20 September 2009

www.about.com

www.about.com – Word of the day and saying of the day are both free services from this website. You provide them with your email address and choose what you want and every day they email them to you. In addition they give you links to lessons and discussions that are also free of [...]

14 September 2009

Flash Card maker

Flash Card Machine is a nice website, you can make your own flash cards and share them with others if you wish. You might be lucky and find that someone else is already sharing their cards. It’s a good way to learn and revise vocabulary. You can randomise the order of the cards [...]

3 September 2009

E-Tandem

E-tandem is a free service run through a couple of University servers. The idea is to pair you with a language learner who is fluent in the language you want to learn and who wants to learn your language. Once you make contact it is up to you both how you work it. [...]

2 September 2009

Online spanish newspapers

Most of the main Spanish newspapers have online access, at least to their front page, for free. My favourite is El Pais and is the one I check most days, www.elpais.com is the link.

1 September 2009

News in Slow Spanish

I was recommended to the News in Slow Spanish website less than a month ago and I like it a lot. You can subscribe to the complete service that gives you transcripts, translations and flashcards in addition to the podcasts. Alternatively you can listen for free to the audio version only, there [...]

1 September 2009

You Tube – Spanish Resources

The internet has made a huge difference to my learning strategy. For example yesterday I was reading about the Fallas in Valencia as part of my OU course. I was curious to know more about it and my book only had a few small black and white photos to look at, so [...]

25 August 2009

Websites for learning Spanish

I find the following websites really useful:

YouTube News in Slow Spanish Rollingrs www.elpais.com E-tandem Flash Card Machine www.about.com

20 August 2009

Rollingrs

Rollingrs – www.rollingrs.com – contains a lot of short video clips, mostly a few minutes long. The teacher wants you to subscribe to his service that includes transcripts and self tests but he allows anyone to watch selected clips for free. It’s worth a look.