Fast, Real Spoken Spanish – Double your Listening Skills, in Just 4 Weeks
LISTENING = FLUENCY!
Because fluency isn’t about “more and more vocabulary” – it’s about training your brain to process real, fast Spanish in real time.
In this 4-week challenge, you’ll train the exact listening skills most learners never develop – so real spoken Spanish finally starts to make sense at full speed.
What if your listening skills skyrocketed when listening to:
…even when they DON’T slow down for you?
If that sounds like the breakthrough you’re craving, you’re in the right place!
Because that’s exactly what this challenge is built to do.
Your Listening Breakthrough Starts Here
Over 4 weeks, you’ll get:
This isn’t passive listening practice.
This is active transformation.
You are enjoying real Spanish, not getting bored studying Spanish!
The Problem This 4 Week Challenge Solves:
But when a native speaker talks at normal, fast speed…
> Your brain just… crashes.
You miss words.
You can’t keep up.
You get embarrassed.
You smile and nod.
You retreat into English.
…and if you’re watching a series or movie, you just get totally lost.
It’s not your fault!
Traditional learning prepares you for textbook Spanish listening drills – not real Spanish delivered at speed.
This challenge fixes that…
We’re training your brain to process real Spanish conversation in real time.
The Secret: Sustained, Real-World Listening
Your comprehension rises dramatically when your brain receives:
And with our structured session-by-session progression…
…you’ll go from:
“How much did I understand? Maybe 10%?”
to…
“I got the whole thing! This is incredible!”
What You’ll Achieve in 4 Weeks
By the end of this challenge, you will:
This is not academic or clunky ‘app’ Spanish.
It’s living Spanish, with amazing real-world results.
The Real Spanish Listening Challenge:
What You Get (All Included)
8 Listening Challenge Video Modules
> New video modules will be added on Mondays and Thursdays
> Each featuring a real, fascinating, and 100% Natural-Speed conversation between Ben and Marina
> 8 modules in total – which you can watch whenever you want!
> All with subtitles and speed-controls so you can get all the help you need as your listening skills improve over the 4 weeks.
Key Vocab Lists:
We pull out the words and phrases we know you have to know from each video. Pure, real Spanish Gold!
Key Exercises to Boost Comprehension (and vocab!):
You watch the videos, and do the short, key exercises that will really help you understand everything, and remember the key vocab and phrases.
Extra Background Viewing and Listening
We’ll massively expand your Spanish listening horizons with key extra (and enjoyable!) listening recommendations (YouTube videos, TED Talks etc)
BONUS 1 – 2 X Zoom Calls
One group live session during 2 of the 4 weeks, where you’ll get extra, live listening practice, language coaching and the chance to ask us whatever you like about Spanish learning.
BONUS 2 – Bonus Coaching Video
We explain the key secrets to better Spanish listening
Dates:
The challenge starts on when Module one drops on Thursday January 8th, and runs until Feb. 2nd.
(If you need to start a bit later, no pasa nada, that’s fine, but you must register before doors close on January 8th!)
What our learners say:
My problem was always hearing spoken Spanish when a native speaker replied to me. Notes in Spanish has addressed this common issue, I’m very pleased. – Keith
I have been visiting [Spain] the last few years and trying hard to converse in Spanish, but it was Marina and Ben’s audios that helped me most to tune in to what the locals were saying. [You get] so much practice at listening to real Spanish in full flow, as against the staged, somewhat stilted and artificial conversations of other courses. – Sahlan D.
“This is the single best investment I’ve made in my self-education approach to learning Spanish.” – James
My Spanish dramatically improved after finding Notes in Spanish, and I continue eagerly anticipating every new audio and video that Ben and Marina publish! – Linda
The most friendly, inclusive, genuine language learning treasure on the Internet – so enthusiastically taught. Thank you both. – Jennifer
Wow – couldn’t ask for more! Certainly inspired me and amazed myself by beginning to understand and move on so quickly. Highly recommended. – Anne
Who This Is For:
This challenge is perfect for:
Who this is NOT for:
You have unwittingly stumbled upon a unique and marvellous way of learning a language. I now feel that I am having much more fun with Spanish – which means, of course, that I am suddenly leaping to the next level! – Roxanne
Your guides: Somos Ben y Marina…
Hola! We’re Ben and Marina, world leaders in Real-Spanish teaching. We started the world’s first-ever Spanish-teaching podcast in 2005 and have taught ten’s of thousands of students since then with our audios, videos and courses.
We specialise in the real Spanish you’ll never find in a textbook or “big-name app” so you feel totally confident, impress the locals and have amazing, real life experiences with your Spanish.
To date over 25,000 learners have taken our courses.
