Speak Spanish like a diplomat
Here the FSI Spanish Course FREE. It’s the one the US State Department used to teach diplomats the FBI and DEA Agents.
A warning: it’s intense…
You’ll either love it or hate it.
If it’s not for you, try my step by step lessons at Synergy Spanish testdrive.
If you do like it, you’ll be busy for a while, there’s a complete 60 hour course here.
Download the complete course here (it’s a massive file, 320MB)
If you just want to download the individual lessons, you’ll find them on this website.
Let me know what you think.
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Hi
I tried to check out the FSI course, but was unable to get any sound. Have tried it on both Windows media and real player. Thanks for making me aware of the site though and of your blog
Linda
I don’t like it. I need more interactive stuff. I taught myself Spanish thanks to internet stuff here in South Africa and I prefer your method. Well done!
Hi Marcus,
The male speaker is very hard to understand on this website John
DEAR MARCUS,BEFORE I OPEN THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE LESSONS,I WANT TO THANKYOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING. I AM NOT AFRAID OF HARD WORK, IMYSELF HAD TAUGHT ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN SCHOOLS FOR OVER 30 YEARS, I AMIN REAL;FINANCIALTROUBLE MOW, AND IPROMISE IF I GET OVER IT I WILLPAY YOU ALL I OWE YOUR FOR THE LESSONS,AM ASHAMED ,BUT HAVE TO TELLTHE TRUTH THANKYOU AGAIN AND I HOPW THAT I WILL SUCCEED TO MASTER SPANISH,, AS ILIKE THE LANGUAGE VERY MUCH
MUCHAS GRACIAS JUDITH
Dear Mr. Marcus Santamaria
Thank you so much for this oportunity.
Respectfully,
Gabriel STOIAN,
PhD candidate,
Nanjing University, China
Dear Marcus,,
I am speechless , I dont know what to say , you always provide help and most of the time for free, you are such an inspiration for me and many and a role model of the competent & high qualified teacher. Thanks , you always make it possible and easy for the spanish learner to learn in an advanced , flexible way.
Muchas Gracias,
Khadi .
Can someone who has already downloaded the FSI course please help me?
I would love to try out a couple of lessons but cannot access it.
Thank you
Fran Saunders
Dear Sir thankyou for your kindness in letting people down load your wonderful courses free, I have lived many years in Spain and her Islands and it is wonderful to be able to speak with these wonderful people but not for yourself it would be impossible for most, you are helping people to fulfil there dreams sir and I thank you for myself and of course many others
Yours kindly Paul Chavesse
Thank you very much for letting me download these courses. I have been trying to learn Spanish for eight years and I can read it very well, but find it very difficult to speak to Spanish people and even more difficult to understand them. I keep saying I am going to give up, but it seems such a waste of learning all these years. I live permanently in Spain and feel I have to beat this language problem. Hopefully this time I will crack it.
Thank you so much for this opportunity to be able to study and learn the Spanish language better. I have found it increasing beneficial in my workplace and hope that I can learn this well enough to possibly make a difference in my pay also because I will have one more new skill that will be valuable.
only on lesson five so cant coment
Thank you for supplying this course, it certainly is long - 780 pages of writing. I didn’t download this though, but I am listening to the speaking and hope this will help me understand and speak more. I can read quite well, but struggle to actually speak. Thanks again.
I printed the course…ate the pages,,,,,and now puedo hablar espanol con fluencia…..pero tengo miedo que cuando voy al bano, voy a perder todo!
Thanks you so much for guiding and allowing me to download this course, it’s really amazing what you’re doing. I’ve always have a passion to learn spanish, however i’m still not able to speak it fluently. I’m hoping your method will help me achieve my goal, and i’m sure it will since i feel better already with the trial courses you sent first. Thanks again
Thanks a lot Marcus, your lessons are great!!
The sound bites
Click on the main page and click on” this website.” At the bottom
(….. If you just want to download the individual lessons, you’ll find them on” this website.”)
~ Chandra
Thank you very much for letting me download these courses. I have been trying to learn Spanish for 4 years and I can read it very well, but find it very difficult to speak to Spanish people and even more difficult to understand them. I keep saying I am going to give up, but it seems such a waste of learning all these years. I live permanently in Spain and feel I have to beat this language problem. Hopefully this time I will crack it.
Kathy
Muchas gracias Marcus, no he recibido tanto attencion desde era joven! Estudio clases de espanol cada semana con otros estudiantes pero tengo una guerra perpetua con la profesora porque es muy rigido con su sistema de ensenar. Utilizamos un libro que pienso es basura, Se llama Pasos 2. En mi opinion es el peor libro de texto que se ha visto jamas! Es muy confuso, lleno de trucos graficos, typografias differentes, No es meticuloso, logico o secuencial en el metodo de aprender. En contrasto su metodo es, para mi, muy cabal, sistematico, secuencial y agradable.
