tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47504039265538423072011-11-27T15:48:39.877-08:00<a href="http://www.spanish-bookworld.com/a_online_course/contact-us.php"><img src="http://www.language-bookworld.com/gfx/lemon-tree-text-small.jpg"></a> <br> I hope my experience as both teacher and student of foreign languages can help and inspire you.<br> <b>© Maria Fernandez, 2007-2010</b>Maria Fernandez, BA, MSchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300636430293810283noreply@blogger.comBlogger1771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750403926553842307.post-11532236239256277182011-07-18T10:30:00.000-07:002011-07-19T09:38:07.458-07:00

I'm giving away three 12-month subscriptions to my Spanish online course.No purchase required.My Spanish course includes: 45 interactive dialogs, vocabulary audio flashcards, grammar lessons, pronunciation practice, speaking and listening drills, children's lessons, quizzes, Spanish learning articles, and more. See more details.Be the first one to find out about my Spanish course offers,

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Ebooks, or electronic books, are books which you can read on your computer and a variety of mobile devices. Hundreds of thousands of ebooks have been published in the last few years. Their format ranges from the most basic to highly sophisticated interactive multimedia publications with audio, video, text fields, full navigation and feedback.The simplest ebooks are merely an electronic version of

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The technique you use when going through your Spanish course will determine how fast and efficiently you can learn, no matter whether your course is a printed book, cd, cd-rom, online or an application.In this article I bring you 8 ideas that will help you master speaking and understanding Spanish.1. When you start a new lesson, always make sure you listen to the dialog or conversation BEFORE

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Forgetting the gender of the Spanish nouns you're supposed to know well is both frustrating and demotivating. Today I'm going to walk you through the main reason why those mistakes are made, and I'm going to give you an easy solution.I have taught Spanish for many years and I've seen that it's the technique you use for learning and reviewing vocabulary that causes those basic mistakes.So,

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Apps have revolutionized the way you learn Spanish. You no longer need to wait until you have some free time to sit in front of a book or a computer, and make painfully slow progress. If you have an iPhone, an iPod or an iPad, you can access your Spanish lessons wherever you are, at any time. That means fast progress.It means, too, the ability of learning the Spanish language while you do

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Here's a video tour of my Spanish for beginners course. If you have any queries, drop me a line!My Spanish course comes with online lessons, mp3s, videos, children's lessons, language learning articles, an interactive ebook and an exclusive forum.The lessons, mp3s and videos come with dialogs, flashcards, grammar, pronunciation and numbers.All the lessons have been recorded by native Spanish

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At Spanish Bookworld you can find my new free Spanish course.This course brings you interactive online movies with dialogs, flashcards, grammar, pronunciation and numbers; downloadable mp3s and videos; kids' lessons, and Spanish learning articles.All the online lessons, mp3s and videos in this course come with exercises and drills to help you practice speaking and understanding Spanish.To start

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I've started a new blog entitled Learn Spanish with Maria Fernandez. In it you can see and hear my podcasts and videocasts, free lessons from my Spanish for Beginners course, and you can read about how to learn Spanish, what the best language learning products are, and much more.

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Here’s a video demo of a free lesson from my course ‘Spanish for Kids’. You can download the free lessons from Spanish Bookworld.All the lessons in this course come with audio recorded by native Spanish speakers. In every lesson you learn a set of new words, or an interesting point about the language (the verb ‘to be’, the time, the alphabet, the plural, etc.), and then you get four games where

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Are you looking for the Harry Potter books, movies or audiobooks in Spanish? I have just launched a new site dedicated to Harry Potter en espanol.This new site brings you all the Harry Potter products at the best prices. There you can find the children and adult editions of all the books, new and used, the audiobooks, and the movies on dvd and video.

