30-Day Spanish Challenge

LEARN TO UNDERSTAND SPANISH NATIVE SPEAKERS AND IMPROVE YOUR ABILITIES TO SPEAK SPANISH FLUENTLY.

The 30-Day Spanish Challenge is a 30-day program that I designed with one idea in mind:

Make real Spanish part of your daily life so you can be surrounded by the language that native speakers use every day.

Doing this will result in a boost of your listening and speaking skills so you can develop the skills to understand real native speakers and begin to develop the fluency to talk like they do it.

BUT, HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO THAT?

During the challenge, we're going to use listening stories in Spanish, specially designed to learn Spanish deeply.

We'll meet once a week for an hour through Google Meets. During each session, I'll help you learn an easy-to-remember story.

That story contains:

• New vocabulary.
• Expressions and idioms that native speakers use in real life (you'll never learn them in textbooks).
• Mistakes that native speakers do when they talk which you need to know to understand people in conversations.
• An easy-to-understand and digest story.

We'll go through the story using questions and answers, a technique that aims to train your brain to respond automatically to Spanish.

During the live lesson, we'll break down the story until you understand it completely. After that there comes the most important thing:

INCLUDE SPANISH IN YOUR DAILY LIFE

When we finish our live session, you must commit to listening to the story for a week.

Repetition will help you learn deeply, so doing that will make sure that you won't forget the new vocabulary you learn from the story.

Plus, the more you repeat the story, the more the structure of correct Spanish will be recorded in your mind, so doing that, will make you develop a feeling for correct Spanish.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

It means that you'll be learning to use the grammar rules, without actually having any theory or grammar lessons.

Have in mind that because of the principles I apply in SpanishToMind, I do not teach grammar.

Instead of that, I'll send you the same story we have during our live lessons in different tenses:

• Presente.
• Pasado.
• Futuro

Listening to this audio repeatedly will develop the correct grammar in you without any hard-to-understand explanations.

That means that this exercise will make you know how the correct grammar works, just like a native speaker learns Spanish, or just as you did it in your native language.

Additionally, during the week we'll be in touch through whatsapp, the goal is that you have a native speaker (me) available to help you go through the story if you have any questions.

Also, During the 30 days, I'll send you quick challenges in Spanish via Whatsapp so you can complete them every day.

WHAT KINDS OF CHALLENGES?

Above all, you'll get listening material from real native speakers, so you'll be asked to

• Make transcriptions of short audios in which you'll hear native speakers talking. You'll hear accents from all kinds (Colombian, Mexican, Puertorican...etc)
• Watch videos and make speaking summaries via voice note.
• Make speaking challenges via voice notes.
• Tell the stories via challenges.

You'll get feedback and mistake correction via WhatsApp text or voice notes, and of course, I know you have a busy life, so since you'll get Whatsapp messages, you'll be able to check them and reply at any time of the day.

This is the calendar of how the 30 days of this challenge would go:

So, as a summary:

THIS IS WHAT YOU'LL GET:

• 4 Live Spanish lessons based on stories via Google Meets.
• 4 Short stories in Spanish.
  • Each story comes with different tenses to improve your grammar skills.
  • And audios with questions and answers.
• Transcriptions for all the stories.
• Support via WhatsApp text and voice notes.
• 30 Different challenges for each day of the 30 days.

This program is the perfect opportunity for you to learn to understand native speakers when they talk and to improve your speaking skills.

Now, if you want to take this program with me...

THIS IS WHAT I REQUIRE FROM YOU

• Full commitment and discipline: If you're not willing to listen to the stories every day, and if you don't want to do the challenges for the next 30 days, then don't even bother to enroll in this program. I want you to get results, and in order to achieve that, I need you to be disciplined and invest at least 30 - 45 minutes of independent work every day.
• You must be at least B2 in Spanish (According to the Common European Framework of Reference), or be able to understand 75% of this video.
• Be willing to get 95% of the material in Spanish. We won't use English during the challenge.
• Have Whatsapp installed on your phone.
• Have access to Google Meets on your phone or computer.
• Let go of grammar rules and embrace the real spoken Spanish.
• Be excited to communicate with native speakers and learn to talk like them.

Now, if you don't meet these requirements then please:

DO NOT ENROLL IN THIS PROGRAM IF...

• You are below the B2 level of Spanish.
• You're a beginner in Spanish.
• If you don't have time for doing the challenges every day.
• Or if you're not willing to repeat the stories every day, then this is not for you.

If you're not interested in improving your listening skills and your skills to understand native speakers, or even speak better Spanish, then please don't buy.

SOUNDS GOOD, BUT HOW DO WE START?

Obviously, you have to pay first, so go ahead and click the button that says "I want this"; that'll take you to a check-out page.

After purchasing, you'll get an automated welcome email from me. Open it up, and if you don't see it in your inbox, then it probably went to your spam folder for sure. Go there, open the email, and make sure you mark my emails as "it's not spam", so everything I send you goes right to your inbox.

