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| gravityguy Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4538 days ago 56 posts - 77 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 17 of 27 02 April 2015 at 4:25pm | IP Logged |
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iguanamon, thanks for the steps. The first one I looked at (germanwings pilot) started
out with almost perfect translation then went completely different. The English one was also twice as long. I'll look for ones that match a little better. I've also found a piece of free software that takes a lot of the effort out of using word. It's called Nova Text Aligner. Might be worth giving it a try if you haven't already. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| gravityguy Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4538 days ago 56 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 18 of 27 03 April 2015 at 11:05am | IP Logged |
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I've just found a great little website called
Spanish Book Shop. I purchased the first 5 books in the "Aventuras para 3" series. First 4 are A1 level, 5th is A2 and they all come with audio too. I'll come back with my review once I have been through a few of them :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ashleys Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 4347 days ago 7 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, French Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 27 03 April 2015 at 11:33am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the link, gravityguy! I'm bookmarking their French and Portuguese sites. Good luck with the Aventuras! You'll be up to Harry Potter y La Piedra Filosfal level in no time :)
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| Kees Nonaglot Newbie Canada learn-to-read-foreig Joined 5185 days ago 37 posts - 59 votes Speaks: Dutch*, Swedish, French, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian | Message 20 of 27 04 April 2015 at 6:55am | IP Logged |
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Hi gravityguy, you might already have visited some of these but here's a few sites
where you can read or get Spanish texts with pop-up or subtitled translation, which I personally find very handy to get up to speed with reading; some better translated than others: www.readlang.com www.bliubliu.com www.lingua.ly (news only I think) www.interlinearbooks.com www.bermudaword.com In my own experience the only problem with too many unknown words with the top three of these sites is that a. you have to select the word to translate and that takes longer than just hovering over them, and b. the translation for low frequency words can be missing or incorrect and this interferes with immersion. The bottom two have correct manual translations but consequently less texts. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| gravityguy Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4538 days ago 56 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 21 of 27 04 April 2015 at 9:35am | IP Logged |
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Hi Kees, I hadn't seen those sites so I will have a look. I appreciate the info, thanks
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| glidefloss Senior Member United States Joined 5969 days ago 138 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 22 of 27 05 April 2015 at 1:16am | IP Logged |
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That's basically what I've been doing with Spanish and Harry Potter. I also watched a lot of Spanish TV (~300-500 hours) and listened to a lot of audiobooks for harry potter and 100 years, etc. Despite all this work, and a lot of listening, only about 8 months later can I actually say I can read Harry Potter #4, and it's pretty slow reading. A few months ago I could pretty comfortably understand the first Harry Potter audiobook. It works, but it might not be the fastest method.
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| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5376 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 23 of 27 05 April 2015 at 12:33pm | IP Logged |
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I also think Harry Potter is much more difficult to read than most people think. There are a lot of easier books you can use for beginning LR.
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| BOLIO Senior Member United States Joined 4659 days ago 253 posts - 366 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 24 of 27 06 April 2015 at 8:29pm | IP Logged |
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I wanted to say thank you to Kees for the links.
www.interlinearbooks.com www.bermudaword.com These in particular were very helpful. The interlinear text makes very short work of reading and the one with pop up translations are handy too. Thanks for those. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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