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11 Responses to “All About #11 - Top Five Tools to Learn Spanish”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Hi everyone!
I’ve shared my favorite tools, now it’s time to share yours! What tools do you find indispensable when studying Spanish? Let us know!
jp@spanishpod101.com
Wednesday at 7:20 am
Estoy de acuerdo de todos. I would like to share some websites that I like, that are among these five tools. I am not affiliated with any website at all, and if linking is a problem please feel free to delete my post. Seriously, no problem.
First is Children’s Library. org free children’s books in Spanish
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?ids=85,84&langid=61&pnum=1&cnum=1&text=&lang=English&ilang=English
Second, the University of Texas has video clips of people speaking spanish at a normal pace and the pop up window has the Spanish and English written out
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/beg01.html
And finally my all-time fav is live television streams from all over the world!
http://wwitv.com/portal.htm
Click on the country in the left pane menu, then the color squares to get the channel window, and if the in page window doesn’t play click on the color square under “player”. Seriously I can watch this for hours at a time!
I hope that this is helpful to someone…:???:
Wednesday at 10:37 pm
Hola! Gracias por los sitios! Me parecen muyy útil. Y hago todo lo que ustedes mencionaron en este podcast. Yo aprendo español por ver cosas en español como telenovelas, leer español como historias, escribir en español por chatear con personas hispanas, y escuchar español como la música. Ayy me encanta la música hispana! jiji. Estas cosas me ha ayudado mucho con aprender el español.
Friday at 1:17 pm
Mi numero uno es hablando en español con personas. Pero, ellos necesitan paciencia porque solo estoy aprendiendo español. No tiene cinco años como JP cuando aprendia. ¡Tengo mucho años!
Mi numero dos es flash cards! Don’t know how to say that in español. Y mas flash cards.
Saturday at 12:34 am
Hola Kayla and Tataiana,
I hope you don’t mind if I answer in English… my policy is to have discussion in English and Spanish for the in the basic levels, and Spanish-only in the more advanced levels… but you all can keep writing in Spanish if you want to!
Kayla, that’s awesome; the more tuned in you can get to friends and entertainment, the more language you’ll start to absorb! Sometimes the words I learn in those contexts, I never learn exactly what they mean in English, I just kind of get a feel for it…
Tatiana, if your número uno is talking to folks, then you’re well on your way! I’ve found that Latinos are very patient when you’re learning their language. (more so than other, for example, Parisians, or Shanghainese people…) For “flashcards” you can say “las tarjetas de vocabulario” or “las fichas;” I know they say “las fichas” in Spain. I am not trying to discourage you in the slightest, but I do have to say that I personally am not a fan of flashcards; I feel that if you practice conversation, you get good at conversation, but if you practice flashcards, you get good at… flashcards… which is not a skill you need in the wild. I don’t like ‘em for myself.
Also I learned Spanish as an adult; I grew up a monolingual English speaker, and learned Spanish while I was in college and grad school. I learned grammar and reading/writing in the classroom, but conversation from my Spanish-speaking friends. I don’t always feel like I’m fluent, especially when I don’t speak it for a while, but I do find it very rewarding, even on the days when I’m struggling!
Saturday at 7:50 am
Ahh ok no prob JP. I suppose I should be listening to more advanced podcasts hehe but it’s always good to brush up on the basics from time to time.
Sunday at 5:11 am
Hi , yes doing all 4 but the last one is difficult, as Spanish people speak to you so quickly and assume you have understood!
Sorry but can I check spelling of ;
verbsic.com?
Gracias.
Heather.
Sunday at 6:36 pm
Hail to Word Reference! You are right Fernando, we must give Word Reference the props they so deserve! Not sure if you know it, but they also have a Spanish monolingual dictionary (meaning just a Spanish dictionary, and not a Spanish/English dictionary) http://www.wordreference.com/definicion/ and a Spanish thesaurus http://www.wordreference.com/sinonimos/ I actually didn’t know it, and my husband pointed it out to me. We are both BIG WordReference fans.
And in addition to the dictionary at Word Reference, there is a super active forum full of grammar geeks that are extremely eager to answer any vocabulary or grammar question you have about Spanish. And just as a word of caution, the forum is STRICT…no chit chatting and the conversation must be kept to grammar or vocabulary.
Thanks for the post! These were some really great tips and I 100% agree with all of them!
Sunday at 12:19 pm
American Sign Language…
Understanding ASL is easy, there are online lessons to guide students….
Wednesday at 1:03 am
Hi El Estudiante,
Thank you so much to the link for children’s books! I have been searching for literally days for a good online source of FREE children’s books in English and Spanish. It will definitely be useful to my students!
Wednesday at 2:44 am
Wow! Glad to help. I found them to be very useful to me (being at a beginner reading level!). Enjoy!
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