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| sfuqua Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4566 days ago 581 posts - 977 votes  Speaks: English*, Hawaiian, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 7 10 February 2013 at 6:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I noticed in amazon.com that there are many "test preparation" manuals for different CEFR levels for Spanish. I am intrigued that this might be interesting material to work through after completing Assimil, Pimsleur, or Platiquemos. The DELE and TELC materials seem to include "practice tests" While I realize that learning to pass one B2 test will not make one able to pass all B2 tests, it might make interesting material to work through.
Has anybody used these manuals for general language learning? Has anybody used them for preparation for the actual tests in Spanish? Are some of these manuals better than others? TELC seems to have practice tests on line that can be downloaded. steve 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4931 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 7 10 February 2013 at 7:13am | IP Logged | ||
I have the TELC Turkish prep material that I'm working through, because I'm sitting the B2 exams this month. The material has given me a decent idea of what (supposedly) to expect. It includes audio too, so I would think that it would make for decent study material, at the very least for vocabulary. I can't compare this to any other prep material - I didn't use any prep material for my Spanish or Italian exams. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4823 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 7 10 February 2013 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Have you read DaraghM's old Spanish logs? It looks like he used "Anaya Gramatica" B1 and B2 with a lot of success.
My feeling is that there is A LOT more vocabulary in official DELE materials than to be found in either Assimil or FSI. For example this morning I was flicking through one of the La Spiga graded readers which is graded at A1/A2, (Dos Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes) and was dismayed to find that there where quite a few words I had never come across. I have used "punto y coma" magazine briefly and it appears to be excellent. In fact I have been thinking for a while that DELE materials are perhaps the next step. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sfuqua Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4566 days ago 581 posts - 977 votes Speaks: English*, Hawaiian, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 7 11 February 2013 at 6:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Some of the EDELSA material looks quite interesting, in that they include several practice tests in each book. I wonder if they wouldn't make a good supplement to FSI, or at least something to work through after FSI. I don't know if the tests in the EDELSA materials are close to the actual examinations.
TELC has practice exams at A1->B2 levels available for free. I think I'll play with those first. steve 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4823 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 7 11 February 2013 at 9:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Do you have to pay for those? DELE has some that you can see for free.
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| sfuqua Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4566 days ago 581 posts - 977 votes Speaks: English*, Hawaiian, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 7 11 February 2013 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Somehow I didn't find the DELE sample tests before. I downloaded the lot. It looks
like there are many examples from the B1/B2 level, the level most appropriate for someone who has completed FSI or Assimil. I'm not sure when I'm going to get around to looking carefully at these, since I'm still early in FSI. The TELC ones are for free, but there are fewer of them; they don't include the C1 or C2 levels. The EDELSA materials are extensive, but cost money and I am not sure of the quality. DELE has enough examples to keep somebody busy for a while, and these have the advantage of being actual tests that were given. I bet this material might be a good follow up or supplement to FSI/Assimil. While my Spanish has many areas of weakness, I feel my vocabulary has been lagging the past few months. There are many words I don't know, that haven't come up in the "beginner" to "intermediate" materials I've studied. It is always interesting when you learn a new word, that you would swear you have never seen before, and then you find yourself running into it several times in the next day. It suggests to me that I often don't know what I'm missing when I'm reading or listening to Spanish. steve 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5952 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 7 of 7 12 February 2013 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | ||
I should add that Anaya ELE have also some very good vocabulary books. Vocabulario. Nivel Medio B1 Vocabulario. Nivel Avanzado B2 Anaya ELE Vocabulario For a mixture of vocabulary and grammar you could try Aprende 3 (B1) and Aprende 4 (B2). I used them briefly, but I think the Anaya ELE material is stronger. Edited by DaraghM on 12 February 2013 at 3:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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