Lingco is excited to be hosting the National Spanish Challenge for 2025! We’ve created a modern online educational platform designed to help instructors more effectively teach students foreign languages. We’re doing everything we can to make the NSC this year as smooth as possible, and we’ve created this guide to help get you started.
Lingco is a modern web-based application that works best with the latest version of Google Chrome, running on a laptop or desktop computer (either Mac, PC or Chromebook). It should also work on the last two versions of Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge, but Chrome is highly recommended. The activities used in the National Spanish Challenge are designed for larger screens, so we don’t support using any mobile device or tablet at this time.
In order to take the National Spanish Challenge on Lingco you’ll also need:
<aside> ❗ Note: Certain school network components, such as VPNs and firewalls, can impact the quality of audio and video files in Lingco. Please discuss this with your network administrator if you discover such issues when testing out the Lingco platform before taking the National Spanish Challenge.
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If you haven't used Lingco before, you'll need to create an instructor account first, using the instructions given to you by the NSC administrators. These instructions include a special link you'll need to use as a starting point for creating your account, and they will also guide you through the process of registering and reserving seats for the NSC.
You'll first be prompted to either log in (if you already have a Lingco account), or to create an account.
Once you've created your account (or logged in to your existing one), you'll be taken to the NSC dashboard in Lingco. You can also return back to this dashboard at anytime by clicking on the NSC icon on the left side bar when logged in to your account:
