Comments on: Using FrenchPod (and SpanishPod) to Get Sentences With Audio

By: Ramses

Ramses — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:30:03 +0000

And then you have to realise I’ve spent quite some money on FrenchPod the last few months :’(.

Thank you for the tip.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:44:53 +0000

It may be even easier AND without paying (!):
1) Go to http://spanishpod.com/resources/glossary
2) Type in spanish word, e.g. “chica” or use URL:
http://spanishpod.com/resources/glossary/entry/xxxx with “xxxx” = word
3) et voilà the example sentences. With your trick you can access the audios.
And no pay, no login etc needed. Enjoy.
It works for French/Italian/ChinesePod, too.

By: Ramses

Ramses — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:32:57 +0000

Thank you for the link. I'm currently using http://forum.downparadise.com in combination with Rapidshare and Megaupload to get my stuff.

By: niconois

niconois — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:44:34 +0000

Hi, thank you for vagos.es, it looks like a great website. I’m French and I decided to learn Spanish for many reasons…

Maybe you don’t know about this website for your french material?

http://www.foromtorrent.com

By: Adding Audio to Anki Made Easy | Spanish Only

Adding Audio to Anki Made Easy | Spanish Only — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:18:50 +0000

[...] Ramses on October 13, 2009 Last week I told you guys how to get tons of real French and Spanish sentences with audio, and how to add them to Anki easily. But now it just got even easier and above all faster to add [...]

By: Ramses

Ramses — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:12:46 +0000

Watching television shows in French! You probably know vagos.es, and I'm glad I found the French equivalent in DownParadise. They pretty much offer any show there is in French (dubbed and original). Enjoy!

By: Santiago

Santiago — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:18:18 +0000

I’ve been following you for some time in this site, not because of your Spanish advices (I’m from Argentina) but for the language-learning insights I’ve found here. Curiously enough, some time ago I picked up Mandarin and I wanted to learn it on my own but, in order to help a friend of mine to learn French from scratch, I changed my mind and decided to do French first. Although being quite fluent in English, French is totally new for me, that’s why it’s nice to find someone doing the same. I’m going to try FrenchPod (I downloaded some files from it some time ago, but I didn’t use them to get audio sentences for my SRS cards, so thanks for the idea). Besides watching a lot of movies and French TV, and listening to Manu Chao (had to delete his non-french songs), I wasn’t doing anything else in French. Any other ideas to share?

By: Ramses

Ramses — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:15:31 +0000

I tested it with DownloadHelper, but it won’t let you download the audio files. I think because it works with javascript it can’t detect there’s an audio file behind each button. Luckily the method described in the post works fast enough for me .

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:42:20 +0000

Try DownloadHelper for Firefox. It should work with the site and should make downloading the samples a breeze.

That’s what I was planning to do, but can’t afford the subscription right now.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

By: JP Villanueva

JP Villanueva — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:58:52 +0000

Ramses,
For the price of subscription, you can do whatever you want with that service Also, I don’t work there anymore, so it’s no skin off my nose….

I checked with Erica, and she confirmed my suspicions: those are totally Christela sentences… We just know after working so long together which ones were written by her, and which ones were written by Amaury. Marion wrote a bunch too.

Anyway, thanks for listening! –jpv