Another Good Way to Practice Listening in Spanish - NotesinSpanish

Question

Dear Community:

Several months back, I posted a recommendation for a soap-opera designed for those at beginning/intermediate levels to practice listening called Destinos. It helped my ability to follow faster modes of Spanish greatly.

Now I want to recommend another site, brought to my attention by broca23, namely NotesinSpanish which is a free resource (with the option of buying the 'worksheets') featuring podcasts between a native English speaker and his wife who was born in Spain.

One of its fine features is that it has three levels, beginner, intermediate and advanced, so that all can benefit. While the beginner was too slow for me from a listening point of view, I learned all kinds of interesting and useful phrases like:

Me estás tomando el pelo - your pulling my leg! (teasing me)

¡Que cara tienes! - [Look at you!]...you cheeky bastard! along with lots of other useful phrases. (my favorite - Mi jefe es muy especial - my boss is a real pain in the ass).

For those interested in practicing listening skills, these are two solid resources.

And if you want to share other resources that you've benefitted from, please post here! (Others that I've been told about include: news in slow spanish (great resource that I am only beginning to get my teeth into, mi vida loca (best for absolute beginners), extra en español, Lomas TV (inspired format that I have to dig into more), Veinte Mundos, and Spanish Proficiency Exercises) are there others?

Everytime someone posts these, I get a new website to try and more resources. Thanks. - katydew, Sep 7, 2012

Gotta love the collaboration on these, where we get to compare notes, and share resources. - yahvey_hoffman, Sep 7, 2012

Answer 1

Try this one

Lots of good stuff here.

and this one for vocabulary

Great stuff, Ian. Have you seen 40-year old virgin? The song that greeted me on your first link sounded so much like the one Jane Lynch sang to Steve Carell.. which was is a funny memory. - yahvey_hoffman, Sep 7, 2012

;o) Thanks. - katydew, Sep 7, 2012

Answer 2

Don't forget ...

LiveMocha.com (great for chatting) and

FlashCardExchange.com (click on Spanish)

¡Buen provecho!

Thanks rtd, I'll add these to my list of sites to check out. - yahvey_hoffman, Sep 7, 2012

Nice. - katydew, Sep 7, 2012

Answer 3

Great!

Another podcast that I liked was "Newsinslowspanish."

I have found news in slow spanish to be a very rich-in-possibilities website... I agree, they have a great thing going. - yahvey_hoffman, Sep 7, 2012

and lomastv.com along with yours some of the best but you have to pay! - readytodictate, Sep 7, 2012

Answer 4

And now, Notes in Spanish "Gold" is also free.

Do you have the link? The one I went to seemed to require a subscription. - katydew, Sep 7, 2012

Thanks for reminding us of that, Tosh. Just go to my link above katydew, and then find the 'gold' sections. - yahvey_hoffman, Sep 7, 2012

Answer 5

This is the BBC Learn Spanish site

other languages too

I was looking for that link been there It's Good! ... Now everyone has the Top 5 ... spanishdict ... numero uno - readytodictate, Sep 7, 2012

I had forgotten about this one. Thanks. - katydew, Sep 7, 2012

Ahh, this looks really good...much more than just the Mi VIda Loca offering. - yahvey_hoffman, Sep 7, 2012

Answer 6

Thanks for getting these posts started. I think there are others in older threads where I got this link:

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Coffee break Spanish, itunes. It had 70 podcasts you could download and then get the worksheets.

Just listened to one of them, thanks for bringing it up to us. - yahvey_hoffman, Sep 7, 2012

Answer 7

Great post, thanks.

con gusto... - yahvey_hoffman, Sep 7, 2012