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It all started with a brainstorm back in 1984.

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Brain cell

    It really wasn't your fault.  Blame it all on your brain.

From Birth to about age 6 billions of cells on opposite sides of our brains hook up with each other using long fibers called axons.  Our skulls actually double in size to make room for all that wiring.

We use a few hundred million of those axon connections to Baby store the sounds of the words we learn from our parents, and the muscle commands we use to imitate those sounds. "Mama!" takes about 18 muscles.

    Beginning about age 12, any connections we haven't used begin to dissolve away.  Those that are left have already hard-wired our brains to the sounds of one language. 

If you waited to High School to start Spanish or French, your brain had no place to store the new sounds.  You  tried to think in English and say Spanish words as if they were English words.  Your brain got very confused.

Rather than re-invent the Adult Brain, our Speed Tapes method gives you dozens of "strategies" that help you use English words and phrases to remember new words and phrases in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese.  Just listen.  Your brain will enjoy learning as much as you do.

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Almost twenty five years ago our Founders and fearless leaders Jim McAlister, and his lovely wife Kathie were already recognized leaders in the world of educational program development and marketing. 

They had both been deeply involved with the concept and test marketing of “BRAINSTORM”, the original prototype  of the soon-to-become-world-famous HOOKED ON PHONICS, one of the most successful educational programs ever developed for children.

The team, which was based in Orange County CA, at the time, went to work on a similar vocabulary building program for adults. VERBAL ADVANTAGE became another very successful advertiser on network radio.

The idea of teaching adults to speak a second language such as Spanish seemed to be a natural. The development team worked with several linguists and teachers in southern California.  It took about two years to perfect a way to do it so that adults and children who had never learned any language but English could actually learn Spanish without memorizing long lists of verbs, cases, declensions and other linguistic oddities. 

The first NATIONAL DYNAMICS SPEED SPANISH series debuted on April 14, 1984. Jim ran a :60 radio spot on productsWCBS-AM in New York City and got 35 phone calls. During the next 15 years, National Dynamics introduced the French, German, Italian and Japanese series, and - using local and network radio commercials - sold nearly a million sets of audio-cassettes to people all over the world.

In 1996 Jim and Kathie semi-retired to Lake Havasu City in northwestern Arizona. They found that raising one bright young multi-lingual 14 year old should be done in the city, instead of a resort town and relocated back to San Diego. (Back to work they went!) . Their first son Mike, now in his mid 30's, helps run a successful marketing company in Southern California. Bill, 30, son #2, continues to pursue his passion for education and currently produces language learning seminars for the company throughout the USA. You should feel confident knowing that our highly trained Customer Service Department is always ready to answer any questions you may have regarding our products. 1-800-290-9899

If you are a past customer and your pet Chihuahua eats your Spanish Level III cassette # 6 or you’ve left your CD’s to melt in the sun, it's easy to order replacement parts online.

One day we'll persuade Jim to dig up a photo of the crew so you can see the team that has taught over a million people to speak and understand a new language in less than 30 days!