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)
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posted by Rich @ 4:26 PM
12 comments
12 Comments:
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
"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.
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
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,
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
I saw Think Spanish Magazine on your list. I have this and think it's great! It's especially good when read along with the audio CD. I have also watched a couple LoMas episodes and they are also helpful for comprehension. Both of these are probably too complicated for beginners, however.
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I love Think Spanish Magazine and with only one semester of Spanish I consider myself a beginner and it works for me. Think Spanish is the best product I have found for learning on your own time after you have the basics mastered. The website is www.readspanish.com
I'm now looking for ways to practice speaking when you are on your own. If you have any ideas on that I would love to see posts.
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Thanks a lot for a bunch of good tips. I look forward to reading more on the topic in the future. Keep up the good work! This blog is going to be great resource. Love reading it.
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I know there are some people out there looking for reviews of Spanish software.
Materials like these are very valuable in developing Spanish, thanks for sharing
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