Favorite Spanish Listening & Learning Websites - Add yours!
Add your favorite website links for additional Spanish practice (of course Spanishdict.com tops the list) This thread is to compile a list of member's favorites.
This thread is for you to share links to a new or trusted website that has been helpful to you & that is interactive. Make sure you inform us what type website it is and what it has to offer. Add the link. The free websites are the focus, but if there is a pay site, make sure the other members are informed of that.
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Try this one - "Courso de español" - it is free - lots of concurrent reading and listening practice.
Here's a good link from University of Texas at Austin: UT at Austin Spanish website
Spanish Proficiency Exercises is a compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks. The objective of the exercises is to provide students of Spanish with the necessary tools to be able to talk about the same topics in Spanish.
This one is a good one https://www.duolingo.com/ it's free and you can learn lots of languages on the site.
Duolingo link
Try audiria http://www.audiria.com/
It is good continetal spanish podcast, which has coverage in all levels(actually not for very beginners,) It has test over listening comprehension and transcripts
Here is a blogpost why audiria is exceptional http://www.alwaysspanish.com/2013/05/Audiria-best-podcast-for-spanish-learners.html
Other suggestion lang8 for writing correction,
italki for writing correction, speaking lessons,
verbling online classrooms, where you can participate into a live spanish class,
lingqocracy or lingq for reading and listening content and and database for known spanishwords..
I love this site Spanish Podcasts
I listen to this so often that I feel I actually know Mercedes from Barcelona lol.
My usual drill is......I listen to a podcast at random without the transcription. Then I read the transcription (in Spanish) and listen again. I then listen to all the explanations to the words and sentences. I then read the explanations (looking up any words that I don't understand) and listen again.
This is my preferrred way of tuning my ear to Spanish and picking up vocabulary etc. It's a great feeling when you listen to something and understand it, when in a previous attempt (say 3 or 4 months earlier) you didn't. I can see a definite progress to my learning.
Because this is conversational Spanish you get a real feel for the language as it is actually spoken (ie not from a text book). You learn the various meanings of words and phrases through context, rather than through a dictionary etc. Of course at times I do have to refer to a dictionary to help me with individual words, but the necessity is getting less and less!
The thing is, we all have our individual learning styles, this might not be for everybody, but it certainly works for me!
1,2,3 Teach Me website
interactive flashcards with audio & pictures
This one focuses on phrases but there are others with just words like the one in this picture.
I love using different websites I find Busuu.com a very attractive website and I love the way they set out their units in a progressive manner , each building on previous units to give you a feel for the language! 
LiveMocha is another good one although I was not happy when they changed the layout but I guess it is what you like and what you are used to ...
Update: How could I forget to mention: 1. Yabla (formerly:Lomás TV) this os also an excellent site for learning many languages: Spanish, French etc...!
- www.aprenderespañol. org
You can follow the adventures of two Spanish girls in Spain as they share a flat and many adventures together! Very funny, too!
I hope these help
¡Hola, amigos! Here are a few free sites that I've found very helpful. I do find my way back to Span¡shD!sh punto com daily, however, but they've worked for me:
http://www.senorjordan.com (Free): So many videos on the site and he has two youtube channels!
http://dictionary.reverso.net/CollabDictRegister.aspx (Free): looking to conjugate or translate stuff, this is your site!
http://www.spanicity.com (Free)
http://www.online-languages.info/spanish/index.php (Free)
https://spanish.yabla.com (Paid, but worth it): Total immersion, including videos, but the Yabla "player" is the most unique thing on any language learning website. Haven't seen anything like it and I recommend spending the $9.95 monthly fee for a service that can't be beat.
Honorable mention to www.123teachme.com (already mentioned in previously posts)..
Lastly - let's not forgots apps. I highly recommend the following apps for the iPad: Duolingo (again, previously mentioned), Mondly, SpanishDict, ReversoContext, Yabla Spanish, HelloTalk, and SpanishTT! ..... Hasta Luego y disfrutar!
I found this one from a link at the bottom of the SD home page.
Everything to Learn Spanish
I like the podcasts at Spanish Obsessed site
http://spanishobsessed.com/
as they speak slowly in the intermediate ones and the spanish is very coloquial.
I've been listening to some Spanish podcasts in iTunes recently (by changing my country to Spain using Manage > Change Country in the bottom of the podcast page in iTunes).
One I like is "Cienca al Cuba" (as I'm a science nerd). The narrator has a lovely Cuban accent. "El Neutrino" is worth a listen too.
www.spanishskype.org
This is our website and you can find useful Spanish tips about grammar and very interesting articles about Spanish and Spanish countries culture and customs
Besides, we offer Spanish lessons via Skype with native Spanish speaker teachers with affordable prices. You can try a free trial lesson to meet your teacher and check if you like our school.
www.spanishskype.org
I've been using this new online program called Language Zen for the past couple of weeks and really like it so far. It's in Beta, so it's not perfect; but it's free. The thing I like best about it is that it tests you, and then puts you at the right level. Also, I seem to be understanding the subjunctive better. I'm not sure if that is because of the repetition in the program or if that is just where I am in my Spanish language learning journey. I also use Duolingo and Pronunciator (through my library). I very much like Duolingo but am a little skeptical about Pronunciator because there seem to be a few too many mistakes. Pronunciator IS helpful with verb conjugations though. If you've used any of these programs or have another one you really like, I'd love to hear what you think.
I just found this site today it's called e-Spanish here is the link.
