People asked me to share the radio stations I listen to. This seems logical, as listening to radio programmes means great, real and uncut input. Still, I don’t listen Spanish radio as I almost never listen Dutch radio. Therefore, I couldn’t share Spanish radio stations online, as I didn’t know most. Luckily that has changed now.
Yesterday I had a real lazy day and only played Civilization IV (¡en español!) for about four hours in a row. So, right before I went to bed I decided to quickly check the newest tweets, and it’s good that I did that. Why? Because now I know a really bad-ass website thanks to @spanishblog. The website she plugged is called RadioBeta – ¡tu sintonía al mundo!, and it’s one of the coolest website I’ve come across in a while.
So, what does it do? It’s really simple actually. You select which genre you like or the country, click, click, click a few links and here you go; Spanish radio stations. Not only do they have radio stations from Spain, you can choose from pages and pages of stations from Central- and South-America as well.
Step 1: Choose genre or area
I really love visual sites, mainly because I’m too lazy to read when I’m home (Hey, I read all day long at college! Give me a break, okay?!). Also, people who don’t speak Spanish that well, benefit from sites that are really visual. Luckily, RadioBeta is one of these visual sites. Just look at how easy it is to choose:
Step 2: Choose continent and country
Because we only want to listen to Spanish radio, we choose Buscar por Geo. In my case, I really like the Spanish (from Spain) stations, so I choose Europa. For México you’d choose Norteamérica and for the rest of Latin-America you choose Sudamérica. It’s really simple as that!
Step 3: Choose country
Pretty clear I guess.
Step 4: Browse stations and play
After these three steps you’re ready to choose from the pile of stations available. And boy, there are quite some stations to choose from! Browse a bit, try a bit, listen! The website is designed in a way that you can browse the entire site, while the radio keeps playing. How cool is that? Also, it remembers which stations you’ve listened to.
If you’re a member (it’s free to register and to use), you can add the stations to you favorites right away, so that you never have to search for it again.
Yeah, this website is here to stay.
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This post made me laugh, because I used to do all-nighters of Civilization IV too (in Japanese). With the baby I don’t have time for that anymore, but you learn a lot of great vocab. And reading the Civilopedia is fun too.
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Yeah, Civ IV is really cool. I have all the expansion packs in Spanish and love getting it out once in a while. I remember getting Civ II for my birthday. I played that game for soooo many hours!
It’s the very website I was looking for.. Thanks for the tip!
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Very interesting. Now I can Practice my French!!