"I lived in Spain for twelve years and watched others struggling at Spanish courses, worrying about grammatical aspects, tenses, genders, and other issues, when I simply got on with speaking the language. Other than immersing yourself in a language, by living where it is spoken and only using that language, as I was fortunate enough to be able to do, the Say Something In method is, for me, the far most effective way of learning a language. Don’t worry about the grammar or the exact word recognition, that’s not how one learns one’s native language: those aspects will come later."

"After just two weeks of using the SSI method, I am so much more confident in engaging people in Spanish. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fluent speaker…yet, but I’ve fooled some waiters and waitresses into thinking I am :-) Just last weekend I was in Southwest Florida for a business trip and I ventured into a Colombian restaurant for lunch. I was able to speak with the hostess, the waiter, and even the owner all in Spanish, without them switching over to English (which usually happens when they realize I’m struggling to either understand or get out what I’m trying to say)! I even had two patrons of the restaurant come up and ask where I learned to speak Spanish so well. Man that felt good!"

Scott Nelson

Los Angeles, California