Erre con erre, entre brincos;
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta learn Spanish washington dc. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta learn Spanish washington dc. Mostrar todas las entradas
17 ene 2013
Trabalenguas en español
Erre con erre, entre brincos;
15 ene 2013
La conquista del idioma español
La conquista del idioma español - Periodico El Colombiano
3 dic 2012
Canción Volví a Nacer - Carlos Vives
Letra de la Canción Volví A Nacer -
Carlos Vives Cantautor Colombiano
Puedo no roncar por las mañana
Puedo trabajar de sol a sol
Puedo subirme hasta el Himalaya
O batirme con mi espada
Para no perder tu amor
Puedo ser, tu fiel, chofer, mujer
Todo lo que te imaginas puedo ser
Y es que por tu amor volvía a nacer
Tu fuiste la respiración
Y era tan grande la ilusión
Pero si te vas que voy a hacer
Planchar de nuevo el corazón
Se pone triste esta canción
Coro:
Quiero
Casarme contigo
Quedarme a tu lado
Ser el bendecido con tu amor
Por eso yo quiero
Dejar mi pasado
Que vengas conmigo
Morir en tus brazos dulce amor
Por eso yo quiero
Puedo boxear en las olimpiadas
Puedo mendigar por tu amor
Puedo mudarme a la Castellana
Agua fría por las mañanas
Y alinear en el Unión
Puedo ser, tu fiel, chofer, mujer
Todo lo que te imaginas puedo ser
Y es que por tu amor volvía a nacer
Tu fuiste la respiración
Y era tan grande la ilusión
Pero si te vas que voy a hacer
Planchar de nuevo el corazón
Se pone triste esta canción
Coro:
Quiero
Casarme contigo
Quedarme a tu lado
Ser el bendecido con tu amor
Por eso yo quiero
Dejar mi pasado
Que vengas conmigo
Morir en tus brazos dulce amor
Por eso yo quiero
Quiero
Casarme contigo
Quedarme a tu lado
Ser el bendecido con tu amor
Por eso yo quiero
Dejar mi pasado
Que vengas conmigo
Morir en tus brazos dulce amor
Puedo boxear en las olimpiadas
Puedo trabajar de sol a sol
Puedo tantas cosas en mi vida
Por tu amor
3 may 2012
Carta Mal Leída
Argentinian group 'Les Luthiers', is presenting "the misread letter".
And advanced lesson for spanish language enthusiasts. Hasta pronto!
1 jun 2011
The Telenovela Method of Learning Spanish
I know a guy who learned to speak fluent Spanish with a perfect Mexican accent while working as a line cook at an Applebees in Texas (he decided to do this because everyone else in the kitchen was a native Spanish speaker with very limited English skills), and the method he used is…interesting, funny, and just plain damn ingenious all at the same time.
What Is recommend to do is incorporate this method into your current learning system, as opposed to doing it exclusively, but I do think it’s probably worth spending 30-60 minutes on per day–if you do that you’ll probably work wonders in a couple months’ time.
What he had to work with from the get-go was the basic grammar and very little vocabulary he remembered from high school Spanish classes from 20 years prior. He had DirectTV and what he would do is choose a telenovela (soap opera) on Univision and record a one hour episode of it on Tivo (you can watch these online now, see our list of sites to find TV online).
Now, he would play back the episode and, pausing every few seconds, write down verbatim one or two minutes worth of dialog. Then, he would go through those two or three paragraphs of dialogue and learn absolutely everything he needed to completely understand what was being said–definitions, grammar, idioms, expressions, everything. He would try saying the lines himself, then immediately replay the character saying the line, then rewind, say it again, replay – he would keep this up until he sounded exactly like the actor (and consequently had excellent pronunciation after a very short period of time).
This might take him a couple of days because although he could look up definitions and grammar online, often times he would need to consult with a native speaker either via a Spanish or language learning forum or someone he knew from work. He would really learn absolutely everything he could about those few sentences to the point of memorization.
When you do this yourself, keep in mind that the characters will occasionally use incorrect grammar that you will need to identify and note along with the correct version of what they said.He would initially get through one 30 minute show every few weeks but quickly accelerated because he was learning so much at such a rapid pace. After about a year of this he was completely fluent which, when you think about just how much conversational Spanish he was exposed to and forced himself to learn, isn’t really surprising. Persistence, persistence, persistence 
The telenovelas, along with movies, are very good method. The Spanish is colloquial, but not extremely formal, technical, obscure, or difficult; and there’s a wide variety of characters who you would actually encounter if you were living in a Spanish-speaking country who speak Spanish at very different levels: children, mechanics, housewives, doctors, street hustlers, and beggars. Jijiji...
Eso es todo por ahora amigos, Enjoy your spanish learning!
31 may 2011
Learning spanish with movies
A very similar method is to get Spanish-language movies, turn on the Spanish subtitles (NOT the English ones!), and then watch it, pausing whenever I hear something I don’t understand–then, I just look at the bottom of the screen where I can see whatever word or phrase it was that threw me, look it up, learn it, and note it for later review…then just press play and wash, rinse, repeat until I’m through with the movie (which may very well take a few weeks)!
