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I had a couple of complaints about “Shortcut to Informal Spanish Conversations level 2″, that stopped me in my tracks.

I get plenty of praise, like these examples. The praise always outweighs complaints by at least 100 to 1 so I don’t usually pay attention to complaints.

Usually the complaints that I get are pretty easy to dismiss;

“I don’t really like Spanish, I just wanted to know how to say jorge is hot so stp mailing me or i am calling the cops.”

Easy to decide what to do there…

Delete.

Then I get some complaints like this;

“you just ended your last sentence with a preposition, you’d fail my class”.

Oh sorry… I should have written,

“that’s for what the delete key is”

Whatever!

But the complaints about “Shortcut to Informal Spanish Conversations level 2″ were from people whose opinions I care about…

my students.

Before I tell you what they said, I should point out there were only two complaints, however they made the same point, so they really caught my attention.

Here’s what they said, in a nutshell.

“There’s nothing new in Shortcut to Informal Spanish Conversations level 2, it’s just a reworking of Shortcut to Spanish level 2  in the informal form.”

My first reaction was; well yes, that’s the idea.

But then I thought about it a little,

“Shortcut to Informal Spanish Conversations level 1″, does have a lot of unique material. I guide people to use extra Spanish that doesn’t fit into the structure of the main “Shortcut to Spanish course”. 

Maybe they have a point.

Perhaps, “Shortcut to Informal Spanish Conversations level 1″, does need to offer more.

So, I sat down and created extra lessons. I concentrated on the most useful informal conversational Spanish. Spanish you’ll hear everyday.

Walk around any crowd of Spanish speakers, and you’ll notice structures from the extra lessons almost immediately.

It’ll help you understand more Spanish, tune in better when they speak fast, and give you more ways of expressing yourself.

They build upon the foundation from Shortcut to Spanish level 2 and the first 16 lessons of Shortcut to Informal Spanish Conversations level 1 in even more ways. Yet it always maintains the informal conversational tone you’ll want to use to speak with your amigos.

For all the people who ordered “Shortcut to Informal Spanish Conversations level 2″… a bonus for you.

A new CD worth of Shortcut to Informal Spanish Conversations level 2…

And it’s yours for free

Just for not complaining… just kidding.

My thanks to the two students who spoke up and expressed their thoughts.

It helped me make the course better.

If you’re a member all you need to do us go to the member’s page and login to get access to your extra Shortcut to Informal Spanish Conversations level 2 lessons…

Muchos Saludos 

Marcus Santamaria 

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