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Home FSI: Basic Spanish Advanced B (18 CDs/Book) Sale price $89.95 Regular price $139.95 SpanishLevel 4Basic Spanish Advanced BForeign Service InstituteDepartment of StateThe Course Used by DiplomatsLearn Spanish the proven way--just like a diplomat!Over the years, Audio Forum® customers have used our courses to learn Spanish in as little as 25 minutes a day, entirely on their own. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to achieve fluency in Spanish using this proven audio/text method.While other premium computer-based language courses offer only the means to learn to speak, with Audio-Forum®, you'll not only speak fluently, you'll also master reading, writing, and grammar skills at a scholarly level--all with the confidence and polish of a native Spanish speaker. After all, diplomats have proven for years that this method works!This FSI Audio-Forum® Course Features* 18 hours of audio, 10 units (lessons)* 472-page text* Basic sentences and word order* Subject and verb practice* Practical dialogs and conversations* Grammar drills and past subjunctive* Writing and substitution drills* Reading selections and situations* Word and phrase replacement drills* Pattern response drills and more!The U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute developed full-length courses specifically for diplomats, the very people who must learn a language quickly and effectively. Having worked with FSI authors and instructors, these courses have been fully tested through usage before release to the public. For over 40 years, Audio-Forum® has been the original and most trusted source for Foreign Service Institute language courses.About the LanguageThe Spanish taught is that of a well-educated native of Latin America, and the pronunciation is "neutral," in that it is not specifically derived from any one country. Latin American Spanish is more widely used than European (Castilian) Spanish. The differences between them are comparable to those between British and American English, as such languages have evolved separately on either side of the Atlantic over the last few centuries.Additional Courses Available through Audio-Forum®* Spanish Programmatic Course Volume 1 (Level 1)* Spanish Programmatic Course Volume 2 (Level 2)* Basic Spanish Advanced A (Level 3)

Several live videos packed with Hebrew language learning tips. And while the channel doesn’t appear be active at the moment, but there’s still a lot to learn from her video archive.Hebrew for Beginners: This channel is true to its name – it has several videos for beginner Hebrew learners covering everything from the writing system to basic vocabulary and grammar.Learn Arabic with Maha: I featured Maha in my post of the best free Arabic learning resources, but her channel also has several helpful basic Hebrew lessons.If you’re interested in guided lessons, there is a good selection of free online Hebrew courses and systems available. Here are just a few websites that offer online Hebrew lessons at no cost, plus some Hebrew tools you’ll find useful:Glossika is an audio language course and the first 1,000 repetitions are free. It uses spaced-repetition to help you learn useful Hebrew phrases.Pealim is a free Hebrew verb conjugator and reference site.Goethe Verlag has 100 free lessons for Hebrew language learners. They cover everything from numbers to preparing for a trip and running errands.Live Lingua: There is one free FSI Hebrew course on Live Lingua, a database of Peace Corps and FSI coursebooks and audio materials.Wikibooks offers Hebrew language learners a free online coursebook.Hebrew Podcasts has dozens if not hundreds of lessons available on their site. You can browse the lessons by level and learn everything from how to get out and about on the town to culture tips.Teach Me Hebrew has a wide range of free Hebrew language classes. It has modules on everything from grammar to songs you can learn with.Your Daily Dose of Hebrew features free vocabulary lessons. Each post features a word and offers you both audio and context.Teacher Mike’s Blog offers Hebrew learners short video lessons with text notes.Loecsen has almost

From Italy, you’ll also find Italian speakers in Switzerland and the Vatican City.Honorable mentions: Spanish, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian and Dutch.The Hardest European Languages to Learn: A Linguistic ChallengeLearning a new language can be challenging, and some European languages are considered particularly hard to learn due to their complex grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation.However, a language’s level of complexity is not given at random. You may feel like a European language is hard to learn, but classification has to be made by experts. The Foreign Service Institute of the US Government in this case. What recommends them? The FSI has some 800 language learning courses in 70 languages with over 70 years of experience in instructing US diplomats and foreign affairs employees to learn languages.According to them, the hardest European languages to learn are:FinnishIcelandicHungarianPolishCroatianTurkishGreekEstonianLatvianBulgarianUkrainianRussianSlovakThe FSI classifies all these European languages as tier 4 out of 5 – with 5 being the highest difficulty level. A native English speaker would need 1100 hours or 44 weeks of study to achieve fluency in one of these European languages.Surprisingly, German didn’t make this list as it is easier to learn than all these languages. Being at tier 2, German only requires 750 hours or 30 weeks of study for fluency.English and Beyond: Languages Spoken in European CountriesWhether we’re talking about Indo-European languages or not, here are all the languages of Europe and where they are spoken:Languages of Europe LanguageCountries where spoken AlbanianAlbania, Kosovo, North Macedonia BasqueSpain, France BelarusianBelarus BosnianBosnia and Herzegovina BretonFrance BulgarianBulgaria CatalanSpain, Andorra CroatianCroatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina CzechCzech Republic DanishDenmark DutchNetherlands, Belgium, Suriname EnglishUnited Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Gibraltar, Cyprus EstonianEstonia FinnishFinland FrenchFrance, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Luxembourg, Monaco GalicianSpain GermanGermany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein GreekGreece, Cyprus HungarianHungary IcelandicIceland IrishIreland ItalianItaly, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City LatvianLatvia LithuanianLithuania MacedonianNorth Macedonia MalteseMalta NorwegianNorway PolishPoland PortuguesePortugal,

When you receive the results of a foreign language test conducted by ICA Language Services, you have our word that it completely and accurately represents an individual’s language proficiency.For more than 20 years, our highly-educated test examiners and native-speaking testers have tested professionals for leading government agencies and corporations in more than 82 languages. Our format follows the Foreign Service Institute standard, so scores are predictive of FSI test results, and we share results with test-takers or a test-taker’s sponsor immediately, to free them up for the next stages of their assignments.ICA Stands ForQualityOut of more than a thousand test-takers, we have had fewer than 10 requests for review of the results.ProfessionalismICA’s testing and training departments are completely independent. We don’t compromise the value of test scores by having instructors test the same students they train.FlexibilityWe’re testing all week long—evenings and Saturdays included—and can test remotely using state-of-the-art technology.If you need a test in a rare language, we are here to provide it.