InstantCert InstantCREDIT Spanish I Course Review

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I'm doing this course now. I think I'm on lesson 17. Thought's so far : I've copy /pasted each lesson for reference when taking the quizzes. This sort of forces things to stick....constantly looking back on lessons and notes especially. It's a pretty good course so far but is a tad disjointed. In the quizzes you'll run across questions that have words that haven't really been explained and sentence structure that hasn't been taught. Example: In English we would spell out you, to, ....... but in Spanish, it's often part of one of the words, like it's implied. Out of curiosity I used a google translator for a sentence and it was worded differently than what the quiz wanted. If someone has had zero Spanish exposure, this course would be confusing even if they studied for a while. The vocabulary/grammar is good. That can be studied and referenced. All the rules for conjugating and such are confusing . There were two words in a grammar question that used " wish to" ( desear) and "climb" ( subir) in the same sentence.  Going by the lesson "desear" would be changed because it ends in ar and subir would be changed because it ends in ir, but....that wasn't the case. I mean, it gave me the answer they wanted and the why, but it didn't make sense in the moment. The are so many rules to absorb. It seems it would be better if it was more about conversational Spanish than all of the rules .... ed2go has conversational Spanish in the work place and it was easier to absorb in my opinion. I'll finish because I need this course and hope that I can pass the final......but don't know if it should be someone's first intro to Spanish.