maestromap Newbie United States Joined 5887 days ago 38 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 1 of 6 06 November 2008 at 6:19pm | IP Logged |
Hello,
Does any one know of any slow Spanish listening material. I can't find a thing in Spanish that doesn't go a million miles an hour. Any ideas?
Michael
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6259 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 2 of 6 06 November 2008 at 6:38pm | IP Logged |
A few ideas:
- Notes in Spanish seems to have rather easy Spanish podcasts.
- You can slow down normal Spanish speech in your audio files; the easiest way is probably to use Audacity, open the file, edit -> select -> select all, effect -> change tempo (not 'change speed' - that would mess up the pitch), then File -> Export.
- Just get used to it; reading along with transcripts in English and/or Spanish could help greatly.
- Get Assimil's Spanish course - it uses extremely slow Spanish at the beginning.
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Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5685 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque
| Message 3 of 6 06 November 2008 at 10:36pm | IP Logged |
Yea, like Volte said, if you don't want to manually change the speed of the recording it really helps if you have a transcript of the audio file to read along with. After reading a section with the audio a few times, it's a lot easier to distinguish the words.
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zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6192 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 4 of 6 07 November 2008 at 3:53am | IP Logged |
Listen to native speed Spanish. You will be better off. You won't understand much at
first but neither does a baby. Just keep listening. :)
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maestromap Newbie United States Joined 5887 days ago 38 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 5 of 6 07 November 2008 at 10:02am | IP Logged |
What is "native speed"? are things like BBC Mundo in "native speed.
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unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6734 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 6 of 6 07 November 2008 at 1:38pm | IP Logged |
Native speed is the speed at which a native speaker would talk at. So the speed that you talk English, for example.
If you're just starting Spanish then try some non-native (i.e. learner) materials. Podcasts are good, as they often repeat the dialogues several times.
Coffee Break Spanish goes at a slow pace, and is good for beginners. I enjoyed using it when I was studying Spanish.
Spanishpod101 repeats the dialogues several times, once at a slower speed.
There are loads more podcasts on itunes, some others that looked good are Conversational Spanish, Spanish para todos and SSL4U (transcript on website).
There's also Destinos, a video series with 52 episodes for learning Spanish.
I also second Volte's suggestion to use transcripts. I often listen (or watch) things twice, once without a transcript/subtitles, once with.
Also, it takes a lot of listening before you will be able to understand everything. ;)
Edited by unzum on 07 November 2008 at 1:42pm
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