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The most compelling thing about Spanish cinema is its refusal to be pigeonholed into one or two genres. The most acclaimed movies span from horror and intrigue, to comedies, musicals, magic realism, social drama, history, etc.I've selected here ten of the best Spanish movies of recent years. Some, like The Orphanage, have only recently been relased. Others, like Volver, Pan's Labyrinth, Y tu mamá

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Great news! I've created a new Spanish language course, which you can download from Spanish Bookworld and from iTunes.It’s a Spanish course called Spanish for Kids, which can be used by children on their own, the entire family, and by adults looking for a fun way of learning the language.Lesson 1 can be downloaded for free and, like all my other lessons in pdf, it can be played on all computers.

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Do you want to learn Spanish for free? On Spanish Bookworld there are free Spanish lessons where you can learn the numbers, greetings, verbs, how to put words together and build useful sentences, and much more. There are also other free Spanish lessons where you can practise your pronunciation, as well as games and exercises for children, and lots of samples from the popular series Spanish

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If you like magazines and you want to improve your Spanish without effort, you’re in for a treat. Did you know that many of the most popular magazines have a Spanish version?Here are just some of the titles you can get: People, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, National Geographic, Reader’s Digest Selecciones, Vanidades, TV y Novelas, Casa & Estilo, Mira!, Siempre Mujer, Latina Magazine, Piensa

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Flashcards are great for learning Spanish. They help you memorize words and sentences much faster than almost any other tool, and you can take them with you wherever you go. Flashcards also make it easy and entertaining to review words over and over, and they are great for learning with your kids and your friends.Here’s a selection of Spanish flashcards including: around the home, verbs, the

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Are you looking for a Spanish bible or gospel, biblical leaflets for children, audio bibles, biblical dvds, bilingual bibles or large print-print bibles? If so, here’s a nice selection at very good prices. The titles you'll find here are: Santa Biblia, Libre entre rejas, ¿Cómo nos llegó la Biblia?, El padre de la fe (biblical leaflet for children), Las buenas noticias acerca de Jesús, Santa

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Lesson 8 of my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners is available at Spanish Bookworld There you can hear the free sample.In this lesson you’ll hear twice a dialog at a holiday apartment. Then you’ll go through it line by line in both Spanish and English. After that you’ll hear all the new words and phrases with their English translation. In the grammar section you’ll learn how to ask if you can do

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I have just published lesson 7 of my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners. You can download it from Spanish Bookworld.The podcast lasts 24 minutes and it has a new feature. After reading my listeners’ feedback over the last few weeks, I’ve decided to include the English translation of the dialogs on the podcast. So, after hearing the dialogs twice at the beginning of the podcast, you’ll then hear the

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After a couple of months working on my new podcast series, today I’ve published Unit 1 of my Spanish Phrasebook on Podcast. You can download it from Spanish Bookworld.Spanish Phrasebook on Podcast is a very practical phrasebook where you can learn to say and understand common everyday words, questions, answers, phrases and expressions. The idea of creating this podcast came to me a few months ago

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As a Spanish teacher, and a keen learner of foreign languages, I have often looked for alternative ways of learning that can allow me to minimize the effort and make the most of the little spare time I’ve got. Language courses with audio material are my absolute favorite and, in fact, I wouldn’t really consider a course without audio. That's why, to help my students make the most of their own

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At Spanish Bookworld you can get the seventh volume of the Harry Potter saga in Spanish: Harry Potter y las reliquias de la muerte (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows).There you can also find the other six volumes in Spanish: Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) Harry Potter y la cámara secreta (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) Harry Potter y el

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I’ve just launched lesson 6 of my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners. You can listen to a free sample at Spanish Bookworld and on iTunes.This new lesson comes in a 21-minute podcast and an interactive multimedia transcript in pdf. On the podcast you’ll hear a dialog at a bar and the list of all the new words and phrases with their English translations. You’ll also learn how to put together nouns and

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I’ve been working for a while on this list of the 10 best Spanish movies. It hasn’t been easy. Whenever I added a new one I had to delete some other great movie. Nearly every week I’ve come across truly wonderful productions that I’ll have to include on other lists in future posts. I’ve also had to put up with some dreadful stories that I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. I might include those on a

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If you’ve studied Italian for a while and have reached an intermediate level, perhaps you’ll be wondering how to expand your vocabulary faster than you’re doing. Many Italian language courses don’t put enough emphasis on something that many of us, teachers and students, consider the most essential part of any new language. Often courses introduce new words at a much slower pace than you’d like,