Oh, and always remember to pause and repeat after the speaker if your Spanish isn’t already excellent or you see a new word. Rewind, replay, and repeat until you’ve got it down cold.
An even better way to do this can be done if you can obtain the English translation of the script–this is not very often, but it does happen. What you do is watch the movie with the Spanish subtitles on and the English translation of the script so that you can follow along and, of course, pause at anything you don’t know and immediately learn it, just like above (the script just makes it a lot easier and allows you to learn things you wouldn’t be able to otherwise).
My all-time favorite movie where I managed to pull this off is Maria Full of Grace (María llena eres de gracia)
, which is an absolutely wonderful movie, especially if you’re interested in Colombia and/or want to learn to speak with a Colombian accent (considered to be the cleanest, easiest to understand, and most neutral Spanish accent in the world).
, which is an absolutely wonderful movie, especially if you’re interested in Colombia and/or want to learn to speak with a Colombian accent (considered to be the cleanest, easiest to understand, and most neutral Spanish accent in the world). You can get the English translation of the script for it here on Scribd (download, print, whatever you want), and what’s so awesome about this is that now instead of looking up individual words and phrases as you go along, you’ve got an actual translation so you can understand the meaning of what’s being said in-context, which is faaaar more valuable than having a dictionary definition of a single word. This will make it much easier to understand what’s being said, what expressions and idioms mean, what certain words mean when they’re used in certain contexts, what a certain intonation or bit of body language means when coupled with a certain phrase, etc., etc., etc. See how awesome this is?
Of course, this presumes you can get the English translation of the script, which you often can’t, but you can often enough that it’s always worth the trouble to find out if a Spanish language movie has one available on the internet–easiest way to find out is to just Google “[movie title] english script” and “[movie title] script” and see what comes up. If that doesn’t immediately turn it up, three great sites to check with are The Internet Movie Script Database, Drew’s Script-O-Rama (go to the menu at the bottom under the picture–yes, I know, his site design does suck), and Simply Scripts. Not only can you find movie scripts, but you can often find scripts for TV shows as well.
Un paréntesis…
You may want to check out our List of Best Free Sites to Watch Spanish-Language TV Online where we put together THE most comprehensive list of such sites you’ll find – I checked every other available list on the internet in the process of putting this together and, as such, mine not only includes more sites but ALL of them are guaranteed to work because I personally hand-checked each and every one to make sure you could use them and that it didn’t cost anything. Every other list I checked had dead links in it (links to sites that no longer worked).
Alright, well I think that’s it, if you’ve got any additional tips or resources (or questions), please please please post them in the comments, they’re more than welcome!!
30 may 2011
List of Best Free Sites to Watch Spanish-Language TV Online
Today I’m going to give you a list of my favorite websites that you can use to help you learn Spanish via watching Spanish-language TV (news, shows, telenovelas, whatever). Only criteria is that they must be free, I’m not going to recommend anything you have to pay for (it’s just too easy to find free stuff and therefore no one’s going to be willing to pay for it–hey, I wouldn’t, I don’t blame you). I’ve divided it up alphabetically by country. Here we go…oh, and if any of these links are dead or you know of a site that I left off please leave a comment and let me know, I’ll fix it, I promise–which reminds me, I just want you to know that I actually checked each one of the sites below to make sure that they were working and actually had streaming video available, unlike every other list of Spanish language TV/radio station sites I’ve managed to find online (all of them had links to broken sites, all of them).
Argentina:
Canal 5 Tucuman (a little disorganized but there are tons of videos on there you can watch)
Canal 6 TV (good one, lots of videos of recent news events)
Canal 26 (scroll down to “videos destacados”)
CMTV (Music videos, TONS of stuff on here)
Aruba
Teleruba (click on “Teleruba Live!” in the menu bar at the top)
Bolivia
Costas (look under “videos noticias” in the middle of the page there)
Chile
Canal 54 LivTV (click “Ver Señal Online” and it should load up a streaming video player)
Colombia
Canal CNC (dear god that is the ugliest website I’ve ever seen before in my life!)
Costa Rica
Cuba
Cubavision Internacional (links to video feeds are on the right where it says “en vivo”)
TV Marti (based out of Miami but it’s entirely targeted at a Cuban audience hence its inclusion under the “Cuba” section instead of the “United States” section)
Dominican Republic
Bonao TV Canal 12 (requires VLC player to view, which I highly recommend you get anyway, it’s the best video player out there)
Yuna Vision Canal 10 (same story, requires VLC)
El Caribe (scroll down and look on the right where it says “Transmisión en vivo”)
CDN (really nice, simple setup, video player works great)
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
RTV de Vercruz (click on “Televisión en Línea”)
Grupo Fórmula (scroll down to “Noticias en Video”)
SinTesis TV (click on “TV en vivo acqui”)
Multimedios TV (scroll down to “Videos más recientes”)
Nicaragua
Peru
Bethel Television (look to the right where it says “Señal en vivo” and choose either low or high quality)
JN19 (I hope you like Jesus…)
Puerto Rico
Wapa TV (scroll down to “Programación” and click “Ultimos clips”)
TelemundoPR (scroll down to where it says “videos”)
Spain
RTVA (tons of videos right there on the front page)
Popular TV (to get the live feed click “Emisión en Directo” in the menu bar at the top)
Telemadrid (nice clean setup, fast load, recommended)
Congress TV (live feed of Congress, Parliament, and archives – menu is on the left)
Informativos Telecinco (videos are all down the right-hand column of the page)
RTPA (live feed is on the right)
Cinetube.es (thanks to Ramses over at Spanish-Only.com for this one).
