Learning Spanish Like Crazy offers a practical, audio-based approach to learning conversational Spanish. It is designed for people who want to achieve a reasonable level of fluency in Latin American style Spanish. If all you need to learn is a few phrases to get by for a short vacation, this program probably isn’t for you.

Being audio-based, the course is designed to “immerse” you in Spanish from the very beginning, thus helping you to learn more quickly. The course does not have a textbook with drill and practice material, but does include a printable transcript of the audio material.

Learning Spanish Like Crazy, on their sales page, emphasizes that they use real native Latin American Spanish speakers in the recordings. This is a plus, because some courses that teach regional language variations (such as Latin American Spanish, or Spanish as spoken in Spain) use non-native instructors. While one doesn’t have to be a native speaker to teach a foreign language effectively, you definitely miss some of the little nuances of the language that only native speakers can get across.