Imperfect Strangers, Lingophil’s audio story for intermediate Spanish learners, follows the lives of a group of people whose paths cross during one fateful summer as they deal with bittersweet family relations and friendships, broken dreams, breakups, job hunts, financial woes and much more.
Right from the start you’ll learn the everyday language you need to understand the locals and get by in the real Spanish spoken on the street.
At the same time, you’ll be building the foundation of your linguistic skills by acquiring new and useful vocabulary, key grammar patterns, handy phrases to kick off a conversation and keep it going and learning how to construct native-level sentences.
Once you’ve solidified the foundation of your language, the level of difficulty increases with each Season, as the audio demands more of your listening comprehension and vocabulary skills. Memorization is subtly and effectively reinforced by repeating common expressions and patterns multiple times in different contexts throughout the course. Our Intensive Listening Comprehension Practice™ method is uniquely designed to help you learn content thoroughly for maximum retention.
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Season 1 Spanish |
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99,00 € (plus VAT) |
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Level: B1 Starter |
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Season 1 – B1 Starter lays the groundwork for your Spanish journey. Each episode introduces essential B1 vocabulary, grammar and core tenses through engaging conversations. You’ll train your ear to natural speech patterns, pick up everyday expressions, and start understanding Spanish the way it’s actually spoken — without feeling overwhelmed.
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Season 2 Spanish |
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99,00 € (plus VAT) |
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Level: B1 Intermediate |
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Season 2 – B1 Intermediate builds on everything you learned in B1 Starter and raises the bar. The episodes feature richer dialogues, a wider range of tenses, and practical, real-world vocabulary for confident communication—while revisiting essential words and common sentence patterns from B1 Starter in new contexts so they truly stick. At the same time, you’ll sharpen your listening skills with faster native speech, learn to decode colloquial phrasing, and develop the fluency you need to handle everyday situations with ease. |
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Season 3 Spanish |
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99,00 € (plus VAT) |
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This Season includes 5 Episodes with Mexican Spanish |
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Level: B1 Mastery |
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Season 3 – B1 Mastery is where everything comes together. Through immersive, fast-paced conversations, you’ll work with more complex dialogue structures, nuanced vocabulary, and natural expressions rarely found in textbooks—while revisiting and reinforcing key vocabulary and sentence patterns from Seasons 1 and 2 to ensure long-term retention. You’ll learn to follow Spanish at natural speed, handle more complex ideas, and eventually express yourself with greater ease, preparing you for a smooth transition to B2-level comprehension. This season also includes 5 episodes featuring authentic Spanish as spoken in Mexico, offering a structured introduction to key features of Latin American Spanish. |
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Lingophil is an audio transcription course designed for intermediate-level students. It employs audio transcription technology using a method we call Intensive Listening Comprehension Practice (ILCP).
This innovative method allows you to progressively enhance your ability to understand conversational, native-level Spanish by listening to specially designed audio material, transcribing what you hear and creating your own transcript. A correction tool instantly shows your errors, which you can then compare with the master transcript. Grammar, usage and vocabulary tips are provided along the way to effectively guide and support you in your language learning journey.
If you prefer learning with videos rather than audio, book-learning, or if you don’t like typing on a keyboard, then Lingophil is probably not for you. However, if you enjoy learning with audio, tend to be a disciplined self-learner with a strong motivation to continuously improve your skills and want to attain a high level of proficiency in your target language, then Lingophil can effectively help you achieve your goals. Transcribing can be mentally intensive work, but it’s exciting to find out if you’ve understood correctly and rewarding and empowering to be able to recognize and clarify misunderstandings.
Becoming truly proficient in a foreign language requires long term focus and dedication. Our Intensive Listening Comprehension Practice™ method is uniquely designed to help you stay focused and learn our content thoroughly for maximum retention. Moving from intermediate to advanced isn’t just about learning more words. You often need to fill in gaps from your earlier attempts at learning the language. If you don’t take the time to fill in those gaps, your foundation won’t be as solid, which will make it harder or even impossible to take your language to an advanced level.
The vocabulary and grammar covered in Season 1 – 3 is roughly equivalent to the level B1 of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). Some of the content goes beyond that level, as the audios also contain colloquial and idiomatic expressions as well as some tense constructions (e.g. subjunctive and imperfecto vs. pluscuamperfecto for backgrounding) that are not generally found in learning material for level B1.
Yes, the difficulty level gradually increases with each Season, as the audio makes greater demands on your listening comprehension and vocabulary skills. Memorization is subtly and effectively reinforced by repeating common expressions and patterns multiple times in different contexts throughout the story.
The story is presented in Seasons and Episodes, similar to a TV series. It’s like listening to a movie without the visuals where you just hear the voices and sound effects that make up an engaging story that teaches you vocabulary, grammar patterns, colloquial language and much more as you go along.
All audio material featured in the app is uniquely created for our courses and recorded by professional voice actors and actresses. It is not available anywhere else. You can meet some of the voices behind the characters in our story here.
The course is currently available for French, Spanish, German and Italian. The stories featured in the course are the same in each language. We add new Seasons several times a year.
Lingophil is a web application that runs in your browser. It requires an Internet connection. It runs on laptops, desktop computers, tablets and smartphones. Because the transcription exercises require you to type entire sentences, we recommend that you use Lingophil on a device with a standard keyboard, such as a laptop or a desktop computer.
No. Lingophil is based on our unique Intensive Listening Comprehension Practice method, which requires you to recall exact phrases that cannot be identified from preset answers. In Lingophil you will never be asked to pick the right word or phrase from a set of possible answers, do multiple choice exercises or play word games to practice vocabulary.
The course is designed for intermediate-level learners. Using the CEFR as a benchmark, we recommend that you have at least the equivalent of an A2 level to fully benefit from the course.
You get lifetime access to the Lingophil app and our serial story consisting of at least 8 episodes per Season, our transcription tool TScribe™, detailed text annotations, verb and tense usage tips, alternative expressions and 160 practice exercises.
You can start with a later Season. Just keep in mind that the Seasons follow one continuous storyline and that annotations and exercises build on grammar concepts covered in earlier Seasons.
No, the prices do not include any sales tax or VAT that may be applicable in your country. The applicable tax is calculated based upon your shipping address and will be shown on checkout.
You can try the course for 30 days from the day you purchase it. If you decide it’s not for you, just send us an email within the 30 days at orders@lingophil.com. We’ll cancel your account and give you a full refund within 10 days. No questions asked. We’d rather have one less customer than one who isn’t happy.