Puedes ver nuestros anuncios en la tele en Mejico en espanol y en los Estados Unidos en ingles. Hacemos anuncios para papel higenico Charmin aqui en Gales. Esperemos que disfruteis el Ossito Charmin. Gracias otra vez.
Hi, Marcus, I am from Ukraine, but I live here in the USA. I like cute mexican guys, and I’ve been learning spanish from those folks for over a year’s time. But your course helps me to straighten everything out in my head. Thanks u.
Hola Marcus
Thank you so much Marcus, it seems there is no end to your generosity.
I have downloaded FSI and browsed through the PDF documents.
I would agree with you when you say, it’s intense, but I would add that it is very worth while looking at it and listening to the audio tapes. At least with FSI you’re in control, start and stop when you like, do as little or as much as you like.
I can see what you mean when you say ‘you’ll love it or hate it’.
Thank you.
Salud
Les
Hi,
I cannot afford any Spanish courses at present,even yours! I downloaded the above but it says I have to pay for it or remove it after a certain time. How can I remove it/undownload it?
Thanks Sue
You are an excellent teacher. Thank you for the option to download the FBI course (in my opinion it is an inferior method of learning Spanish and I think I would loose interest quickly.
I will stick with your approach .
Blessings,
Bobbie
Problems trying to access the website.
Dear Marcus,
Once again….your generosity is greatly appreciated. I have been learning spanish for two years now and I still find it difficult to understand spanish speakers. I have been downloading your courses for free and I thank you very much for this. I truly believe that when I have completed all your courses… I will speak, write, and understand Spanish fluently.
Gracias
Gloria, Halifax, Canada
I’m unemployed, so I’m a good candidate for the free course–for now. I took one of your sample lessons, and you have the true plan! Oh, by the way, is the FSI course for PCs only, or can I unzip it on a Mac?
Paul, Houston, Texas
This appears to be an excellent program for an independent learner. I am curious as to why it is free. Please explain. Thanks.
I’ve tried several times to download lessons from FSI course but get nothing.
I’m now going to buy your Conversations level 2. I’m sticking with what works for me.
many thanks
Spanish is one of the hardest languages, the verbs are difficult, the prepositions, etc, hopefully I can benefit from this course. Thanks for the free opportunity and your understanding our financial crisis , We all appreciate it a lot.
I just downloaded the monster. I will attack it and see what I can do. Thanks for the opportunity of learning spanish from such a proposed excellent lessons.
Mike
Thank-you very much for this opportunity to receive this course. I would like very much to have this complete course but I can not download it. I have the vista system. If you could help me to download this course or send me a hard copy of this program I would appreiate it very much. I have enjoyed learning using your techniques and I would like to continue learning until I am fluent in speaking and understanding Spanish. Please send to me your answer. Thanks again
Por favor, hacerme de favor de una respuesta. Puede usted enviarme una copiar del courso or decirme como a download it. Mi sistema de la computadora no aceptarla. Tengo la vista. Muchas gracias
Muchísima gracias, Marcus, for allowing us to download this great course gratis. In my own language (Zulu) I can only say: Ngiyabonga. ¡Que Dios le bendiga!
Hi Marcus,
Thanks a lot giving us free spanish lessons actually i am now working here in Spain, pero no hablo bien. I tried to study here but its so boring and i found your way is mejor and interesting….
Godbless………….
thanks for the free site but i found it a bit hard going
Hola Marcus;
I tried downloading the Student Manual for Volume 2, but ran into a problem. I was able to download all the other components with not trouble. I have Adobe 9.1, can you help?
Thanx Marcu
Keep up the good work I am doing well with this program and thanx for the information,will give it a try
You’re right about the course. Unfortunately, I hate it so it is useless to me. Hopefully others find it more to their taste….
Dear Marcus, I could not get any sound so it was difiicult to get through but I will try again. without sound it is very confusing.
Thank you very much for giving me this oportunity, your lessons are so easy to understand. I also downloaded from the Government I think which gives me new words every day but have to admit some are just so hard with diferent meanings. I will keep them and see if they are any use in the future.
caio
Carol Miller.
Thanks Marcus, for allowing me free access to Spanish it’s a great help to someone like
me who loves Spanish but can’t afford to pay for tutoring.
May GOD richly bless you for all the good that you are doing in helping us to learn a foreign
language. May the grace of GOD be upon you always.
jenny
I like the course however, I will have more time to work with it over the summer when school is out. I am a Bible teacher during the school year. By the way Marcus, at the end of your synergy Spanish book, you gave an email address that we could send a blank email to and yu would send a free book teaching us how to speak in the past tense. Are you finished with the book? When do you think we will be getting the book? It would help mucho. Please write me and let me know. Joe from Virginia
hi marcus,
downloaded but unable to find on my pc,
its me am hopless with computers
best of luck
bill.
iDear Marcus,I accidently clicked on unsubscibe this was an error and I [would like to continue recieving your lessons. I am a cancer patient and these lessons help me to not think to much about my illness. I thank-you very much for what you have already sent. THANK_YOU.yours gratefully Shirley Mullaney