ShawnP wrote:Before jumping into another course, perhaps find some easy spanish learning podcasts such as Coffee Break Spanish on Itunes or search for native material and see how you like it. You can find a lot of good, short videos of native speakers at spanishlearning.org or
https://laits.utexas.edu/spe/index.html. I actually made my own Assimil-like content using the audio I downloaded and the script they provided. ALL FREE.
I've attached one that I made from laits.utexas.edu. Put it on my ipad and the mp3's I downloaded with it on my Ipod, and good to go. Feel free to use it if you want, just have to go get the audio for each conversation. Or not. Good luck either way.
Wow, these are great resources - thanks for sharing the links and your pdf!
I'd be interested to hear more about how you (or others) are working through the material on the laits.utexas.edu site. I'm currently about 25% of the way through Assimil and I can see the similarities to this material: high quality audio, along with a vocabulary list and grammatical explanations for each mini lesson. In some ways this material is richer, because it has video and 5 or 6 different speakers for each lesson.
From the site:
After reviewing the simplified version, the vocabulary, the phrases, the grammar, and the video clips of the native speakers, we believe that students will be more prepared to perform the same proficiency tasks.
This gave me the idea that after listening and studying each lesson, I could try writing down my own answer to the exercise, and then maybe submit it to lang8 for correction.
