Has anyone ever taken Spanish Online?

I'm contemplating taking Spanish online this fall....has anyone ever done this online? Was it extremely hard?

 

Bumping for some replies please.

 

If you don't live in the middle of nowhere, I would recommend that you take the classes in a face-to-face setting. Language online courses and computer-based self-study courses can be useful to some extent and have come a long way; nevertheless, it is hard to beat the interactivity of a good (!) physical classroom.

 

As it happens, I am working to set up an online Spanish course for high school students. It is absolutely correctly that it does present challenges. In our case, I am looking at using Elluminate or something similar. In other words, there will be an interactive component. The interacters will just not be in the same room.

I would assume that there are other doing this (but I do not know of any).



Tom Nixon

 

Florida Virtual School offers languages online. It is a very demanding program for teachers. They are required to contact the student and the parents at least once a month. However, the material is online and the students can contact the teachers whenever they need to.

 

You could always try Rosetta Stone. They have voice software that helps you speak/match the speaker. If you use self-study and then can pass a CLEP, that would award you up to 12 credits at the 100/200 level and it would be self-paced.