www.CostaRicaTicas.com

I thought I would share this with other students of the Spanish language.

I’ve been through a half-dozen Spanish home-study courses over the last couple of years. I have learned a lot, and can usually express my thoughts when I want to say something. However, I have a lot of trouble understanding the rapid-fire Spanish spoken in everyday situations.

I’ve been searching for an intermediate course that emphasizes listening comprehension. I found a web page that has audios of news reports along with written texts so you can follow along. This has helped me a lot. Some pages also have quizzes to help you understand things like: Imperfect vs. Perfect tense, and Reflexive/Pronominal verbs, etc.


If you’re interested, check out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/news/topic/


They even have excerpts from pop songs with English/Spanish translations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/songs/


They also have beginning courses and it is all free.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/


No, I do not work for the BBC.

I hope this helps someone.

Great find DG, thanks!

Great! Thanks!

I might add along the lines of this thread, the best on-line Spanish-English dictionary I have found is at
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dict_en_es/

It includes all the verb forms and tenses when looking up a Spanish word and also a lot of the idioms. You can also buy it from Houghlin Mifflin for just $13 as a stand alone program so you don't have to be on the internet to use it.

Ken

2 of the BBC links are live--the popsong translator came up "forbidden". The Yahoo site is also still live. Hope this helps somebody.

jazzbocr the thread dumpster diver

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

Jazzbo...

Yep, the song link goes to a forbidden Error 403 page...but...

If you do as I so often do and select the "text only" version at the top left of the page... no more forbidden. La puerta abre.

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Pura Vulva! Wandering through the dark, I am El Ciego.

Update to Ken/ShyGuy's post above and quoted below:

The stand-alone e-Reference Spanish stand-alone now sells for $26.95. Windows version requires 125 Mb of free disk space, and the Mac OS version requires 75 Mb of disk space.

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Pura Vulva! Wandering through the dark, I am El Ciego.

Thank you DG,

I too have experienced Spanish language home schooling. All my wives, all the mothers of my six Ch*ldren, and most of my girlfriends have been Hispanic and / or Latin Americana.

I learned at home too