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Here's another post on travel advice. This time it's travel insurance.When traveling abroad, getting travel insurance from a reputable company is absolutely essential. Not having the adequate cover will not only ruin your vacation if anything goes wrong, it can potentially cost you thousands of dollars, and a lot of time.When looking for travel insurance, there are some very important policy

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The Goya awards are the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars, but they’re given only to Spanish productions. Every year the ceremony takes place in February in Madrid, Spain. There are 27 categories and a maximum of four nominations per category. The first Goya awards were given in 1987.The major winners often become highly successful movies outside Spain, for instance: Volver, The Sea Inside (Mar

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If you’re looking for a Spanish language course that can help you learn practical, everyday words, phrases, questions and answers, and more, at Spanish Bookworld you can find all the details about my publication Learn Spanish At Your Own Pace (book + 2 cds), including extensive free text and audio samples.Learn Spanish At Your Own Pace is a 230-page book plus 2 audio cds with over 2.5 hours of

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Do you find it frustrating to have to spend so much time searching for Spanish movies through catalogs with mostly irrelevant dvds? Do you wish there was a place where you could just see all the Spanish movies you’re looking for, and at great prices?Spanish Bookworld offers you just that. Their Spanish movie catalog features all the recent releases, classics, less well known movies, and even the

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To save time to those of you who’re mainly interested in learning Spanish, I’ve now started a new blog called A goldmine for Spanish learners where I’m going to focus exclusively on Spanish. The first post on my new blog is entitled Speak better Spanish in just ten minutes. Future blogs will cover all things related to the Spanish world: Spanish vocabulary and grammar, links to free resources,

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Reading foreign magazines is a painless way of learning a new language, and a fun one indeed. If you’re learning Italian, for instance, most of the major magazines in English have an Italian version. Here are just some of the titles you can find in the US: Men’s Health, Elle, Marie Claire, Ciao, National Geographic, Colors, Ragazzi, Cucina Italiana, Oggi, Vanity Fair, GQ, Zoom, Glamour, AD,

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In my quest for a French course that would allow me to make the jump from the intermediate level I was stuck in to an advanced level, a couple of years ago I found the Champs-Elysées audio magazine and have been using it ever since. I love this course. I find it really motivating and inspiring. The best thing about this audio magazine is how easy it is to learn new vocabulary. Over the years I’ve

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O The Oprah Magazine is one of the most successful magazines in history. No wonder. It’s a great publication with informative and inspiring articles. At the english-bookworld.com online store you can read dozens of customers’ reviews and find out what others have to say about this magazine. You can get a 1-year subscription for $18, or a 2-year subscription for $24.Related linksSpanish

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You can get more than 1,000 magazine titles at up to 85% below the cover price at the Magazine Discount Center. Their catalog has all your favorite magazines including: Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Men’s Health, TV Guide Magazine, Sports Illustrated, US News & World Report, Maxim, Natural Health, Southern Living, Good Housekeeping, National Geographic, Forbes, Men’s Journal, Star, Nickelodeon,

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If you’re looking for bibles, the International Bible Society has an awesome selection of bibles, new testaments, religious booklets, leaflets; bibles on cassette, audio cd and dvd; and array of publications for children and young people. What’s more, their prices are unbeatable. They also have bibles in many languages including Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean,

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Learning Spanish doesn’t have to be tedious, difficult or exhausting. On the contrary, it can be fun and highly rewarding if you choose the right language course. With Visual Link Spanish with you can start learning now, this minute, with their Digital Learning Center. It’s a comprehensive program that offers you 650 Spanish online lessons with games and activities, which you can access from any

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If you’re looking for an original and memorable Christmas present, why not get a foreign language course? One of the most prestigious and successful language course providers is Cactus Language. They offer a large variety of language courses in 150 destinations, and cover 20 languages, including: Spanish, French, Italian, German, English, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and many more.Cactus

