Survival Spanish®
for
Law Enforcement Instructors and Trainers©
466 Slide PowerPoint Training CD
(Revised June 28, 2006)

This newly released, Survival Spanish®, PowerPoint presentation is packed with invaluable information, insight and “no nonsense” techniques that are critical in learning and teaching Survival Spanish®.  This interactive training program is produced by award winning author and trainer, Robert Dent, author of the Complete Spanish Field Reference Manual for Public Safety Professionals (6-C Edition).  This innovative and realistic instruction provides a simple communications capability to bridge the language and cultural barrier, which enhances public service to the Hispanic community... while saving lives.

Dent, a retired Oregon State Police Senior Trooper, designed this course for instructors to teach basic, targeted, entry level Survival Spanish® to a wide variety of law enforcement, corrections, security, EMT’s, parole / probation, firefighters, educators, military, juvenile and youth authorities and other public safety professionals.  This PowerPoint encompasses the numerous situations, both common and life threatening, that public safety professionals encounter with Spanish speaking persons.  This training helps avoid tragic misunderstandings, elicits voluntary cooperation and enhances the image of the public safety professionals.

Using learning cognates, mnemonics and “Dynamic Memory Linking©” this "easy to teach” patented method is a practical way for learning, retaining and recalling commonly used Spanish words and phrases.  The Survival Spanish® training method, addresses the relationship between sensory perception, the brain, “memory keys” and the rate of practice.  Once learned, as a prompt, the “key” for memory recall, evokes an appropriate learned response.  Conceptual protocols for learning, remembering, and recalling practical and abstract concepts by means of cognitive association are retained by realistic practice and reinforced by immediate positive feedback, which this interactive training program provides.

Our materials circumvent the often confusing grammar instruction found in most college courses.  It is easy, efficient, job specific and cost effective. (Typically, this course can be used as a 2-3 day stand-alone training program or can be used in conjunction with more in depth language courses.) 

Partial Table of Contents on CD:

The Need for Language Training; Oral Pre-Testing; Written Pre-Test; Purpose, Goals and Objectives; Overview of Survival Spanish; Course Materials; History of Spanish Language; Cultural Awareness and Diversity; Body Language – The Silent Communicator; Silent Cultural Diversity Signals; Traditional Family Values; Respect – A Matter of Honor; Demographics of the Hispanic Population; Public Relations; How To Learn and Teach Survival Spanish®; Grammar (Basics); Key Cognates, Shortcuts and Memory Aids; Hispanic Name Structure; Greetings and Courtesy Phrases; Victim Assistance; Domestic Violence; Medical Assistance; Fire Phrases; Traffic Stops / Accidents; Immigration of Mexican Indigenous Indian Tribes into U.S.; Basic Field Interviews; Basic DWI Sobriety Tests; Determining True Identity; Officer Safety Tips; Asking for Consent To Search; Advice of Rights; Control and Command Phrases; Survival Mind Set in High Stress Encounters; “Red Flag Danger Words;” Names of Weapons and their slang; Drugs and Drug Slang; Tattoo Interpretation; Drug, Street and Prison Slang; The Role in “Roll Call” Training; Rights of Foreign Nationals; Basic Immigration Documents; Formula for Successful Communication; Hispanic Outreach Programs; Ideas to Supplement Training When Time and Money are Short; Using Survival Spanish® to Supplement Current Language Training; Summary of Survival Spanish® Training; Pre and Post Testing,  and more.  It includes hundreds of pictures, illustrations, charts, speaker's instructional notes and tips,  speaker's checklist and more. Includes pre, post and refresher tests.    It is designed to be used in conjunction with the:  
Complete Spanish Field Reference Manual for Public Safety Professionals (6-C Edition) with FREE Survival Spanish® audio learning CDs and the “Interactive Survival Spanish – High Risk Vehicle Stops” video training DVD (or VHS).  

(ADDITIONAL BONUS: Your CD also includes a FREE PowerPoint Presentation on Law Enforcement Deaths.  Topics include: Causative factors with survey results taken from 54 convicted police killers and why they kill; , preventing being assaulted or killed, a collection of poems honoring police officers and their wives; the story behind the founding of the Constable Memorial Foundation and more.  This presentation with speaker’s notes is provided compliments of the foundation and should be part of mandatory training for all law enforcement personnel.

NOTE:   These PowerPoint Presentations were produced with Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 and it must be on your computer to run this software.  It will work on any PC platform using Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Ed., Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition and Windows XP.  It is recommended to be used on a computer that is 800 MHz or faster.