Re: Spanish Group
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:40 pm
I started studying Spanish! Still building my study habit but always improving. Enjoying the language so far! Hopefully I'll get far with it in 2021!
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iguanamon wrote:There's a new App available that helps learners use Radio Ambulante to learn Spanish. I saw this thread on twitter today from Daniel Alarcón of Radio Ambulante. I can't include the videos but you can click on the link and see and hear it all.Daniel Alarcón wrote:Several years ago, when we started doing audience surveys at @radioambulante, we discovered something interesting: 20% of our listeners were using our stories to learn Spanish. So we started asking ourselves what we could do to better serve them.
It's an important question. For more than a year we’ve been working on @Lupa_app, (http://lupa.app) an app that transforms the rigorous journalism of @radioambulante into a fun and efficient method of learning Spanish. Let me show you some of its features.
You can switch seamlessly between the Spanish transcript and the English translation as needed.
With @Lupa_App, you're encouraged to use your ear to do the heavy lifting -- as it should be! -- but you can always turn on extra help when you need it.
And @LupaApp helps you keep track of new vocabulary you've learned, and learn colloquial phrases as they're used in different contexts -- so you're learning Spanish as it's really spoken!
We're so excited about this app for a lot of reasons, but mainly because it will give people who aren't yet fluent a chance to hear the amazing journalism we do. To hear Spanish that's real, with innovative tools that transform great stories into effective language lessons.
Looks like an easy and convenient way to use a great podcast to help Spanish learners incorporate native material in their learning on a tablet or phone.
The main goal of the Book Club is to encourage learners of a foreign language to read a long, challenging novel in that language reviewed on my blog.
whux wrote:I've seen a lot of recommendations here (and on other sites) for reading, learning grammar and listening, but how is everyone practicing their speaking skills? For me, and assuming for many others, that is the most difficult part of learning a language. I'm still searching for good options (online) to converse with people in Spanish.
A peek into "Contigo" - An AI assisted tool to help learn Spanish through conversations
Contigo Demo Youtube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwF7j0nRtdM
Dear learners and conquerors of Spanish,
Recently, two of my colleagues who are avid language learners and software engineers created a tool that utilizes conversational AI to help them learn Spanish.
When I heard about this early prototype project that they were working on, I was instantly excited by the thought of having a bridge between learning a language, and actually having a conversation in it.
Their project, Contigo, is a language learning tool that utilizes GPT-3 to provide a conversational AI “tutor”. The tool is a bridge to building conversational confidence, while also displaying intuitive grammar correction. The goal is to provide you with a personalized learning experience that evolves as your language ability advances.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Spanish/commen ... &context=3
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When the beta launches, we will have an array of voice options from Contigo with different local accents! As for cultural responses from the perspective of particular Spanish speaking areas (Spain, Mexico, etc) we are doing research into this and would love to add it to the app in the future!
Brock1 wrote:Hello, I am brand new. I’m not sure if this is a dead thread. I understand basic Spanish want to study meet some Spanish speaks to become friends with and learn the language