Spanish Learning Resources

[Lisa Andrews]

Thought I would share the list of mainly free Spanish resources, for beginner to advanced students, I have found and collected since starting to learn Spanish, the more I learn the more I discover there is to learn! Feel free to add more resources in the comments, great to have a list all in one spot. Enjoy!

Apps
ConjuVerb - A MUST!! for everyone studying spanish, only about $3, has all verb conjugations you could think of, ability to look up conjugated words and find the base or vice versa
Duolingo – https://www.duolingo.com/ - Runs pretty quickly, fun game, great to supplement lessons
Babble - http://www.babbel.com/dashboard - 1 free lesson, then paid for monthly, lots of different levels don't need to follow an order
Memorise - People have found this great for learning new words, as I have a decent vocab didn't really like it
Collins ES-EN dictionary - Costs about $24 but it has been the best one i've gotten, can use without an internet connection, has always had the words I've looked for (unlike all the free ones I've tried)
MindSnacks - really enjoyed this games for learning new words, unlock more levels as you get better, I think it starts free then you have to pay for the upgraded version but I haven't used it is ages
Cat Spanish - very useful too as a beginner level vocabulary phrases supplement to Duolingo. The first two or so lessons are free, and the rest of the course is unlocked for $6.99- seems a bit expensive for an app, but worth it (someones else's comments)

Web Sites - Practicing
http://www.rosettastone.com/homeschool/sem - free activities from the rosetta stone library
http://www.langmaster.com/comen/spanish/home.htm - good way to practice for free, need to get answers 100% which can become really annoying
https://www.duolingo.com/ - same as the app, good game, supplement only
http://www.thinkspanish.com – can get free stuff not just the paid version

Web Sites - Reading
http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/...g_passages - lots of resources, passages that you can read with questions afterwards, all levels
http://www.lonweb.org/daisy/os-spanish-upsidedown.htm - stories in Spanish and English side by side
http://cvc.cervantes.es/aula/lecturas/ - different levels, short stories in spanish with spanish explanations of hard words
http://www.childrensbooksforever.com/chi...anish.html - free pdfs of some children´s stories
http://www.veintemundos.com/en/ - articles with hard words translated to English, audio to go along latin or Spanish
http://readlang.com/es/library - large selection of books, click on words or phrases to translate

Web Sites - Listening
http://www.spanishlistening.org/ - viedos to listen to, quizes after
https://spanish.yabla.com/ - website with different levels of videos also includes lessons and explanations
http://www.linguatv.com/index.php?mode=a...prodlang=4 – paid, watch lessons and do exercises in spanish
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/ - lots of free videos with transcripts in english or Spanish, different levels

Books
Breaking out of beginners Spanish – really good int. to adv students, nuances in Spanish lots for Mexico
Easy Spanish Reader – starts simple has a quiz at the end of each chapter and then all chapters together and another quiz
Spanish Novels by Paco Ardit – nice cheap easy to read stories that aren’t too complicated
Funny tales in easy spanish – have just read the free sections of lots of these
Kindle easy spanish stories – lots you can download the first few chapters to your kindle then they end up being free if you don’t want to continue
Camino Real - my favourite beginner book, ready for 2nd level, free audio with kindle book but need online connection
http://www.andersenstories.com/es/anders...ntos/index - hans cristian anderson
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ - childrens library online
http://www.grimmstories.com/ - brothers grimm stories

Podcasts
News in Slow Spanish (Spain and Latin American editions)
Buenos Días America - Voice of America Spanish
Lightspeed Spanish (different levels)
Spanishpodcast
Notes in Spanish (different levels)
Radio Ambulante – Advanced (free pdfs on site), spanish version of 'This American Life'
Learn Spanish: Notes in Spanish inspired (different levels)
Showtime Spanish
Coffee Break Spanish
Real Deal Spanish
SpanishPod101
Yabla Spanish
Learn Spanish with the Independent
Spanish Obsessed (Scratch, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

Audio Books (downloaded with audible and through amazon)
Beginner - No work Spanish – poster girl – like this, story for kids but easy to listen to
Beginner - No work Spanish – the case of the missing poodle - like this, story for kids but easy to listen to
Beginner - No work Spanish – yaks march in Washington – don’t like this as much but same format easy to listen to
Beginner - Speak to me (similar to no work spanish) – don’t like this much
Int/Adv - Lola lago series - I have found these easiest for all spanish stories
Int/adv – Elvira Sancho and Jordi Suris collections - El monstruo del rock (free pdfs on audible) - can read the pdfs to understand then listen along
Int Adv - Taxista en barcelona series - found this a little harder to understand I would do this after the other easier novellas

TV/Youtube
Beginners series
Extra en español – look on youtube, great series to start with
http://www.learner.org/series/destinos/w...x.html?ep1 – destino, made for beginners to learn about spanish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/ - for beginners starts basic has english explainions

Online different levels - aimed for learning
http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/...rt_stories - children’s stories with questions afterwards (just click the sign in button and it seems to work)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O8RUPDz...BCC2C78B97 - kids stories with spanish subtitles

Spanish shows not aimed for learning
http://www.rtve.es/television/ministerio-del-tiempo/
http://www.rtve.es/television/victor-ros/
https://www.youtube.com/results?q=le+temes+la+oscuridad

[DonJuane]

This looks like a hard work and I personally thank you. It was very kind of you to collect and publish this info for the group.

[davol001]

Thank you so much this is an excellent resource!