BlondGirl Groupie United States Joined 5558 days ago 49 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 1 of 33 29 May 2010 at 8:18pm | IP Logged |
Hi everyone. If you are studying Spanish and have a favorite weblink or item that helps in comprehension or making things stick, please post it here. These are mine. They are in no particular order. All are FREE!
I will alter this post as I find more or better resources.
SSL4YOU Spanish Segunda Lengua
http://teresasanchez.biz/podcast/
Podcasts that you can download with text available.
Conversation Exchange
http://www.conversationexchange.com/
Potential learning partners from around the world.
Another page from Conversation Exchange. This suggests topics to have conversations about.
http://www.conversationexchange.com/resources/conversation-t opics.php
Netflix.com
If you have it, the Spanish genre is invaluable.
Biblegateway.com
Read in Spanish while listening. (I actually downloaded the Bible in a separate file and use my print Bible for this unless I am out and about.)
GLOSS or Global Language Online Support System
http://gloss.dliflc.edu/
All kinds of goodies here from practice audio to text to a variety of other stuff. Very nice.
Words Galore
http://wordsgalore.com/
Downloadable program-free, wonderful resource. Has a couple of other languages as well. I use this with Mnemosyne to test pronunciation.
http://forodeespanol.com/
Lots of options here.
http://www.sharedtalk.com/
From Rosetta Stone--options to communicate with others. ******* Excellent resource for speaking/listening practice
SPAnish LEarn it ONline.
http://www.spaleon.com/index.php
To practice drills and such.
Audiria
http://www.audiria.com/
Podcasts and other material with Spanish. Many items with sound and text.
Livemocha is one that I went crazy with a while back, but it is really for beginners, IMHO.
I hope these help some folks!
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Here are two more suggested sites:
www.palabravirtual.com
It has poems and audio with text to read along. The speed seems nice an slow on all the ones I looked at.
http://www.cervantestv.es/default.htm
video with audio for get the ear used to hearing Spanish
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6-18-2010
Excellent short videos in a collection with a variety of topics
http://www.thespanishblog.com/
The following two sites were recommended to me.
http://www.mansionspanish.com/index.html
http://www.lapasserelle.com/sm/esp90mp3/index-eng.php
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6-19-2010
This displays the changing front pages of various newspapers around the globe. Excellent for visual practice of vocabulary concerning current events. *********
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/
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7-10-2010
Videos with speaking, text, and translation. Many choices and levels to choose from. Incredible resource!!! ***********
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/beg01.html
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8-8-2010
Here are some more useful sites that I am using every day:
A list of resources of actual materials from actual Spanish-using countries. Pick and choose here.
http://www.spanish-only.com/2008/11/reader-question-real-mat erials/
This is a great site with things broken down into categories that make it easy to target whatever you need.
http://www.ielanguages.com/spanish.html
A variety of options here with pages where you can fill-in-the-blank online for self testing. I like this when when I have a few minutes to kill at work for little mini-studying sessions. (I just like to leave the site up all day and hit it when I am waitingwaitingwaiting. If you work a desk job where you have to be on hold all the time-ie insurance- this is perfect for eating your language in small bites.)
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php
I also recommend Wikipedia's home page. Just select your language of choice and look up a topic that you already know and understand to get the vocabulary for it.
http://www.wikipedia.org/
Are you using Mnemosyne? 10,000 sentences method? Another spaced repetition method? This is an awesome collection. Just select the letter of your choice and begin cutting and pasting.
http://sentences.spanish-only.com/
Edited by BlondGirl on 08 August 2010 at 3:44pm
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Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6246 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish
| Message 2 of 33 29 May 2010 at 9:09pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the great list. I haven't used any online resources yet except for ANKI and
SHARED TALK, so don't have much to contribute. But will keep an eye on it if I come
across anything.
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Kinan Diglot Senior Member Syrian Arab Republic Joined 5567 days ago 234 posts - 279 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, English Studies: Russian, Spanish
| Message 3 of 33 29 May 2010 at 10:03pm | IP Logged |
Great post, I will check these links one by one.
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DaisyMaisy Senior Member United States Joined 5381 days ago 115 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Swedish, Finnish
| Message 4 of 33 30 May 2010 at 4:44am | IP Logged |
Great, I will be checking these out! Thanks for posting.
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glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6322 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch
| Message 5 of 33 30 May 2010 at 3:08pm | IP Logged |
http://www.veintemundos.com/
Tu revista en EspaƱol
Spanish magazine with audio and a vocabulary section in English, French and German.
You can read and listen online or download all - even the old editions.
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BlondGirl Groupie United States Joined 5558 days ago 49 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 6 of 33 10 June 2010 at 4:10am | IP Logged |
I just added a couple of new sites. If you have any more, please post them or send them to me. Thanks.
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Khublei Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Yugoslavia homestayperu.net Joined 5348 days ago 90 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English*, Irish*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Khasi, French, Albanian
| Message 7 of 33 10 June 2010 at 9:33am | IP Logged |
Thanks for the links! That's my weekend sorted. I'm using Vaughan Translation Systems at
the moment. Not so much a web resource but it's available to download from mant different
sources and it's very useful to practice fairly complex sentences.
Other than that I read Spanish newspapers online. I follow something called DW_World on
Twitter and read their Spanish articles.
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endation Triglot Newbie United States mattgrabermusic.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6300 days ago 28 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew, Spanish Studies: French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin
| Message 8 of 33 10 June 2010 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the list. I'll have to check them out. The website for El Pais, a newspaper from Spain, is a good online reading source. http://www.elpais.com
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