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1 March 2010
My new satellite system was installed on Friday and it’s wonderful. I thought I might get half a dozen or so Spanish stations but I can actually get 14 and there may be more that I haven’t found yet. The installation went smoothly, the guys from Challenge TV in Tenterden, Kent, did a [...] 22 February 2010
At last all my heavy hints for the ideal birthday present have paid off, the installation is planned for Friday. After suffering Eurosat as my only Spanish TV channel for the last six months we are upgrading to a motorised dish that should be able to pick up at least a couple of European [...] 26 January 2010
I’m getting started on the L140 Open University course, one of the suggestions is that students arrange some conversation practice with native Spanish speakers. No problem you might think. I put out lots of feelers but so far I haven’t found anyone to practice with, so I started looking for conversation classes. According to Wikipedia, Spanish [...] 2 January 2010
While in Spain I found my recordings useful, Michel Thomas and Pimsleur. I also found my notes helpful, I’ll come back to that . . . One of the strange things I have found when going to Spain, or France, is the disappearance of vocabulary after one use. You prepare for the [...] 24 November 2009
TVEi has definitely left Sky, they blame Sky for withdrawing from the agreement to retransmit their programs and they suggest any complaints go to Sky. They are still transmitting for free from Eutelsat Hotbird 8 but for most people in the UK with Sky systems this is not much help. The cheapest way [...] 14 November 2009
Here are the books for learning spanish that I use all the time: Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary 1 October 2009
My Open University course L194 “Portales” has officially finished. I have to wait until February next year before L140 “En [...] 20 September 2009
The following are language course resources which you might find useful: Adult Education 13 September 2009
Foundation Spanish Course – 8CDs and review 2CDs This was my introduction to Spanish. From the first lesson Michel hypnotises you into relaxing and playing at learning Spanish and within minutes you are constructing sentences like “what is your opinion of the current political and social situation in Spain?”, he builds confidence and teaches grammar painlessly.
13 September 2009
Linguaphone all talk – 8CDs This one didn’t work for me. It seemed rather old fashioned presenting a list of vocabulary then a little bit of narrative and a few test questions with lots of irritating “uplifting” musical breaks. There is some good vocabulary in there but I would find it tedious to listen to over [...] |
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