soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3907 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 1 of 8 09 November 2014 at 4:30am | IP Logged |
I have a friend that's interested in learning Spanish. Are there any free websites dedicated to this, maybe something like Deutsche Welle is for German? He wants something a little more than Duolingo.
I'm also going to tell him about FSI (it didn't cross my mind when I was actually talking to him). Thanks guys
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BOLIO Senior Member United States Joined 4658 days ago 253 posts - 366 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 2 of 8 10 November 2014 at 7:41pm | IP Logged |
Please do your friend a favor and direct him to the "Language Transfer Spanish" course (Google). It will be a great start for him. He could then jump right into FSI. Also, Destinos episodes are helpful, they will support his learning and are free as well.
All the best,
BOLIO
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5866 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 3 of 8 10 November 2014 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
For many, many authentic and interesting articles in Spanish with high-quality, accurate audio, have your friend try:
Veinto Mundos
It does not provide complete translation but if you hover the mouse over underlined words, you get the translation of those. Use a pop-up dictionary for the others.
It is free. The material is excellent. There is lots of it.
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Shouko Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 3729 days ago 2 posts - 7 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Spanish
| Message 4 of 8 11 November 2014 at 12:40am | IP Logged |
Here are some great lists of free resources! :) I recently stumpled upon them and think that they're a great help for finding more useful learning material in Spanish.
1). 60 Resources
2.) 50 Resources
Personally, I would recommend things like podcasts for beginners (Notes in Spanish & Spanish Obsessed) and easy shows (Extr@ on youtube and Destinos). I also really like LingQ, but I only use it to read the free texts with audio.
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James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5375 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 5 of 8 11 November 2014 at 1:29am | IP Logged |
Welcome to the forum, Shouko. That was one of the most useful first posts I've seen on the forum. Thank you for the link to the lists.
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Shouko Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 3729 days ago 2 posts - 7 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Spanish
| Message 6 of 8 11 November 2014 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
Ah, thank you! :') Usually I'm just lurking on the forum, but thought I could at least help with some ressources, haha.
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soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3907 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 7 of 8 20 November 2014 at 7:31pm | IP Logged |
My friend wanted to thank all of you guys for the suggestions; he's in the midst of
checking them all out, thanks!
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Rniks Newbie United States Joined 3704 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian
| Message 8 of 8 30 November 2014 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
Although with what is listed above, you'll have more than enough, one resource that I find wonderful but doesn't
seem to be mentioned around this forum is Lingualia. You can work from it from their website or from the mobile
app. There is a paid version, which biggest bonus is that it offers audio to the dialogues in the courses. However,
the unpaid version is fantastic. It's much more detailed and in depth than the Duolingo app for instance. It has
levels for A1, A2, B1, and B2, with 50 lessons in each. It uses lots of colloquial vocabulary and natural sounding
expressions, with a focus on Peninsular Spanish. You get 200 dialogues in total, lots of vocabulary, concise
grammar explanations, and some other cool features you can access on the web version. I swear I'm not a
developer of this app, I just think it's really well done and an incredible resource that deserves a mention.
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