In the email, you'll see:

• A welcome message.
• A link to my availability so you can choose your first live lesson. (You have 3 days to book your first live lesson, otherwise, I'll refund your money and the challenge will be over, see refund my policy).
• And my WhatsApp info.

Make sure you add me as a contact on Whatsapp and shoot a "Hola" right away, I'll be super happy to see your first message in Spanish.

However, if you have any problems or any questions, please, don't hesitate to email me at contact@spanishtomind.com

I'll get back to you ASAP.

RULES AND POLICIES

Based on my experience working with other students, I've learned that we have to set some rules before we begin working together so everything works good for everyone.

These are the rules that you accept once you decide to enroll in this program, if you don't agree with them, please don't buy.

ABOUT THE LIVE LESSONS

1. The challenge will start once we begin with day #1. When you enroll in the challenge, you commit to completing it up until day #30.
2. If after buying the program you don't schedule your first live lesson between the first 3 days after the purchase, I'll refund 100% of your money and the challenge will be canceled.
3. Sunday is my resting day, so live lessons aren't available for Sundays, and of course, Sundays won't count as days of the challenge for you.
4. Each live lesson has a duration of 60 minutes.
5. You CAN NOT freeze the challenge or stop it so you can continue it at another time of the year. Once it starts, you must finish it until day 30.
6. You can pick the day and time of the live lessons according to my availability which you'll get access to once you enroll in the program, but basically, I'm available for live lessons from Monday to Friday between 8 am and 8 pm, and Saturdays from 8 am until noon (Eastern Time).
7. My suggestion is that you do one live lesson a week during the 4 weeks of the challenge, but you may set the most convenient day and time for you during the 30 days. That means that you could have all 4 lessons in just one week if you wanted (which I don't recommend because you need time to internalize each story and go through the daily challenges, one live lesson a week is better).
8. The live lessons will be available only during the 30 days of the challenge. Once you get to day #30 they won't be available anymore, except in the following two cases, in which you'll have 10 days more to book and attend the lesson you skipped:
   1. I know that life is unpredictable, so if for whatever reason you can't attend a live lesson, then you may reschedule it for a more convenient time for you. (I would really appreciate it if you let me know in advance when this happens, that will help me manage my time and other lessons better)
   2. Also, I will let you know in advance if I can't attend a live lesson for any reason, and we'll make arrangements to replace that lesson.

Note: We'll be using Google meets, but we might also do skype in case we can't arrange the lesson through Google meets.

ABOUT THE WHATSAPP SUPPORT

1. Life is busy, so sometimes I won't be able to respond to your messages right away, please be patient but make sure that I'll reply to you ASAP.
2. Whatsapp calls or video calls are forbidden. I'll support you via text, voice notes, or images.
3. Sunday is my resting day, so I won't respond to any messages on Sundays, and of course, Sundays won't count as days of the challenge for you.
4. I promise I will not share your WhatsApp info with anyone, and I will delete it as soon as the challenge is over.

ABOUT HOW WE TREAT EACH OTHER

1. Respect is a must in my lessons, so any kind of abusive, offensive language, threats, or bullying during the challenge gives me the right to ban you from the challenge immediately, and if it applies, I'll refund your money right away (see refund policy below).
2. Sexual talk, nudity, or harassment of any kind will automatically ban you from the program, and I'll refund your money right away if it applies according to my refund policy (see refund policy below).
3. I will treat you with respect, kindness, patience, and politeness, so I expect you to do the same with me and with other students if we meet with others in a challenge.
   

ABOUT THE STORIES I'LL SEND YOU DURING THE CHALLENGE

1. You CAN NOT copy, sell, distribute, publish or post the stories. This includes the mp3 files and pdf files of the stories written and recorded by me (Diego Cuadros).
2. The stories are for your personal use to improve your Spanish, so it is forbidden to use them or re-use them for commercial purposes.

If you violate the previous two rules, I reserve the right to take legal action against you.

REFUND POLICY

1. You have the right of asking for a refund of the 100% of the money you paid for the program only during the first 7 days of the challenge.
2. After day #7 I do not offer refunds of any kind.
3. If after buying the program you don't schedule your first live lesson between the first 3 days after the purchase, I'll refund 100% of your money and the challenge will be canceled.
4. If you violate any of the rules of respect (See "About how we treat each other"), you will be banned from this program and I'll refund 100% of your money as long as the challenge is between day 1 to day 7 of the program.
5. After day 7 you won't get any refund of your money even if you violate the rules of respect (See "About how we treat each other"). You will be banned with no right to a refund.
6. I don't work with kids, so if after purchasing the program I find out that you're a kid (under 18 years old) or that you bought this for your kid, I'll cancel your challenge and refund your money right away.
7. The challenge is only for one person, which means that you cannot take it with anyone else. We'll do this because you'll get better results with my personalized, individual help, so if you try to take this challenge alongside another person, I'll cancel your challenge and refund your money (as long as it is still in the first 7 days of the challenge).