Brand new student...please help

Hello, I'm a brand new student of the on line version. I've listened to the introduction, downloaded and printed the Instruction Manual and the Beginners Book in PDF. So, now what? Should I just begin Part 1 lessons and read along/speak along with the printed Beginner's Book? I've picked up on the concept that it is best to commit to at least 30 minutes each day, and that short sessions broken up are better than marathons, and I gather most importantly is to actually seek out opportunities to speak, speak, speak with Spanish speakers, even if I make a fool of myself.... Is that it? Thank you in advance. David

I am also a new student and am curious about something you wrote. You said you downloaded a pdf file for the beginners book. When I go to the download section for the beginners book it does not give me the option to download a pdf but rather only a sound file (mp3)....Where do you go to download a pdf? When I downloaded the sound file it refers to a written book...is this referring to the ebooks listed in the download area? Are the ebooks the same as the beginner book? Do they seperate written from sound? The whole download section could be layed out more clearly in my opinion so you know what to download in order to follow along with the suggestion (listed i the introductory manual which say s if you are serious about learning do the following technique): 1) listen to the interactive audio course 2) Read the corresponding conversation course (that took some while to locate but its in the ebooks section of downloads 3) Study the corresponding lesson in the beginners book (so far I found the mp3 sound listed under downloads in the beginner section but I have yet to figure out if there is a written beginners book (a pdf) and if so, where is it and why isn't it listed under beginners section of download area which is intuitively where one would expect to find it 4) Schedule at least 15 min to play Rocket Spanish MegaVocab and MegaAudio games or examine the supplemental vocab lists in beginners voc supplement (I think I know where these are in the download section as they are more clearly marked) 5) Listen to the Interactive audio lesson one more time

[quo]*Quote from * yatesinencinitas I am also a new student and am curious about something you wrote. You said you downloaded a pdf file for the beginners book. When I go to the download section for the beginners book it does not give me the option to download a pdf but rather only a sound file (mp3)....Where do you go to download a pdf? When I downloaded the sound file it refers to a written book...is this referring to the ebooks listed in the download area? Are the ebooks the same as the beginner book? [/quo] Hola. Bienvenido al foro. The Beginners Book is not one of the ebooks. But right above the listing for ebooks there is one that says Beginners Book. If you click on that, the first offering is the Beginners Book as a pdf file. This is followed by a lot of mp3 files (one for each lesson, I think).

Hi I am very new.My question is can i use the lessons etc on line or do i need to download everything now? Thanks wk

Well , you can use the lessons online, but I think you will be far more comfortable if you download them. Opening and closing documents is faster local than online I don't know how you pay for the internet, but doing the same lesson 20 times over the net is certainly more costly than downloading them once. *and 20 times you will do them*. For myself, I downloaded them all, and *reorganised them *to suit my_ personal_ learning style As for [quo]*Quote:* I've picked up on the concept that it is best to commit to at least 30 minutes each day, and that short sessions broken up are better than marathons, and I gather most importantly is to actually seek out opportunities to speak, speak, speak with Spanish speakers, even if I make a fool of myself.... [/quo] You are dead on with that ! Antonio

Thank you Antonio: I am on a cable so internet time is not an issue. I have a Mac OS 10 , Is there a way to download all or do you do each file one by one Thanks again wk

I use Linux, and there I have a file manager (Konqueror ), which allows me to *mark all* the files for download, then go away and have my lunch. When I come back, it's done. My guess is that Mac and Windows have same facilities.