Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

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Re: Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:35 pm

Le Baron wrote:Yes, I've been using Radio Garden for a while now. There are similar sites for watching world TV. Recently I was watching TV Tahiti (in French and Tahitian). There's a huge amount of free global TV.

Can you share a site or two, please? :)
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Re: Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

Postby rdearman » Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:41 pm

Le Baron wrote:Yes, I've been using Radio Garden for a while now. There are similar sites for watching world TV.


Such as ???
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Re: Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

Postby sfuqua » Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:18 pm

Try shadowing Assimil Spanish. It is clear and a little slow, which is nice for a beginner.
You would need to read the book before you shadow to tell what is going on.
It is in European Spanish, which is a drawback for you, but I don't think it will hurt.
I think that my Spanish pronunciation was at its best after a the 75 hours or so of shadowing Assimil that I did.
I had Mexican students in my class impressed with my pronunciation, even if the occasional "Grathias" slipped out. :lol:

Shadowing Assimil is a great way to kill time while driving

Oh, I vote for "News in Slow Spanish" too. :D
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Re: Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

Postby luke » Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:45 pm

jeff_lindqvist wrote:
luke wrote:Trying to figure out what the size of the dots represents.


Big dot - more stations (within the radius).

Sample test:
Glasgow, UK - 36 stations
Ardara, Co. Donegal, IE - 4 stations.

Holy schmoly!

Big dot - 34 stations in Monterrery Mexico from Radio Garden.

Apparently http://radio.garden hits the most popular station by default? Nice. No user training.

I see now jeff_lindqvist's kind direction that there's also text on the lower left of the screen so you can pull up a panel and choose other local stations.
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Re: Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

Postby Le Baron » Wed Sep 15, 2021 7:29 pm

rdearman wrote:
Le Baron wrote:Yes, I've been using Radio Garden for a while now. There are similar sites for watching world TV.


Such as ???

MorkTheFiddle wrote:Can you share a site or two, please? :)

I've just scoured my bookmarks for the map-based one I used. Can't find it, so it must be on the laptop. However there is this (among others) for access to world TV channels from around the world:

https://tvchannels.live/

There's also this, which takes you to language resources on the map, but you'll have to do more clicking to reach the individual TV resources. There's quite a lot of live TV. I use it to watch French/Belgian/Canadian/Spanish TV:

https://www.zerotohero.ca/language-map
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Re: Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

Postby Le Baron » Wed Sep 15, 2021 7:35 pm

This too, though they all likely reproduce channels. There are often a fair sprinkling of fundamentalist religious channels (which I avoid) because they don't block access, they want you to watch :lol: :

https://streema.com/tv/
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Re: Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

Postby Kraut » Wed Sep 15, 2021 8:14 pm

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I'm using this with an app - also called "freearhey" - for my satellite receiver

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https://photocall.tv/

https://photocall.tv/v3tq/mt?ch=boing

Spanish TV guide: https://www.tvguia.es/
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Re: Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:46 pm

@Le Baron and @Kraut. Thank you both for the links. I look forward to checking them out.
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Re: Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

Postby Christi » Sun Oct 31, 2021 12:01 am

maxalmonte14 wrote:If I'm not mistaken there is a podcast called News in Slow Spanish, is a paid resource but they have older episodes available for free,


Where do I find the free episodes? I looked at the site, but everything is paywalled. Just wondering if there's a hyperlink I'm overlooking somewhere.
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Re: Early Beginner Spanish Listening Recommendations

Postby MapleLeaf » Thu Nov 11, 2021 8:43 pm

I looked through News in Slow Spanish, the website. It's a little hard to scroll to find older episodes and I haven't yet found any free ones, but I found that the first five episodes of 'GUTS' (under 'courses') are free; as are 'Leyendas Ibéricas' (under 'series'). The 'latino' version of the website (under 'latino') also has free the first five episodes of GUTS (which appears to be the same as before) and the 'Anayansi' series (under 'series').
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