How It Works:
1. Click Join Now
2. Get immediate access to the learning hub
3. Week 1 content starts on day 1, Thursday Jan. 8th
4. You begin listening
5.Your brain begins adapting
6. Your listening comprehension skills start exploding!
…You will be shocked — genuinely — at how quickly your ear adjusts and your ability to understand fast-spoken Spanish improves.
Join This Challenge So You Can:
>> Learn key listening-confidence and fluency secrets: Say goodbye to feeling shy and start chatting in Spanish when the “Listening = Fluency” effect starts to kick in!
>> Understand Like a Local: No more confusion with fast Spanish. You’ll start understanding all of it!
>> Make Real Progress: Watch your Spanish improve by leaps and bounds in just 4 weeks.
When It Comes to Learning Spanish, You Could:
Ready to Transform Your Spanish?
Sign up for Real Spanish Listening Challenge now and start your journey to understanding and speaking Spanish with ease and confidence!
Enrolment closes when the challenge starts on Jan 8th — no late entries.
Thank the heavens that I ran into Ben and Marina… I have acquired more Spanish skills in the brief time listening [to them] than all the other wasted time combined… Get to know these delightful people. – Shane
Can I be real with you for a sec?
If you don’t take action now, your Spanish listening skills will stagnate. The longer you plateau, the more frustrated you may become and you may never get to really understand fast native speakers.
You don’t have to avoid Spanish speaking situations any longer or feel lost when watching fast Spanish conversations.
You’ll be able to:
>> Immerse yourself in the culture.
>> Understand Spanish better than ever before.
>> Express yourself with confidence.
Remember, understanding fast-spoken Spanish confidently is totally possible. Let’s make it happen together!
Ben and Marina are gifted teachers, and they conscientiously consolidate vocab and grammar at all levels. I decided to trust them to do this, and they do! My confidence has shot up along with my speaking ability (like osmosis, really!). I’m living in Spain currently, and have been effortlessly chatting to my decorator all week. It’s great! – Rebecca L
No Risk: Our 100% 14 Day Money Back Guarantee
If during 14 Days from the start of the Listening Challenge, you don’t think that fully taking part has really helped to improve your Spanish, just let us know and we will give you a complete refund. We are so convinced that we will help you significantly improve your Spanish, that we are delighted to offer this 100%, 14 Day total money back guarantee.
Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers!
I’m quite busy, What if I can’t make the Live Sessions?
Don’t worry, we’ll be sending out replays of every Live Session the same day or the following morning, so you can watch them whenever you like.
Do I have to do each module the day it’s released?
Not at all, you can do each module whenever suits you. Ideally you’ll be able to follow the 4 Week schedule fairly closely (2 modules per week), to see maximum progress, but if you need longer that’s fine. (Challenge materials will be available for at least 2 years!)
Where does all this take place?
To give you a deeper, tailor-made learning experience, we’ll be hosting this challenge on our private, 100% secure Notes in Spanish courses and membership platform.
This is the same platform we use for all our Notes in Spanish courses and it works wonderfully.
How long will the challenge and Q and A replays be available for?
We’ll be offering full access to the challenge modules and replays for at least two years.
Apart from improving listening, can we practice our speaking too?
We plan to have time for some chat in the live Q and A Zoom sessions, but the focus of this challenge is on massively improving your fluency.
What level is this for?
Intermediate and Advanced students. If you are a beginner, you need to be working on the Beginners course in our store.
Can I combine this with other Spanish courses I’m taking?
Absolutely! Lots of our students combine our Real Spanish Conversations approach with other more traditional methods such as online or in-person classes, and the big-name apps.
We think our approach is essential to use with these other methods, otherwise your Spanish risks staying ‘clunky’ and ‘touristy’ and ‘app-ish’ – we want you to sound authentic and real, to surprise native speakers with the straight-from-the-streets, straight-from-real-life Spanish we teach.
Adding our Real Spanish approach to ‘big-name-app Spanish’ has worked for thousands of our students – they’ve written to tell us. And many of them have ditched the big-name apps and gone 100% ‘real’ with us all the way to the highest level of Spanish!
I feel like I’ll never improve my Spanish, will this help?
Absolutely! Apart from enjoying all the wonderful Spanish we use and point out during the Challenge (real-world Spanish, so it’s really a joy to learn!) we’ll be there to help with all your challenges and difficulties. One of the things we most enjoy is sharing our enthusiasm and pointing you in the right direction to overcome difficulties. This Challenge will definitely improve your Spanish!
How long is each live session?
Each live Q and A zoom session (2 in total) is around one hour long.
When will you be doing this Challenge again?
We have no date fixed for the next edition of this challenge, it’ll probably be 6 to 9 months away, so don’t miss out now! You’ll be massively increasing your Spanish listening right now, starting out on “Your Best Spanish Learning Year Ever!”
Got another question that isn’t answered here?
Just email us your question to [email protected] and we’ll get back to you in 24 to 48 hours.
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