Posts filed under ‘Spanish/beginner’
Talk Now! Spanish (for Beginners)
Talk Now! Spanish is available in the Self Study room, and offers a simple-to-use method for you to start learning Spanish. There are no dull exercises; just encouraging games that award you points for progress. And it fits easily into short ten-minute sessions!
Features include:
Nine topics: first words, food, colours, phrases, parts of the body, numbers, time, shopping and countries.
A record/playback facility: enables you to practise your pronunciation and compare it to that of a native speaker.
Two quiz levels: test what you’ve learned, earn points and monitor your progress.
Memory Games: to improve your knowledge of key vocabulary.
Intelligent Software: remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points.
Have a look at the video above for more info:
http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x5vnne, and
Come and visit your AV Language Library to start learning!
Language resources (English, French, Mandarin, Spanish)
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This website offers 3 different difficulty levels on the site. Beginner: Introductory material that explains words, small sentences – like “hello” and “how are you” – or the four tones used in Chinese. Medium: Advanced material explains more elaborate dialogue or sentence structures. The speaking pace may be quicker here as well, and not all videos give immediate English translations. Advanced: At the most difficult level, we mix learning videos of more complicated nature with general Mandarin language material.
Language Resources (English, Hindi, Mandarin, Spanish)
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Don’t know any Hindi at all? Start with the basics, the Hindi alphabet. Once you have familiarized yourself with the Hindi alphabet and had a look at the Hindi numbers you should then move on to try and increase your vocabulary of Hindi words and Hindi phrases.
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Chinese Idioms or Chengyu are short sayings usually consisting of four characters. Unless you know the story and its common usage, a Chengyu will sound like random nonsense. Here are some Chengyu stories, as taught to chinese students, with pinyin and chinese annotation.
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Noel’s ESL eBook Libray offers free ESL resource materials target for ESL teaching, lesson planning, grammar, writing and vocabulary. It also has everything learners need to pass IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge ESOL, TKT and CELTA. All ebooks are totally FREE!
Language resources (English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Spanish)
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Learn French, German, Italian, Spanish, English / EFL via Twitter.
Language resources (French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Spanish)
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In addition to the basic grammar and vocabulary tutorials, there are mp3s available to aid with pronunciation as well as interactive exercises and realia to provide you with a more active and authentic approach to learning French online. Includes study resources and mp3s in German, Indonesian, Italian and Spanish)
Coming soon to a shelf near you…
We have recently acquired
FSI Programmatic Spanish Levels 1 and 2 (textbooks + 26 CDs).
Quoting from Multilingualbooks.com, this program was
“Produced originally by the Foreign Service Institute, this course is in
a Latin American dialect and is intended to lead you to a minimum
professionally useful level of proficiency. The course offers five
learning modes as follows: introduction, dialogue, grammatical
practice, variations, and application. The first 20 units of Level 1
emphasize word and phrase structure; the remaining units expand the
vocabulary and further develop verb morphology. At the completion of
Level 1 you will have completed work comparable to the first year of a
college-level Spanish course.”
Volume I contains twenty-five units of a course of about 100 units. The
course as a whole is intended to lead the student to a minimum
professionally useful level of proficiency. The objective of this
volume is to emphasize word structure and phrase structure; therefore,
this volume (especially through Unit 20) displays equal concern with
phrase relators, connectors, and verb morphology, and shows less
concern with vocabulary. During the introductory phase, the focus is
more on the student’s ability to perform in multi-phrasal and
multi-clausal sentences using the proper connectors and relators
instead of memorizing vocabulary items. Subsequent units will develop
the remaining verb morphology and expand the vocabulary.
Volume II contains 990 words including 150 cognates; the total for both
volumes is a little more than 1400 words. The grammatical inventory
presented in Volumes I and II is more than that normally thought of as
comprising a first year college course. Time required to finish Volume
II varies according to the students’ ability, of course, but it also
varies according to the amount of time spent on supplementary
ingredients such as conversation, reading, oral discussions of current
events, and so forth. Without these supplements, Volume II has required
an average of about 150 hours, including student preparation time,
during its first year of use at FSI.”
To view the contents of each book, click on these links:
Programmatic Spanish I -
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Programmatic Spanish II -
Contents
Language resources (all languages including Swahili)
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Detailed online course including audio and student text. Developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain. This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. This site is not affiliated in any way with any government entity; it is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages. Courses here are made available through the private efforts of individuals who are donating their time and resources to provide quality materials for language learning.
Language resources (Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Thai, Urdu)
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Livemocha’s self-study lessons develop reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills. Access
* Free Courses in 25 different languages
* Over 160 hours of lessons for each
* Helpful tips from native speakers
* Focus on conversation skills -
Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels.
Language resources (Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, Thai)
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Free mp3 audio and mp4 video files to help you speak, read, write and learn Indonesian. The lessons are written for English-speaking expats living in Indonesia, travelers to Indonesia, those doing business in Indonesia, and those who are simply learning the language. New lessons are added often.
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Welcome to Langhub.com! Your source for mp3 audio and mp4 video files for learners of the Thai language. The lessons are written for English-speaking expats living in Thailand, travelers to Thailand, those doing business in Thailand, and those who are simply learning the language. New lessons are added often.
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Includes survival Thai Phrases and Pronunciation Guide with audio.
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Includes lessons on vocab, grammar, and pronunciation.
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CSLPOD is a PODCAST which aims at helping people learn and improve their levels of the Chinese language. It offers regular, free and high quality Chinese courses at three levels: beginners, average, and advanced. For the beginners and the averages, it explains in detail the grammar usages encountered in the texts which are read by Chinese natives at a slow speed for upgrading your listening comprehension. For the advanced learners, all the texts are read at the normal speed. The contents of the texts spotlight the latest hot topics or hot news in China.
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FREE tests in 25 languages and 600 language combinations by Goethe-Verlag
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This is the continuing instruction in spoken and written Chinese, with particular emphasis on consolidating basic conversational skills and improving reading confidence and depth.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to speak Chinese with some fluency on basic conversational topics, achieve a basic level of reading competence within simplified and traditional characters learned plus common compounds, and be able to write short compositions.
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This downloadable course is the intermediate level of the streamlined curriculum, which is intended for students who, when they began streamlined I, had some background in the language, whether it be comprehension with limited speaking ability or quite fluent speaking ability. The focus of the course is on standard pronunciation and usage, on reading in both complex and simplified characters, and on writing.
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This downloadable course at Utah State University provides an understanding of basic principles of Chinese speaking and written language. The focus in Chinese 1010 is on pronunciation and simple Chinese character writing.
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One Sentence A Day, with pinyin and English translation.
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Mandarin classes from Beginner – Advanced levels. Includes pronunciation guide, and homework, and practice tests.
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A fantastic site to for reading and learning Mandarin (Annotated readings for beginners, intermediate & advanced levels)
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Learn Italian with these podcasts.
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Learn Mandarin with these podcasts!
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Language resources (Korean, Mandarin, Spanish)
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Learn Spanish using
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Includes grammar, pronunciation, etc.
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Learn Korean with Free Podcasts and Accompanying Audio Clips
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Arch Chinese is an online Chinese character learning tool for Mandarin Chinese language learners. Designed from the start specifically for English speakers who have no or little knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, it offers a rich set of features with a slick and easy-to-use user interface.