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The award-winning Rosetta Stone language courses on cd rom are a wonderful Christmas gift for those who want to start learning a foreign language, or improve the one they’ve started.The Spanish packages come in three levels for both Latin American and Castilian Spanish. French, Italian, German, English, Russian, Arabic and Portuguese also come in three levels. Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew and

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If you’re looking for a Christmas gift for someone who wants to improve his or her command of Spanish, French, Italian or German, there are four audio magazines I can recommend. I’ve used them to teach my students, and to learn other languages myself, and I find them well above average in terms of content, quality of the sound and entertainment. Here are 4 audio & text samples, one from each

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At spanish-bookworld.com you’ll find all your favorite American TV shows in Spanish, in US dollars. Here are some of the titles you can get: 24, Firefly, NYPD Blue, M.A.S.H., The Simpsons, Lost, Ally McBeal, Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, Law & Order, Smallville, Gilmore Girls, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, CSI, and lots more.Highlights24 – Seasons 1 to 6CSIBand of BrothersScrubsM.A.S.HThe

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A thought for this Christmas, from Richard Dawkins’s arresting book The God Delusion:"Imagine, with John Lennon, a world with no religion. Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Indian partition, no Israeli/Palestinian wars, no Serb/Croat/Muslim massacres, no persecution of Jews as 'Christ-killers', no Northern Ireland 'troubles', no '

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Ken Follett’s historical masterpiece, The Pillars of the Earth, is a spellbinding story set in Medieval England. It’s the tale of Philip, the devout monk; Tom, the architect whose job is to build the greatest cathedral; Lady Aliena and her secret shame; and it’s also a tale of good against evil, church against state, and brother against brother.You can get the Oprah's Book Club edition of The

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This video clip of the movie Ratatouille in Spanish is simply awesome. The dubbing is superb, much better than in many movies. The dialogs are great and have kept their flair, and the images are really enchanting. Watch this video on YouTubeWhere to get RatatouilleRatatouille with a Spanish sound track in US dollarsRatatouille with a Spanish sound track in UK poundsRatatouille with a Spanish

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Throughout this blog you can find the Harry Potter books, audiobooks, dvds and other products, all in Spanish. At Harry Potter books in Spanish you can find all the books in US dollars. At Harry Potter in Spanish - in British pounds you can find all the books in UK pounds. At Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – movie trailer you can see a promotional video in Spanish of the fifth movie,

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In my experience as a student of French, the French audio magazine Champs Elysées is the most efficient product I know for learning new vocabulary, developing your listening skills and practising real conversational French. As a language teacher, I’m familiar with most of the publications for advanced students, and the Champs Elysées audio magazines are well above average. This French audio

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TV shows are great for practising foreign languages. If you like 24, for instance, you can get Season 6 with French and English audio tracks. Where to get it and other related posts24 Season 6 in English & French - $36.9824 Season 5 in English & French – EUR 34.9024 Season 4 in English & French – EUR 23.9924 Season 3 in English & French – EUR 22.0024 Season 2 in English & French – EUR 23.9924

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The German audio magazine Schau ins Land is one of the only products on the market for those who already understand the language well, but want to improve their listening and conversational skills. Schau ins Land comes out every two months. It’s a magazine on cd and paper, with a number of study supplements to practise speaking, listening and writing. The cd lasts 60 minutes and the printed

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Finding good courses for advanced Italian is very difficult indeed. There are very few products aimed at those who can understand it quite well but want to expand their vocabulary and knowledge of the Italian culture. The Italian audio magazine Acquerello italiano is a big exception.Acquerello italiano is a bimonthly 1-hour long audio and printed magazine with over 500 new words per issue, and

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If you’re fed up with buying language courses that don’t work for you, the guys at Visual Link Spanish offer a free Spanish cd rom with 18 lessons and activities from their complete Spanish course, and no obligation to buy. They’ve also got plenty of free Spanish lessons on their website that are not on the cd rom. Many language product publishers don’t offer any free samples, and it’s easy to

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I have been having a look at The New York Times best seller list to check how many of them have been published in Spanish, and can be found in the US. As I've mentioned in previous posts, the Spanish book publishing business is highly unpredictable, but this time I’ve found more books than I expected. Here are the first ten best sellers I’m listing on this blog. In future posts I'll add links to

