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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To help ensure a smooth NSC experience, instructors and students must complete the following checklists at least one week before taking the NSC. This way nearly all technical difficulties can be resolved well in advance.