Lingus.tv - Learn Spanish Watching TV

Do you want to learn Spanish but get easily bored or distracted by the usual teaching methods? Lingus.tv is helping to switch it up and give you the learning tools you need to keep entertained while improving your language skills. The site is a based around a collection of webisodes based on specific skills and levels. Webisodes are done with subtitles in Spanish showing, so that you can listen to the language and read the words being said at the same time. You can also check out the dialogue below the video and switch over to the translation of those words into English to see what they mean if you don’t understand them. Key vocabulary and phrases are highlighted in bold text and are directly translated and listed in another tab under the video. Learn how to introduce yourself or how to play a game of tennis by watching and listening to the videos and then reading the new vocabulary and their respective translations.

"We are here! We have finally arrived! We are the opportunity that many of you are waiting for. At last, a method of learning languages that doesn't cause drowsiness or have side effects like boredom.

Lingus.TV is a television channel for the new generation devoted to teaching and disseminating languages, while taking advantage of all the social characteristics of the Internet.

In the new era of communication, LingusTV is unique, as a result of its very specific and focused way of teaching language. We are a web TV channel devoted to education and believe that the entertainment and active participation of students the key to communication in a new language.

Lingus.TV was founded in beta in June 2008 using this method of learning Spanish as a first step to building a network of thematic channels. The situation comedy (sitcom), ‘5 y acción’, is our first production, and guiding principle for our system of teaching Spanish.

They say that love is a universal language. We agree, but if you are communicating in good Spanish, imagine the doors that you can open."

The episodes aren’t the type I had to deal with when I was taking Spanish classes in college. They are funny, of high quality, and are of a good length that keeps you interested and not overwhelmed. Being able to read the dialogue while it is happening and being able to play back the videos again and again until you understand what they are saying are great tools. This would work well as a supplement to a Spanish course.

What is their business model? How long will it take for them to publish new videos? Shouldn’t they be starting with more introductory and intermediate level episodes instead of the majority that is now of the advanced level?