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Watching your favorite TV shows in Spanish is an easy way to learn the language. If you’re following 24, Season 6 is available in both English and Spanish at spanish-bookworld.com. In fact, there you can also get all the other 24 seasons in Spanish too.If you want to hear what 24 Season 6 sounds like, here’s the trailer used to advertise it on Spanish television:This video is no longer available

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Magazines are great for practising and learning a language while you relax. At Spanish Bookworld you can get a 1-year subscription to the magazine People en español for $19.97. You can also get National Geographic en español for $29.00, Reader’s Digest Selecciones for $19.97, Vanidades for $32.00, Maxim en español for $19.95, Cosmopolitan en español for $18.00, Latina Magazine for $11.97, TV y

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Learning Japanese with Rosetta Stone is fun. Unlike other language courses, Rosetta Stone Japanese Level 1 teaches you the language from the beginning, without assuming that you have a previous knowledge of it. That’s why the Rosetta Stone software programs work and are used by over 10,000 schools, millions of language learners around the world, and institutions like NASA and the US State

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Learning French with Rosetta Stone is never dull. This innovative language course on cd-rom introduces you to the French language through image and word associations that allow you to start building your own sentences much sooner and faster than your average course. That’s why the Rosetta Stone courses are being used by more than 10,000 schools and countless numbers of individuals and

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At French Bookworld you can get all your favorite TV shows on dvd in French. Here are just some of the titles you can find: 24, Prison Break, CSI, Lost, Firefly, Grey’s Anatomy, Rome, Heroes, Desperate Housewives, Twin Peaks, The Simpsons, M.A.S.H, Friends, Columbo, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Scrubs, Seinfeld, Charmed, and many more.Highlights24 – Season 6 - $37.99CSIBand of

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Here’s the trailer of the fifth Harry Potter movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The movie was released at cinemas around the world in July 2007. It’s based on J. K. Rowling’s book and the screenplay is by Michael Goldenberg. It was directed by David Yates. It lasts 138 minutes, making it the shortest Harry Potter movie so far. The main actors are: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson,

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Here’s a trailer of the Harry Potter 5 movie Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Below I’ve added a link to the german-bookworld.com online store where you can get it. Watch this video on YouTubeGet Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix in euros (shipped from Germany)Related postsHarry Potter in Spanish – in dollarsHarry Potter in Spanish – in UK

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Here’s the trailer of the new Harry Potter movie in French, Harry Potter et l'Ordre du Phénix, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The great news is that most of the dvd versions (widescreen, full-screen edition, Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD, and Blu-ray) on the links below come with English, French and Spanish tracks and subtitles. Watch this video on YouTubeWhere to get Harry Potter et

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Here’s a beautiful excerpt from one of my favorite French books, Le Petit Prince, The Little Prince, written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry two years before he died in a plane accident during World War II in 1944. Le Petit Prince is a classic of French literature that celebrates heroism, responsibility and friendship. It’s often classified as a children’s book, but it has more depth and meaning

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Reading the Harry Potter books in Spanish is an awesome way of learning and practising the language. Here's Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - Volume 1 in Spanish.Where to get Harry Potter y la piedra filosofalin US dollarsin UK poundsin Canadian dollarsRelated postsHarry Potter in Spanish – in dollarsHarry Potter in Spanish – in UK poundsHarry Potter y la

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In this free Spanish lesson we’re going to learn numbers 11 to 15. You can hear these five number by pressing play on the embedded player below. They’ve been recorded by me, María Fernández, a native Spanish speaker and experienced teacher.You can find this and many other lessons in my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners and their multimedia pdf transcripts.Listen to these numbers Spanish numbers 11

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Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others is a thriller placed in East Berlin in 1984 which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006. It’s a moving but not sentimental movie, a superb production with a crafted plot and first-rate acting. I don’t want to spoil the plot for anyone, but if you want to read more about it, here are the synopsis and some customer reviews.You

