podcast #16, audio magazines
podcast #16, audio magazines
(link to this episode of the podcast)
ThinkSpanish audio magazine
(buy packs of ThinkSpanish audio magazine)
Puerta del Sol audio magazine
LoMásTV website
Democracy Now! titulares en español
online pop-up dictionaries
Ultralingua (for the Mac & Windows)
Oxford Spanish Pop-up dictionary (for Windows only)
please email me at: learningspanish@gmail.com,
or leave your comments on this site
posted by Rich @ 4:26 PM
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16 Comments:
Rich Welcome back! On a kind of related topic, Voice of America has
a feature for your ESL amigos. It's
articals in special english. These are text and podcasts. The english is simplified and spoken slowly. Available at voa.gov
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Do any of you know of a website for adult students of spanish that has discussion groups? About.com has an area like that, but it seems to be mostly highschool students looking for homework help.
Hi
Does anyone have any experience with Berlitz? I have sat through a free class and it looks good. But they are very expansive. I would love to hear if anyone has studied with them.
Thanks
I've subscribed to Puerta del Sol. Each cd is about one hour long, and full of very good material--interesting and well read, by a professional broadcaster. The transcriptions are also excellent. They offer, for an extra charge, a teaching aide--gives you listening tasks, then asks you questions--which works better than you think it is going to. All in all, I have found it a v good product, especially when on long flights! The only problem is that it simply doesn't come out on time: it's supposed to be every two months, but is prety haphazard. I was a subscriber for a while, but wehn I renewed it took ages for the second disc to arrive, so I got worried about the subscription and cancelled. They refunded me immediately. In fact, despite Rich's reservations about the way they appear to hide details about money, they are very quick to answer queries and v quick to refund anything--or even to send an extra cd after I lost one. So a good organisation, but I hope they are surviving. Note also that, somewhere on the site, you can order back copies, so, for $20 or so, you can get a good hour of read Spanish, with transcription, glossary, cutlural notes and so on, which will give you hours of use. I like it.
I've also done a Berlitz course, with my wife. I found it very patchy and not at all worth the (big!) money. The trouble for me was that they have a system. If you want to read ahead or on your own the whole thing collapses. Plus, it depends very much on your teacher. I had 4 in all: two were good, one was not very good and one just talked too much herself! That said, one of them is now our private teacher, and we are getting on great.
One other source of good podcasts, especially if you are interested in Spain, rather than Latin America is notesfromspain.com: by a n English guy resident in Madrid and his Spanish wife. They podcast in English about life in Spain, and this month are doing a podcast in Spanish every day as part of fund-raising exercise.
This probably would be best put as a comment under one of your earlier podcast, but no beginner should miss the free Destinos telenovela like video series
http://www.learner.org/resources/series75.html
dad/unc
Thank you for the info.
dad/unc
Do you know how I could by the material that Berlitz uses in their classes without actually taking classes with them?
Thank you
Steve
Hi
Rich thank you for another very interesting show.
I have been using LoMásTV for over a month now. And I like it. As Rich said, they only come out with about 10 min of new material a week, but I can spend at less 20 min with each 2- 3 min clip. They have video from varies countries so you do get some exposure to different accent, but about half the mater is from Argentina.
You can join their email list and receive email from them about once a week for free whether you are a paying subscriber or not. The email covers point of grammar and vocabulary from the videos, but I think they can be very useful even if you do not view the videos. Below is an excerpt from the latest email.
Steve
Es como un piedrazo en la cabeza.
It's like getting hit on the head with a rock.
[caption 26, Verano Eterno > Fiesta Grande > Part 6]
That's gotta hurt. In Spanish, the suffix azo can signify a blow by the object at the root of the word. So, piedrazo means a blow by a piedra, or stone. By this logic:
Bala -> bullet. Balazo -> blow by a bullet; a gunshot wound
Codo -> elbow. Codazo -> blow by an elbow; nudge
4:43 PM
"Do you know how I could by the material that Berlitz uses in their classes without actually taking classes with them?"
In the town I live in you could buy the books at their offices I think, but I'm not sure they are better than any other of the text-based teaching materials.
dad/unc
thanks again
I found a website that has 10 short stories in Spanish, that you down load as word documents or PDFs. It also has these shores in MP3s that you can download, so you can both read and listen. Its URL is
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fernand4/antologia.html
I found this site listed at
http://www.studyspanish.com/links/fun.htm
http://www.studyspanish.com/
has some interesting "free stuf"
Hello,
I think the comment by
"learn spanish online free"
is advertisement for a blog which
is just advertisement for a commercial
product. I would suggest to remove
this comment and any other
links to the blog mentioned in this
comment.
Martin
Martin
My comment on learn Spanish online free is not an advertisement and I have not commercial interest in the site. I was simple trying to provide a legitimate source for free learning tools
steve v,
I'm not sure whether we are talking about the same thing: I was refering to the user comment above advertising the blog http://learn-spanish-love.blogspot.com/ . I assume that blog is commercial advertisement for a product called "Rocket Spanish Mini Course". I think it is quite irritating that commerical advertisement is camouflaged as a blog. Therefore, I'm encouraging Rich to remove that comment.
BTW thanks for the link to the spanish short stories!
Martin
I apologize for the misunderstanding
Martin,
thanks for pointing out the spam. I try to get rid of it when I see it. However, I don't go back and re-look at all the comments in past episodes very often. Anyway, I erased that comment. Rich
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