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Obras de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer –Tomo Primero is a collection of stories in Spanish available with recording and text (both plan and PDF). It was produced by Florida’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse that has a lot more audio/text stories in English in its Lit2Go project. MP3 recordings can be downloaded individually,but nice iTunes interface . . . →Read More:Spanish read and listen material:Obras de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer These are new style language-learning websites that are trying to leverage community and/or new capabilities allowed by the internet: SpanishSense –they have podcasts,PDFs,daily emails and a lot more. This site has been done by the same people who have been doing really successful ChinesePod for several years now. It looks very slick. . . . →Read More:3 new language-learning websites WordChamp and LingQ are competing online language learning services that use learner driven approach and try to support multiple languages. WordChamp is a (recently) free service. LingQ is free during the current beta stage,as it is a rewrite of the existing paid English-only service The Linguist. Because both services try to be language-agnostic,they . . . →Read More:Review of WordChamp,LingQ and their mashup I really like WordChamp to help me with learning foreign languages. It was good for me when I was learning French. It is good to me now that I am learning Spanish. And the last couple of months it was getting better nearly on a weekly basis. That did not used to be the case. . . . →Read More:Best language learning site for me:WordChamp Сегодня –Международный день родного языка. Мой родной язык –Русский! Я горд моим родным языком даже если я не использую его каждый день. Today –21st of February –is the International Mother Language Day. My mother language is Russian! I am proud of my mother language,even if I do not get to . . . →Read More:International Mother Language Day Is Podcasting revolution over before it began? BusinessWeek seems to think so and quotes Pew Internet &American Life Project’s statistics. The topic is also generating some buzz in the blogosphere,with BusinessWeek’s interpretation being gleefully accepted by some and thoughtfully rejected by others. I believe into podcasting‘s future because it is here already for . . . →Read More:The podcasts I listen to and how BusinessWeek got it wrong (Update for June 2007:The website got reorganised and the link is gone. Fortunately,it was archived by WaybackMachine) It is quite frustrating how often a good material hides so deep in a random website that it can only be found by total accident. Such seems to be the case with Suspense,no suspenso. From . . . →Read More:Free spanish e-book for intermediate learners I was listening to the Trying to Learn Spanish podcast and in its 11th episode somebody mentioned an interesting e-book (Thirteen Senses by Victor Villaseñor) that has parallel English and Spanish text and allows to quickly switch between them. I like the idea of bilingual books,so I went hunting for it. The book is . . . →Read More:Spanish/English bilingual e-book is available free via Overdrive This is somewhat tongue-in-cheek,but I could not avoid noticing the differences in phrases I am learning in Spanish as compared to the ones I was learning in French. Both language classes spent a first couple of weeks with Name,Surname,Workplace,Street address,Phone number and suchlike. No surprise there,even though I don’t . . . →Read More:Spanish are less personally intrusive than French –class experience When I was studying French,my teacher liked to measure out the knowledge at her own pace. If you asked about something that in her study plan was a couple of weeks later,she would pretty much tell you to learn what you are supposed to know first. Being the kind of person who likes . . . →Read More:Thoughts on a best teacher to learn a language from | ||||
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