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T he spanish-bookworld.com online store has hundreds of dvds in Spanish. Here are some of the titles you can find there: 24, Cars, Veggie Tales, Monsters, Alice in Wonderland, Disney's Little Einsteins, A Walk in the Clouds, Let's Dance Salsa, Predator, Behind Enemy Lines, Cast Away, The Abyss, Moulin Rouge, Kiss of the Dragon, Planet of the Apes, Anna and the King, Pocahontas, Entrapment, and

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Here is a video clip of the song sung by Penélope Cruz in the movie Volver.Watch this video on YouTubeYou can get the dvd Volver in these currencies:Volver – in US dollars Volver – in UK pounds Volver – in Canadian dollars Volver – in euros (shipped from France) Volver – in euros (shipped from Germany)

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The Spanish movie Volver, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, features some of Spain’s best actresses: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Blanca Portillo, Lola Dueñas, Yohana Cobo, Neus Sanz and Chus Lampreave. It came out in 2005 and lasts 110 minutes. Synopsis: The Spanish word volver means ‘to return’. In this movie we see three generations of women survive madness, heat, superstition and even death

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I love books. I wish I had more time for reading, but I'll have to wait until my life calms down a bit before I can sit down and read for hours and hours, like I used to do. Fortunately book publishers have come to the rescue of book lovers like myself by realizing what great potential audio books have. Spanish book publishers, too, have taken notice of this trend and are quickly coming up with

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Many of the films signed by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar have become cinema classics. They have won not only an impressive number of awards, but also the acclaim of both critics and the general public around the world. Here’s the list of his best films: Carne trémula, La flor de mi deseo, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, Volver, ¡Atame!, Todo sobre mi madre, Entre tinieblas, La ley

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Movie director Pedro Almodóvar has made some of the best Spanish movies in the last couple of decades. Many of his movies are now cinema classics. Here are his best productions: Live Flesh, The Flower of my Secret, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, All About My Mother, Dark Habits, Law of Desire, Kika, Bad Education; Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on

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Barcelona is a city of outstanding beauty with magnificent architecture, glorious food and a pleasant climate. It's a first-class cultural center and it has an international airport with direct flights to all major cities around the world.The Don Quijote Spanish school is located in the center and has good facilities and many classrooms. Apart from intensive and superintensive courses, you can

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Here’s the link to the Spanish version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone – Volume 1 Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal. This audio book is an unabridged recording of the Spanish translation lasting a total of 8 hours. You can get the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone – Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal Spanish audio book in: American dollars - $125 and Canadian dollars - £51.41~

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In this slideshow you can find the seven Harry Potter volumes in English. Their titles are: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone – volume 1, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – volume 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – volume 3, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – volume 4, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – volume 5, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – volume 6

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In the language-bookworld.com online store you can find Harry Potter in Arabic. Here are the titles I’ve been able to locate and their prices:Hari Butor Wal-Amir Al-Hajin - $18.99(Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Volume 6)(I haven’t been able to find a picture of this book in Arabic)Hari Butor Wa Ka's An-Nar - £23.38(Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Volume 4)Hari Butor Wa Sajin

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I love Calvin and Hobbes. I’ve written about the Spanish, German and French translations in previous posts, and here’s a great comic strip in Italian. The image has unfortunately run away from this blog.If you’re looking for the Calvin and Hobbes books in Italian, you can find them here.

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I have just released Lesson 5 of my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners. This new lesson has a dialog at a restaurant, the list of new words and phrases, speaking and listening exercises to practise all the vocabulary we’ve learned so far, information on how to build nouns in the plural, numbers 20 to 29, and drills to practise numbers 1 to 29. This lesson comes in a 21-minute podcast and a

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The International Bible Society translates and produces Bibles, Scripture materials and other religious resources, and distributes them around the world in many languages. Their catalog includes a comprehensive list of bibles in Spanish for both children and adults. Some of the titles offered are: la Biblia del Ministro, Concondia Completa NVI, El Nuevo Testamento, la Biblia Thompson, Reina

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Here’s a comic strip from Calvin and Hobbes in Spanish, Calvin y Hobbes. At spanish-bookworld.com you can get the books in dollars and in British pounds.The image has unfortunately run away from this blog.

