CarlyD wrote:I'm currently about A2 for Spanish. Using the guideline of a 1 hour tv show being 1/2 of a film (assuming 1 hour minus commercials) I'm planning to DVR a bunch of series where I already know they speak a bit slower or more clearly than on other shows. Plus I can replay it as needed for comprehension, so that's workable.
There are lots of sites online you can watch Spanish shows free, too. DramaFever has quite a few, and RTVE.es has a lot of stuff available, too. I'm sure there are other sites, but those are the two I use the most.
If you want to watch on RTVE, go to the A La Carta section. You can turn on subtitles in Spanish. Also - if you right-click on the transcript on the side of the video, you can translate it to English. (Sometimes when I do that, I will get Spanish and English subs, and they go by too fast. If you pause it before you right-click and translate, you will get the Spanish subtitles, but the transcript on the right side will be in English. It's usually a pretty bad translation - I imagine it's just Google Translate - but it can help you if you miss something, especially at the earlier levels.)