With the massive amount of hispanohablantes visiting this blog the last few days, an incredible amount of information comes free (just read some of the comments at the Spanish Word of the Day posts; really useful information). Because this blog is all about using real materials to become fluent at Spanish, I’d like to ask all these Spanish speakers something.
For the average learner it can be difficult to get real materials. Therefore they (or should I say “we”?) have to use the web, especially to watch television. I already mentioned some television stations from Spain that put they programmes on the web for free, but I still don’t know many resources from Latin-America.
That’s why I ask you, readers, to put some real material resources in the comments. This can be newspapers which publish on the web, video sites like YouTube with mainly Spanish videos, broadcast stations that put up programmes on the web, etc., etc. This could help everyone out there that’s learning Spanish.
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In America there are two major Spanish television networks: Telemundo and Univision. They both have video clips on their websites, but not whole shows. Telemundo’s clips include some clips from their shows while Univision’s clips are mostly news stories.
http://tv.telemundo.yahoo.com/
http://www.univision.com/portal.jhtml
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Tv in Spain:
http://www.rtve.es (Public television)
http://www.cuatro.es (Cuatro…)
http://www.telecinco.es (telecinco)
http://www.lasexta.com (la sexta)
http://www.antena3.com (Antena 3)
Newspapers:
http://www.elpais.com
http://www.lavanguardia.es (fully free archive (hemeroteca) since 1881 http://www.lavanguardia.es/hemeroteca/ )
http://www.abc.es
http://www.elmundo.es
You can find many others over the internet.
While Spanish telenovelas are a great resource for language immersion and an excellent tool for learning new vocabulary, it is often hard to keep up with the fast-paced storylines without direct translations.
THUS….
http://caraycaray.blogspot.com/ is an excellent resource to keep up with all the popular telenovelas. Designated contributors recount the play by play of each episode of common telenovelas….it really helps you learn what’s going on while learning the language.
http://telenovelas-carolina.blogspot.com/ is also another favorite telenovela blog of mine…I took this professor’s Telenovela (communications) class at the University of Georgia and keep up with her incredible insight and knowledge into the extremely deep world of the telenovela industry.
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Spanish TV (live)
I think the best of them is Euronews in spanish.
Of course, there is also a lot of live spanish TV stations in the same page.
Here there are some websites you (all) can visit:
http://www.microsiervos.com Lots of interesting posts (gadgets, space, Real LifeTM …). They also have specific sections for photography, science, ecology …
http://meneame.net It’s the spanish digg.
http://www.meristation.com / http://www.vandal.net / http://www.viciojuegos.com News, reviews, cheats … about videogames (all in spanish).
http://www.mobuzz.es Video podcast
http://www.rae.es The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española de las lenguas); the best spanish-only dictionary on the net.
I think it would be easier if you ask for specific topics, and we (the spanish spekares) post sites related to that.
My 2 cents
http://pluton.rtve.es/ A very fun sci-fi sit-com. I enjoy it very much.
http://taringa.com.ar/ A site with a lot of material contribuited by many people. You can find a lot of videos, discussions and samples of latin-american culture there.
http://ar.answers.yahoo.com/ It is the spanish version of Yahoo Answers. You can read real Spanish written by regular “hispanohablantes”. In some cases, the people writes in an awful way, with many mistakes, wrong grammar, … but is an interesting excercise to test your progress and learn with real examples.
Well, I was asking for mainly video sources. Will compile a list and make more specific posts then
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You should know that in Spain, most of movies are dubbed. Sometimes they keep the original title, and some other times the title has nothing to do with the original version title… or even the movie! So it might help A LOT to watch a movie in Spanish when you have already watched it in your mother tongue.
You can watch movies at:
www. dospuntocerovision.com
And TV series here:
www. enocasionesveoseries.com
In both URLs you’ve got movies and TV series shown in the US (and from other countries as well). Mostly material dubbed to Spanish (*). Dubbings and translations are not always accurate or literal because in Spain dubbers and translators pay a lot of attention to lip sync, and therefore, phrases and words need to match the lip motion of the actors on screen.
Have fun! even if it’s not accurate it can be fun to figure out jokes adapted to Spain’ sense of humour.
(*)please note that when you have a “VOS” typed before or after the movie-TV series’ title it means “Versión Original Subtitulada” (it means that you can hear the material in the original language and read the subtitles)
http://www.seriesyonkis.com
http://www.peliculasyonkis.com
http://www.seriesyestrenos.com
They have tons of material.
This page [http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/] has a lot of material in written and oral Spanish. There are classical books, like Don Quijote or other more moderns with license of the authors. Everything there is legal and is kept by Spanish universities.
I read a lot of comics in English, it’s useful because even if you don’t understand all the words or a particular expression, you have the drawings as a support. So I recommend this blog [http://www.elmaravillosomundodelostebeos.blogspot.com/] because it has scans from old tebeos [the Spanish word for comic] of Bruguera. They are humorous, even if the Spanish that they use is a bit bizarre and old.
For Argentinian Spanish you can check Clarín, the most popular newspapaer in Argentina:
http://www.clarin.com/
There are many soundclips, so you´ll be able to listen to this accent. Maybe you´ll like to listen to it as a curiosity, ´cause I don´t think it´ll be very useful for you since this way of speaking Spanish is only common in Argentina and Uruguay.
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As a Spaniard working out of Spain, I found that there are several Spanish broadcasting channels over internet that checks where are you connecting from and limiting what you can watch to due to broadcasting rights (like sports (mainly soccer, basketball and f1), or even the whole channel). It would be nice to have that list Ramses says is gonna compile just to see a little of national TV from time to time as well
@Ramses: the massive amount of Spanish speakers is because you link appeared in a widely known Spanish blog called “www.microsiervos.com”
cheers!
I was trying to watch some MTV España shows the other day, but I had to use a proxy (which is waaaay slower in general).
About the massive amount of Spaniards through microsiervos.com; I noticed it. Over 10,000 hits only from them yesterday
. Seems that hispanohablantes think it’s cool that some random guiris know their slang, or at least want to learn it.
Look at http://www.canal13.cl/tele13online/
This site shows news in spanish (is a chilean tv channel) in streaming and “on demand” formats.
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Quoting you,
“Seems that hispanohablantes think it’s cool that some random guiris know their slang, or at least want to learn it.”
Actually, I found here some words I didn’t know, because it vary from a country to another. I like to learn foreign slangs, as I do when I talk with my friends from out there
I’m from Venezuela.
In addition, I can practice my english reading you hehe
Saludos!
Well Ramses, I saw it like an oportunity to improve my English slang. And who is gonna explain it to me better than an English Speaker?
Nice blog, nice work!
Thanks guys. That’s even better, as I’m helping three groups out there; hispanohablantes learning English, English spealers learning Spanish and me (because I get to look up a bunch of words I sometimes didn’t know and receive feedback from natives).