El Blog de Español de Aquinas

Practice your Speaking skills

Here is a link to a site which allows to you type your text into the box and select a Spanish voice to say it.  A good way to practice your speaking at home in preparation for your exam.

Acapela

 

Listening: Year 12 El Instituto

 

Here is some very good material from MFL Sunderland for you to practice your listening skills on the next topic of School.

 

 

Veinte Mundos - great material

This is a fantastic resource which has been brought to my attention by Jane Croft.  I am very grateful and I know our pupils could benefit enormously from this.  An excellent resource for developing cultural knowledge of Spanish-speaking countries, as well as reading and listening skills.

 Click here to begin your New Year's Resolution to improve your Spanish in 2011!

 

Year 10 - listening revision

 Here is a podcast from MFL Sunderland on the topic of film.  

Vaya Semanita - Me volví español

 

 

Hola.  Here's the video from today's 6th form Conference in UUC. 

 

Buen fin de semana a todos.

El matrimonio hoy en día

 

Escucha este informe sobre los cambios en la sociedad en cuanto al matrimonio.

Podcasts to improve your listening skills

September is the perfect month to start good habits such as listening to Spanish every day, from a short news video to your favourite song.  The more you expose yourself to the language, the more trained your ear will become and also you will broaden your vocabulary, particularly where there is a transcript available with the audio.  If there is no transcript.....how about trying your own!!  Transcribing what you hear is challenging, but it pays off dividends in the end.  

 

Here are a few free podcasts which would be well worth downloading to your ipod.  You can then listen to them in your own time.  Search iTunes to download.

 

Así Se Hace

Coffee Break Spanish

News in Slow Spanish

News Time Spanish

¡Suerte!

Time to work on your listening skills

Here is an excellent resource to develop your listening skills.  News Time Spanish from Radio Lingua Network is a fabulous news summary of current affairs in Spain and globally.  You can subscribe to it via iTunes.  For those of you who are already using Coffee Break Spanish, you will recognise the presenter.