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If you’re looking for a map of Mexico, the spanish-bookworld.com online store has virtually all the maps that are currently available on the market. You’ll find: Mexico road maps, US/Canada/Mexico road maps, city maps and regional maps, as well as a bilingual map of Mexico city, a map of Mexico city in Spanish, and a Mexico road map in Spanish.Some of the titles you’ll find at

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The Spanish H at the beginning of a word is always silent. In my experience as a Spanish teacher, this simple pronunciation rule is easy to forget, especially with words that look very similar in English and Spanish, and one tends to say the ‘h’ like in English. To get used to the silent Spanish ‘h’, here’s a pronunciation exercise. Press play to hear the sentence below said by me, a native

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The spanish-bookworld.com online store has dozens of guide books to Andalucia. You can find not only the most popular guides, but also specialized travel books, picture books, walking and trekking guides, travel writing; and ecotourism, food, fishing, driving, small hotel, and pocket guides.Some of the titles you’ll find are: The Rough Guide to Andalucia, Lonely Planet Andalucia, Top 10

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Finding the Spanish book you want isn’t always easy. Sometimes you may not have the correct title or you’re missing the author’s name. Or perhaps you have a general idea of what you’re looking for but you need a few suggestions. Whether you’re looking for a Spanish language course, a novel, a poetry anthology, an audio book or any other Spanish publication, if you need help locating Spanish books

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In this new free Spanish lesson we’re going to learn the verb tener (to have) in the present. You can hear the six forms in the recording below said by me, a native Spanish speaker. Listen to them several times to learn them well. With the verb tener you’ll be able to build many useful sentences in Spanish.You can learn and practise tener and other useful Spanish verbs with my Spanish Podcasts

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Finding the time to learn a foreign language is often impossible. Many of us simply don’t have the chance to sit down for half an hour every day to make progress, and in the evenings we’re too tired to concentrate on learning anything. That’s just how life is for most of us. If we want to learn a foreign language, we have to find other ways of doing it.For work and please I have studied languages

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In previous lessons on mp3 on this blog we learned numbers 1 to 10 and number 0. Here we’re going to practise saying those numbers at the same speed as a native speaker. Press the play button below and repeat the numbers you hear.Hear this lesson Speaking exercise – Spanish numbers 0238 1704 1347 1093 0944 Learning tips:To learn the numbers well, play this recording several times over

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The German audio magazine Schau ins Land, published by Champs Elysées, is a bimonthly publication for intermediate and advanced students of German who want to expand their vocabulary fast, and improve their listening and speaking comprehension skills.Every two months you get an hour-long cd, and a printed magazine with the complete transcript of the audio and a comprehensive German-English

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Number ‘zero’ in Spanish is cero. Click on the arrow below to hear ‘zero’ said by me, a native Spanish speaker. You can learn the Spanish numbers, and practise hearing and saying them with my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners.Hear this lesson ’Zero’ in Spanish cero zero Learning tips:To make sure you’re saying the ‘o’ in ‘cero’ correctly, go to the free lesson on how to pronounce the vowels

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The French audio magazine Champs Elysées is a handsome publication aimed at intermediate and advanced students of French, and one of the only products on the market that can really help you reach a very high level.Champs Elysées is a monthly audio magazine on a 1-hour long cd full of articles on French food, cinema, travel, sports, culture, entertainment, songs, current affairs, etc. Along with

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Here, on my Learn A Foreign Language - Blog you can find lots of free Spanish online lessons on mp3. There are free lessons on everyday vocabulary, verbs, numbers, pronunciation, speaking exercises, grammar drills, listening exercises, etc.All the free Spanish lessons on this blog have been written and recorded by me, María Fernández, a native Spanish speaker and a experienced teacher.I will be

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T he word for ‘hello’ in Spanish is hola. To hear hola said by me, a native Spanish speaker, click on the play button below.You can learn this and hundreds of other useful Spanish words with my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners.Hear this lesson ’Hello’ in Spanish hola hello Learning tips:Notice that the ‘h’ in hola is totally silent.Hola also means ‘hi’.Hola is one of several words you can

