marklewis1234 Newbie United States Joined 5154 days ago 32 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 1 of 5 07 September 2010 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
Could anyone recommend a good audio/book course which specialises in learning wide Spanish vocabulary, preferably with native speakers? Thanks
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James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5215 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 2 of 5 08 September 2010 at 1:25am | IP Logged |
Assimil's Spanish with Ease has a lot of vocab and it is an enjoyable course. It sells for $32 on Amazon which is an incredibly good deal. It is not organized as a vocab course. It is organized as several dialogues with audio of the dialogues. There is an advanced level also that has more of the same. The Living Language Ultimate and Ultimate Advanced courses also look good.
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5235 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 3 of 5 14 September 2010 at 2:03am | IP Logged |
I would second Assimil and the Living Language Ultimate series.
Another resource, depending on your level, would be to find dual-language books (the Spanish on one side, the English on the other). You can start with simpler books like the Little Prince (you can get the dual text, plus the Spanish audio at http://www.bilingual-texts.com/library/spanish/).
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CaucusWolf Senior Member United States Joined 5112 days ago 191 posts - 234 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Written), Japanese
| Message 4 of 5 14 September 2010 at 5:09am | IP Logged |
You could try FSI which is a free program you can search for on google. I'm using FSI to learn MSA. I can't vouch for a specific Spanish course(they have two different courses for Spanish.) but I've learned much from the MSA one.
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Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6961 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian
| Message 5 of 5 14 September 2010 at 2:59pm | IP Logged |
No native speakers on these resources, but have you heard of the 'Using Spanish' books by R. E. Batchelor? - Using Spanish Vocabulary and Using Spanish Synonyms might help you - and heck Using Spanish itself is probably worth getting too. Warning - not cheap!
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