United Kingdom
BBC’s Spanish Language TV Section – Just awesome, includes Spanish programs from the BBC with downloadable transcripts (!!) as well as Spanish language news and TV shows, absolutely worth checking out.
United States
DominicanYork (hover over “Videos” in the top toolbar and select a section)
Azteca America (scroll down to the “Video” section)
LATV (tons of videos on here)
MTV Tr3s (Music videos – MTV owns them)
HITN TV (educational programming)
Uruguay
Venezuela
Globovision (click “Señal en vivo” in the menubar at the top)
URBE Television (click “Señal en vivo” there on the left)
VTV (click either “Señal en vivo” or “Videos” in the menubar at the top – by the way, this is the official government TV station)
Radio
This list was already really long with just sites that had streaming TV (a lot of them also have streaming radio, by the way), I didn’t want to make it any longer or prolong publishing it any more by trying to put together an inevitably equally long list of Spanish-language radio stations’ sites, so I’ve cheated a bit and just put links to other people’s lists of such sites where you can listen to Spanish-language radio below. Again, I can’t vouch for how many of the links on the below listed sites actually work, but most of them should be good-to-go at the very least.
E-Spanyol’s list of 600 Spanish-language radio station sites categorized by country (see why I didn’t want to try to do a list here?)
Other Languages
Unlike the above list, I can’t vouch for whether or not all the TV stations’ sites listed on the sites below work or not. If you’re looking for TV stations you can watch online in languages besides Spanish, check out:
wwiTV.com – Biggest compilation I’ve seen yet, truly impressive.
Like I said in the introduction, if you’ve got any additional sites that I missed or any of the above links stop working, please let me know in the comments as this page will be continuously updated to keep it current.
Cheers,
Andres
18 may 2011
Advanced Lesson - Lo Importante que es saber Idiomas
Hola clase, disfruten esta simpática presentación de un grupo llamado "Les Luthiers"
La traducción aproximada del título de este video es How important is to know languages!Advanced II Lesson. A Cultural parentheses with this interesting group of artist,
from Argentina. They are called "Les Luthiers".
from Argentina. They are called "Les Luthiers".
28 mar 2011
Beginners in DC Welcome
We want to welcome all Beginners to take an affordable 90 minute Spanish session!! We are hosting weekly Meet-Up's in the Cervantes Washington, DC Meet-Up Group to give Beginners a good start in learning Spanish! Your instructor Andres are going to help you go over the basics, and guide you in the right direction to fluency!! More information at: MeetUp.com or andres_henao@hotmail.com
Cien Años de Soledad
Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de veinte casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo. Todos los años, por el mes de marzo, una familia de gitanos desarrapados plantaba su carpa cerca de la aldea y con un grande alboroto de pitos y timbales daban a conocer los nuevos inventos. Primero llevaron el imán. Un gitano corpulento, de barba montaraz y manos de gorrión, que se presentó con el nombre de Melquíades, hizo una truculenta demostración pública de lo que él mismo llamaba la octava maravilla de los sabios alquimistas de Macedonia. Fue de casa en casa arrastrando dos lingotes metálicos, y todo el mundo se espantó al ver que los calderos, las pailas, las tenazas y los anafes se caían de su sitio, y las maderas crujían por la desesperación de los clavos y tornillos tratando de desenclavarse, y aun los objetos perdidos desde hacía mucho tiempo aparecían por donde más se les había buscado y se arrastraban en desbandada turbulenta detrás de los fierros mágicos de Melquíades. “Las cosas tienen vida propia -pregonaba el gitano con áspero acento-, todo es cuestión de despertarles el ánima.” José Arcadio Buendía, cuya desaforada imaginación iba siempre más lejos que la magia, pensó que era posible servirse de aquella invención inútil para desentrañar el oro de la tierra. Melquíades, que era un hombre honrado, le previno: “Para eso no sirve.” Pero José Arcadio Buendía no creía en aquél tiempo en la honradez de los gitanos, así que cambió su mulo y una partida de chivos por los dos lingotes imantados... Exploró palmo a palmo la región, inclusive el fondo del río, arrastrando en voz alta el conjuro de Melquíades. Lo único que logró desenterrar fue una armadura del siglo XV con todas sus partes soldadas por un cascote de óxido cuyo interior tenía la resonancia hueca de un enorme calabazo lleno de piedras...
24 mar 2011
Suscribirse a:
Entradas (Atom)