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The Italian audio magazine Acquerello italiano, published by Champs Elysées, is one of the only products on the market for intermediate and advanced students of Italian, and it’s probably the best one.Acquerello italiano is a bimonthly publication on a 1-hour long cd, plus a 60-odd page printed magazine with the full transcript and a +500-word Italian-English glossary. The articles in it cover a

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In my experience as a Spanish teacher, the main difficulty with the Spanish vowels is in always remembering that they have just one sound each, and that that sound never changes. In other words, unlike the English vowels, the Spanish vowels have a pure, unchangeable sound. These are the most important sounds in Spanish, so all the effort you put on mastering them will pay off quickly. Listen to

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Another way to enjoy practising your Spanish, and learning lots of new vocabulary, is by reading the magazines you like. People en español is a highly successful publication which is now the Spanish-language magazine with the largest readership in the US, each issue being read by nearly six million people.People en español is not a translation of its English counterpart. It has original content,

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This new free Spanish lesson is about food. You’re going to hear the ten words and expressions below. They’re all very common and useful words. Press play to hear them. To practise speaking, say them out loud along with the mp3. If you want to learn Spanish when you’re away from your computer, you may want to try my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners.Hear this lesson Food in Spanish la sopa the

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O ften described as Italy’s culinary bible, The Silver Spoon, Il cucchiaio d'argento, was finally translated into English in 2005, and published in a beautiful photo-illustrated edition. Il cucchiaio d'argento is the most popular cookbook in Italy. It has over 2,000 recipes covering a wide variety of ingredients, budgets and cooking styles.You can get The Silver Spoon, the English version, for

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In this free Spanish lesson we’re going to go through the verb ser (to be) in the present. Listen to the recording several times to learn it well. Knowing the verb ser will help you build many useful sentences in Spanish. You can learn and practise ser and other useful Spanish verbs with my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners.Hear this lesson Ser - to be - in the present soy I am somos we are

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At www.german-bookworld.com you can find thousands of books in German, including all your favorite comic books in translation. You can find all the Calvin and Hobbes books in dollars, British pounds and euros, shipped from the US, UK or Germany. You choose.These are some of the titles you can find in the www.german-bookworld.com online store:Calvin und Hobbes - Jetzt geht's rund (in $) - or in

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In this new free Spanish online lesson we’re going to learn the words for the main twelve members of the family. To make sure you’re saying them correctly, listen to the recording below several times, and repeat what you hear.You can learn more words, practise speaking and listening, and improve your accent with my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners.Hear this lesson la madre the mother el tío

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I n this free Spanish lesson we’re going to learn numbers 1 to 10. Below you can hear and see these ten numbers in Spanish, plus some learning tips. Click on the arrow to play the sound. You’ll hear the ten numbers twice. You can find these, and many other Spanish lessons in my Spanish Podcasts for Beginners.Hear this lesson 1 uno 6 seis 2 dos 7 siete 3 tres 8 ocho 4 cuatro 9

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The first six Harry Potter books have been published in German in audio book format, and have had great success. The seventh, Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) will come out in January 2008. Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Volume 6) is an excellent recording on 22 audio cds. You can get Harry Potter und

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The German version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix, is available on audio book for only 24.88 euros. It has been a bestseller in Germany for some time now, and it’s well worth listening to. You can buy Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix in:Euros - €24.88 (shipped from Germany)~ Related posts ~On this blog you can listen to samples from all

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There are hundreds of audio books published in German. Many of them are excellent, like Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch, the fourth volume of the Harry Potter series (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). You can find Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch in:American dollars - $123.74Euros - €44.44 (shipped from Germany)~ Related posts ~On this blog you can listen to samples from all the other Harry

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Do you listen to audio books? How good is your German? If you like the Harry Potter books, Volume 3 (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban has been published in audio book format in German. You can find Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban in:American dollars - $150.00Euros - €24.97 (shipped from Germany)~ Related posts ~On this blog you can

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